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  • ‘X2: X-Men United’, ‘Bad Company’ on Star Movies

    ‘X2: X-Men United’, ‘Bad Company’ on Star Movies

    As part of its Big Two initiative Star Movies will air two action movies X2: X-Men United and the Anthony Hopkins starrer Bad Company on 20 November and 21 November at 9 pm.

    Directed by Bryan Singer and starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, X2: X-Men United is the sequel to X- Men. On the other hand, Bad Company tells the story of Veteran CIA agent who must transform sarcastic, street-wise punk Jake Hayes into a sophisticated and savvy spy to replace his murdered identical twin brother.

    In X2: X-Men United, when a failed assassination attempt on the life of the President of the United States. Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School is targeted for the crime.

    While Jean Grey and Storm try to locate the assassin, Cyclops and Professor X seek answers from their old foe Magneto (Ian McKellan) in his glass cell… Little do they know they're walking into a trap set by the villainous William Stryker, a mysterious governmental figure that figures into Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) secretive past, along with information about the X-Men's operation, supplied by Magneto through a mind-controlling agent.

    Bad Company sees Anthony Hopkins playing Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) trying to secure a suitcase sized with nuclear bomb in Prague from a Russian black marketer.

  • Hallmark’s digital movie channel to debut in Jan 2004

    Hallmark’s digital movie channel to debut in Jan 2004

    MUMBAI: The Hallmark Movie Channel, which is Hallmark’s first digital service, is set to debut in January 2004. Crown Media Holdings Inc., which operates the Hallmark Channel worldwide, has selected Scientific-Atlanta’s PowerVu Digital Distribution System for the transmission of its upcoming digital movie channel.
     

    The channel has reportedly lined up a broadcast of Hallmark Hall of Fame Collection movies as also the original movies and miniseries’ from the Crown library.

    The library has about 700 titles, including Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck and Patrick Stewart, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All with Cicely Tyson, Anne Bancroft, Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland and Blythe Danner and the winner of four Emmys and Storm in Summer, which is a two-Emmy winner featuring Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski and Andrew McCarthy. It will also buy movies from other providers.

    This new channel will join the Hallmark Channel, which was launched in August 2001 and is broadcast to about 110 million cable and satellite households worldwide. In the US alone, it reaches about 56 million of the 92 million cable or satellite households.

    The news of this deal with Scientific-Atlanta comes in the wake of Crown Media announcing a distribution deal with Comcast, the largest cable company in the United States. That deal is expected to give the Hallmark Channel access to an additional 10 million to 12 million US households.

    “We’ve been very pleased with the PowerVu digital system which we use to deliver our east and west coast feeds,” said Hallmark Channel vice president of operations Bob Young.
    Added Richard Buchanan, senior vice president of operations and business development, “In our planning, we examined various delivery systems for the digital movie channel. Our prior experience with Scientific-Atlanta’s PowerVu system worldwide provides a great amount of confidence that the capabilities of this technology solution will enable us to move forward rapidly with our launch of the Hallmark Movie Channel.”

    Scientific-Atlanta Inc. is a leading supplier of digital content distribution systems, transmission networks for broadband access to the home, digital interactive set-tops and subscriber systems designed for video, high-speed Internet and voice over IP (VoIP) networks, and worldwide customer service and support.

    Currently, more than 400 Scientific-Atlanta digital video compression systems are said to be transmitting over 2,000 channels of digital programming.