Starz InBlack Honors Spike Lee on His 50th Birthday With a 24-hour Marathon Tuesday, March 20

Starz InBlack Honors Spike Lee on His 50th Birthday With a 24-hour Marathon Tuesday, March 20

Marathon Features Exclusive Interview Segments With Spike Lee

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz InBlack will pay tribute to groundbreaking filmmaker Spike Lee on his 50th birthday with an all-day marathon of his movies and exclusive interview segments which feature Lee talking about his craft and his career as a writer, director, actor, producer, author and entrepreneur. The Spike Lee 24-hour Marathon will be shown exclusively on Starz InBlack on Tuesday, March 20.

The all day marathon will feature seven of Lee's films, including School Daze, Crooklyn, Bamboozled, Summer of Sam, Girl 6 and the Starz Original documentary, A Huey P. Newton Story.

"Spike Lee is undoubtedly one of the most important filmmakers of his generation," said Jonathan Shair, vice president of planning and scheduling, Starz Entertainment. "Starz InBlack is extremely proud to pay homage to this extraordinary director who has not only revolutionized filmmaking, but has had, and continues to have, a major impact on the presence of African Americans in cinema."

As an extra treat for viewers, the marathon will also include exclusive and intimate interview segments with Lee. In these vignettes, Lee speaks candidly about things such as the influence of his cinematic forefathers including Oscar Micheaux, Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis and Melvin Van Peebles, as well as other career challenges he has faced, how he has evolved as a filmmaker and what he hopes to accomplish in the future.

Visit www.starz.com for scheduling information and video clips for the Spike Lee 24-hour Marathon.

Starz InBlack is culturally connected. It is the source of the biggest, coolest movies and urban entertainment.

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.

Source: Starz Entertainment, LLC

CONTACT: Chelsye J. Burrows of Starz Entertainment, +1-720-852-5838,
chelsye.burrows@starz.com; or Jennifer Garnick of The Lippin Group,
+1-323-965-1990, jennifer.garnick@lippingroup.com, for Starz Entertainment

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: Images available to download at http://starz.mediaroom.com.

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