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Barbie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, SuzumeImage: Warner Bros., Sony, CrunchyrollThe Golden Globe Awards will be handed out January 7 on CBS (the Oscars, meanwhile, aren’t until March 10), so if you’re taking advantage of holiday downtime to catch up on your awards-season viewing, here’s a handy guide to where you can stream the nominees. Not every title is available for home viewing, but most are available for digital rental or purchase, with a few already on subscription streaming services.This year’s Golden…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Deal: Get Starz on Hulu for $0.99/month for six months with a Hulu (With Ads) subscription. From John Wick: Chapter 4 to Spider Man: No Way Home, some of the hottest new releases are streaming on Starz right now, just in time for the holidays. But if you don’t have a subscription, we have some good news for you: This Black Friday, Hulu subscribers can add Starz…

STARZ has announced that with the June billing cycle, subscribers will see an increase in their monthly rate. It’s going up by a buck, to $9.99 per month. And it comes just in time for the new season of Outlander. It’s unclear if that is the reason for the increase or not, but it’s pretty likely. It’s not a huge increase, but that is about $12 more per year if you STARZ has announced that with the June billing cycle, subscribers will see an increase in their monthly rate. It’s going up by a buck, to $9.99 per month.…

If you’ve been irritated by all the shows and films HBO Max has been dumping from its service, here’s some silver lining: at least one of them has been saved. Minx, which is produced by Lionsgate, has been picked up by Starz, which is owned by Lionsgate.The show, starring Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond, followed the creation and making of a feminist porn magazine in the 1970s. The first season aired on HBO Max, where the few people who saw it liked it (I was one of them). But unfortunately, not enough people watched it…

Screenshot: StarzThe Frasers are back, and hoo boy, they sure look like they’re in for a heap of... dreams about electric lightning? Even though I believe early 20th-century nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and 18th-century Scottish Highlander Jamie (Sam Heughan) are currently living somewhere on the American frontier during the Revolutionary War, or thereabouts?Look, you watch the trailer for the upcoming season of Outlander and tell me what lights have to do with any of this:Outlander | Season 7 Official Teaser | STARZOr…

YouTube has partnered with a long list of streaming services to offer third-party subscriptions to U.S. users directly through its platform. More than 30 different streaming service memberships including Paramount+, Showtime, AMC+, Starz, IFC, Epix, Sundance Now, and Vix+ will now be purchase-able on YouTube’s site and app via the new “Primetime Channels” feature. And once users sign up for a subscription through the platform, that content will be displayed and viewable alongside all the standard YouTube fare in searches…

After reportedly wanting to spin off its streaming service, STARZ, Lionsgate has decided to spin off its studio instead. It’s also planning to sell a stake in the studio as well.CNBC reported it this morning, and a SEC filing confirmed it just a little while later. The company said in the filing, “as negotiations progress we have increased our focus on the possibility of spinning our studio business, creating a number of financial and strategic benefits. In that regard, we are continuing productive negotiations with…

Lions Gate LGF.B -3.23% Entertainment Corp. is now considering a spinoff of its studio business rather than its Starz premium-cable channel, according to a securities filing. The movie- and television-production company said Wednesday that despite volatile market conditions, it still remains on a path to separate the two segments, as it first disclosed last year. Rather than unloading the Starz business, which it acquired…

Michael BurnsMichael Newberg | CNBCLionsgate is leaning toward spinning off its studio division rather than its Starz cable and streaming unit, according to people familiar with the matter.Shares of the company jumped about 4% in premarket trading.This would be a change in strategy for the media and entertainment company, which said in May it expected to finalize a spin or sale of Starz by the end of summer. In recent months, Lionsgate has held talks to sell a 20% stake in Starz to a number of potential buyers, including…

Lionsgate Play is now available standalone. The Hollywood studio best known for John Wick and The Hunger Games has quietly launched its own app, nearly 15 months after Lionsgate Play first entered India in partnership with telecom operators: first with Vodafone, followed by Airtel and Jio. Lionsgate Play costs Rs. 99 per month or Rs. 699 per year after a 14-day free trial. The Lionsgate Play app is live on Google Play and App Store, and the streaming service is also available on lionsgateplay.com.The reason for Lionsgate…