Premiere Direkt 18th - 25th January

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 12th / 19th January

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

January 12 to January 19

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The Producers (2005) Comedy / Musical NEW

Starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell. Directed by Susan Stroman.

New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...

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Second in Command (2006) Action / Thriller NEW

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Julie Cox, William Tapley and Alan McKenna. Directed by
Simon Fellows.

Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme (CYBORG), to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged embassy.

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Stay (2005/I) Drama / Thriller NEW

Starring Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton and Naomi Watts. Directed by Marc Forster.

After a car accident on a bridge, the psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) assumes the case of the survivor Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), who apparently torched and car and promises to commit suicide three days later. Sam decides to investigate deeper what happened with Henry, and feels that he is becoming detached from reality with his findings about the case. He asks his girlfriend Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts) to help himself to stay lucid, while trying to solve the intriguing situation of Henry.

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House of the Dead II: Dead Aim (2005) (TV) Action / Comedy / Horror NEW

Starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sticky Fingaz and Steve Monroe. Directed by Michael Hurst.

A virus breaks out at a University and people start to become zombies. After 29 days, a team of AMS scientists and soldiers are sent in to deal with the problem. But while they search, things go wrong.

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The Pink Panther (2006) Comedy / Crime / Mystery

Starring Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer. Directed by Shawn Levy.
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.

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Scary Movie 4 (2006) Comedy / Horror

Starring Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko and Bill Pullman. Directed by David Zucker.

Anna Faris returns as the caring yet dumb witted Cindy Campbell in the latest installment of the Scary Movie Franchise. Cindy has taken up a job as a house caretaker for a nice old lady that is said to be cursed. Cindy moves right in and the house is located right next to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan, a down on his luck father. Cindy soon discovers a dreaded secret about the house and she is comforted by Tom who is watching his children for the weekend. As soon as the two become more then just friends, a huge storm rolls on in and hits the town. Tom discovers a giant hole in the ground and an alien TrIpod emerges from it's depth's.........

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Underworld: Evolution (2006) Action / Fantasy / Horror

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran and Shane Brolly. Directed by Len Wiseman.

Beginning where Underworld finished, Selene and Michael are on the run from the vampires. Being the cause of Viktor's death, Selene can only hope to plea to the last remaining elder, Marcus. However, Marcus has already awakened and has become a more powerful creature than before. Now his only remaining goal is to awaken his Lycan brother, William from his eternal imprisonment. With time running out, Selene and Michael must piece together the final clues to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines and stop Marcus before it's too late.

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The Woods (2006) Horror / Mystery

Starring Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel Nichols and Lauren Birkell. Directed by Lucky McKee.

A psychological horror story that begins when a neglected teenager, named Heather, is dropped off by her parents at a remote all-girls boarding school deep in the forest. Watched over by sinister headmistress Ms. Traverse and her staff, Heather is tormented by her classmates and is desperate to go home. But when students start disappearing and she begins to have horrifying visions, Heather realizes that things at school are not quite what they seem. She only knows there's something out there in the woods--and it won't be letting her leave anytime soon.

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Æon Flux (2005) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller and Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Karyn Kusama.

Set against the 2011 virus that kills 99% of the world's populace, and in the last city on Earth, Bregna, the survivors, some four hundred years later, in the year 2415, are continuing to live in the Goodchild dynasty, the name of the scientist who developed its cure. All is not well in this utopia and it is not what lies beyond its high walls that protects its citizens from the never ending jungle but what unspoken, unwritten taboo that holds and binds these unfortunates' together that lies within these walls of paranoia, conformity and unquestionable obedience. Filmed in and around Berlin, ironically, this is a story set against a totalitarian state, a walled city, where its peoples are no longer capable of reproducing, and its sinister and most secret plot of how it sustains life. Æon Flux is the assassin that has been assigned by the underground rebels to change the course of Mankind, forever. This is the story of her fight for justice, freedom and revenge.

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An Unfinished Life (2005) Drama

Starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman and Josh Lucas. Directed by Lasse Hallström.

In order to escape from the abusive boy-friend, Gary Winston (Damian Lewis), Jean Gilkyson (Jennifer Lopez) moves with her young daughter Griff Gilkyson (Becca Gardner) without previous notice to the ranch of her father-in-law Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) in Wyoming. Jean and Einar are disaffected, since he blames her for the death of his beloved son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitch Bradley (Morgan Freeman), who was attacked and seriously wounded by a bear, and he does not know that he has a grand-daughter. While Mitch heals his wounds and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving his grand-daughter.

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The Constant Gardener (2005) Drama / Thriller

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé and Danny Huston. Directed by Fernando Meirelles

After his wife is murdered in Kenya, Justin Quayle, a mild, low-level diplomat and a constant gardener, must investigate his wife's death, their relationship, and his own heart. In flashbacks, we see them meet, marry, and fall in love; we follow her in the teeming streets and clinics of Nairobi, usually accompanying Arnold Bluhm, a Black doctor with whom she spent the night before her murder, and who, after robbers, is the prime suspect. In his own investigation, Justin must not quail as he faces his memories, his colleagues, local police, hired thugs, and a nasty corporate CEO. Help and connections, as well as conspiracies, come from unexpected places. Murder will out.

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Flight 93 (2006) (TV) Drama / History

Starring Jeffrey Nordling, Brendan Elliot, Kendal Cross and Ty Olsson. Directed by Peter Markle.
Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.

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Half Light (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Beans El-Balawi and Kate Isitt. Directed by Craig Rosenberg

Rachel Carlson is a successful mystery novelist whose life falls apart when her 5-year-old son drowns at her country home. A year later, in an effort to heal her wounds and help her to start writing again, her best friend rents her a secluded cottage in a remote fishing village, where events unfold that rock the tranquil village and cause Rachel to fear for her sanity and her life.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 19th / 26th January

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

January 19 to January 26

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The Detonator (2006) (V) Action / Thriller NEW

Starring Wesley Snipes, Silvia Colloca, Tim Dutton and Michael Brandon. Directed by
Po-Chih Leong.

After an undercover mission in Bucharest to disclose an international gang of weapon dealers, the agent Sonni Griffith is assigned to protect the Romanian Nadia Kaminski, the widow of an accountant of the Romanian Mafia. However, the CIA safe house is broken in by the criminals, and Sonni realizes that the information was leaked from inside the Agency. Alone, trusting only in his friend Michael Shepard, Sonni fights to survive and protect Nadia.

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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006) (V) Action NEW

Starring Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Rutger Hauer and Joe Suba. Directed by Brian Clyde.

A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.

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Prime (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance NEW

Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams. Directed by
Ben Younger.

In New York, after a troubled process of divorce, the thirty-seven years old Raphael "Rafi" Gardet meets the twenty-three years old Jew David Bloomberg in a session of "Blow-up" and they start seeing each other. Rafi tells details of her relationship with David to her psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, who stimulates Rafi to go on and forget the difference of ages. When Lisa finds that David is actually her son, she faces an ethical and personal dilemma.

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Proof (2005) Drama NEW

Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal and Hope Davis. Directed by John Madden

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

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Rent (2005) Drama / Musical / Romance NEW

Starring Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, and Jesse L. Martin.

This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star.

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The Thief Lord (2006) NEW Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Starring Aaron Johnson, Jasper Harris, Rollo Weeks, and Alice Connor. Directed by Richard Claus.

A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord. From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of a bumbling detective. However, a greater threat to the children is something from a forgotten past-- a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself...

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller NEW

Starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. Directed by Brett Ratner.

Mutants are on the verge of X-tinction, it seems, when US business Worthington Industries discovers a cure for mutation. This scientific breakthrough complicates and intensifies the battle - both physical and ideological - between Professor X's integration-friendly X-Men and the human-hating muties let by Magneto ...

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Curious George (2006) Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family NEW

Ted, works as a guide at the Bloomsberry museum, sent on a 'business' trip of sorts by the museum's owner, to find a Zagawa shrine, he encounters a playfully mischievous and curious monkey...actually a chimp who he nicknames 'George' after the George Washinghton statue. His trip being less than a success, he returns stateside, only to find George wanting to return Ted's hat, has stowed away on-board Ted's boat. Back in the states Ted finds himself lumbered with George, who can't help but make Ted's life even more hectic than it already is.

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House of the Dead II: Dead Aim (2005) (TV) Action / Comedy / Horror

Starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sticky Fingaz and Steve Monroe. Directed by Michael Hurst.

A virus breaks out at a University and people start to become zombies. After 29 days, a team of AMS scientists and soldiers are sent in to deal with the problem. But while they search, things go wrong.

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Inside Man (2006) Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster and Christopher Plummer. Directed by
Spike Lee.

From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. A snarky detective facing corruption charges is assigned to negotiate. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in a high-powered fixer. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane - they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is leader of the thieves in a cell?

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The Matador (2005) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Arlin Miller, Azucena Medina and Jonah Meyerson. Directed by
Richard Shepard.

Danny Wright has bad luck: his only child has died, he's lost his job, his wife may be losing faith in him, and a tree has just fallen through his kitchen. But he's a gee-whiz optimist, on his way to Mexico City to pitch a deal. When complications arise, he has to stay a few days, and his path criss-crosses that of Julian Noble, a burned-out executioner (don't call him a hit man, he facilitates fatalities) who constantly drinks, smokes, and chases women of all ages. They chat at a bar, Julian is offensive; they spend the day at the bullfights, Julian asks for help with a killing. Danny is repelled and entertained. Where can this relationship go?

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Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005) Documentary / Music NEW

Featuring Tom Araya, Alice Cooper, Pamela Des Barres and Bruce Dickinson. Directed by Sam Dunn.

Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way, Sam explores metals' obsession with some of life's most provacative subjects - sexuality, religion, violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada and the US, this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.

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Oliver Twist (2005) Drama / Family

Starring Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice and Richard Durden. Directed by
Roman Polanski.

In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow´s fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.

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Scary Movie 4 (2006) Comedy / Horror

Starring Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko and Bill Pullman. Directed by David Zucker.

Anna Faris returns as the caring yet dumb witted Cindy Campbell in the latest installment of the Scary Movie Franchise. Cindy has taken up a job as a house caretaker for a nice old lady that is said to be cursed. Cindy moves right in and the house is located right next to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan, a down on his luck father. Cindy soon discovers a dreaded secret about the house and she is comforted by Tom who is watching his children for the weekend. As soon as the two become more then just friends, a huge storm rolls on in and hits the town. Tom discovers a giant hole in the ground and an alien TrIpod emerges from it's depth's.........

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Shadow Man (2006) (V) Action / War

Starring Steven Seagal, Eva Pope, Imelda Staunton and Vincent Riotta. Directed by
Michael Keusch.

Homeless, destitute and forgotten, War Veteran and unwitting father Joseph Gray is plucked from the streets by a wealthy and shady Japanese business man. As repayment for his new master's kindness, Joseph must take care of the dirty work that results from his new masters criminal enterprises. For Joseph, killing was always easy, until he is confronted with the realization that he is not only expendable, but that his beloved master Aniki has set in motion an act of betrayal that will shake Joseph's sense of trust, loyalty and family to his core, with violent and tragic consequences.

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Underworld: Evolution (2006) Action / Fantasy / Horror

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran and Shane Brolly. Directed by Len Wiseman.

Beginning where Underworld finished, Selene and Michael are on the run from the vampires. Being the cause of Viktor's death, Selene can only hope to plea to the last remaining elder, Marcus. However, Marcus has already awakened and has become a more powerful creature than before. Now his only remaining goal is to awaken his Lycan brother, William from his eternal imprisonment. With time running out, Selene and Michael must piece together the final clues to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines and stop Marcus before it's too late.

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Es ist ein Elch entsprungen (2005)

Starring Mario Adorf, Armin Rohde, Anja Kling and Raban Bieling. Directed by Ben Verbong.

Family comedy around a of nine years one, for which the acquaintance with a moose fallen with a test flight with Santa Claus makes.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 26th / 02nd Jan / Feb

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

January 26 to February 2

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Hollow Man II (2006) (V) Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller NEW

Starring Christian Slater, Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan and David McIlwraith. Directed by Claudio Fäh.

In Seattle, after the mysterious death of the scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Detective Frank Turner and his partner Det. Lisa Martinez are assigned to protect Devin's colleague Dr. Maggie Dalton. Lisa is killed while protecting Maggie, and Frank presses her to tell what is happening. She discloses that a veteran soldier called Michael Griffin was submitted to an experiment with the object to create the ultimate national security weapon, an undetectable soldier. However, the experiment failed, with horrible side effects due to the damage to the cells caused by the radiation. Michael is chasing Maggie to get the necessary buffer to survive.

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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Drama / Romance NEW

Starring Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe and Kôji Yakusho. Directed by Rob Marshall.

A young nine year old girl, Chiyo, lives in a rather poor fishing village, Yoroido, on Japan's coast. Along with her older sister, Satsu, she is sent to the geisha (Japanese for artisan) district called Gion. Split from the only family she has left Chiyo is sent to the Nitta Okiya while her sister is transported else where and becomes less of a role. And Okiya is a house (sort of a compound) where a geisha lives and is taken care of. Here at the Nitta Okiya Chiyo meets another girl about her age nicknamed Pumpkin. Together Pumpkin and Chiyo struggle through the daily life of being treated as nothing more than slaves to the resident geisha, Hatsumomo.........

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American Dreamz (2006) Comedy / Music

Starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Paul Weitz.

A satire who focuses on reality shows like American Idol. Sally's dream is to become a music star and to participate in American Dreamz show. In order to achieve this, she leaves her boyfriend and mixes up with the host of the program. Meanwhile, an Arabian boy travels to the USA to visit their relatives and, accidentally, he becomes a participant of the show. The president of the USA is kind of depressed, but the vice president comes up with the idea of a live presentation in the show.

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Final Destination 3 (2006) Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kris Lemche and Ryan Merriman. Directed by James Wong.

After a high school senior, Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), has a fatal premonition of a disastrous roller-coaster accident that involves her and her friends, she warns everyone and luckily gets herself and many of her friends and others off the roller-coaster before it sets off, after they get off and the roller-coaster starts off, it crashes just like in her premonition, soon she teams up with a friend, Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman) as well as many other people, some including Erin (Alexz Johnson) and Ian (Kris Lemche) to try and cheat death. Will they succeed or will they learn a lesson that you just can't cheat death?

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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006) (V) Action

Starring Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Rutger Hauer and Joe Suba. Directed by Brian Clyde.

A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.

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Munich (2005) Drama / History / Thriller

Starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds and Mathieu Kassovitz. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

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The Thief Lord (2006) Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Starring Aaron Johnson, Jasper Harris, Rollo Weeks, and Alice Connor. Directed by Richard Claus.

A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord. From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of a bumbling detective. However, a greater threat to the children is something from a forgotten past-- a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself...

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The Weather Man (2005) Comedy / Drama

Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis and Gemmenne de la Peña. Directed by
Gore Verbinski.

Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. Directed by Brett Ratner.

Mutants are on the verge of X-tinction, it seems, when US business Worthington Industries discovers a cure for mutation. This scientific breakthrough complicates and intensifies the battle - both physical and ideological - between Professor X's integration-friendly X-Men and the human-hating muties let by Magneto ...

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 02nd / 09th February

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

February 2 to February 9

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The Dark (2005) Horror / Mystery / Thriller NEW

Starring Maria Bello, Sean Bean, Maurice Roëves and Abigail Stone. Directed by John Fawcett.

While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her teenager daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). They see a weird memorial without the plate and with the name "Annwyn" marked, and the local Dafydd (Maurice Roëves) explains that this would be the place where people go after dying in accordance with the Welsh mythology. Later, Sarah vanishes on the beach and the daughter of the local fanatic shepherd, Ebrill (Abigail Stone), who died fifty years ago, appears in her place. Adele makes a research trying to find how to rescue her daughter from Annway.

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Nanny McPhee (2005) Comedy / Family / Fantasy NEW

Starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Thomas Sangster and Kelly MacDonald. Directed by Kirk Jones.

Based on the "Nurse Matilda" books by Christianna Brand comes the story of Nanny McPhee. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) is now a widower with seven ill-behaved children who've already chased away 17 nannies. But when a mysterious voice tells Cedric to hire Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), she arrives at the Brown home and the kids learn to behave properly. But when Great-Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells Cedric he must be married by the end of the month or she'll separate the children, he tries to find women, but the children run them away. And Nanny McPhee tells Simon (Thomas Sangster), the eldest, that he will face the consequences, so the kids go to Selma Quickly (Celia Imrie) and admit what they did and ask to give their father a second chance and they will be married. Will the kids really find the perfect woman for their father?

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Æon Flux (2005) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller and Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Karyn Kusama.

Set against the 2011 virus that kills 99% of the world's populace, and in the last city on Earth, Bregna, the survivors, some four hundred years later, in the year 2415, are continuing to live in the Goodchild dynasty, the name of the scientist who developed its cure. All is not well in this utopia and it is not what lies beyond its high walls that protects its citizens from the never ending jungle but what unspoken, unwritten taboo that holds and binds these unfortunates' together that lies within these walls of paranoia, conformity and unquestionable obedience. Filmed in and around Berlin, ironically, this is a story set against a totalitarian state, a walled city, where its peoples are no longer capable of reproducing, and its sinister and most secret plot of how it sustains life. Æon Flux is the assassin that has been assigned by the underground rebels to change the course of Mankind, forever. This is the story of her fight for justice, freedom and revenge.

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Domino (2005) Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirezi and Riz Abbasi. Directed by Tony Scott.

Based on the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glitterarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a masked gang pilfer the contents of an armored car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.

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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006) (V) Action

Starring Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Rutger Hauer and Joe Suba. Directed by Brian Clyde.

A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.

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Prime (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance

Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams. Directed by Ben Younger.

In New York, after a troubled process of divorce, the thirty-seven years old Raphael "Rafi" Gardet meets the twenty-three years old Jew David Bloomberg in a session of "Blow-up" and they start seeing each other. Rafi tells details of her relationship with David to her psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, who stimulates Rafi to go on and forget the difference of ages. When Lisa finds that David is actually her son, she faces an ethical and personal dilemma.

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Take the Lead (2006) Drama / Music

Starring Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Alfre Woodard and Yaya DaCosta.

Inspired by a true story, this exciting family drama revolves around a professional dancer who volunteers to teach in the New York City public school system. But when his classic methods clash with his students' hip-hop instincts, he teams up with them to create a new style of dance and becomes their mentor in the process.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 09th / 16th February

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

February 9 to February 16

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Slither (2006) Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi NEW

Starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry and Michael Rooker. Directed by James Gunn.

In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero's zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature.

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Last Holiday (2006) Adventure / Comedy / Drama NEW

Starring Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton and Giancarlo Esposito. Directed by Wayne Wang.

In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when an MRI discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. Directed by Brett Ratner.

Mutants are on the verge of X-tinction, it seems, when US business Worthington Industries discovers a cure for mutation. This scientific breakthrough complicates and intensifies the battle - both physical and ideological - between Professor X's integration-friendly X-Men and the human-hating muties let by Magneto ...

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Firewall (2006) Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen and Carly Schroeder. Directed by
Richard Loncraine

With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement.

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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Directed by Ron Howard.

Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he's summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.

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Walk the Line (2005) Biography / Drama / Music / Romance

Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin and Robert Patrick. Directed by
James Mangold.

J.R. Cash takes an early interest in music while growing up on an Arkansas cotton farm in the Great Depression. He is very close to his elder brother Jack, who dies in an accident involving a table saw in 1944 when J.R. is out fishing. His guilt about this event is not helped when his father blames him as well, so it comes as a welcome escape when he is old enough to enlist in the air force and is sent to Germany. Inspired by a film he sees there, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) he composes a song, "Folsom Prison Blues." Leaving the air force Cash marries and attempts to succeed as a door-to-door salesman in Memphis, Tenn. but his heart is in music and he succeeds in an audition with Sam Phillips at Sun Records..........

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 16th / 23rd February

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

February 16 to February 23

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller NEW

Starring Lucas Black, Brandon Brendel, Daniel Booko and Amber Stevens. Directed by Justin Lin.

After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Shaun Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military, in Tokyo, Japan, to avoid juvy or even jail. While in school, he befriends Twinkie, a "military brat." Twinkie introduces him to the world of racing in Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against D.K., the "Drift King", who has ties to the Yakuza, and loses, totaling the car because of his lack of knowledge of drifting, racing that involves dangerous hair pin turns. To repay his debt, he enters the underground world of drift street racing. As he becomes better and better, he must finally prove his worth in that world by once again racing D.K.

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Hard Luck (2006) (V) Crime / Drama / Thriller NEW

Starring Gavin J. Behrman, Kevin Chapman and Derrick Costa. Directed by Mario Van Peebles.

Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer (Snipes) tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife (Shepherd) hides a sadistic and vicious streak.

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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family

Voices by Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano and Seann William Scott.

While Skrat the Saber Toothed Squirrel is still ineffectually trying to regain his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabretooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and it's melting state threatens to break and flood the valley. With their one chance of survival being a boat at the other end of the valley, the trio follow the desperate exodus there. Along the way, they meet Ellie, a female mammoth who is convinced she's a opossum like her brothers. While the strange group continues the trek, they must learn to get along even as Manny struggles to find some connection to this strange female who may be the only other one of his kind.

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Poseidon (2006) Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller

Starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss and Jacinda Barrett. Directed by
Wolfgang Petersen.

On New Year night, Poseidon, the luxurious cruise liner was hit by a majestic rogue wave flipping it upside down. With help several hours away most of the passengers decide to sit it out. However, Dylan Johns (Josh Lucas) decides to get off the already sinking ship, by climbing to the hull (now on top). He is joined by Maggie James (Jacinda Barrett) and her son Conor (Jimmy Bennett), Robert Ramsey (Kurt Russell), his daughter Jennifer (Emmy Rossum) and her boyfriend Christian (Mike Vogel), Elena Gonzalez (Mía Maestro) and Richard Nelson (Richard Dreyfuss). Will they all make it out before the ship sinks?

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The Shaggy Dog (2006) Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Starring Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Zena Grey and Spencer Breslin. Directed by Brian Robbins.

Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog and back again in this update of the Disney comedy. It all begins when workaholic Deputy D.A. Dave Douglas (Allen) takes on a case involving an animal laboratory -- one that will take him away yet again from his wife (Kristin Davis) and kids (Zena Grey and Spencer Breslin), who already yearn for his all-too-distracted attention. But when Dave is accidentally infected with a top-secret, genetic-mutation serum, everything he thought he knew about being himself and his family changes.......

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 23rd / 02nd Feb/March

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

February 23 to March 2

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When a Stranger Calls (2006) Horror / Thriller NEW

Starring Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Katie Cassidy and Tessa Thompson. Directed by
Simon West.

Jill Johnson is a normal teenager. She has a boyfriend, she's a freshman in high school, a runner...But when she goes over her cell phone bill by 800 minutes her parents make her pay it off by baby sitting. She's driven to the Mandrakis' house, a rich family with 2 kids who are already asleep. but when the parents leave Jill starts getting weird calls. Somtimes the caller doesn't say anything, but when the ominous voice asks "have you checked the children?" Jill checks on them and returns only to have the caller phone again knowing she had gone upstairs. Jill freaks out and phones the police. They say they will trace the call if she can keep him on the line for more then a minute. But what the police tell her when she succeeds will turn a routine baby-sitting gig into a 16- year-old's worst nightmare. And now she has to fight for her-and the kids'- lives in a struggle for survival.

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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Directed by Ron Howard.

The story tells the investigation started by symbologist Robert Langdon and a good looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre's curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie's grandfather, and the corpse was founded with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receive a warning about the captain's real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation, that involves a supposedly heretic theory: JesusChristh and Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple which give rise a daughter, named Sara.
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House of the Dead 2 (2005) (TV) Action / Comedy / Horror

Starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed Quinn, Sticky Fingaz and Victoria Pratt. Directed by Michael Hurst.

A virus breaks out at a University and people start to become zombies. After 29 days, a team of AMS scientists and soldiers are sent in to deal with the problem. But while they search, things go wrong.

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The Lake House (2006) Drama / Fantasy / Romance

Starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Christopher Plummer. Directed by
Alejandro Agresti.

In Chicago, the lonely architect Alex Wyler has a troubled relationship with his father Simon Wyler. In 2004, he buys an old glass house in a lake, designed and built by his father, and he finds a message in his mailbox from the former tenant, the also lonely Dr. Kate Forster, asking to deliver her correspondence in an address downtown. Alex meets his brother Henry in Chicago and when they go to the address with Dr. Forster's correspondence, they find a building of luxury apartments under construction to be delivered eighteen months later. After some messages, Alex and Kate disclose that she is living in 2006 and Alex in 2004, they fall in love for each other and they try to find means to meet each other.

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Lord of War (2005) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, and Stewart Morgan. Directed by Andrew Niccol.

This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

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Prime (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance

Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams. Directed by
Ben Younger.

In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi, a 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David, a 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of intimacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 02nd / 09th March

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

March 2 to March 9

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Failure to Launch (2006) Comedy / Romance

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Bartha. Directed by Tom Dey.

At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases: chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious and one of his pals is attracted to Paula's deadpan, semi-alcoholic roommate, who's plagued by a mockingbird. Too many secrets may scrub the launch, and what if Paula really likes him? Who can intervene then?

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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family

Voices by Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. Directed by Carlos Saldanha.

When the valley where they live is threatened by the melt of the surrounding ice, the mammoth Manny, the sloth Sid and the saber-toothed tiger Diego advise the other animals to look for shelter outside the place. While escaping, the trio meets Ellie, a female mammoth that believes she is an opossum like her two mischievous brothers. Meanwhile, the squirrel Scrat tries to retrieve his walnut in the most unusual situations.

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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Drama / Romance

Starring Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe and Kôji Yakusho. Directed by Rob Marshall.

A young nine year old girl, Chiyo, lives in a rather poor fishing village, Yoroido, on Japan's coast. Along with her older sister, Satsu, she is sent to the geisha (Japanese for artisan) district called Gion. Split from the only family she has left Chiyo is sent to the Nitta Okiya while her sister is transported else where and becomes less of a role. And Okiya is a house (sort of a compound) where a geisha lives and is taken care of. Here at the Nitta Okiya Chiyo meets another girl about her age nicknamed Pumpkin. Together Pumpkin and Chiyo struggle through the daily life of being treated as nothing more than slaves to the resident geisha, Hatsumomo.........

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Saw II (2005) Crime / Horror / Thriller

Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg and Erik Knudsen. Directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman.

Serial killer Jigsaw locks a group of eight unlucky people in his booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Famke Janssen. Directed by Brett Ratner.

Mutants are on the verge of X-tinction, it seems, when US business Worthington Industries discovers a cure for mutation. This scientific breakthrough complicates and intensifies the battle - both physical and ideological - between Professor X's integration-friendly X-Men and the human-hating muties let by Magneto ...

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Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) Comedy / Family / Romance

Starring Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Sean Faris and Katija Pevec. Directed by Raja Gosnell.

Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

Regards Satude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 09th / 16th March

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

March 9 to March 16

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RV (2006) Adventure / Comedy / Family NEW

Starring Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Josh Hutcherson and Jeff Daniels. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob's job is in danger if he doesn't go to a very important meeting.

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Lucas Black, Brandon Brendel, Daniel Booko and Amber Stevens. Directed by Justin Lin.

After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Shaun Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military, in Tokyo, Japan, to avoid juvy or even jail. While in school, he befriends Twinkie, a "military brat." Twinkie introduces him to the world of racing in Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against D.K., the "Drift King", who has ties to the Yakuza, and loses, totaling the car because of his lack of knowledge of drifting, racing that involves dangerous hair pin turns. To repay his debt, he enters the underground world of drift street racing. As he becomes better and better, he must finally prove his worth in that world by once again racing D.K.

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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) Animation / Comedy / Family

Starring Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray. Directed by Tim Hill.

Jon goes to London to be with Liz and Garfield sneaks with him. Meanwhile a deceased Queen gives everything to her cat Prince XII. Her only heir Lord Dargis becomes jealous and tries to kill Prince. Garfield & Odie sneaks out to the streets of London. Lord Dargis throws Prince in the river and ends up in the sewer of London. SMithee the butler believes he found Prince but it was really Garfield and Jon find Odie with Prince and mistakes him for Garfield. Now the Castle animals must keep Garfield safe and keep him thinking he's royal to save their lives.

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The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Horror / Thriller

Starring Kathleen Quinlan, Maxime Giffard Tom Bower and Vinessa Shaw. Directed by Alexandre Aja.

While traveling in a trailer to California through the New Mexico Desert, a family is misled to a shortcut going to nowhere by the owner of an isolated gas station and wrecks the car in a rock. Along the night and on the next day, they are attacked by a group of deformed cannibals, fruit of the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by USA from 1945 to 1962 in that spot. Absolutely trapped by the psychotics, they have to fight to survive.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport. Directed by Gore Verbinski

Picking up where the first movie left off, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan are to be married. However this is interrupted when both are arrested for aiding in the notorious Captain Jack Sparrow's escape. The new captain, Beckett, will lift all charges, if Will can hunt down Jack and bring him back to Beckett, along with his magic compass. However, Jack has other problems. Years ago, he made a deal with Davy Jones to raise the Black Pearl. Time is up. His part of the deal was to give Davy Jones his soul. Once Will finds Jack, unaware of the current situation, Jack coaxes Will into boarding Davy Jones's ship, the Flying Dutchman, and retrieve a mysterious key. This key opens the chest that contains Davy Jones's secret. With it, you can control Davy Jones and his fearsome beast, The Kraken. Once Will retrieves said key, Davy Jones is hot on his trail, now hunting down both Jack and Will. It is now, only a matter of time, before something happens. Hopefully the pirates can reach the chest and stop Davy Jones, before he reaches them and sends them all to a watery grave...

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The Weather Man (2005) Comedy / Drama

Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis and Gemmenne de la Peña. Directed by
Gore Verbinski.

Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 16th / 23rd March

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

March 16 to March 23

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The Hard Corps (2006) Action / Thriller NEW

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vivica A. Fox, Razaaq Adoti, William Zabka and Dexter Bell. Directed by Sheldon Lettich.

Jean-Claude will be playing a Combat Vet who's just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, who is hired to be a bodyguard to a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ to protect him and his family against a Rap Music Mogul. He sets up a team called "The Hard Corps", complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister may be in love with the bodyguard.

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Superman Returns (2006) Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi NEW

Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Brandon Routh, Eva Marie Saint, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Peta Wilson. Directed by Bryan Singer.

After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman's heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent's structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman's only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro's sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

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Chaos (2006/I) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes, Henry Czerny, Justine Waddell and Natassia Malthe. Directed by Tony Giglio.

In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. When a bank is heist with hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation having the rookie Shane Dekker as partner. The thieves, leaded by Lorenz, apparently do no steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team discloses that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the most different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.

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Ultraviolet (2006) Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Milla Jovovich, William Fichtner and Cameron Bright. Directed by Kurt Wimmer.

In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called Violet (Milla Jovovich), who is bent on vengeance and has little left to lose. Provoked beyond reason by powers that will not rest until she and her people are dead, she will become everything her persecutors feared her to be.

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The Break-Up (2006) Comedy / Drama / Romance

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams and Nicole Auman. Directed by Peyton Reed.

In Chicago, the art dealer Brooke Meyers feels not appreciated and neglected by her immature husband Gary Grobowski, who is partner of his two brothers in a tourism business, and decides to break-up with him to make Gary misses her. Gary misunderstands her true intention, both follows the wrong advices of family members and friends, beginning a war of sexes with no winner.

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Brokeback Mountain (2005) Drama / Romance

Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini, Michelle Williams and Randy Quaid. Directed by Ang Lee.

In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.

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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Directed by Ron Howard.

The story tells the investigation started by symbologist Robert Langdon and a good looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre's curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie's grandfather, and the corpse was founded with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receive a warning about the captain's real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation, that involves a supposedly heretic theory: JesusChristh and Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple which give rise a daughter, named Sara.

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In the Mix (2005) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance

Starring Usher Raymond, Chazz Palminteri and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Directed by Ron Underwood.

When an African-American man accidentally saves a mob boss's life, his reward is a job protecting the don's daughter. Complications arise when the two begin to fall in love.

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The Lake House (2006) Drama / Fantasy / Romance

Starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Christopher Plummer. Directed by
Alejandro Agresti.

In Chicago, the lonely architect Alex Wyler has a troubled relationship with his father Simon Wyler. In 2004, he buys an old glass house in a lake, designed and built by his father, and he finds a message in his mailbox from the former tenant, the also lonely Dr. Kate Forster, asking to deliver her correspondence in an address downtown. Alex meets his brother Henry in Chicago and when they go to the address with Dr. Forster's correspondence, they find a building of luxury apartments under construction to be delivered eighteen months later. After some messages, Alex and Kate disclose that she is living in 2006 and Alex in 2004, they fall in love for each other and they try to find means to meet each other.

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Prime (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance

Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams. Directed by
Ben Younger.

In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi, a 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David, a 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of intimacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion.

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Shadow Man (2006) (V) Action / War

Starring Steven Seagal, Skye Bennett, Vasile Albinet, Werner Daehn and Zoltan Butuc. Directed by Michael Keusch.

Seagal plays (surprise, surprise) an ex C.I.A agent, who whilst on vacation with his young daughter, gets tied up in a plot to smuggle a deadly chemical agent (capable of doing serious damage to the human race) and in the carnage, his father in law is killed(?) and his daughter kidnapped......

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United 93 (2006) Drama / History

Starring David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson, Starla Benford and Polly Adams. Directed by
Paul Greengrass.

Four young Arabians prepared themselves physical and spiritually in order to hijack flight United 93, the night before the fatal 11-S-2001. Same day, other three planes were hijacked as well and reached their targets: The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. British director Paul Greengrass gives a close version about what could possible happened inside the plane, basing upon the last recordings from the pilot cabin and the telephone calls made by the passengers to their beloveds. The movie shows how the passengers tried to subdue the terrorists, one of them with a bomb tied to his waist, once they had killed both pilots and one of the passengers. Meanwhile, we see the prevailing crisis in the Air Traffic Control, trying to deal with a situation which leads to close all the country's aerial space. Despite the courage of the passengers, the United Airlines' plane, with an original route to San Francisco, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, without reaching its target, located in Washington D.C.

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V for Vendetta (2005) Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, James Purefoy, John Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Fry, Stephen Rea and Tim Pigott-Smith. Directed by
James McTeigue.

In the not too distant future, Britain is filled with torture cells, unfair punishments, prejudice against minorities. However in the mist of all this chaos, one man known only by the name V dares to stand up to the government and is labeled as a terrorist. One night V rescues a mild young woman called Evey Hammond and an unlikely bond between the two emerges which results with Evey becoming Vs ally. But though V may be charismatic and have a passion for justice he also is bitter and has his own personal hatred of the government for something they did to him long ago. As November the 5th, the day V says he and those who will follow him will stand up to the government once and for all approaches, Detective Finch becomes more and more determined to uncover the truth about V, however his search leads him to ask to question whether or not he is on the right side.

Regards Satdude.

Satdude

Films on Premiere Direkt 23rd / 30th March

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

March 23 to March 30

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The Dark (2005) Horror / Mystery / Thriller NEW

Starring Maria Bello, Sean Bean, Maurice Roëves, Abigail Stone, Richard Elfyn and Sophie Stuckey. Directed by John Fawcett.

While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her teenager daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). They see a weird memorial without the plate and with the name "Annwyn" marked, and the local Dafydd (Maurice Roëves) explains that this would be the place where people go after dying in accordance with the Welsh mythology. Later, Sarah vanishes on the beach and the daughter of the local fanatic shepherd, Ebrill (Abigail Stone), who died fifty years ago, appears in her place. Adele makes a research trying to find how to rescue her daughter from Annway.

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Over the Hedge (2006) Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family NEW

Voices by Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steven Carrell, Thomas Haden Church and William Shatner. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick.

Upon waking up after hibernation, a group of forest animals discover that a tall hedge has appeared out of nowhere, half their forest is gone, they have little to no food left. While Verne, a nervous turtle who acts as leader, suggests they simply adapt, RJ the raccoon shows up and gives them another option: go over the hedge and get food from the humans! The other forest animals quickly give into RJ, sneaking into the human world to get all the food they can grab. What they don't know is that RJ is actually in debt to a hungry bear, who has given him one week to replenish his food supply, or RJ takes its place!

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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Directed by Ron Howard.

The story tells the investigation started by symbologist Robert Langdon and a good looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre's curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie's grandfather, and the corpse was founded with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receive a warning about the captain's real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation, that involves a supposedly heretic theory: JesusChristh and Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple which give rise a daughter, named Sara.

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In the Mix (2005) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance

Starring Usher Raymond, Chazz Palminteri and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Directed by Ron Underwood.

When an African-American man accidentally saves a mob boss's life, his reward is a job protecting the don's daughter. Complications arise when the two begin to fall in love.

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Superman Returns (2006) Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Brandon Routh, Eva Marie Saint, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Peta Wilson. Directed by Bryan Singer.

After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman's heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent's structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman's only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro's sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

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The Thief Lord (2006) Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Starring Jim Carter, Caroline Goodall, Rollo Weeks, Aaron Johnson, George MacKay and Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Richard Claus.

This tale follows six-year-old Bo and fifteen-year-old Prosper, two recently orphaned brothers who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. There they have fantastical adventures with the mysterious masked figure known as the Thief Lord and his band of child followers, who show the boys all the magic the city has to offer.

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V for Vendetta (2005) Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, James Purefoy, John Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Fry, Stephen Rea and Tim Pigott-Smith. Directed by
James McTeigue.

In the not too distant future, Britain is filled with torture cells, unfair punishments, prejudice against minorities. However in the mist of all this chaos, one man known only by the name V dares to stand up to the government and is labeled as a terrorist. One night V rescues a mild young woman called Evey Hammond and an unlikely bond between the two emerges which results with Evey becoming Vs ally. But though V may be charismatic and have a passion for justice he also is bitter and has his own personal hatred of the government for something they did to him long ago. As November the 5th, the day V says he and those who will follow him will stand up to the government once and for all approaches, Detective Finch becomes more and more determined to uncover the truth about V, however his search leads him to ask to question whether or not he is on the right side.

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Films on Premiere Direkt 30th / 06th March /April

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Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H

Position: 19 east

Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H

Encryptions: Nagravision 2

March 30 to April 6

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Saw II (2005) Crime / Horror / Thriller NEW

Starring Beverley Mitchell, Dina Meyer, Donnie Wahlberg, Emmanuael Vaugier, Eric Knudsen, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.

Serial killer Jigsaw locks a group of eight unlucky people in his booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.

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The Shaggy Dog (2006) Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Starring Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Zena Grey, Spencer Breslin, Danny Glover and Robert Downey Jr. Directed by Brian Robbins.

Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog and back again in this update of the Disney comedy. It all begins when workaholic Deputy D.A. Dave Douglas (Allen) takes on a case involving an animal laboratory -- one that will take him away yet again from his wife (Kristin Davis) and kids (Zena Grey and Spencer Breslin), who already yearn for his all-too-distracted attention. But when Dave is accidentally infected with a top-secret, genetic-mutation serum, everything he thought he knew about being himself and his family changes. Yet with his newly perked-up ears, and his front-row seat on the household carpet, Dave is able to gain a whole new perspective into his family's secrets and dreams. Now, he wants nothing more than to stop fetching and return to fathering -- only first he'll have to stop the evil forces behind the serum.

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The Squid and the Whale (2005) Comedy / Drama

Starring Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline and Anna Paquin. Directed by Noah Baumbach.

Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1986. When Walt Berkman, an impressionable 16-year-old, passes off the P