Article: Clint Eastwood Makes WMS Gaming's Day; Games Based on Worldwide Celebrity Icon will be First Franchise for WMS' Video-based WAP Product Line.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. -- WMS Gaming Inc., a subsidiary of WMS Industries Inc. (NYSE:WMS), announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with famed personality, Clint Eastwood, MGM Consumer Products, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, for the exclusive North American rights to develop, manufacture and market slot machines based on the celebrity icon's likeness and several of his most famous feature films. WMS anticipates receiving regulatory approvals for the first CLINT EASTWOOD(TM) branded slot machine, which will serve as the flagship game in the Company's video-based wide-area-progressive (WAP) line, in the December 2004 quarter. WMS expects to launch the ...

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