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86-584: The festival features a diverse selection of films, ranging from independent to commercial from all over the world and is well attended by filmmakers. The festival is currently managed by the Denver Film Society and sponsored by Starz . The first festival was held on May 4, 1978, and featured such films as Annie Hall , The Fury , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , The Hills Have Eyes and Pretty Baby . The festival kicked off with

172-536: A limited release in 29 theaters, and grossed $ 1,190,096, averaging $ 41,038 per theater and ranking 10th at the box office. The film then had its wide release on December 9 in 876 theaters, and grossed $ 4,380,138, averaging $ 5,000 per theater and ranking seventh at the box office. The film was in cinemas for 156 days and its widest release in the United States was 2,038 theaters. The film ended up earning $ 82,584,160 domestically and $ 94,659,025 internationally for

258-404: A 50.1% controlling interest in the channel. Starz made its debut as the first phase of a seven-channel thematic multiplex that was launched by Starz (then Encore Media Group) over the course of the succeeding eight months, with the remaining six channels being launched between July and September 1994. The multiplex was intended to only include six channels, but on May 31, 1993, Encore acquired

344-737: A 90-minute clip compilation from Warner Bros. titled ‘The Movies That Made Us.’ The festival was originally conceived and founded by Peter Warren, Ph.D., then a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver and by Irene Clurman, then the art critic for the Rocky Mountain News. The first artistic director was Ron Hecht, the manager of the Vogue theatre. In the early years, Ron Henderson served as marketing director and subsequently as artistic director. Henderson recalls "There were no red carpets and no television cameras out front. We did

430-615: A Focus on Iranian Cinema . Red Carpet Events including a screening of Morning , Rabbit Hole , Casino Jack , 127 Hours and Black Swan . The festival was dedicated to director George Hickenlooper who died in Denver just days before his film Casino Jack screened at the Festival. The 2011 Festival was held November 2–13, with 247 Films programmed, including a Focus on South Korean Cinema . Red Carpet screenings included Like Crazy , The Descendants , and The Artist . This

516-516: A cable or satellite provider other than TCI. As a startup network, Starz endured major losses during its early years, with total deficits topping US$ 203 million and annual losses of US$ 150 million by 1997. It was predicted to lose an additional US$ 300 million in revenue before it was predicted to break even. In June 1997, Comcast signed an agreement to carry the network on its Pennsylvania and New Jersey systems to replace Philadelphia -based PRISM after that network shut down that October following

602-725: A deal with Abu Dhabi Media, which allows subscribers to watch UFC fights and events live. In several countries, Lionsgate+ is provided through partnerships with cable services, such as Vodafone in Spain, Movistar TV in Argentina, IndiHome in Indonesia and PLDT Home in the Philippines or within Apple TV as well. On September 28, 2022, Lionsgate announced the international Starzplay service would be rebranded as Lionsgate+

688-505: A fling and still loves his wife and children. Brian then apologizes to Matt for the pain he caused and asks him not to tell his wife. Frustrated and fragile from recent events, Matt asks the doctor to explain Elizabeth's inevitable death to Scottie. Elizabeth's father, Scott, admonishes Matt for failing to be a more generous and loving husband. Withholding his wife's affair, Matt agrees with him, but Sid and Alex unexpectedly defend Matt. At

774-524: A four-year extension of its existing deal with Miramax and the rest of the Disney family. In 2002, Starz picked up the pay TV rights to Disney's animated films, which previously bypassed a pay TV window. The Descendants The Descendants is a 2011 American tragicomedy film directed by Alexander Payne . The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon , and Jim Rash is based on the 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings . The film stars George Clooney in

860-494: A licensing fee for digital streaming rights to its films (Netflix ended up assuming rights to most film releases by Walt Disney Studios from Starz in 2016). Starzplay (as a Netflix service) was first made available to Starz subscribers of the Verizon FiOS television service. Starz content (including most of its original programming and series content that the channel acquired through domestic and international distributors)

946-517: A limited release on December 16, 2011, but was moved to November 23, 2011, and then November 18, 2011. The soundtrack uses Hawaiian music , featuring artists including Gabby Pahinui , Ray Kane , Keola Beamer , Lena Machado, Sonny Chillingworth , Jeff Peterson , Makana , Dennis Kamakahi , and Danny Carvalho. It was released by Sony Classical Records on November 15. The Descendants opened in North America on November 16, 2011, in

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1032-478: A more dramatic makeover, with a completely redesigned logo – which included the exclamation mark being dropped from the channel's name – and a standardized graphics package that was implemented across all of its channels (with some modifications for each channel's format). The programming formats of several channels changed entirely: Starz! Theater was relaunched as Starz Edge, a movie channel aimed primarily at men 18 to 34 years old (nicknamed "The New Generation" by

1118-470: A namesake over-the-top streaming platform that both acts as a TV Everywhere offering for Starz's linear television subscribers and is sold directly to streaming-only consumers. Starz is also sold independently of traditional and over-the-top multichannel video programming distributors a la carte through Apple TV Channels and Amazon Video Channels , which feature VOD library content and live feeds of Starz's linear television services (consisting of

1204-402: A real estate agent, and wanted a divorce. After Matt informs friends about Elizabeth's condition so they can say goodbye, he decides Brian should also have an opportunity to do the same. He and the girls, along with Alex's slacker friend Sid, travel to Kauai to find Brian. While there, Matt's cousin, Hugh, mentions that Brian is brother-in-law to Don Hollitzer, the developer to whom the majority of

1290-479: A ribbon cutting with Dick Lamm (then governor). When we got inside it was a full house at the Old Centre theater, which was demolished before the next year's festival. (The Centre sat 1,200.). "Most notably, the weather was ominous - cloudy and cool. The opening-night party was at a private house and it was an invitational affair. When we got there, a cold rain was falling. We woke up the next morning, and there

1376-593: A separate digital cable tier from Starz. However, Encore and, depending on its carriage, MoviePlex are frequently sold together in a package with Starz. Despite being a premium service, cable providers have occasionally used Starz Kids & Family (and its predecessor, Starz Family) to temporarily replace television stations dropped due to carriage disputes such as during Journal Broadcast Group 's 2013 dispute with Time Warner Cable . This dispute resulted in TWC's systems in certain markets substituting other stations (such as

1462-560: A separate public tracking stock called Liberty Starz. On January 1, 2010, Chris Albrecht joined Starz as its president and chief executive officer , then overseeing all of the Starz entities including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films , Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman . On August 8, 2012, Liberty Media announced that it would spin off the Liberty Starz subsidiary into a separate publicly traded company. The spin-off of

1548-492: A total of $ 177,243,185. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 268 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Funny, moving, and beautifully acted, The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave

1634-531: A tweet from the Electronic Frontier Foundation stating that "Starz should withdraw its takedown and refrain from harassing journalists". However, they subsequently apologized, clarified that the invalid DMCA claims were sent on their behalf by a third-party contractor called The Social Element and promised that they are "working with our vendors to reinstate any such content that was inappropriately targeted for removal." Depending on

1720-461: Is a Honolulu -based attorney and the sole trustee of a family trust of 25,000 acres (100 km ) of pristine land on Kauai . The land has great monetary value, but is also a family legacy. While Matt has ably managed his own finances (as his father did), most of his cousins have squandered their inheritances. With the trust expiring in seven years due to the rule against perpetuities , the King clan

1806-511: Is a high-definition simulcast feed of Starz that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format. In addition to its main channel, Starz also operates high-definition simulcast feeds of its five multiplex channels. When it was launched in December 2003, the simulcast covered only the east and west coast feeds of the main Starz channel. An enhanced-definition simulcast feed and a separate HD channel called Sharper Movies HD, that would have broadcast in

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1892-453: Is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Lionsgate , and is the flagship property of parent subsidiary Starz Inc. Launched in 1994 as a multiplex service of Starz Encore , programming on Starz consists of theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series . Starz operates six 24-hour, linear multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand service; and

1978-511: Is available at no additional charge to new and existing Starz subscribers. The service was launched on September 19, 2001, debuting on Adelphia Communications ' Cleveland, Ohio , system. The service offers early premieres of feature films that are scheduled to premiere on Starz, up to one month prior to their pay cable debut on the primary linear channel. Starz on Demand's rotating program selection incorporates selected new titles that are added each Friday, and existing program titles held over from

2064-421: Is pressuring Matt to sell the land for hundreds of millions of dollars. Amidst these discussions, a boating accident has rendered Matt's wife, Elizabeth, comatose. With Elizabeth hospitalized, Matt is forced to cope with his two troubled daughters, 10-year-old Scottie, who seeks attention by bullying other children, and 17-year-old Alex, who has a history of substance abuse and is away at a private boarding school on

2150-502: Is structured as a TV Everywhere -style service) was launched on October 8, 2012, with the release of the iPad , iPhone and iPod Touch app until they were merged with Starz.com on April 5, 2016. The Starzplay name was borrowed from a prior service offered in conjunction with Netflix . It was created in 2008 after the subscription streaming service struck an agreement with Starz Entertainment to allow Netflix to sub-license rights to films from distributors that maintain output deals with

2236-464: The Big Island . Doctors determine that Elizabeth's coma is irreversible and her living will directs all life support to be discontinued. When Matt tells Alex, she reveals she learned during her last visit that Elizabeth was having an affair, causing a major rift between mother and daughter. Two close family friends, Kai and Mark Mitchell, tell Matt that Elizabeth was unhappy and loved Brian Speer,

2322-481: The Cannon Films and Carolco Pictures libraries), Revolution Studios , Overture Films , Yari Film Group , and the network's sister company Lions Gate Entertainment (since 2012). Films for which Starz has pay-cable rights usually also run on Encore and MoviePlex during the duration of its term of licensing. From 1995 to 2002, Starz had broadcast occasional original made-for-pay cable movies produced by

2408-753: The DIC Entertainment and Cookie Jar Group catalogs) and The Jim Henson Company . Programs included Angela Anaconda , Sonic the Hedgehog , Liberty's Kids , Muppet Babies , The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss , The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! etc. Other WildBrain programs aired on Starz Encore Family , and all the others appeared on the Starz streaming mobile app. This block was removed for reruns of another show Starz acquired, Pit Pony , in December 2020, though reruns of Little Charmers stayed until December 2022. In 1994, Encore launched

2494-478: The Denver Pavilions off of 16th Street Mall . The 2012 award winners are below. The 2013 festival was held November 6–17, with a focus on Dutch Cinema . Red carpet screenings included, Labor Day , Nebraska and August: Osage County . The 2013 award winners are below. The 2014 Starz Denver Film Festival was held November 12–23. The 2014 award winners are below. The 2019 Denver Film Festival

2580-461: The Disney –owned studios Touchstone Pictures , Hollywood Pictures and Miramax Films . Films from those studios were not carried on Starz until 1997, after Disney's output agreement with Showtime for its non-family-oriented films concluded. The network restricted the scheduling of films that contained graphic sexual or violent content to late evening and overnight time periods. Starz's availability

2666-568: The Local AccuWeather Channel - and Live Well Network -affiliated digital subchannels of Milwaukee , Wisconsin's WTMJ-TV ) with the channel. A January 2000 dispute between Cox Communications and Fox Television Stations resulted in Starz! Family replacing Fox owned-and-operated stations in six markets. In September 2016, the channel brought back children's programming on a weekday morning block. The block provided programming from Nelvana, WIldBrain (mainly programs from

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2752-579: The Middle East and North Africa region, breaching those territories before its biggest competitor in media streaming being Netflix. Starzplay Arabia remains available even as the U.S. version of the service has been discontinued. In 2018, the service became available in Pakistan , as a joint venture between Cinepax, a cinema chain in Pakistan, and Lionsgate 's StarzPlay Arabia. In 2019, Starzplay

2838-560: The Xbox 360 was released on December 3, 2013, followed by a similar app for the Xbox One on August 5, 2014. Lionsgate+ (previously Starzplay), Starzplay Arabia, and Lionsgate Play (in the south and Southeast Asia region) were Starz' international streaming services for viewers outside North America. Starzplay Arabia was the first Starz-branded service to be localized outside the United States, launching on April 2, 2015, in 17 countries in

2924-590: The 1080i format and be structured similarly to the original format of sister channel Encore's MoviePlex (in which Sharper Movies would broadcast programming from each Starz channel in daily sampler blocks), were also planned. Plans for the latter service were dropped because of a lack of interest from providers to charge a premium fee for the network. HD feeds of Starz Kids and Family, Starz Comedy and Starz Edge, followed in 2007. The remaining Starz multiplex channels, Starz Cinema and Starz In Black, launched their HD simulcast feeds on June 23, 2010, with DirecTV becoming

3010-681: The 2003 calendar year before HBO assumed pay television rights in 2004. In 1997, Starz lost its rights to many of the Dimension Films to Showtime, due to its violent content surrounding the films, except for several future Jackie Chan films Dimension released, which Starz kept the rights. After the Showtime deal, in August 1999, Starz preemptively signed a four-year deal with the studio that took effect in January 2003, in conjunction with

3096-649: The King family meeting, Matt overrules the majority vote of his cousins, deciding instead to keep the land and look for a way around the rule against perpetuities. Shocked, Hugh tells Matt that the family will take legal action, but Matt is undeterred. After learning about Brian's affair with Elizabeth, his wife, Julie, comes to the hospital. She tearfully tells a comatose Elizabeth that she wants to hate her for "trying to destroy" her family, but that she forgives her. Matt comes to terms with his wife's infidelity and impending death. He kisses her goodbye, followed by Alex and Scottie. After she dies, they scatter Elizabeth's ashes in

3182-649: The Meridian International Business Center complex in Englewood, Colorado , and at a small office located on 5th Avenue in New York City. As of September 2018 , Starz was available to approximately 28.517 million American households that had a subscription to a multichannel television provider (27.675 million of which receive Starz's primary channel at minimum). Starz (initially stylized as "STARZ!" with an exclamation point)

3268-575: The Nordics, and Japan before the end of the company's fiscal year. In August 2023, Lionsgate announced that Lionsgate+ will leave Latin America on December 31, 2023. In November, the shutdown date was changed to December 11, 2023, while customers who have accessed Lionsgate+ through Amazon Prime Video would have continued to access to streaming until February 9, 2024. On November 4, 2023, Lionsgate announced that Lionsgate+ would cease its operations in

3354-666: The UK in early 2024. On December 19, it was confirmed that the shutdown date will be on February 29, 2024. On April 5, 2016, Starz launched a new app and over-the-top subscription service to compete with HBO Now and Showtime 's OTT subscription service. The new app, which replaced the StarzPlay service, allowed users to access Starz programming regardless of whether they had a TV package or not. The Starz app also includes offline playback functionality, allowing users to download and watch content without an internet connection. In response to

3440-457: The acquisition was completed five months later on December 8. In April 2019, Starz was widely criticized in the tech press and by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for sending legal demands to Twitter in order to remove links to a news article which discussed piracy but contained neither pirated content nor links to pirated content. Starz initially responded by issuing further DMCA complaints against those criticizing them, including against

3526-424: The book; the filmmakers solved the issue by transplanting a banyan. For the scene where the King family drives up to a ridge to look over their land, the film used a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) private cattle ranch on the south shore of Kauai, Kipu Ranch. Kaui Hart Hemmings , the author of the novel on which the movie was based, had a cameo as Matt King's secretary. The private boarding school attended by Alex King

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3612-421: The channel). Starz! Kids and Starz! Family were combined into a single channel called Starz Kids and Family, to make room for a new channel focusing on comedic feature films called Starz Comedy. Black Starz! also changed its name to Starz InBlack. The only multiplex channel (other than the primary feed) that retained its original name was Starz Cinema. The Starz multiplex has been marketed under several names over

3698-438: The closing night film was Rescue Dawn . "29th Starz Denver Film Festival Jury and Audience Award Winners" (Press release). Denver Film Society. 2006-11-20 . Retrieved 2007-10-02 . Special tributes were given to Vilmos Zsigmond , Wu Tian Ming, Scott Wilson and Allan King . The festival also included a focus on Canadian Cinema. The 30th Starz Denver Film Festival was held November 8 – 18, 2007. The official line-up

3784-965: The cost is $ 8.99 per month, after a seven-day free trial. The content deal between Amazon and Starz not only offers the channel's current and back catalog of programming, but also movies and classic TV series currently airing on Encore and its branded networks, as well as live East Coast feeds of the Starz-branded networks and Encore. As of 2023 , Starz and sister networks Starz Encore and MoviePlex maintain exclusive first-run film licensing agreements with Lionsgate Films (since 2022, including Summit Entertainment since 2023) and Universal Pictures (since 2022, after each films' 18 month window on Peacock and Amazon Prime Video ). On March 2, 2021, Lionsgate announced films from Lionsgate Films would air on Starz for first-run rights starting in 2022, except Summit Entertainment which would start airing on Starz in 2023 after output deals with Hulu and HBO expired at

3870-529: The discontinuation of StarzPlay, Comcast has blocked access to the new Starz app for Comcast Xfinity customers, forcing them to instead access the network's authenticated content through the Xfinity app and website and older StarzPlay apps on platforms such as Roku . Currently, Comcast is the only major distributor to do this. In the winter of 2015, Amazon Video began offering Starz and rival premium network Showtime as add-on subscriptions for their customers;

3956-473: The east and west coast feeds of the main Starz channel), resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular movie or program between two geographic locations being three hours at most. The premium film services Encore and MoviePlex, which are also owned by Starz, Inc., operate as separate services; as such, subscribers to one of the services do not have to subscribe to any of the others. Some providers offer Encore and MoviePlex's multiplex channels on

4042-485: The end of 2021 and 2022 respectively. On July 15, 2021, Starz reached a licensing deal with Universal Pictures for first-run movies 18 months after they streamed on Peacock and Amazon Prime Video respectively. Despite being acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2016, films released under the Lionsgate label did not air on Starz until 2022 due to an output deal with Epix until the end of 2019, then Hulu until

4128-1332: The end of 2021. Summit Entertainment films did not air on Starz until 2023 due to an output deal with HBO until the end of 2022. Starz also shows sub-runs (runs of films that have recently received broadcast or syndicated television airings) of theatrical films from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (including subsidiaries Walt Disney Pictures , Touchstone Pictures , Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm , 20th Century Studios , and Hollywood Pictures - all for films released before 2016), Warren Miller Films (for films released before 2020), Sony Pictures Entertainment (including subsidiaries Columbia Pictures , Sony Pictures Classics , Screen Gems , Destination Films , Triumph Films , and TriStar Pictures - all for films released before 2022), Warner Bros. Discovery (including content from subsidiaries Warner Bros. Pictures , New Line Cinema , Turner Entertainment – both for films released prior to 2005 – and Castle Rock Entertainment ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including content from subsidiaries United Artists , Orion Pictures , and The Samuel Goldwyn Company ), Europa Corp , Paramount Pictures (including content from DreamWorks Pictures (pre-2011), Republic Pictures , Nickelodeon Movies , Dimension Films (pre-2005), Miramax , Paramount Vantage and television rights to

4214-504: The expiration of the Netflix deal, film content from studios with which Starz maintains broadcast rights were no longer available for online streaming, particularly as Netflix and certain similar services such as Vudu did not have separate streaming rights to films from these individual studios. Prior to the beta launch of its Starz Online service (which became Starzplay upon its official launch), Starz announced on November 18, 2011, that it

4300-440: The family wants to sell the land, and that Brian stands to make a small fortune from sales commissions for the properties that will be developed on the land. Matt and his daughters find Brian on vacation with his family at an oceanside cabin. Matt privately confronts Brian and informs him Elizabeth is dying, and offers him an opportunity to say goodbye. Matt asks Brian if Elizabeth loved him, and he says she did, but he only saw her as

4386-474: The festival included tributes to Dutch filmmaker Mijke de Jong, Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman , Boulder, Colorado , filmmaker Stacey Steers, and the Colorado filmmaking collective, Milkhaus. Celebrity guests who were present to receive festival awards or for special presentations included, Tippi Hedren , George A. Romero , Andy Garcia , Vince Vaughn and Jason Ritter . Additional screenings were held at

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4472-503: The first provider to offer all six channels (including both coastal feeds of the primary Starz channel) in HD. Among others, Starz HD is carried nationally by satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network and regionally by Verizon FiOS , AT&T U-verse , Comcast Xfinity , Time Warner Cable , Cox Communications, Cablevision and Charter Communications . Starz operates a video-on-demand (VOD) television service called Starz On Demand, which

4558-427: The following day in most countries, eliminating much of the conflict between Lionsgate and Disney 's Star brand. The Starzplay Arabia and Lionsgate Play services will not be affected at this time, while Starz in the U.S. and Canada merely rebranded with a new version of the "STARZ" logo. In November 2022, it was announced that Lionsgate+ was ending operations in the markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux,

4644-570: The former company's stake in the subsidiary in 1999, following TCI's merger with AT&T Corporation . By May 1998, Starz maintained a subscriber base reaching 7.6 million households with a cable or satellite television subscription. The network gained carriage deals with many other major American cable and satellite providers by the early 2000s, particularly with the adoption of digital cable , allowing for providers to add channels that they (even with capacity expansions of up to 60 channels) previously had limited room to carry. Encore Media Group

4730-491: The in-house company Starz! Pictures. At the time of its launch, Starz had secured exclusive first-run film rights with Universal Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films, New Line Cinema, Walt Disney Pictures, and Carolco Pictures. Between 1995 and 2005, Starz had also broadcast films from Turner Pictures and New Line Cinema. Starz's contract with Universal Pictures expired in late 2002, with HBO and Starz sharing half of Universal Pictures' films during

4816-488: The linear Starz channel for online viewing – in lieu of acquiring the digital distribution rights on its own, due to the expense of acquiring newer film titles – as Netflix was considered to be merely a "content aggregator". Because Netflix chose to sub-license digital rights through Starz instead of negotiating with the studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures threatened not to renew its output deal with Starz unless it either discontinued its deal with Netflix or paid Disney

4902-540: The loss of its (and sister network SportsChannel Philadelphia 's) sports programming to Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia . Partly in an effort to get the network's substantial losses off its books, TCI announced a deal on June 2, 1997, in which it transferred majority ownership of the corporate entity that operated Starz, Encore Media Group, to sister company Liberty Media; TCI retained a 20% minority ownership interest in Encore Media Group. Liberty Media assumed

4988-464: The main role, Shailene Woodley , Amara Miller in her film debut, Beau Bridges , Judy Greer , Matthew Lillard , and Robert Forster , and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011, after premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. Tracing the journey of attorney and land baron Matt King, who struggles with unexpected occurrences in his monotonous life, The Descendants

5074-566: The ocean off Waikiki . Later, Matt, Scottie and Alex eat ice cream together as they watch March of the Penguins , covering themselves in a blanket that Elizabeth had at the hospital. The film began its on-location shoot in Hawaii on March 15, 2010. Most of the film was shot in Honolulu and around Hanalei Bay . The location used as Matt King's house lacked the banyan tree described in

5160-404: The other Starz multiplex channels, Starz! Kids was launched on cable systems on a case-by-case basis instead of on a broader national scale. The entire multiplex was overhauled on March 28, 2005, as part of an extensive rebranding of the Starz and Encore services. While Encore debuted a slightly modified logo and applied the "Encore" brand to the names of its six multiplex channels, Starz underwent

5246-485: The pay cable rights to broadcast recent feature films from Universal Pictures released after that year; as a result, TCI/Liberty decided to create an additional premium pay-TV service to serve as a competitor to HBO and Showtime . The network carried the moniker "Encore 8" in its on-air branding as part of a numbering system that was used by Encore's multiplex channels. Early trademark filings indicated that TCI/Liberty's proposed names including "Applause" and "Stars" for

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5332-457: The pay television industry's first "themed" multiplex service – seven additional movie channels that each focused on a specific genre. This was intended to include only six channels, but Encore decided to launch Starz as a competitor to HBO and Showtime after it acquired the pay-TV rights to broadcast films by Universal Studios released after 1993. A numbering system was used for each service to identify itself as an Encore channel, though this system

5418-450: The previous one to two weeks. The Starz On Demand name was also used for an online broadband streaming movie service operated by Starz and RealNetworks from 2003 to 2004. In March 2011, Starz On Demand launched a third VOD service (in addition to its standard-definition and high-definition VOD services), offering movies presented in 3D to customers of Comcast and Verizon FiOS at no additional charge. The original incarnation of Starzplay

5504-697: The primary channel's East and West Coast feeds and, for Amazon Video customers, the East Coast feeds of its five multiplex channels). Starz's programming has been licensed for use by a number of channels and platforms worldwide, and the brand name is licensed by Bell Media for a companion channel of the Canada -based company's Crave premium service. Starz and its sister networks, Starz Encore and MoviePlex , are headquartered in Santa Monica, California , with satellite office facilities located at

5590-415: The rebranding of BET Movies: Starz! as Black Starz! after BET withdrew from the partnership during its acquisition by Viacom (which owned rival pay service Showtime at the time) in 2001. A seventh Starz multiplex channel was launched in 2004: Starz! Kids was created as a movie service featuring films aimed at children between 2 and 11 years of age, maintaining a format similar to that of Starz! Family. Unlike

5676-500: The service (the "s" in the latter was ultimately changed to a "z" in the final naming). Starz focused more on recent feature films, while Starz Encore (then Encore) focused on films released between the 1960s and the 1980s, before adding recent film fare itself in July 1999. It also held the television rights to releases from Carolco Pictures , New Line Cinema (as well as its sibling labels Fine Line Features and Turner Pictures ), and

5762-469: The service provider, Starz provides up to twelve multiplex channels – six 24-hour multiplex channels, all of which are simulcast in both standard definition and high definition – as well as a subscription video-on-demand service (Starz On Demand). Starz broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules. The respective coastal feeds of each channel are usually packaged together (though most cable providers only offer

5848-634: The subsidiary was completed on January 11, 2013, with Liberty Starz changing its name to Starz as a result. On April 5, 2016, Starz was rebranded, introducing a new logo, this time stylized as "STARZ" in all uppercase. As part of the rebranding, Starz added all the Encore channels to its moniker, therefore increasing the Starz channel lineup to 14 Starz premium channels. Its main channel was rebranded Starz Encore and carries reruns of Starz Originals in addition to films. On June 30, 2016, Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. for $ 4.4 billion in cash and stock;

5934-528: The years including the "Starz Encore Super Pak" and the "Starz Super Pak". The multiplex now has no "official" marketed name as of 2015 . On March 28, 2016, Starz introduced a new logo and tagline, "Obsessable". This coincided with a revamp of the Starz channels effective April 5 of that year, with all of Encore's channels taking on the "Starz" brand, and Encore's main channel being rebranded "Starz Encore", and airing reruns of Starz originals in addition to films. Starz now has 14 channels in its package. Starz HD

6020-590: Was a critical and financial success, grossing $ 177 million against a $ 20 million budget and receiving acclaim for the performances of Clooney and Woodley, Payne's direction and writing, and Kevin Tent 's editing. The film was nominated for five Oscars at the 84th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director for Payne, and Best Actor for Clooney, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay . The film also won two Golden Globe Awards ; Best Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Drama for Clooney. Matthew "Matt" King

6106-499: Was a foot of wet snow on the ground, but it was springtime and by the end of the day, it was beautiful. "The first festival obviously was very successful, so we decided to take it to a second year. It was really three years before we finally said, 'OK, this is a real thing, let's hire staff and incorporate as a nonprofit.' " Denerstein, Robert (2007-04-28). "Making up a mind-set". Rocky Mountain News. The 28th Starz Denver Film Festival

6192-458: Was a website and mobile app that featured original programming and feature film content from Starz available for streaming in standard or high definition. It was available to Starz subscribers of Verizon FIOS, AT&T U-verse, Cox Communications, Xfinity by Comcast and DirecTV until it was merged with Starz.com on April 5, 2016. The former incarnation of the Starzplay online service (which

6278-464: Was abandoned for most of the channels in 1996, with the tagline "an encore network" (which Starz! also used, albeit sparingly) being used from then until 2002. Starz continued to heavily include the "Encore 8" moniker in its main IDs , feature presentation bumpers and select bumpers until 2002, even as it transitioned into a separate channel from Encore. The tie to Encore branding-wise continued even as Starz

6364-466: Was announced October 22. The 31st Starz Denver Film Festival was held November 13–23, 2008. The featured Red Carpet events were screenings of The Brothers Bloom , Slumdog Millionaire and Last Chance Harvey . The 32nd Denver Film Festival was held November 12–22, 2009. The featured Red Carpet films included Precious , The Last Station and The Young Victoria . Festival was held November 3–14, 2010. It screened over 200 films and included

6450-599: Was depicted as Mid-Pacific Institute , which is in Honolulu , Oʻahu . Kaui Hart Hemmings stated that Hawaii Preparatory Academy , which is located in Kamuela , Hawaiʻi (the Big Island), was the inspiration for the private boarding school. Postproduction began on June 14, and continued into February 2011. The film was screened at the Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals and was originally scheduled to have

6536-416: Was developing a streaming application for mobile devices, allowing the network's subscribers – and in early reports, speculation that possibly non-subscription television subscribers would be allowed as well – to view Starz's series and film content. The app was released on October 9, 2012, for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and on May 7, 2013, for Android devices. An app for authenticated subscribers for

6622-606: Was given its own slate of multiplex channels in the late 1990s. The first of these to debut was Starz! 2 in 1996, maintaining a set lineup of four different movies scheduled at the same times each day (inspired by the scheduling used by movie theaters ) with the slate of films changing each Friday. This was followed in 1997 by the debut of a joint venture with BET Networks called BET Movies: Starz! 3. Two additional multiplex channels began operations in May 1999. Starz! Family carried family-oriented theatrical and home video film releases,

6708-424: Was held November 10–20, 2005. Special tributes were given to Claude Lelouch and Ryuichi Hiroki . The festival also included a focus on Japanese Cinema. The 29th Starz Denver Film Festival was held November 9–19, 2006 and featured 194 titles from 29 countries. 15 films were premiered. The festival was attended by 38,881 film goers and more than 180 filmmakers. The opening night film was 'Breaking and Entering' and

6794-702: Was held from October 30 to November 10, 2019. After conclusion of the Festival, the following films were recognized as the Audience Award winners for the 42nd Denver Film Festival by a tally of ballots. Awards previously given or announced: Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (IL TESTIMONE INVISIBILE) Director: Stefano Mordini John Cassavetes Award Recipient: RIAN JOHNSON Stan Brakhage Vision Award Recipient: VINCENT GRENIER Brit Withey Artistic Director Fund Recipient: GYÖRGY PÁLFI Starz Starz (stylized in all caps since 2016; pronounced "stars")

6880-413: Was launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 1, 1994, primarily on cable systems operated by Tele-Communications Inc. ; the first two movies aired on the network were dramas released in 1992: respectively, Scent of a Woman and The Crying Game . The network was operated as a joint venture between TCI and Liberty Media (both companies were controlled by John Malone ), with TCI owning

6966-710: Was launched in Brazil , France , Germany , Ireland , Spain and the United Kingdom . In 2020, it became available in Argentina , Chile , and Italy . In March 2022, a 57% majority stake in Starzplay Arabia was acquired by a consortium, led by e& (formerly known as Etisalat) and the Abu Dhabi -based investment group ADQ . The deal was valued at $ 420m. In January 2021, Starzplay Arabia signed

7052-435: Was launched possibly in response to HBO's own family-oriented multiplex channel, HBO Family, which debuted three years earlier. The other service was Starz! Cinema, a channel featuring critically acclaimed independent films and movies outside the mainstream cinema. Starz! 2 was also renamed Starz! Theater to better reflect its format. The first changes made following the original rollout of the multiplex occurred in 2001, with

7138-760: Was made available on Netflix's "Watch Instantly" platform. It was the third subscription video-on-demand online streaming service operated by Starz: Starz Ticket operated from 2004 to 2006, under a joint venture between Starz Entertainment and RealNetworks. Starz launched Vongo, a separate online movie service for subscribers, which operated from 2006 until it was discontinued on September 30, 2008. On September 1, 2011, Starz announced that it would not renew its streaming agreement with Netflix, which ended on February 28, 2012; movie titles that are available on DVD from Sony Pictures , Disney and other studios that maintain pay television distribution deals with Starz were not affected and can be acquired from Netflix by this method. With

7224-505: Was mainly limited to TCI's systems at launch, debuting with a one-month free preview available to prospective subscribers; it would eventually sign its first major carriage agreement outside the TCI group, through a deal with Continental Cablevision in September 1995. Starz was available to an estimated 2.8 million pay television subscribers by 1996, only one million of whom had subscribed to

7310-636: Was renamed the Starz Encore Media Group in 2000. As part of a corporate restructuring plan in 2003, Starz Encore Group eliminated 100 jobs in its nine regional offices, and closed four of the offices outright. On March 25, 2005, the Starz Encore Group corporate entity was renamed Starz Entertainment. A few days later, on March 28, 2005, Starz introduced a new logo, and was subsequently rebranded as "starz", in all lowercase. On November 19, 2009, Liberty Media spun off Starz into

7396-701: Was the last year the festival held screenings at the Starz Film Center on the Auraria Campus. The 2011 Award Winners are listed below. The 2012 festival was held November 1–11. It included a Focus on the Cinema of Argentina with 13 Argentine films in the program. Red Carpet events included the opening night film A Late Quartet , Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet and the closing night film, Silver Linings Playbook . Special events at

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