STE-4121-17 Starz Electronic Press Guide - FEB Update v3

PRESS GUIDE

ABOUT STARZ

Starz (), a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), is a leading global media and entertainment company that provides premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television networks and produces and distributes content for worldwide audiences, including its investment in the STARZ PLAY Arabia OTT service. Starz is home to the flagship STARZ? brand with 24.3 million subscribers in the United States as of December 31, 2016, with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 31 million subscribers. Starz provides high-quality, entertaining premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV channels and associated on-demand and online services, including the STARZ app. Sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications companies, and other online and digital platforms, Starz offers subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including STARZ Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and television programming.

PROGRAMMING

Starz offers cable, satellite, telco and digital distributors up to 17 uncut, commercial-free premium channels spearheaded by the STARZ? and STARZ ENCORESSM brands, in addition to MOVIEPLEX? RETROPLEX? and INDIEPLEX?.

Starz offers exclusive original programming and quality feature films on its domestic pay television services. STARZ Original series in 2017 include Emmy?-Award winning "Black Sails," "American Gods," "Outlander," "Power," "Survivor's Remorse," "The Missing," "The White Princess," "Ash vs Evil Dead" and the documentary film Nude.

Starz licenses exclusive first-run movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar, Screen Gems and Sony Classics as well as hundreds of feature films from a wide array of independent distributors and a vast collection of classic and favorite titles from all Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros., Fox, Universal, MGM and Lionsgate.

The STARZ app is a single destination to stream STARZ premium content. The app offers the first-ever download capabilities from a premium pay TV streaming service. Fans now have the opportunity to enjoy instant access to more than 3,600 selections each month, including STARZ hit series ranging from "Outlander," "Power" and the upcoming "American Gods" and other TV content; to Hollywood hits and popular movies including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

In December 2016, the STARZ app was named by Apple? as one of Apple TV's? "10 Best Apps of the Year," and has consistently ranked in the Top 10 Entertainment Top Grossing category on iTunes since its launch in April 2016.

Online STARZ subscriptions can be purchased directly on or through the App Store, Google Play or Roku for $8.99 per month with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Users can watch every episode of every season of the best of STARZ's original programming, as well as the biggest, most extensive movie library of all the premium subscription networks in the U.S.*

STARZ Originals include "Black Sails," "Outlander," "Power," "Survivor's Remorse," "The Girlfriend Experience," "Blunt Talk," and "Ash vs Evil Dead," and the first STARZ Original movie, The Dresser. Exclusive hit movies on STARZ include: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out, Pixels, Concussion, The Good Dinosaur, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Cinderella, Tomorrowland, The Wedding Ringer and Ant-Man. Popular movie and television programming on the new STARZ ENCORE includes: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Signs, Made of Honor, Bull Durham, Sweet Home Alabama, There's Something About Mary, True Lies, Ever After, Total Recall, Steel Magnolias; as well as television hits "Magnum P.I.," "Diff'rent Strokes," "The Jeffersons" and "Texas Rising."

*source: Starz internal analysis of distinct movie title data for the period 7/1/2015- 6/30/2016

Starz Summary Operating Results

Flagship Channels (millions of homes)

STARZ 24.3 STARZ ENCORE 31

CHANNELS AND SERVICES

2017 STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES

AMERICAN GODS Season One

The on-screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's enormously popular novel of the same name posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of biblical and mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society's modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity, and drugs. When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Left adrift by the recent death of his wife, Shadow is hired as Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard. He finds himself in a world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, and where Mr. Wednesday is building an army to reclaim his lost glory.

ASH VS EVIL DEAD Season Three

STARZ Original series "Ash vs Evil Dead" stars Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, the chainsaw-wielding anti-hero tasked with saving the world from evil. Lucy Lawless plays Ruby, the unpredictable foe and occasional ally who has strong ties to the origin of the "Necronomicon." Ray Santiago plays Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ash's loyal sidekick and eternal optimist. Dana DeLorenzo plays Kelly Maxwell, orphaned in Season One and ready to kick some evil ass. The Evil Dead original filmmakers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell serve as executive producers with Ivan Raimi. Craig DiGregorio serves as Executive Producer and Mark Verheiden serves as Showrunner with Producers Aaron Lam and Moira Grant.

BLACK SAILS Season Four premiere Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 9 pm ET/PT

The Emmy?-winning Original series "Black Sails," sold in nearly 200 countries worldwide, takes place 20 years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens). Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, "Black Sails" is executive produced by Steinberg, Levine, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Chris Symes, Brad Caleb Kane, and Dan Shotz. The fourth season of the stand-out high seas drama brings fans to the heroic conclusion of the Treasure Island prequel, and finds our pirates at war in the West Indies. The shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier, but the closer civilization comes to defeat, the more desperately, and destructively, it will fight back.

COUNTERPART Coming in 2018

STARZ Original series "Counterpart" from MRC, Anonymous Content and Gilbert Films is an espionage thriller with a metaphysical twist starring Oscar? winner JK Simmons. "Counterpart" is the story of Howard Silk (JK Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency, who discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing into a parallel dimension. Through Howard and his "Counterpart" on the other side, the show will navigate themes of identity, what ifs and lost love.

NUDE Documentary Film

The feature-length documentary "NUDE" explores perceptions of art, nudity and censorship in the social media environment by chronicling the creative process of treats! magazine founder Steve Shaw and his team as they cast, design, and commission photographer David Bellemere to photograph a new collection of nude photographs to debut at Art Basel in Miami. The film documents the search for and casting of 12 unknown models using social media to explore the notion of beauty as a commodity while exploring Bellemere's roots in Paris and how his artistic style was formed. The film is directed and produced by Anthony B. Sacco and produced by Josh Shader.

2017 STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES

OUTLANDER Season Three

The "Outlander" series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books, is Executive Produced by Ronald D. Moore. Book three of "Outlander" picks up right after Claire (Caitriona Balfe) travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden re-appearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies). Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie (Sam Heughan) suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to make a life apart from one another, each haunted by the memory of their lost love. The budding possibility that Claire can return to Jamie in the past breathes new hope into Claire's heart... as well as new doubt. Separated by continents and centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their way back to each other.

POWER Season Four

Created by Courtney A. Kemp and executive produced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, "Power" is a visionary drama that straddles the glamorous Manhattan lifestyles of the rich and infamous and the underworld of the international drug trade. The new season picks up on the heels of James "Ghost" St. Patrick's highly publicized arrest by his ex-girlfriend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Valdes, for the murder of FBI Agent Greg Knox--a crime he did not commit. Ghost can't outrun his past choices and mounting enemies this season, which threaten his freedom and his family's safety at every turn. His fight for redemption brings him face-to-face with the Feds, the media, new allies, and old foes. But the biggest obstacle for Ghost remains himself and his internal struggle between the man he wants to be and the one he really is.

SURVIVOR'S REMORSE Season Four

Cam Calloway is a hard-working young basketball star thrust into the limelight after signing a huge contract with a pro team in Atlanta. Cam, played by Jessie T. Usher, and his cousin and confidant Reggie Vaughn (RonReaco Lee) try to navigate Cam's meteoric rise. Cam, Reggie and the unforgettable group of characters that is the Calloway clan wrestle with the rewards and pitfalls of stardom, love and loyalty. The series is executive produced by Mike O'Malley, LeBron James, Tom Werner, Maverick Carter, Paul Wachter and Victor Levin. The cast also includes Tichina Arnold, Teyonah Parris, and Erica Ash.

THE MISSING Second Installment

The second installment of the Golden Globe? and Emmy?-nominated limited series "The Missing," is a dramatic thriller that explores the murky morality and emotional complexity of what happens when a missing child actually returns. The anthology series features a new case and characters, set in a new location. Brothers Harry and Jack Williams return to the series as writers and creators with Ben Chanan directing all eight episodes.

THE WHITE PRINCESS

The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed STARZ Original Miniseries event "The White Queen," and adapted from Philippa Gregory's best-selling novel of the same name and part of The Cousins' War book series, "The White Princess" concludes the story of England's War of the Roses and charts the rise of the House of Tudor through the tortuous marriage between Princess Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII.

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