Starz' 'Crash' Season Finale to Feature Paul McCartney's New Hit Single 'Nothing too Much, Just out of Sight'

Starz' 'Crash' Season Finale to Feature Paul McCartney's New Hit Single 'Nothing too Much, Just out of Sight'

Song by McCartney's Side Project 'The Fireman' to Air January 9 at 10 pm ET/PT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Crash", Starz' first original drama series, co-produced with Lionsgate, will feature Paul McCartney's new hit single, "Nothing too Much, Just out of Sight," in its season finale on January 9 at 10 pm ET/PT.

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"Nothing too Much, Just out of Sight" is the hot new single from the recently-released album Electric Arguments from Paul McCartney and music producer Youth's critically-acclaimed side project The Fireman. Electric Arguments, which debuted November 25 on ATO/MPL Records, was Billboard Magazine's #1 Independent Record in its first week of release.

Founded by McCartney and Youth in 1992 under the alias of The Fireman, the identities of the band's musicians were kept unknown until they were later revealed to be the legendary singer/songwriter and Youth, who is one of the music industry's top producers and the bassist for the U.K. band Killing Joke.

"Crash" (www.starz.com/crash), from the producers of the Academy Award(R)-winning Best Motion Picture of the same title, is the provocative 13-episode drama airing on Starz, featuring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper. Set in Los Angeles, the series focuses on a racially diverse group of individuals from different socio-economic backgrounds as their lives intertwine and connect and their personal dramas unfold.

The characters include legendary but aging and irrelevant music producer Ben Cendars (Hopper) and his African American chauffeur Anthony Adams (Jocko Sims), a guy from the streets of South Central whose dream is to work in the music industry; honest, dedicated cop Kenny Battaglia (Ross McCall), whose infidelity with the sultry Inez (Moran Atias) has cost him his wife; Bebe Arcel (Arlene Tur), Kenny's partner, who is conflicted about her affair with lieutenant Axel Finet (Nick Tarabay), a married, cocky and hot-tempered detective in her division; Brentwood housewife Christine Emory (Clare Carey), who watches her personal West L.A. fairy tale fall apart as her marriage fails alongside her husband Peter's (D.B. Sweeney) doomed real estate development business; gang banger-turned EMT Eddie Choi (Brian Tee), who tries to leave his Koreatown gang life behind to pursue a career as a doctor; and Cesar Uman (Luis Chavez), who has made it to Los Angeles after a perilous journey from Guatemala through Mexico.

Relationships reach a climax for many of the "Crash" characters, including record producer Ben (Hopper) and his protegee Anthony (Sims), in the season finale, "The Pain Won't Stop." In one of the season's most dramatic moments, the two drop in on Ben's former business partner Julian (Seymour Cassell), who asks Ben for a shocking favor.

About Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 17.4 million and 31.6 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.

About Lionsgate

Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) is the leading next generation filmed entertainment studio with a major presence in the production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment, video-on-demand and digitally delivered content. The Company's feature films have generated more than $450 million at the North American theatrical box office in the past year and Lionsgate has also forged leadership positions in television and home entertainment with the production of such critically-acclaimed television series as "Weeds" and "Mad Men," the distribution of "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," "Family Feud," "South Park," "Trivial Pursuit," "The Wendy Williams Show" and Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" and approximately 8% market share and the industry's leading box office-to-DVD conversion rate in home entertainment. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 12,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate brand is synonymous with entrepreneurial innovation and original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.

   Contacts:    Chelsye J. Burrows            Robin Mesger/Leah Krantzler   Starz Entertainment           The Lippin Group/LA   720/852-5838                  323/965-1990   chelsye.burrows@starz.com     rmesger@lippingroup.com/                                 lkrantzler@lippingroup.com    Steve Belgard                 Matt Biscuiti   Starz Entertainment           The Lippin Group/NY   720/852-5843                  212/986-7080   steve.belgard@starz.com       Matt@lippingroup.com  

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CONTACT: Chelsye J. Burrows, +1-720-852-5838, chelsye.burrows@starz.com,
or Steve Belgard, +1-720-852-5843, steve.belgard@starz.com, both of Starz
Entertainment; or Robin Mesger, rmesger@lippingroup.com, or Leah Krantzler,
lkrantzler@lippingroup.com, both of The Lippin Group, LA, +1-323-965-1990, or
Matt Biscuiti of The Lippin Group, NY, +1-212-986-7080, Matt@lippingroup.com

Web Site: http://www.starz.com/

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