Starz Entertainment
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Canadian-American entertainment company
Key facts
- Trade name
- Starz Entertainment
- Formerly
- Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (1997–2024)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- Nasdaq : STRZ
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Founded
- July 10, 1997 ; 28 years ago ( 1997-07-10 ) in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
- Founder
- Frank Giustra
- Successor
- Lionsgate Studios (film and TV businesses)
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, California , U.S.
- Area served
- United States
- Key people
- Michael Burns (chairman) Jeffrey A. Hirsch (president and CEO)
- Services
- Video on demand Broadcast programming Digital distribution
- Revenue
- US$1.37 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- −US$170 million (2025)
- Net income
- −US$211 million (2025)
- Total assets
- US$2.17 billion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$766 million (2025)
- Number of employees
- 541 (2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica
- Owned by
- Liberty Global
- Subsidiary
- Lionsgate Canada
- Industry
- show business
- Revenue
- 3604300000
- Stock exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Follows
- Trimark Pictures
- Official website
- www.lionsgate.com
- Image
- 1647 Stewart Street.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lions Gate Entertainment
- topic's main category
- Category:Lionsgate
- inception
- 1997-04-28
- location of formation
- Vancouver
- owner of
- Lionsgate Canada
- product or material produced
- television program
- social media followers
- 1063614
- net profit
- 346800000
- total assets
- 8991200000
- market capitalization
- 3430000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Starz Entertainment Corp., formerly known as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, or simply Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, it is/was domiciled and incorporated in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Prior to 2024, the then-named Lionsgate owned film and television studios under its own umbrella. It was spun-off into Lionsgate Studios on May 14, 2024, of which Starz owned 87% until its separation on May 7, 2025. The company trades on Nasdaq with the stock symbol STRZ.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Starz Entertainment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.