Starz Cinema Showcases World Television Premieres of Five Acclaimed Independent Films in March

Starz Cinema Showcases World Television Premieres of Five Acclaimed Independent Films in March

Films Shown Week of March 19th With an Encore Marathon of All Films on Saturday, March 24th

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Cinema, known for showing thought provoking, alternative art house films, presents the world television premieres of five acclaimed independent films in March. In addition to Thumbsucker (winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival) starring Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn, the other films in the weeklong event include Kinky Boots, Mirrormask, The Child (winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival) and The Memory of a Killer. The films will be shown every night at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) throughout the week of March 19, concluding with a marathon of all five films on March 24.

Starz Cinema World Television Premiere Week Shown at 10:00 p.m. during the week of March 19

* Kinky Boots 3/19 - After his father's sudden death leaves him in charge
of a struggling shoe factory, a man (Joel Edgerton) finds an unlikely
business ally in a flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer (Chiwetel
Okiofor). The movie was inspired by the true story of a traditional
English men's footwear factory, which turned to production of kinky
boots for transvestites, in order to save the ailing family business
and safeguard the jobs of the local community.

* Mirrormask 3/20 - Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a 15-year-old girl in a
family of circus entertainers, often wishes that she could run away
from the circus and join real life. Blaming herself for her mother's
illness, Helena falls into a dream, where she's in a strange world with
two warring queens (no, there's no theme here), bizarre creatures and
masked inhabitants. Order can only be restored by the mystical
Mirrormask and it's up to Helena to find it. The film co-stars Gina
McKee and Stephen Fry.

* The Child (L'Enfant) 3/21 - Bruno and Sonia (Jeremie Renier and Deborah
Francois) are a young, immature couple, who find themselves strapped
down with a newborn son. Bruno, a petty thief, with no interest in
work and no direction in life, decides to sell the baby. Is there any
chance of redemption for Bruno?

* The Memory of a Killer (De Zaak Alzheimer) 3/22 - When a key civil
servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime
investigators on the case (Koen De Bouw and Werner De Smedt). The trail
leads to retired assassin Angelo (Jan Decleir). Showing symptoms of
Alzheimer's, Angelo finds it increasingly difficult to carry out
assignments, and when he realizes he's being used in a political power
game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds him.

* Thumbsucker 3/23 - A Minnesota teenager named Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci)
throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to
break free from his abnormal addiction to his thumb. The film co-stars
Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn and
Benjamin Bratt.

Five-Film Marathon on Saturday, March 24
* Kinky Boots at 5:35 a.m., 2:40 p.m., 10 p.m.
* Mirrormask at 7:25 a.m., 11:50 p.m.
* The Child at 9:10 a.m., 4:30 p.m.
* Thumbsucker at 10:50 a.m., 6:10 p.m.
* The Memory of a Killer at 12:35 p.m., 7:50 p.m.

Starz Cinema brings the art-house to your house.

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 15.5 million and 27.3 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Starz On Demand and Vongo(SM). Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation that is attributed to Liberty Capital Group.

Contacts: Steve Belgard/Starz Les Eisner/The Lippin Group
(720) 852-5843 323-965-1990
steve.belgard@starz.comleisner@lippingroup.com

Source: Starz Entertainment

CONTACT: Steve Belgard of Starz, +1-720-852-5843,
steve.belgard@starz.com; or Les Eisner of The Lippin Group, +1-323-965-1990,
leisner@lippingroup.com, for Starz

Web site: http://www.starz.com/

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