BEVERLY HILLS,
Calif., Dec. 12,
2013 /PRNewswire/ -- STARZ miniseries were
nominated for a network record six Golden
Globe® nominations by the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association this morning at the 71th Annual Golden
Globe Awards nomination ceremony at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel. The network garnered two nominations in
the Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television Category
for its Original Miniseries, "The White Queen" and "Dancing on the
Edge."
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"Our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for
honoring STARZ with nominations for both "The White Queen" and
"Dancing on the Edge," said Starz CEO, Chris Albrecht. "We are incredibly proud
of our talented actors and producing partners who have been
recognized for their achievements."
This marks the first Golden Globe nomination for
Rebecca Ferguson for her performance
in "The White Queen" in the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion
Picture Made for Television category.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
received duel nominations for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion
Picture Made for Television for "Dancing on the Edge" and Best
Actor Motion Picture - Drama for 12 Years a
Slave. Veterans Janet McTeer, Best Supporting Actress in a
Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for "The
White Queen" and Jacqueline Bisset,
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture
Made for Television for "Dancing on the Edge" have both been
recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for past
performances.
"The White Queen" is a ten-part limited
series is a BBC co-production, adapted from The New York Times best-selling historical novel series
"The Cousins' War" by Philippa
Gregory. "The White Queen" is produced by
Company Pictures and adapted by acclaimed writer Emma Frost. The series
is directed by James Kent,
Jamie Payne and Colin Teague with Gina Cronk serving as producer. Executive
Producers include John Griffin,
George Faber, Charles Pattinson for Company Pictures,
Philippa Gregory, Eurydice Gysel for
Czar Television, Polly Hill for the
BBC and Colin Callender for
Playground Entertainment on behalf of Starz.
Starz enjoys all U.S. and worldwide multiplatform
distribution rights to "The White Queen" from ALL3Media
International, with the exception of television rights in the UK,
where the series aired on BBC One, and rights in Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
"Dancing on the Edge" was filmed on location
in London and
Birmingham on a moving set over
four months and was executive produced by an acclaimed production
team including: James D.
Stern, Douglas E.
Hansen and Colin
Callender ("The White Queen," "Magic
City"); Alison
Owen (Jane
Eyre, The Men Who Stare at Goats), Paul
Trijbits (Saving Mr. Banks, Jane Eyre) and Poliakoff; Dan Lawson and Peter Hampden. The miniseries was
produced by Nicky Kentish
Barnes (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Match Point) and Faye Ward (Toast, Jane Eyre) for Ruby Film and Television.
Ruby Film and Television produced the series for BBC Two, supported
by Endgame Entertainment, Playground Entertainment, Creative
England (through the Advantage Media Production Fund (previously
managed by Screen West Midlands)) and LipSync Productions. ITV
Studios Global Entertainment will distribute the series
internationally.
About STARZ
STARZ® is
the flagship premium brand of Starz and one of the most widely
subscribed premium pay TV flagship brand in the United States with 22.0 million
subscribers through September 30,
2013. Offered by Starz from its operating unit, Starz
Networks, STARZ' six premium channel offerings include: STARZ,
STARZ EDGE, STARZ IN BLACK, STARZ
COMEDY, STARZ CINEMA, and STARZ KIDS & FAMILY. Advanced
services options for STARZ subscribers include STARZ HD, STARZ ON
DEMAND, STARZ HD ON DEMAND, STARZ 3D ON DEMAND, and the STARZ PLAY
authenticated online offering. STARZ subscribers enjoy a wide
variety of exclusive STARZ Original series, new release movies from
Sony and Disney, and other popular Hollywood movies from leading
studios.
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global media
and entertainment company with operating units that provide premium
subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television
channels (Starz Networks), global content distribution (Starz
Distribution) and animated television and movie production (Starz
Animation), www.starz.com.
Starz Networks is a leading provider of premium
subscription video programming through the flagship STARZ® and
ENCORE® pay TV networks which showcase premium original programming
and movies to U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable
operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications
companies. As of September 30, 2013,
STARZ and ENCORE serve a combined 57.0 million subscribers,
including 22.0 million at STARZ, and 35.0 million at ENCORE, making
them the largest pair of premium flagship channels in the U.S.
STARZ® and ENCORE®, along with Starz Networks' third network
MOVIEPLEX®, air more than 1,000 movies monthly across 17 linear
networks, complemented by On Demand and authenticated online
offerings through STARZ PLAY, ENCORE PLAY, and MOVIEPLEX PLAY.
Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires entertainment
content, distributing it to consumers globally on DVD, digital
formats and traditional television. Starz Distribution's home
video, digital media and worldwide distribution business units
distribute original programming content produced by Starz, as well
as entertainment content for itself and third parties. Starz
Animation produces animated TV and movie content for studios,
networks, distributors and audiences worldwide.
About Company Pictures
Company
Pictures is one of the UK's largest independent film and television
drama production companies. Television production highlights
include: The Village (BBC1), Women In Love
starring Rosamund Pike for BBC4,
BBC2's The Shadow Line, Elizabeth I (winner of three
Golden Globes), 11 series of Shameless (Channel 4, BAFTA and
RTS Awards), Skins – six series for E4, Martina Cole's The Take and The
Runaway (Sky One), Einstein and Eddington starring
David Tennant (BBC1/ HBO),
Inspector George Gently
(BBC1), Generation Kill (HBO), The Devil's Whore
(Channel 4), Wild at Heart – seven series (ITV1) and the US
version of Skins for MTV.
Other past Company Pictures productions include: The
Lakes by Jimmy McGovern, A
Young Person's Guide to Being a Rock
Star (RTS award Best Serial) for Channel 4 and Warner Bros,
North Square (Channel 4: winner Best Series Press Guild),
Not Only But Always (Channel 4: winner Best Series Press
Guild, BAFTA Best Actor winner for Rhys Ifans), The Rotters'
Club (BBC), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (HBO: winner of two Golden
Globe Awards for Best TV Movie, Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush and 15 Emmys). Company has made
five feature films with some of the UK's leading directing talent
including films by Roger Michell,
Stephen Hopkins, Penny Woolcock, Shane
Meadows and Lynne
Ramsay.
Among its numerous awards, Company Pictures won Best
Independent Production Company at the 2005 and 2008
Broadcast Awards and the European Producers of the Year
Award at the 2004 Monte Carlo Awards. Since October 2004 Company Pictures has been a part of
the All3 Media group.
About All 3 Media
ALL3MEDIA is
Britain's largest independent
television production company and comprises
production companies from across the UK, US, Germany,
the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. It also includes international
distribution companies 'ALL3MEDIA International' and 'Optomen
International'. ALL3MEDIA International represents third-party
producers and broadcasters together with its own production
companies.
ALL3MEDIA is also the largest producer of broadcaster
multiplatform content in the UK, producing award winning websites
and online dramas such as Embarrassing Bodies (BAFTA),
The Well (BANFF) and Britain From Above
(EMMY).
About Playground
PLAYGROUND is a
film, television and theater production company based in
New York that was founded in 2011
by the award winning producer and executive Colin Callender.
Current productions include Stephen Poliakoff's six part BBC mini-series
DANCING ON THE EDGE starring John
Goodman, the second season of MAGIC CITY which premieres on
Starz on June 14, THE WHITE QUEEN a
ten part series based on the novels by Philippa Gregory starring Janet McTeer, Rebecca
Ferguson and Max which premieres on Starz on August 14 and the new NBC series DRACULA starring
Jonathan Rhys Myers which premieres
in September.
Playground's theater division is currently producing
Nora Ephron's Broadway hit LUCKY GUY
directed by George C. Wolfe starring
Tom Hanks which was nominated for
six Tony Awards including Best Play, Best Actor and Best Director,
as well as Harvey Fierstein's new
play CASA VALENTINA.
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