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The number of subscribers to Lionsgate's premium pay and streaming brands grew to 28.9 million year-on-year in the first quarter.

Lionsgate has acquired a slate of feature films from the Spyglass Media Group, taking a 20 percent stake in the group and inking a multiyear first-look television deal.

Releasing its Q4 and full-year results, Lionsgate announced gains in its media networks division, with global subscribers to Starz rising to 29.5 million, including 16.7 million streaming customers.

The comedy Minx on Lionsgate’s slate follows a young feminist in the 1970s who partners with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Agapy Kapouranis, the president of international television and digital distribution at Lionsgate, on positioning the company as “a global supplier of choice” to platforms while remaining a prolific source of premium scripted series for Starz.

Lionsgate and Starz have closed a multiyear exclusive first-window output deal for all theatrically released Lionsgate and Summit label films when current agreements expire at the end of 2021 and end of 2022, respectively.

Lionsgate's global streaming subscriber base in the third quarter of fiscal 2021 rose to 14.6 million, reflecting 52 percent of its total media networks customer base.

The CEO takls about managing businesses and people through the uncertainty created by COVID-19, continuing to find new revenue-generating opportunities and how the industry may change post-pandemic.

Lionsgate reported second-quarter revenues of $745 million, with lower results in its filmed entertainment and television production segments and gains at its media networks.

Temple Hill has signed a multiyear, first-look TV deal with Lionsgate to develop and produce scripted programming.