Sky Movies HD announce Magical Christmas line-up and campaign
Fantastic selection of hundreds of movies available to enjoy On Demand this Christmas
Festive offering includes over 300 titles which have never been seen before on terrestrial TV
Sky Movies Christmas Channel/HD will be followed by return of Sky Movies 007/HD in January 2013
Sky Movies today announces a magical festive line-up, featuring a bumper selection of fantastic movies for all of the family to enjoy. Whether it’s the latest blockbusters, family favourites or timeless classics, Sky Movies customers can enjoy the best line-up of movies this Christmas on the set-top box, on Sky’s comprehensive TV On Demand service and on Sky Go, the award-winning multiplatform TV service.
With a fantastic selection of more of the year’s biggest movies premiering on the service over December Sky Movies customers are in for a real treat this Christmas.
Highlights over the festive period include family adventures The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The Muppets, Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two and Hugo action-packed blockbusters Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and Safe House, and Oscar® winning drama The Descendants – all available for Sky Movies customers to enjoy at least a year before they will appear on any other TV or streaming subscription service in the UK.
In total, this Christmas Sky Movies will provide customers with access to over 300* recent titles which have never been seen before on terrestridal TV, including The King’s Speech, Bridesmaids, Moneyball, True Grit and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
In addition, Sky Movies will be the only place on British television to watch all the Bonds and all the Harry Potter™ movies this Christmas, all available to enjoy On Demand.
Back with another bumper selection of Christmas classics, modern greats and old favourites, the Sky Movies Christmas Channel/HD returns on 1 December (Sky channel 303), bringing viewers an advent of movie collections every day until Christmas Eve, including:
Christmas Films Box Set including National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, It’s A Wonderful Life, White Christmas and Jingle All The Way (Saturday 1 December)
Animation Box Set including Puss In Boots, Shrek 2, Despicable Me, Toy Story 3, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rio and The Smurfs (Saturday 2 December)
Epics Box Set including The Ten Commandments, Braveheart and Troy (Friday 21 December)
Comic Book Heroes Box Set including Captain America, X-Men: The Last Stand, Thor, Batman Begins and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Monday 24 December)
There is also a huge range of quality titles including must-see movies, cult classics and hidden gems across the Sky Movies genre channels including Seven (Modern Greats), Boogie Nights (Indie), William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (Drama & Romance) and A Clockwork Orange (Indie) – all available in glorious High Definition.
Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies, comments: “We know time is never more precious to people than at this time of year and so Sky Movies is delighted to provide customers with such a spectacular range of quality titles all available to enjoy at a time that suits them. We are particularly proud to be bringing our customers the complete collections of two of Britain’s biggest and best-loved film franchises - James Bond and Harry Potter™ - this Christmas.”
Following the successful launch and run of its dedicated James Bond channel earlier this year, Sky Movies HD today announce the return of Sky Movies 007/HD on 1 January 2013, offering Sky Movies customers the opportunity to enjoy all of the Bond movies in one place, in HD, on demand and without ad breaks.
Sky Movies HD also unveils its cross-platform Christmas campaign, leading with a 60” TV and cinema advert voiced by Sir Michael Gambon. Made and produced by WCRS and Rattling Stick for Sky Movies, the advert will premiere today (Wednesday 14 November), with the campaign also running across outdoor, press, radio and online.
For more information visit: www.skymovies.com or www.sky.com
For further information please contact
Megan MacLeod - Publicist, Sky Movies HD, Sky Atlantic HD
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Notes to editor
*This December Sky Movies will provide customers with access to 318 recent movies which have not yet been seen on terrestrial TV in the UK.
For further information or images please contact:
Megan MacLeod 0207 032 4252 megan.macleod@bskyb.com
Sky Stills Department 0207 032 4273 stillsdepartment@bskyb.com
About Sky Movies
Sky Movies is Europe's largest in-home movie service providing a fantastic range of movies to its customers. At any time, Sky Movies subscribers can choose from hundreds of subscription movies, including recent blockbusters and classics from major Hollywood studios to independents.
Offering a choice of recent and quality titles, from cult indie cinema to the biggest blockbusters and hundreds of titles in HD every month, Sky Movies gives customers flexibility over what they watch, when and how – on the set-top box, on Sky’s comprehensive TV On Demand service and on Sky Go, the award-winning multi-platform TV service.
Sky Movies provides viewers with a range of more than 600 titles to choose from On Demand, and up to 5 new Sky Movies premieres added to the service every week - at least a year before they appear on any other TV or streaming subscription service. The service offers customers access to around three-quarters of the year’s top 100 UK box office movies.
As part of your subscription, Sky Movies is available On Demand which gives customers access to hundreds of additional movies via a broadband connection directly to an enabled Sky+HD box. Sky Movies can also be watched on the move on your laptop, iPad, phone or selected Android smartphones with Sky Go. A host of benefits are available to Sky Movies customers including free tickets to preview screenings across the UK.
The Sky Movies App enables customers to browse movies currently showing on Sky as well as what’s on at the cinema, remote record movies to your Sky+HD and watch titles via Sky Go.
In addition to Sky platform, Sky Movies is also available on a range of other platforms, including NOW TV, Virgin Media, UPC and TalkTalk.
For more information visit www.skymovies.com or sky.com
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Production credits for Sky Movies Christmas Campaign
Creative Director: Jo Moore, WCRS
Creative: Katy Hopkins and Steve Hawthorne, WCRS
Account Team: Gayle Catlin, Laura Hale, Liz Darran
Director: Ivan Bird
Production company: Rattling Stick
Producer: Lucy Sherwood
Agency Producer: Sally Lipsius
Models: Asylum
Post production: Moving Picture Company
Sound: Wave
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