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EXHIBIT 10.36.a

FIRST AMENDMENT TO SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT

        THIS AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE TO SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT (this "Amendment"),
is entered into as of March 26, 2002 between BANK OF AMERICA, N. A., a national
banking association (the "Bank"), and MRT Technology, LLC a California limited
liability company doing business as Ritek Global Media ("Creditor"), with
reference to the following recitals of fact:

        WHEREAS, Image Entertainment, Inc., a California corporation
("Borrower") and the Bank have entered into that certain Business Loan Agreement
dated as of March 17, 1997, and that certain Business Loan Agreement, dated as
of June 28, 2000 (collectively, as amended, restated, modified or supplemented
from time to time, the "Loan Agreements"), pursuant to which the Bank has agreed
to make certain loans to Borrower;

        WHEREAS, the Bank and Creditor entered into that certain Subordination
Agreement dated March 13, 2001 (the "Subordination Agreement"), relating to
amounts owed by Borrower to Creditor (as used herein, "Senior Debt" means the
obligations of Borrower to the Bank, to which the Borrower's obligations to the
Creditor have been subordinated pursuant to the Subordination Agreement);

        WHEREAS, Borrower and Creditor desire to enter into an amendment to the
Optical Disc Replication Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as
Exhibit A (the "Optical Disc Amendment"), providing for revisions to the
repayment provisions of amounts owing by Borrower to Creditor;

        WHEREAS, Creditor and Borrower have asked the Bank to enter into this
Amendment to permit such revisions as provided by the Optical Disc Amendment;
and

        WHEREAS, Creditor hereby acknowledges the continued subordination to the
Bank of the indebtedness owed to Creditor by Borrower, upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth in the Subordination Agreement, as amended
hereby.

        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises, covenants,
conditions, representations, and warranties set forth herein and for other good
and valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows:

SECTION 1    DEFINED TERMS.

        Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in the Subordination Agreement.

SECTION 2    AMENDMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT.

        Section 4(a) of the Subordination Agreement is hereby amended and
restated in its entirety to read as follows:

        "(a) Permitted Payments. Until all of the Senior Debt shall have been
first paid, in full, in cash, or payment provided for in cash (or other
consideration acceptable to the Bank in its sole discretion and agreed to by the
Bank), Borrower shall not make and Creditor shall not accept any payments on any
obligations of the Borrower to the Creditor or any claims made by Creditor
against the Borrower, except for payments made in accordance with the provisions
of Section 5(d) of the Optical Disc Replication Agreement as amended by the
Optical Disc Amendment ("Permitted Principal Payment"), provided that at the
time of any such Permitted Principal Payment (a) no default or event of default
has occurred and is continuing under either of the Loan Agreements, and (b) no
default or event of default under either of the Loan Agreements would result
from the making of any such Permitted Principal Payment."

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SECTION 3    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

        Creditor hereby represents and warrants to the Bank that (a) the
execution, delivery, and performance of this Amendment are within its limited
liability company powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and
are not in contravention of any law, rule, or regulation, or any order,
judgment, decree, writ, injunction, or award of any arbitrator, court, or
governmental authority, or of the terms of its governing documents, or of any
contract or undertaking to which it is a party or by which any of its properties
may be bound or affected, and (b) this Amendment constitutes Creditor's legal,
valid, and binding obligation, enforceable against Creditor in accordance with
its terms.

SECTION 4    CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO AMENDMENT.

        The satisfaction of each of the following unless waived or deferred by
the Bank in its sole discretion, shall constitute conditions precedent to the
effectiveness of this Amendment and each and every provisions hereof:

        (1)  The Bank shall have received this Amendment duly executed by the
Creditor, and the same shall be in full force and effect; and

        (a)  The Bank shall have received the Optical Disc Amendment (in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A) duly executed by the parties thereto, and the
same shall be in full force and effect.

SECTION 1    FURTHER ASSURANCES.

        Creditor shall execute and deliver all agreements, documents, and
instruments, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank, and take all
actions as the Bank may reasonably request from time to time fully to consummate
the transactions contemplated under this Amendment and the Subordination
Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.

SECTION 5    MISCELLANEOUS.

        (a)  Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the
Subordination Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "herein", "hereof" or
words of like import referring to the Agreement shall mean and refer to the
Agreement as amended by this Amendment.

        (b)  This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Nevada.

        (c)  This Amendment can only be amended by a writing signed by both the
Bank and Creditor.

        (d)  This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties on separate counterparts, each of which, when executed and
delivered, shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken
together, shall constitute but one and the same Amendment.

        (e)  This Amendment reflects the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and shall not be
contradicted or qualified by any other agreement, oral or written, before the
date hereof.

        (f)    The Subordination Agreement, as amended hereby, shall be and
remain in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and hereby is
ratified and confirmed in all respects. The execution, delivery, and performance
of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of or, except as expressly set
forth herein, as an amendment of, any right, power, or remedy of Bank under the
Subordination Agreement as in effect prior to the date hereof.

[Signature page follows.]

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be
duly executed as of the date first written above.

    BANK OF AMERICA, N. A.,
a national banking association
 
 
By:
 
/s/  JODA L. GIBSON      

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Name: Joda L. Gibson
Title: Vice President
 
 
MRT TECHNOLOGY, LLC,
a California Limited Liability Company
 
 
By:
 
/s/  MARY ANN FIALKOWSKI      

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Name: Mary Ann Fialkowski
Title: Executive Vice President

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DEBTOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Image Entertainment, Inc. (the "Borrower") has received a copy of, and has read,
the foregoing First Amendment to Subordination Agreement. Borrower agrees to be
bound by such agreement, and not to take any action that would breach or violate
the terms thereof. Borrower consents to the execution, delivery, and performance
of such agreement by the Bank and Creditor, and agrees that Borrower's
obligations to the Bank and Creditor are not diminished by such agreement.
Borrower acknowledges that it has no rights under the foregoing agreement and is
not a third party beneficiary of such agreement.

Dated March 26, 2002:

 
 
IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.,
a California corporation
 
 
By:
 
         

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Name:
 
 
 
 
Title:
 
 

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Exhibit A

Amendment No. 1 to Optical Disc Replication and Loan Agreement.

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EXHIBIT 10.36.a
FIRST AMENDMENT TO SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
Exhibit A