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Starzplay has picked up a bunch of international rights for Peacock’s true-crime limited series Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, and Christian Slater. The Lionsgate-backed international streamer will carry the UCP-produced series, based on the hit Wondery podcast of the same name, in the UK, Belgium…

Starzplay, a leading streaming service in the Middle East and North Africa, has secured its first independent debt financing with a $25M injection from Abu Dhabi-based Ruya Partners. The funds, secured on the basis of the company's financial strength and performance, will be used to strengthen the service's geographic…

Starzplay Launches On France’s Canal+ Starz’s streaming service Starzplay is launching in France on Canal+. The streamer will be made available to all Canal+ Series subscribers at no extra cost and will be stocked with shows including The Great and Ramy. "Partnering with Canal+, a marquee brand well known for its…

Global streamer Starz Wednesday announced the launch of direct-to-consumer OTT app Lionsgate Play in India. Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch and Rohit Jain, managing director, Lionsgate South Asia, unveiled the move at a virtual press conference. The app offers premium Hollywood content in multiple Indian languages for…

Starzplay has acquired a trio of dramas from Fremantle as the Lionsgate-owned streamer looks to bolster a global offering that includes Starz originals, such as The Spanish Princess. Starzplay has taken the rights to Luca Guadagnino’s HBO/Sky series We Are Who We Are for Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg…

Starzplay, one of the leading SVOD services in MENA, has reached an agreement with tech giant Apple that will see its streaming platform carried on the Apple TV app in the region. The Dubai-based service is now available on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung and LG smart TVs through the…

Lionsgate-owned Starz said the season premier of Power Book II: Ghost, the first new series in the ‘Power Universe’ from executive producers Courtney A. Kemp and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, drove a handful of records for the platform. Subscriber acquisition rose 42% in the first week after the Sept. 6 premiere of the…

Starzplay, the Starz-backed streamer that is available in 50 countries, has pulled the curtain back on its first slate of Spanish and Mexican originals. The four shows (detailed below) will stream on Starzplay across Latin America, with a plan to debut select titles in Spain and in the U.S. on Starz and Spanish…

Mad Men is returning to streaming via Amazon and coming back to its original TV home, AMC, as Lionsgate has completed licensing deals for one of the signature series in its TV library. The complex agreement includes global licensing pact with Amazon. The company’s IMDb TV will become Mad Men‘s exclusive free-streaming…

EXCLUSIVE: The streaming war is raging on a global scale. Studios such as Disney and Warner Bros are charging head-first into competition with powerful upstart Netflix and tech giants Amazon and Apple in an aggressive land-grab for eyeballs and subscriptions. Against all that noise, it would be easy to forget that…

StarzPlay, one of the leading SVOD services in the MENA region, has inked a fresh multi-year deal with Warner Bros for the studio's content, including DC series such as Batwoman, Swamp Thing and the Harley Quinn animated series. The agreement also covers premium boxsets such as Supernatural, Castle Rock, Pennyworth…

The Great, Hulu’s period comedy about Catherine the Great from creator and writer Tony McNamara, has been sold to a swathe of international territories. Starzplay has picked up the series, which stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Latin America and Brazil…