Just the other day we talked about how everyone was awaiting word on a fourth season of the BBC series Torchwood. Here’s this morning’s formal press release with the details. Let the rejoicing and anticipation begin. LOS ANGELES, June 7 /PRNewswire/ — Starz Entertainment has acquired U.S. television rights to the next installment of the…
While we eagerly await next week’s upfront announcements to see which of our favorite genre shows survive or vanish, one series has figured out their next step. During production of Starz Network’s Spartacus: Blood and Sand, its title star Andy Whitfield was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. As he undergoes treatment in New Zealand, there remained…
Starz Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment have signed a multi-year extension of their existing agreement which grants Starz the exclusive pay TV rights to all Sony Pictures theatrical releases into the next decade. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the deal Starz has the exclusive pay TV rights to exhibit the Sony…
The cry of “I am Spartacus!” will once more resound, this time weekly. Starz will air a new 13-episode series from executive producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Joshua Donen. The premium movie channel has already produced Crash, a weekly series based on the Oscar-winning film, which began airing several weeks back. This will be…
With all the talk about the Canadian dollar reaching par with its American counterpart, now would seem the perfect time for a US animation studio to branch northward. Starz Animation Toronto officially opened this past Tuesday and is already billing itself as "ne of Canada’s largest 3D animation, effects and compositing facilities, and Toronto’s leading…
From April 4 through May 4, the Starz cable network will promote the new movie, Spider-Man 3. The month-long event features behind-the-scenes footage, a sweepstakes, and a day-long marathon of super-hero movies. The "Starz Spider-Man 3 Sweepstakes" begins on Wednesday, April 4 and runs through Sunday, May 4. One grand prize winner will be awarded…
The New York Comic Con is beginning to look like San Diego East. Expect lots of stuff that’s comics-related but isn’t necessarily graphic storytelling on paper. Case in point: ICv2 reports on Starz Home Entertainment’s presence at the con, where they’ll ill screen the second direct-to-DVD Hellboy movie, Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron, on Saturday…
