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Starz Will Soon Be the Exclusive Streaming Home for the Latest Lionsgate Theatrical Releases
The Starz network and streaming service is owned by Lionsgate, so it only makes sense that Starz and Lionsgate have inked an exclusive first window output deal for new releases.
The Hollywood Reporter explains this morning, “Lionsgate is looking to give Starz a bigger movie streaming bundle by signing a multiyear theatrical output agreement with its premium subscription platform for Lionsgate and Summit label films.”
The site’s report continues, “As part of the deal, Starz will get an exclusive first window for Lionsgate label films when the current distribution agreement with Hulu expires at the end of 2021. And Summit label films will land on Starz when the current deal with HBO through to the end of 2022 expires.”
Upcoming genre films that fall under this new umbrella include Eli Roth’s Borderlands and the John Wick movies. Franchise relaunch Spiral: From the Book of Saw is being released by Lionsgate this coming May, well before Lionsgate’s agreement with Hulu expires, but it sounds like any future installments in the franchise will be finding a post-theatrical home on Starz.
The idea here is for studios to use their latest releases to boost numbers for their own streaming services, rather than lending them out to the Hulus and Netflixs of the world. The latter approach had long been the norm, but new platforms like HBO Max and Paramount+ are changing the game and, yes, forcing us all to subscribe to multiple different services.
Can you even keep track of what you’re subscribing to, at this point? It’s getting tough!
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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