{"id":4665,"date":"2016-07-01T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/01\/lions-gate-buys-starz-movie-channel-for-4-4-billion\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:31:51","slug":"lions-gate-buys-starz-movie-channel-for-4-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/01\/lions-gate-buys-starz-movie-channel-for-4-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Gate buys Starz movie channel for $4.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Content + distribution = money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s the basic equation behind Thursday’s news that movie and TV studio Lions Gate acquired subscription channel Starz for $4.4 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deal, a combination of stock and cash, merges the company that made “The Hunger Games” series with one of the biggest pay-for cable channels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In Starz, Lions Gate now has a way to directly make money from its hits as opposed to going to other distributors, as it does now with Orange is the New Black<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In Lions Gate, Starz gains access to a pipeline of high-quality shows and an existing library that will make its subscription services more enticing.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Content + distribution = money.\u00a0 That’s the basic equation behind Thursday’s news that movie and TV studio Lions Gate acquired subscription channel Starz for $4.4 billion.\u00a0 The deal, a combination of stock and cash, merges the company that made “The … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}