KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR) today announced plans to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a supplement to a shelf registration statement for the public offering of 5,000,000 Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares. The Company also plans to grant the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase an additional 750,000 shares.

The Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares will have a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share. An application has been made to list the Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

The sole book-running manager for this offering is Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. The joint lead manager is RBC Capital Markets.

The net proceeds from this offering are expected to be used for general business purposes, which may include acquisitions of properties and funding ongoing development projects. Pending application of the net proceeds to such uses, the Company expects to use the net proceeds to reduce indebtedness under its unsecured revolving credit facility.

The offering will be made under a shelf registration statement filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and previously declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The offering of Series C Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares of the Company is being made solely by means of a prospectus. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Copies of the prospectus supplement and related prospectus may be obtained from the offices of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Attention Prospectus Department, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 or RBC Capital Markets Corporation, Attention Prospectus Department, 60 South 6th St., Minneapolis, MN 55402.

Entertainment Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is the largest owner of entertainment related real estate in North America, owning megaplex movie theatre properties, entertainment retail centers and other specialty properties in the United States and Canada. Since November of 1997, EPR has acquired more than $1.5 billion of properties. The Company's common shares of beneficial interest trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol EPR. Entertainment Properties Trust contact Jon Weis: 30 Pershing Road, Suite 201, Kansas City, Missouri 64108; 888/EPR-REIT; fax: 816/472-5794.

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Source: Entertainment Properties Trust