Pursuits
Malone May Have Bigger Plans Beyond Lions Gate Purchase of Starz
- Analysts predict further deals with AMC, Discovery, Scripps
- ‘Scale is very important’ for media, cable billionaire says
What's In the Starz for Lions Gate in $4.4 Billion Deal?
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John Malone has orchestrated another big media deal and he probably won’t stop there.
On Thursday, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., the studio behind “Mad Men” and “The Hunger Games,” agreed to buy Malone’s Starz in a $4.4 billion deal, adding premium cable networks serving 56 million homes to its film and TV production businesses.