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[08/10/22 - 01:03 PM]
Starz Announces Premiere Date for Eight-Part Limited Event Docuseries, "The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast"
The limited event series will cover the full arc of the BMF story, from the Flenory family's rise in the early '80s in Detroit, through the peak years during the late 90's and early aughts, to the end of their reign in 2006, up to present day.

[via press release from Starz]

STARZ ANNOUNCES PREMIERE DATE FOR EIGHT-PART LIMITED EVENT DOCUSERIES, "THE BMF DOCUMENTARY: BLOWING MONEY FAST"

STARZ DOCUMENTARY SERIES SET TO PREMIERE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 TELLS THE COMPREHENSIVE STORY OF THE BLACK MAFIA FAMILY THAT INSPIRED THE "BMF" SCRIPTED SERIES

Santa Monica, Calif. - STARZ announced today that its docuseries "The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast" will premiere Sunday, October 23, 2022. The docuseries comes on the heels of STARZ's scripted drama series "BMF," a multi-season drama that addressed the early Detroit years in its first season. The limited event series will cover the full arc of the BMF story, from the Flenory family's rise in the early '80s in Detroit, through the peak years during the late 90's and early aughts, to the end of their reign in 2006, up to present day.

"The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast" premieres Sunday, October 23 at midnight on the STARZ app, all STARZ streaming and on-demand platforms, and internationally on the STARZPLAY premium streaming platform across its footprint in Europe and Latin America. On linear, it will debut on STARZ at 10:00 PM ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada.

"The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast" is a limited event, half-hour episodic documentary series about the infamous Black Mafia Family, as told by former members, insiders, associates, and celebrity figures close to the family. From Detroit corner boys, to notorious drug kingpins, and hip hop kingmakers, the eight-part docuseries will chart the meteoric rise and fall of BMF founders: Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, two brothers who built one of the largest cocaine empires in American history. The fabled story spans four decades across five major U.S. cities, immersing viewers in a network of crisscrossing relationships between crime, hip hop, and law enforcement. The series affords viewers exclusive access inside all the epic family feuds, high stakes drug deals, suspicious murders, and champagne drenched parties attended by hip-hop royalty.

The docuseries features exclusive access to the Flenory Brothers and former BMF members, while journalists and consultants close to the key players provide the production authenticity, historical, and cultural context. Additionally, the series will feature exclusive interviews, never-before-seen archival footage, original vérité footage, celebrity interviews, and original impressionistic imagery inspired by first-hand accounts.

The eight-episode series is executive produced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson ("BMF," "Power" Universe) and Shan Nicholson ("Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury" and Rubble Kings) who will also serve as the series' showrunner. The series will be directed by Nicholson and Chris Frierson (The King, Don't Try to Understand: A Year in the Life of Earl 'DMX' Simmons). Additional executive producers include Richard Perello and Stacey Offman, co-executive producers Brad Hebert and Isaac Bolden, and senior producer Jessica Vale. The documentary series is produced for STARZ by Jigsaw Productions and G-Unit Film & Television. Alice Dickens Koblin, Head of Unscripted Programming is overseeing "BMF: Blowing Money First on behalf of STARZ. The "BMF" scripted series is produced and owned by Lionsgate Television.

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**About STARZ **

STARZ (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company, is a leading global media streaming platform committed to delivering premium content that amplifies narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences. STARZ is home to the highly-rated and first-of-its-kind STARZ app that offers the ability to stream or download STARZ premium content, as well as the flagship domestic STARZ(R) service, including STARZ ENCORE, 17 premium pay TV channels, and the associated on-demand and online services. In 2018, STARZ launched its STARZPLAY international premium streaming platform to provide subscribers access to the "best of global SVOD." STARZPLAY, coupled with its STARZPLAY ARABIA joint venture, has expanded its global footprint into more than 60 countries throughout Europe and Latin America along with Canada, Japan, India and Indonesia. STARZ and STARZPLAY are available across digital OTT platforms and multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies around the world. In February 2021, STARZ launched #TakeTheLead, a multi-faceted and innovative inclusion initiative expanding its existing efforts to improve representation on screen, behind the camera and throughout the company.

About Lionsgate

Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) encompasses world-class motion picture and television studio operations aligned with the STARZ premium global subscription platform to bring a unique and varied portfolio of entertainment to consumers around the world. The Company's film, television, subscription and location-based entertainment businesses are backed by a 17,000-title library and a valuable collection of iconic film and television franchises. A digital age company driven by its entrepreneurial culture and commitment to innovation, the Lionsgate brand is synonymous with bold, original, relatable entertainment for audiences worldwide.

About Jigsaw Productions

Jigsaw Productions is helmed by Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and thought-provoking documentary filmmakers of our generation. Jigsaw has produced some of the most acclaimed documentaries in the last 15 years, including the triple Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side; Oscar-nominated Enron:the Smartest Guys in the Room; and the Emmy-nominated The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. Alex Gibney's latest features include Crazy, Not Insane, which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival; Agents of Chaos, a two-part documentary about Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections both for HBO; Totally Under Control, a searing look at the Trump administration's failure to contain the COVID 19 pandemic, released theatrically by Neon; and the acclaimed two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century on HBO and HBO Max which explored the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, the opioid crisis. Jigsaw's slate of highly visible TV series includes two seasons of the popular investigative series "Dirty Money" and the highly acclaimed "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat," based on Samin Nosrat's book of the same name, both on Netflix; in association with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, "Why We Hate" on Discovery; "Hip Hop: Songs That Shook America" on AMC; "How To Fix A Drug Scandal" and "The Innocence Files" on Netflix; Emmy-nominated "Laurel Canyon" on Epix; "Generation Hustle" on HBO Max; and "Murder on Middle Beach" on HBO. Whether the company is creating a documentary or narrative film, a scripted or unscripted series, Jigsaw adheres to a particular ethos: well-told, insightful, scrupulously researched, and visually poignant stories, which ignite and engage our curiosity. Reaching audiences on screens small or large, on platforms digital or traditional, Jigsaw aims to achieve critical and commercial success without sacrificing style or authenticity. In June of 2020, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine made a substantial investment in Jigsaw Productions making it a subsidiary of Imagine Entertainment.





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