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  • ‘Banned’ channels allowed to go on air; some operators await decoders

    ‘Banned’ channels allowed to go on air; some operators await decoders

    MUMBAI: After Sahara One and Filmy, the weekend saw the return of the remaining seven “banned” channels to most cable TV networks in Maharashtra.

    However, these channels were still off air on networks of major multi-system operators (MSOs) like Hathway and In Cable (who hold sizeable chunk of connections in Mumbai) as well as Zee Group controlled Siticable, among those that had their equipment confiscated by the police in raids on 21 August, when reports last came in. These cable networks were expected to start beaming all the channels again once their decoders were in place.

    The first to get back on air was Zee Cinema, while the other six channels – Star Gold, Star One, Star Movies, HBO, AXN and Max – came back soon after.

    Zee Cinema, like Sahara One and Filmy, had claimed that it was telecasting U/A certified movies.

    Broadcasters of other channels also got the clearance to get back on air soon after with the Mumbai police social service branch granting permission to the channels to resume transmission late on Saturday.

    The permission came with a rider though: that the channels would follow the Mumbai High Court directives that they would not air uncertified as well as adult movies.

    The nine channels had originally been blacked from 21 August after the Mumbai Police confiscated the decoders of major cable networks and beaming equipment of channels on the charge that they had violated the law by telecasting uncertified movies. This followed orders from the Bombay High Court that channels showing adult movie content should be taken off off air.

    Meanwhile, the Cable Operators and Distributors Association (Coda) have decided to meet the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi to express their protest against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)’s support to direct-to-home (DTH) service providers for using multi-dwelling unit (MDU) technology.

    “We are planning to meet the I&B minister for placing our case against MDU. DTH is to home and not direct-to-building,” says CODA president Ganesh Naidu.

  • HC’s U/A ok sees Sahara One, Filmy back on air

    HC’s U/A ok sees Sahara One, Filmy back on air

    MUMBAI: Sahara One and Filmy are back on the cable TV networks in Maharashtra while the ban on the other seven channels for showing adult movie content continues.

    “Sahara One and Filmy were banned due to a confusion on U/A certificate. We have certain movies with U/A certificate and mistakenly it was included in the A category. But yesterday’s High Court ruling brought the clarity that U/A certified movies don’t come under the purview of the ban. Hence, our two channels are now back on air,” says Sahara One Media & Entertainment CEO Shantonu Aditya.

    B’casters to meet I&B ministry to convey views
    Broadcasters are planning to meet the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry to represent their views. They are willing to obtain certificate from the censor board before they air any movies. But they feel the entire process of certification of their movie library would require time. “The certification board needs to beef up its infrastructure to clear a huge pile of movies. We want to be given time for carrying out this process,” says a senior executive of a leading movie channel.

    The channels which are still to come on air are Star Gold, Star Movies, Star One, Max, Zee Cinema, AXN and HBO. These channels will continue to remain off air at least till the next hearing of the case.

    DTH providers continue to show banned channels
    Direct-to-home (DTH) service providers, however, continued to show these banned channels as they were yet to be served notice. Tata Sky Ltd and Dish TV executives were not available for comment. The Bombay High Court yesterday ruled that DTH service providers and broadcasters were bound by the 21 December, 2005 order banning the telecast of movies with `A’ certificates.
    “Nobody has received the High Court order as yet. This could be the reason for these channels being still available on DTH,” an industry observer says.

    Out of the list of 122 movies given to the High Court, 84 have U/A certification. “We are happy that the order includes broadcasters and DTH operators. If DTH is showing the channels today, that may be because the fine print of the High Court order has not reached anybody,” says Ravi Singh, a distributor of Wire and Wireless India Ltd (WWIL).

    The cable TV service in pockets of Malad and Borivli, located in the western suburbs of Mumbai, are yet to resume following the police raid and sealing of amplifiers. “We are taking up the matter with the court tomorrow for restoration of signals. Seven sub-operators are affected in this area,” says Singh.

    Broadcasters have recently been cautious in buying Hindi movies from producers. In acquiring new adult movies for telecast rights, they are insisting on re-censoring it for television. Sahara, for instance, acquired Gangster, an `A’-rated movie after asking the producer to re-censor it for TV viewing.

    “In case we buy A movies in future, we will re-censor it,” says Aditya.

    Film producers, however, feel that re-censoring is an unnecessary headache and will occupy bureaucratic procedures. The editing may also make it less attractive for TV viewing if the content is essential to the plot of the movie, they say.

    Meanwhile, the Film & Television Producers Guild Of India has sought clarity from the I&B minister Priya Ranjan Das Munshi over the confusion prevailing “in respect of film certification and broadcast content regulation.”

    Guild president Amit Khanna said the entire entertainment fraternity would be grateful if the I&B ministry could take issue of ‘censorship’ holistic in the spirit of a self-regulating code and take appropriate steps to make suitable legislative amendments in this regard at the earliest.

  • HC includes DTH operators, channels in adult movie ban ambit; slams cable blackout

    HC includes DTH operators, channels in adult movie ban ambit; slams cable blackout

    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court today ruled that broadcasters, including direct-to-home (DTH) service providers, were bound by the 21 December, 2005 order banning the telecast of movies with ‘A’ certificates.

    The High Court bench, headed by Justice Lodha, pulled up the cable operators for their action of discontinuing transmission of all channels in the city. “The act was irresponsible,” the bench decreed, adding that cable operators could not charge subscribers for the two days when services was not available.

    The court also specified that the broadcasters have to obtain certificate from the censor board before they air any movies. Justice Lodha pointed out that the December 2005 order holds applicable to foreign channels.

    What this means is that the nine channels charged with showing adult content — Hindi and English movie channels (Zee Cinema, Star Movies, HBO, Filmy, Star Gold, AXN and Max), and Hindi entertainment channels Star One and Sahara One — will continue to remain off air at least till the next hearing of the case.

    Cable services were stalled on Monday evening after the Mumbai police raided cable TV control rooms and seized decoder boxes of the nine channels.

    It was in the December 2005 that the High Court had ordered the police to take action against cable operators and cable service providers who beamed movies without ‘A’ or ‘U/A’ certificates. This was in response to a public interest litigation filed by social activist Pratibha Nathani.

    However, today’s order made an important modification to the original order delivered last December. The court pointed out that movies with U/A (universal/adult) certification cannot be banned. These would be allowed to be screened but would have to run a cautionary scroll highlighting that the movies can be watched under parental guidance, the court ruled.
    The court also said that with this modification, if police have taken action against anybody for showing U/A movie in the past few days, such an action will have to be discharged, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

  • Cable blackout in Mumbai ends

    Cable blackout in Mumbai ends

    MUMBAI: Cable television is finally back in Mumbai after almost two days. However, movie channels, as well as Hindi entertainment channels Star One and Sahara One, remain on the blink.

    A compromise was reached late this evening after the Cable Operators and Distributors Association (Coda), which represents local cable ops, as well as representatives of the various multi-system operators, met Maharashtra home minister RR Patil.

    The cable fraternity’s contention has been that since they are only service providers, and not content producers, they require “clear cut regulation from the government for the telecast of movie channels.”

    According to a cable operator who preferred to remain anonymous, all the networks were restoring cable services barring those of the nine channels that triggered the imbroglio in the first place. “We will wait for the verdict, which will be heard tomorrow (Wednesday) by Justice Lohda (before deciding on the next course of action),” he said.
    Cable operators have filed an intervention petition in the Bombay High Court asking why broadcasters and direct-to-home operators were not being taken to task by the authorities. The petition is scheduled to come up for hearing tomorrow.

    Earlier in the day, cable operators were running a scroll informing viewers of the reasons behind the suspension of services. “Due to unprecedented raids on cable operators for carrying satellite movie and entertainment channels having adult content, all Maharashtra cable operators have shut down these channels till further directions from the High Court and commissioners. Kindly bear with us.” — Cable Operators and Distributors Association.

    The channel blackout was not total all over Maharastra though. Besides Mumbai, other parts of the state – such as Nasik, Pune, Thane and New Mumbai – were affected to varying degrees by the channel blackout. In Pune, for instance, the cable networks only discontinued the transmission of movie and music channels.

    Cable services were halted last evening after the Mumbai police raided cable TV control rooms and seized the decoder boxes of nine channels charged with showing adult content. Among these were Hindi and English movie channels (Zee Cinema, Star Movies, HBO, Filmy, Star Gold, AXN and Max), and Hindi entertainment channels Star One and Sahara One.

    Police said the operators were raided because they were showing adult films, despite there being a ban on them. At least three million homes were affected by the blackout.

  • Mumbai cable TV shut as operators protest police clampdown

    Mumbai cable TV shut as operators protest police clampdown

    MUMBAI: Cable operators across India’s entertainment capital Mumbai blacked out all channels on their networks on 21 August late evening. The reason: they were protesting against the move by the authorities to stop them from transmitting English and Hindi movie channels to their viewers.

    Earlier in the day, the Mumbai police had swooped down on cable TV control rooms and sealed decoder boxes of nine channels for showing adult content. Among these were Hindi and English movie channels (Zee Cinema, Star Movies, HBO, Filmy, Star Gold, AXN and Max), and Hindi entertainment channels Star One and Sahara One.

    At the time of writing, unconfirmed reports were that other cities across the western Indian state of Maharashtra had also been affected with cable TV services partially or completely shut down. For instance a major cable operator in Pune revealed that decoders of the above nine channels and also those of MTV and Channel V had been sealed.

    Additionally, certain cable TV networks had started scrolling that the agitation had spread through the rest of Maharashtra with services being shut down every where.

    “Police have sealed the decoder boxes of nine channels. We had to sign a bond that we wouldn’t be telecasting these channels till the High Court ruling,” says a senior executive of a leading multi system operator (MSO).

    The Bombay High Court had last week pulled up the Maharashtra police chief for not acting against cable operators who were violating its earlier order banning adult movies on TV. In December 2005, the High Court had ordered the police to take action against cable operators and cable service providers who beamed movies with ‘A’ or ‘U/A’ certificates. This was in response to a public interest litigation filed by social activist Pratibha Nathani.

    In Mumbai, cable operators have blacked out their service. “There was too much confusion and we didn’t receive a definite list of which channels to block. Movie channels like Pix and Zee Studio, for instance, are spared. It is only late in the day that the police has come to our control rooms and sealed the decoders of nine channels. To avoid all this chaos, the three control rooms of Siticable in Mumbai have switched off their service,” says Ravi Singh, a distributor of Siticable.

    Adds a cable operator, “They should have told us early in the day which channels we are not to telecast. There would have been no need for the police to visit all the control rooms in Mumbai as we would have blocked these channels. We are not broadcasters and we can’t be expected to act as the censors of content.”

    The Bombay High court had on 16 August directed Director General of Police Dr P S Pasricha to file an additional affidavit within a week to explain whether any action has been taken against erring cable operators.

    MSOs are deciding what course of action they should take. “We may move the court,” says Wire and Wireless India Ltd. (WWIL) CEO Jagjit Kohli.

    When contacted, a Star India spokesperson did not wish to comment on the issue.

  • Star Movies To Premiere ‘Shattered Glass’ On 17 Th November

    Star Movies To Premiere ‘Shattered Glass’ On 17 Th November

    MUMBAI: Don’t believe everything you read… Read between the lies! This Friday, watch the exclusive premiere of a thought-provoking thriller about honesty and integrity in news reporting. Watch Shattered Glass, which is a story of a very talented and at the same time very, flawed character.

    It is also a look inside one of the noblest professions, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called int question. Tune in to the exclusiv premiere this Friday night, November 17th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

    This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at “The New Republic” for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Glass’ articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events – chronicled in Buzz Bissinger’s September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which “Shattered Glass” is based – suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

    Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down…

  • Spielberg, Burnett film based reality show to air on Star World, Star Movies from May

    Spielberg, Burnett film based reality show to air on Star World, Star Movies from May

    MUMBAI: Star World and Star Movies will air the upcoming film based reality show On The Lot in May 2007.

    The show is being done by reality TV guru Mark Burnett and film director Steven Spielberg.

    In the US the show kicks off on Fox from 16 May 2007. The aim of the show is to give aspiring filmmakers from around the world the chance to earn a $1-million development deal at DreamWorks.

    16 undiscovered filmmakers will compete to win the support of the show’s viewers, as their fate will be decided by a weekly audience vote.

    The show will have a one-hour Film Premiere episode, followed by a half-hour Box Office results show.
    After a global search, applicants will be winnowed to a group of 16 talented filmmakers. These finalists will be brought to Hollywood, where they will be divided into teams and begin the journey toward their ‘big break’.

    Every week, the hopeful filmmakers will produce short films from a chosen genre, running the gamut from comedies to thrillers, personal dramas to romance, sci-fi to horror. They’ll have access to the best resources the industry has to offer — professional writers, cast and crew, and maybe even Hollywood celebrities.

    After the teams have battled time frames, budgets and all the usual chaos that goes along with filmmaking, their films will debut and be critiqued in front of a live audience during the Film Premiere episode. Judges will include a high-ranking motion picture executive, a prominent film critic and a succession of well-respected guests, such as directors who are experts in the week’s featured genre. But the filmmakers ultimately will be judged by the harshest critics of all … the public.

    Fox viewers votes will determine which film should be left on the cutting-room floor. On the next night’s Box Office results show, the director whose feature garners the fewest votes will be sent home. Reports indicate that Fox will use American Idol as a vehicle to create awareness for this show.

  • Valentine’s Day… Book your date with Star Movies

    Valentine’s Day… Book your date with Star Movies

    Mumbai, February 14, 2006… Valentine’s day is incomplete without watching a valentine’s movie! This Valentine’s Day, Star Movies pays homage to the trials and tribulations of romance with a full-day marathon of romantic films. If you want to have some cheerful moments of laughter and joy, with your loved ones, you can catch some romantic comedy films like ‘Woman on Top’ and ‘There’s Something about Mary’, and of course you can re-live the romance by watching some romantic valentine day movies like ‘Glitter’, ‘Notting Hill’ and ‘Malena’. So book your date with Star Movies, this Valentine’s Day, February 14th beginning 12:10 pm

    Tue, Feb 14 @ 12:10
    GLITTER
    Starring: Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Tia Texada, Terence Howard, Da Brat Pop star Mariah Carey plays Billie Frank, a shy, young mixed-race girl who is sent away by her alcoholic mother at a very early age. At an orphanage, she befriends Louise (Da Brat) and Roxanne (Tia Texada). Flash forward to 1983. Billie and her friends are spotted by a record-producer, who wants them to sing backup vocals for his latest pop-music discovery. But when super DJ Dice (Max Beesley) hears Billie’s incredible voice, he makes a shady deal with Timothy to get her out of that dead-end situation. Soon, Billie and Dice are making hits inside the studio, and falling in love outside of it. Eventually, the pressure of her newfound celebrity puts too heavy a strain on Billie, forcing her to decide what it is she really wants from Dice, and what she wants for herself.

    Tue, Feb 14 @ 14:20
    NOTTING HILL
    Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant
    Every man’s dream comes true for William Thacker (Grant), an unsuccessful Notting Hill bookstore owner, when Anna Scott (Roberts), the world’s most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop. A little later, he still can’t believe it himself, William runs into her again – this time spilling orange juice over her. Anna accepts his offer to change in his nearby apartment, and thanks him with a kiss, which seems to surprise her even more than him. Eventually, Anna and William get to know each other better over the months, but being together with the world’s most wanted woman is not easy – neither around your closest friends, nor in front of the all-devouring press.

    Tue, Feb 14 @ 16:45
    WOMAN ON TOP
    Starring: Penelope Cruz, Murilo Benicio, Harold Perrineau
    Isabella is a great cook, making her husband’s restaurant in Bahia, Brazil, a success. To control her motion sickness, she must do the driving and be on top during sex, which drives her macho husband, Toninho, to infidelities. Heart-broken, she leaves for San Francisco, moving in with her childhood friend, Monica, a cross-dresser. To mend her heart, she makes an offering to Yemanja, the goddess of the sea. The goddess responds: Isabella no longer loves and the fish in Bahia no longer bite. Stricken, Toninho heads north to get her back; he finds her hosting a popular TV show, Passion Food, courted by its producer. Can he learn humility? Can she find happiness without him?

    Tue, Feb 14 @ 18:40
    THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
    Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott
    Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary’s life, as we watch one funny scene after another.

    Tue, Feb 14 @ 21:00
    MALENA
    Starring: Monica Belluci, Giuseppe Sulfaro
    On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Mal?na, a beautiful, silent outsider who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nico who promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato grows toward manhood, he watches Mal?na suffer and prove her mettle: her loneliness, then grief when Nico is reported dead, the effects of slander on her relationship with her father, her poverty and search for work, and final humiliations. Will Renato learn courage from Mal?na and stand up for her?

    So tune- in to Star Movies this Valentine’s Day and get set for that perfect date, you had always wished for!!!

    About Star
    STAR is a leading media and entertainment company in Asia. STAR broadcasts over 50 television services in nine languages to more than 300 million viewers across 53 Asian countries. STAR channels cover all genres including general entertainment (Star Plus, Xing Kong, Star Chinese Channel, Star One, Star Utsav, Star World, Vijay, Phoenix Chinese), sports (ESPN, Star Sports), movies (Star Chinese Movies, Star Gold, Star Movies), music (Channel [V]), and news and current affairs (Star News, Star Ananda, Phoenix InfoNews Channel). STAR controls over 20,000 hours of Indian and Chinese programming and also owns the world’s largest contemporary Chinese film library, with more than 600 titles, featuring superstars including Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Bruce Lee. In partnership with leading companies in Asia, STAR businesses extend to filmed entertainment, television production, cable systems, direct-to-home services, terrestrial TV broadcasting, wireless and digital services. STAR is a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation. www.startv.com

    For further information please contact:
    In Mumbai
    Zeenat Khan Shiraz Bhavnani / Aditi Chada
    Communications Department Vaishnavi Corporate Communications
    STAR (India) Ltd. Tel: 91-22-5656 8787
    Tel No. 91-22-56305555 Fax: 91-22-5656 8788
    Email:sbhavnani@vccpl.com / achada@vccpl.com

     

  • TV channels undecided on apology scrolling

    TV channels undecided on apology scrolling

    NEW DELHI: The Indian government made it clear to TV channels yesterday that those guilty of breaching advertising code would have to publicly apologize, though channel managements are still undecided on future course of action.

    The ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued a warning to 43 channels directing them to carry a scroll for three days regretting airing surrogate advertisements of liquor and tobacco products in violation of rules.

    The scroll to be aired reads thus: “Ministry of information & broadcasting issues a warning to X channel for telecasting surrogate advertisements of liquor/tobacco products in violation of advertising code. X channel regrets this and apologies for the same. We assure to be more careful in future.”

    A gaggle of broadcasters, under the aegis of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), met ministry officials on Friday in an attempt to seek a resolution to, what a broadcaster described as, “uncalled for public humiliation.”

    The broadcast industry contention was that the government is unnecessarily objecting to ads of products and companies, which may have other legitimate businesses apart from tobacco and liquor products.

    Moreover, with the ASCI now given more teeth to regulate ads put out by companies, broadcasters argued, running a scroll of apology for three days would amount to financial setback and space loss for important news alerts too.

    However, the ministry officials were firm on their stand as, according to one of them, “too much pressure” was being exerted on the I&B ministry from parliamentarians who have criticized the ministry for inaction against surrogate advertising publicizing liquor and tobacco products on TV channels.

    The channels issued show-cause notice will be required to carry the warning scroll round the clock for three consecutive days on their respective channel from 18-21 August 2006.

    Still, the channels are undecided on future course of action and, according to information available, are also seeking legal advice on the matter.

    The channels that have been issued the warning are Aaj Tak, Animal Planet, B4U, Balle Balle, Channel V, CNBC TV-18, Discovery, ESPN, ETV Bangla, ETV Kannada, ETV Marathi, ETV-2, HBO, Headlines Today, India TV, MTV, National
    Geographic, NDTV 24X7, Raj TV, S S Music, SABe TV, Sahara Bihar, Sahara One and Sahara Samay.

    The list also includes Set Max, Sony Entertainment, Star Gold, Star Movies, Star One, Star Plus, SUN TV, Tara News, Ten Sports, TEZ, TV-9, Zee Bangla, Zee Café, Zee Gujarati, Zee Marathi, Zee News, Zee Sports, Zee Studio and Zoom.

    Rule 7(2)(viii)(A) of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 states that “no advertisement shall be permitted which promotes directly or indirectly production, sale or consumption of cigarettes, tobacco products, wine, alcohol, liquor or other intoxicants.”

    In an official statement issued today, the I&B ministry said apart from liquor and tobacco ads, certain objectionable and indecent advertisements of undergarments were also found to have been telecast, which should be stopped immediately.

  • Celebrate Christmas with the Magic of Star Movies!!!

    Celebrate Christmas with the Magic of Star Movies!!!

    MUMBAI: Come December and Star Movies takes you through a joyous and action-packed ride! For the first time on Indian television, Star Movies presents Star Wars: The Complete Saga featuring all six titles for six spectacular weeks every Sunday night from December 17th onwards! Celebrate Christmas with a special line-up of movies that truly reflect the spirit of the festival of joy, taking viewers through all the festivities with the best movies from Hollywood! And of course from Friday Night Premiere of the latest Hollywood blockbusters to the exclusive limited series presenting action-packed drama and mind-blowing adventure, it is all happening on Star Movies. So, get hooked to your television sets and celebrate festivities this December with the magic of movies!

     

    The all-time favourite science fantasy saga Star Wars airs exclusively on Star Movies this month! Every Sunday at 9 p.m. from December 17 to January 21st, Star Wars: The Complete Saga features all six titles in the US$3.5 billion franchise airing in sequence for the first time on Indian television. Kicking off the Star Wars mania will be The Phantom Menace on December 17th and The Attack of the Clones on December 24th. And that’s not all, catch the exclusive premiere of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith on December 31st only on Star Movies!

     

    On Christmas day, Star Movies presents a special line-up of movies including 12 Dogs of Christmas, The Grinch, Crazy for Christmas, Noel and Surviving Christmas that are sure to make you believe in miracles, be thankful and forgiving and just be joyous this holiday season!

     

    This month, Star Movies also presents the exclusive limited series -Covert One: The Hades Factor and Ring Of The Nibelungs. On December 2nd & 3rd at 9 p.m. make sure you catch Covert One: The Hades Factor, a thrilling action packed drama that pits the law enforcement agencies against the threat of biological warfare. The series quite accurately depicts the global crisis facing today’s world. Ring Of The Nibelungs, which will air on December 9th and 10th at 9 p.m. is a mind-blowing adventure based on the Germanic myth “Das Nibelungenlied” and the Nordic “Volsunga Saga” which also inspired the four-opera cycle by Richard Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic “The Lord of the Rings”.

     

    Every Friday night this month, Star Movies premieres the latest Hollywood blockbusters starring superstars Mike Myers, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Alec Baldwin, Robin Williams, Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry and Mel Brooks. Tune-in to watch the exclusive premieres of Fantastic Four, Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat, Dungeons and Dragons 2, Robots, and Spymate every Friday night.

     

    And if that’s not enough … catch an exclusive sneak peek into the soon-to-release Hollywood movie, Eragon on December 10th as Opening Night gives you an up-close and intimate view before the release.

     

    So this December tune in to Star Movies and catch all the fun, action, excitement and adventure, all through the month.