EPIX Serves up a Thanksgiving Feast…of Fury
Business Wire, Nov 23, 2009
Four-Day Movie Marathon Features Hollywood’s Biggest Action Icons
from Indiana Jones and James Bond to Robocop and Iron Man
World Television Premiere of Cloverfield Closes Out the Holiday
Weekend Festivities on Sunday, November 29 at 9PM (ET/PT)
NEW YORK — EPIX is celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with a
nonstop action movie marathon that is sure to make cinema-loving
adrenaline junkies give thanks. Plus, viewers can come back for seconds
anytime and watch all the movies and awesome studio bonus extras with
exclusive access to EpixHD.com.
Kicking off on Thursday, November 26 at 11:30AM (ET/PT) with what EPIX
has dubbed The Indy 500: 500 Minutes of Indiana Jones, viewers can
tune in first for Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed by Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and
ending with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, at
6:00PM (ET/PT). If their thirst for action is still unquenched Iron
Man begins at 8PM (ET/PT) followed by The Hunt For Red October, at
10:30PM (ET/PT).
After a healthy helping of crime-fighting superhero Flash Gordon at
6PM (ET/PT) fans of half man, half machine vigilante cops will love the
Robocop Trilogy, which begins on Friday, November 27 at 8PM (ET/PT).
Fans of super-spy James Bond must tune in on Saturday, November 28 for a
special side order of 007 beginning with Casino Royale (1967) at 1PM
(ET/PT), and followed by GoldenEye, The Living Daylights,
Moonraker, and closing out the evening with You Only Live Twice, at
10:30PM (ET/PT).
Filling out the four day movie marathon are action classics ranging from
Red Dawn and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, to Black Rain,
The Untouchables, and The Golden Child, among a host of other greats!
The Thanksgiving weekend feast concludes with the world television
premiere of Cloverfield, which closes out EPIXs holiday weekend
festivities on Sunday, November 29 at 8PM (ET/PT).
EPIX will be providing free online access to the Feast of Fury weekend
of programming on a first-come, first-serve basis to selected consumers.
Visitors to EPIXs website can register for free online access at EpixHD.com/invite.
About EPIX
EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B),
its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), is a next-generation multiplatform premium
entertainment channel, video-on-demand and online service that launched
on October 30, 2009. EPIX is distributed by Verizon FiOS
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