SANTA MONICA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 31, 2016—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 Dead 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, Chief Marketing Officer 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.
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