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Santa Monica, Calif. - STARZ released the official trailer and key art today for its new comedy series "Run the World," created by Leigh Davenport (The Perfect Find, "Wendy Williams: The Hot Topic," BET's "Boomerang") who will execut ive produce alongside showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser ("Living Single," "black-ish," Lionsgate's "Dear White People"). The new STARZ Original Series will premiere worldwide on Sunday, May 16 across all STARZ platforms including at 8:30PM ET/PT on STARZ in the U.S. and Canada, and will air day and date internationally on the Starzplay premium streaming platform across its complete footprint in Europe, Latin America and Japan. Set in Harlem, "Run the World" follows a group of smart, funny, and vibrant thirty-something Black women - fiercely loyal best friends - who live, work and play in Harlem. As they strive for world domination, they each navigate career highs and lows, hookups an...

buzzz worthy. . . Lionsgate Shareholders Overwhelmingly Ratify Deal SANTA MONICA, Calif.  and  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. ,  Dec. 8, 2016  -- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) and Starz today announced the closing of the transaction under which Lionsgate has acquired Starz for approximately  $4.4 billion  in cash and stock.  The deal creates a vertically integrated global content platform that includes one of the largest independent television businesses in the world, a 16,000-title film and television library, the STARZ premium pay network serving nearly 25 million subscribers, a world-class film business and a growing suite of streaming services. The acquisition was approved by 98% of the votes cast by Lionsgate shareholders and 95% of the votes cast by Starz shareholders, in person or represented by proxy, not including abstentions, at the companies' respective shareholder meetings on  Wednesday, December 7 , 2016.  All necessary regulat...