'Sunshine Cleaning,' Other Movie Programming From Overture Films and Anchor Bay Now Available on the iTunes Store

'Sunshine Cleaning,' Other Movie Programming From Overture Films and Anchor Bay Now Available on the iTunes Store

Starz Digital Media Makes Available Movie Rentals and Purchases from Overture Films, Anchor Bay and Manga Entertainment

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Digital Media, an operating division of Starz Media, announced today that new and classic movie programming from Overture Films, Anchor Bay Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, and Manga Entertainment is now available on the iTunes Store (www.iTunes.com).

Today's launch brings the availability of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival nominated, Sunshine Cleaning, starring the two-time Oscar nominated Amy Adams and Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt. Sunshine Cleaning is now available for purchase and rental on iTunes.

Offering films for both purchase and rental adds to the wealth of content from Starz Digital Media already available on iTunes, including Starz Entertainment original comedies ("Head Case," "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up") and Manga Entertainment TV anime content ("Gurren Lagann," "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex").

"We are very pleased to be expanding our offerings on iTunes to now include a wide array of current and library feature films from Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, and Manga Entertainment, in addition to the popular Manga Entertainment and Starz Originals TV content," said Marc DeBevoise, senior vice president, digital media, business development and strategy for Starz Media and lead executive for Starz Digital Media.

"Expanding the reach of these films with iTunes purchase and rental options is a win for consumers and offers up a strong new business opportunity for these properties," said Mara Winokur, Starz Media's vice president, digital media and business development for Starz Digital Media. "The availability on iTunes brings a whole new level of customer satisfaction for fans of these movies."

Other new movie additions from Starz Digital Media available on iTunes include:

-- Classic horror titles The Hills Have Eyes and Phantasm;
-- Recent theatrical and direct-to-video releases The Haunted World of El
Superbeasto (directed by Rob Zombie), The Education of Charlie Banks
(directed by Fred Durst), The Grand (Woody Harrelson), Lower Learning
(Jason Biggs, Eva Longoria Parker), Sex and Death 101 (Winona Ryder,
Simon Baker), and Surfer, Dude (Matthew McConaughey);

-- Popular anime movies from Manga Entertainment including Dead Space:
Downfall, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, and
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

About Starz Digital Media

Starz Digital Media, an operating division of Starz Media, LLC, is responsible for all digital and on-demand distribution of library content from Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Originals from Starz Entertainment, and Manga Entertainment. Through a range of distribution and marketing partnerships with multichannel video providers, Internet distributors and wireless operators worldwide, Starz Digital Media makes its content available under numerous business models including download-to-own/electronic sell-through, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, subscription video-on-demand and ad-supported streaming. The division also programs and supports numerous ad-supported broadband channels and develops games and gaming-related content from many of its properties for distribution worldwide.

About Overture Films

Overture Films (www.overturefilms.net) develops, produces, acquires, and distributes feature length, theatrical motion pictures worldwide. The studio is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation. Its affiliated companies, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Starz Entertainment make the films available domestically to viewers via home video, premium television, Internet and other outlets.

About Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment is a division of Starz Media. Starz Media is a programming production and distribution company operating worldwide. It includes Film Roman and Anchor Bay Entertainment as well as the Manga Entertainment brands. Its units create animated and live-action programming - including theatrical films - and programming created under contract for other media companies. It distributes that programming, and programming acquired from outside producers, through home video retailers, theaters, broadcasters, ad supported and premium television channels, and Internet and wireless video distributors in the US and internationally. Starz Media is a wholly owned subsidiary of Starz, LLC which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. and which is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, www.starzmedia.com.

About Manga Entertainment

Manga Entertainment Ltd (www.manga.com), a division of Starz Media, LLC, is an entertainment company specializing in the production, marketing and distribution of Japanese animation for theatrical, television, Internet, DVD and home video release worldwide. Manga Entertainment content is marketed and distributed for television by Starz Media, in traditional home video outlets by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and across digital platforms by Starz Digital Media through its various online video and gaming platform partners. Starz Media (www.starzmedia.com), a programming production and distribution company operating worldwide, is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to Liberty Capital Group.

Source: Starz Digital Media

CONTACT: Eric Becker of Starz Digital Media, +1-720-852-4065,
eric.becker@starz.com; or Randi Wolfson of Apple, +1-408-862-1225,
randi@apple.com

Web Site: http://www.starzmedia.com/
http://www.overturefilms.net/
http://www.manga.com/

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