STEAMBOY, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, sees its world television premiere on Starz Cinema, Feb. 11, 2006 at 10:00 pm.
STEAMBOY is the first feature Otomo has written and directed since his watershed, AKIRA (1988). STEAMBOY offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of AKIRA, STEAMBOY is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball and Ray finds himself in a murderous conflict over its possession. He's also caught between his father, who builds terrible weapons for an American arms merchant, and his grandfather, who believes science should improve people's lives.
Starz Ent. Group Llc. (SEG) (www.starz.com) is the largest provider of premium movie services in the U.S. with approximately 181 million pay units. SEG offerings include the Starz Encore Movie Pack with 13 digital movie channels and more than 750 movies per month, Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand and Starz Ticket, an on-demand premium Internet movie subscription service available on the broadband platform. Starz Ent. Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.
