SANTA MONICA, Calif. and
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, 2016 /CNW/ -- TinyCo, a Jam City
Company, is pleased to announce a thrilling collaboration between
Fox Digital Entertainment, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and Starz (NASDAQ:
STRZA, STRZB), to bring an exciting mix of iconic film and
television horror characters to FAMILY GUY: The Quest for
Stuff for the hit mobile game's limited-time Halloween event.
The release features Billy the Puppet from Lionsgate's
Saw films, the most popular long-running horror franchise in
history, Ash Williams from Starz's popular Ash vs Evil Dad
television series and Leprechaun from Lionsgate's classic
Leprechaun film franchise checking into a hilariously
haunted hotel run by James Woods, a
recurring Family Guy guest star.
This unique Halloween event builds
upon Fox Digital Entertainment and TinyCo's track record for
keeping players engaged by regularly integrating third-party IP and
new storylines into the beloved mobile game FAMILY GUY: The
Quest for Stuff. In this version, "Sheriff" Peter Griffin and his costumed crew do battle
with the supernatural forces that have taken over the hotel.
"As longtime fans of the TinyCo team and FAMILY GUY: The
Quest for Stuff, we are fired up and honored to include our
intellectual property into this limited-time Halloween event," said Peter Levin, President, Interactive Ventures
& Games for Lionsgate. "Collaborating with Fox and Starz on
this initiative and allowing fans of these iconic genre characters
to interact in this medium is a win for all parties involved."
"Starz is thrilled that Ash vs Evil Dead will be joining
the FAMILY GUY: THE QUEST FOR STUFF. Ash Williams,
Billy the Puppet, Leprechaun and Peter
Griffin are bringing the party this Halloween, and Quahog is going to be cleaning up
the gore for a long time to come!," said Alison Hoffman, Executive Vice President of
Marketing at Starz.
Added Rick Phillips, Executive
Vice President at Fox Digital Entertainment, "Halloween's coming to Quahog and this year it's
going to be especially terrifying. We're excited to be
working with Lionsgate and Starz to include these iconic horror
characters in a great new event in FAMILY GUY: The Quest for
Stuff."
The unique opportunity to incorporate characters from popular
Lionsgate franchises and Starz series into FAMILY GUY: The Quest
for Stuff was one that Suli Ali,
President at TinyCo, a Jam City Company, couldn't be more
enthusiastic about, "Halloween is one
of our player's favorite events. To be able to
bring these beloved characters to the Family Guy universe
is a fun and exciting privilege that will provide tons
of scares and laughs!"
In addition to the new Lionsgate and Starz characters who will
take on a new life in Quahog, the update introduces into the game a
new Investigations feature, through which players can
explore James Woods' haunted hotel
and scare off ghosts and ghouls with sensational new Halloween-themed actions and animations.
FAMILY GUY: The Quest for Stuff's Halloween event is available now on iOS, Android
and Amazon devices. For more information on TinyCo, please visit:
http://www.tinyco.com. Visit FAMILY GUY: The Quest for
Stuff's Facebook page or follow them on Twitter.
About TinyCo, a Jam City Company
Founded in 2009,
TinyCo has developed more than a dozen successful games for the App
Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App store with titles such as
MARVEL Avengers Academy and FAMILY GUY: The Quest for
Stuff. The company's mission is to make people happy five
minutes at a time through incredible, fun and original mobile
entertainment. The company's investors include Andreessen Horowitz,
Pinnacle Ventures and angel investors including Ron Conway and Keith
Rabois. For more information about TinyCo, please visit
http://www.tinyco.com.
About FAMILY GUY
FAMILY GUY follows the adventures of
an endearingly ignorant dad, PETER
GRIFFIN (Seth MacFarlane),
and his hilariously odd family of middle-class New Englanders in
Quahog, RI. LOIS (Alex Borstein) is
Peter's wife, a stay-at-home mom with no patience for her family's
antics. Then there are their kids: 18-year-old MEG (Mila Kunis) is an outcast at school and the
Griffin family punching bag; 13-year-old CHRIS (Seth Green) is a socially awkward teen who
doesn't have a clue about the opposite sex; and one-year-old STEWIE
(MacFarlane) is a diabolically clever baby. Rounding out the
Griffin household is BRIAN (MacFarlane), the family dog and a
ladies man. FAMILY GUY is a 20th Century Fox Television
production. Seth MacFarlane is
creator/executive producer. Rich
Appel and Steve Callaghan
serve as executive producers/co-showrunners, while Danny Smith and Kara
Vallow are executive producers. FAMILY GUY is distributed by
20th Century Fox Television Distribution.
About Fox Digital Entertainment
Fox Digital
Entertainment (FDE) produces award-winning mobile games and apps
based on 20th Century Fox's globally-recognized film and television
properties. FDE's products delight millions of players every
day with games including ANGRY BIRDS™ RIO, THE SIMPSONS™ TAPPED
OUT, FAMILY GUY: THE QUEST FOR STUFF, FUTURAMA: GAME OF DRONES,
SUGAR SMASH: THE BOOK OF LIFE and many more.
About Lionsgate
Lionsgate is a premier next generation
global content leader with a diversified presence in motion picture
production and distribution, television programming and
syndication, home entertainment, international distribution and
sales, branded channel platforms, interactive ventures and games,
and location-based entertainment. The Company has nearly 80
television shows on 40 different networks spanning its primetime
production, distribution and syndication businesses. These include
the ground-breaking hit series Orange is the New Black, the
fan favorite series Nashville, the syndication success The
Wendy Williams Show, the hit drama series The
Royals, the Golden Globe-nominated dramedy Casual and
the breakout success Greenleaf.
The Company's feature film business spans eight labels and
includes the blockbuster Hunger Games franchise, the Now
You See Me and John Wick series, Nerve,
CBS Films/Lionsgate's Hell or High Water, Sicario,
Roadside Attractions' Love & Mercy and Mr.
Holmes, Codeblack Films'
Addicted and breakout concert film Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain and Pantelion
Films' Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing
Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in
box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rates.
Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of
approximately 16,000 motion picture and television titles that is
an important source of recurring revenue and serves as a foundation
for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and
Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality
entertainment in markets around the world. www.lionsgate.com
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 networks (Starz Networks) and global
content distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com. The
Starz Networks operating unit is home to the flagship
STARZ® brand with 24.5 million subscribers in
the United States as of
September 30, 2016, with the STARZ
ENCORESM network at 31.5 million subscribers. Through
STARZ, the company provides high quality, entertaining premium
subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV channels and
associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is sold through
U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators,
satellite television providers, telecommunications companies, and
other online and digital platforms. Starz offers subscribers more
than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes and feature films
every year and up to 1,500 every month, including STARZ Original
series, first-run movies and other popular movie and television
programming. The Starz Distribution operating unit is home to the
Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Digital, and Starz Worldwide
Distribution divisions. In addition to STARZ Original series, Starz
Distribution develops, produces and acquires movies, television and
other entertainment content for worldwide home video, digital, and
television licensing and sales.
Press Contact
Joanna Dodd Massey for
Lionsgate
(310) 600-4371
JMassey@Lionsgate.com
Cristina Castaneda for
Lionsgate
(310) 255-5114
Ccastaneda@lionsgate.com
Eric Becker for Starz
(720) 852-4065
Eric.Becker@starz.com
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