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January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

LEGEND reveals action-packed line-up of Channel premieres for February 2025

From Stephen Soderbergh’s revenge-tinged actioner HAYWIRE, starring a kick-ass Gina Carano, to Michael Apted’s London-set spy-thriller UNLOCKED, starring a gun-toting Noomi Rapace, and Tony Maylam’s futuristic sci-fi horror gem SPLIT SECOND, starring serial killer hunter Rutger Hauer, LEGEND has scheduled ten nail-biting Channel premieres for a full-on February schedule.

Other adrenaline-fuelled premieres include action thrillers THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, BLACK EAGLE, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, BORN TO RAISE HELL, starring Steven Seagal and ROGUE, starring Megan Fox. British crime thrillers this month include the Channel premieres for WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, starring James McEvoy and Mark Strong and DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, starring Shaun Williamson and Geof Bell. Plus, there is the blood-soaked neo-Western THE WAY OF THE GUN, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro and Juliette Lewis.

Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into T.J. HOOKER, SIX MILLON DOLLAR MAN and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, all of which continue their popular runs throughout the month.

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Let’s start on the 1st where Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a black-ops agent for a government security contractor in HAYWIRE. After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead – by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins, who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Also stars Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas. We jump to the 7th where in a futuristic London where rising sea levels have placed large areas of the city under water. A burned-out cop (Rutger Hauer) is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders which point to a non-human killer in SPLIT SECOND. The following night in THE COLDLIGHT OF DAY Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, and Henry Cavill star in this pulse-pounding thriller about a man who’s plunged into an intergovernmental web of lies and secrets after his family is kidnapped. To get his family back alive, he must evade deadly secret agents and recover a mysterious briefcase.

More action is waiting for you on the 13th in BLACK EAGLE. One of The US Air Force’s most modern tactical aircraft, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashed in the sea near Malta. With Soviet forces in the vicinity, the CIA dispatches their best agent played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure their agent’s loyalty, they also take his two young sons into custody on a nearby island. We’re BORN TO RAISE HELL on the 14th where Bobby (Steven Seagal) is a tough as nails Interpol Agent assigned to a task force in Eastern Europe. His target is those that traffic guns and dope throughout the Balkans. When an investigation puts him on the trail of a Russian gun dealer, he learns how deadly life in Eastern Europe can truly be. A gripping tale on the 15th in THE WAY OF THE GUN as two small-time crooks, played by Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro, are convinced they’ll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis), but they soon run into trouble and they have to fight to keep their plan from unravelling amid rising time of bloodshed, mind games and greed.

Jumping ahead to the 20th and Megan Fox has gone ROGUE. As team leader O’Hara (Fox), is in charge of a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebel, and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter. A superior Brit thriller on the 22nd in WELCOME TO THE PUNCH. Former criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced returns to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky (James McEvoy) one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive. In UNLOCKED on the 27th, undercover CIA agent Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace), is charged with preventing an upcoming biological terror attack. But when violence erupts, Alice realises her CIA colleagues (Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, and Toni Collette) may be trying to eliminate her to cover their tracks. On the run, she must rely on the help of a tough cat burglar (Orlando Bloom) to survive, and to save the city from catastrophic devastation. We round off on the 28th with more Brit crime, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. A group of men check in early for their flight to Germany to support England at the World Cup. However, this is to establish an alibi for a heist at a London bank where millions of pounds in used notes are held, awaiting incineration. Will they be able to pull off the job and catch their plane? Stars Geoff Bell, Paul Nicholls, Justin Salinger and Shaun Williamson.

December 17, 2024January 14, 2025

LEGEND kicks off the New Year with thrilling round of premieres!

From cult classics like Roy Ward Baker’s LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES to legendary director Walter Hill’s BULLET TO THE HEAD and Sacha Bennett’s WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY, LEGEND has scheduled eleven channel premieres in January to kick off the New Year in thrilling fashion.

Other premieres include the classic mercenary thriller THE WILD GEESE, starring screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris, sci-fi actioner LOOPER, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, sniper thriller DEADLY TARGET, crime drama EMPIRE STATE, starring Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne, biographical disaster movie DEEPWATER HORIZON, high-octane action thriller WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, British black comedy crime thriller THE HITMAN’S APPRENTICE, starring Tim Roth and Jack O’Connell, and prison thriller ESCAPE PLAN, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into T.J. HOOKER, THE A-TEAM and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, all of which continue their popular runs throughout the month.

We (high) kick-off 2025 on the 3rd with one of the last great movies from Hammer, LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES. While lecturing in China, Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves. Co-directed by Hammer stalwart Roy Ward Baker and Hong Kong director Chang Cheh. The following evening we dodge a BULLET TO THE HEAD. An absolute classic on the 9pm as we release THE WILD GEESE. Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation and snatch its deposed President from a maximum-security army prison.

Sci-Fi thrills on the 11th with the time-bending thriller LOOPER. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich, and life is good…until the day the mob decides to “close the loop”, sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The thrills continue on the 16th as we witness a DEADLY TARGET. When Special Operative James Webster (Michael Jai White) returns home from duty to find his brother brutally murdered, his lethal training immediately kicks in. Fuelled by rage and a burning need to avenge his brother, he sets out to hunt down the perpetrators and nothing is going to stand in his way. The Rock finally comes to LEGEND on the 18th in EMPIRE STATE. Based on a true story, Dwayne Johnson stars as an NYPD detective trying to solve the biggest cash heist in U.S. history. Co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Michael Angarano.

DEEPWATER HORIZON on the 16th stars Mark Wahlberg in a powerful film inspired by a story of real-life heroes. For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day’s end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in US history. More big screen action on the 23rd in WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE. Bounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles cinema. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn’t trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists? The action continues on the 24th where we meet THE HITMAN’S APPRENTICE. When 19-year-old Adam (Jack O’Connell) agrees to do a day’s driving for his mum’s gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy (Tim Roth).

A dream team-up on the 25th, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger star in ESCAPE PLAN.Stallone stars as Ray Breslin, the world’s foremost expert on high-security prisons. But when he’s framed for a crime and thrown into a cutting- edge, ultra-secret facility he designed, he must recruit a fellow inmate (Schwarzenegger) to help him bust out of the escape-proof facility. Our list of channel premieres concludes on the 30th with WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY. Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang are back in this explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way. When the infamous 70s underworld legends are tasked with robbing Britain’s richest Banker, they are caught mid-heist and sentenced to do time in Britain’s toughest prison. Once inside, they encounter their old nemesis Slick Vic Farrow (Billy Murray) who is intent on murdering the gang. Also stars Ian Ogilvy, Lysette Anthony, Steven Berkoff and Julian Glover.

November 26, 2024December 2, 2024

LEGEND unwraps sixteen premieres for December

LEGEND unwraps sixteen channel premieres for December, filling the festive season with top-class thrillers, chillers and action-hitters, including Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 classic THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, Robert Rodrigues’ star-packed Machete sequel MACHETE KILLS (Lady Gaga, Mel Gibson), Michael Noer’s gripping remake of PAPILLON (2017), the deadly diamond heist MOMENTUM, starring Oleg Kurylenko and the superb techno-thriller LIMITLESS, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. De Niro also stars in RIGHTEOUS KILL, alongside Al Pacino.

During the month, Hollywood’s most-celebrated muscle men are in crime-thrilling action, including Steven Seagal in DRIVEN TO KILL and BEYOND THE LAW, Dolph Lundgren and Vinny Jones in AMBUSHED, Jason Statham and Wesley Snipes in CHAOS and Nicolas Cage in Mario Van Peebles’ USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE.

There are first showings for heist action thriller THICK AS THIEVES, starring Morgan Freedman and Antonio Banderas, edge-of-your seat revenge thriller BEYOND SUSPICION, powerful drama OUT OF THE FURNACE, starring Christian Bale, redemptive cop thriller OFFICER DOWN and action spectacle DRAGON BLADE, starring Jackie Chan.

Plus, T.J. HOOKER makes a first appearance on the channel, with Seasons One and Two running through the month. Follow the weekly adventures of tough-as-nails veteran police officer Sgt. TJ Hooker, played by the great William Shatner.

Here’s everything you need to know.

We kick off on the 1st with USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE. Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore and Thomas Jane star in the harrowing tale of real-life American heroes shipwrecked in shark infested waters in the waning days of World War II. The following evening we’ve tension of a very different kind in AMBUSHED. Drug pushers Frank and Eddie, rip off their middleman and are catapulted into the perfect storm of vengeful drug lords, dirty cops and an ambitious Federal agent (Dolph Lundgren). Realising their situation is spiralling out of control, Frank makes a move to get out while Eddie embraces the rush of life in the fast lane. Crime drama continues on the 5th with MOMENTUM. Formidable thief, Alexis (Olga Kurylenko) is recruited to pull one last diamond heist before she can leave the game forever. But when the deal goes wrong, and Alexis witnesses a brutal murder involving a senator she must run for her life. Pursued by the ruthless Mr. Washington (James Purefoy), Alex starts to uncover a tangle of lies.

A stylish thriller with a cool cast on the 7th, CHAOS. After a deadly bank heist, Detectives Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) and Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) are drawn into a mysterious case where a criminal mastermind (Wesley Snipes) is pulling the strings. Faced with random acts of violence and deception the only hope for their survival is finding an order to the chaos. THICK AS THIEVES on the 8th concerns master thief Keith Ripley (Morgan Freedman), lives by the Thieves’ Code: do the job, watch your partner’s back, don’t hold out, and never co-operate with the cops. Unfortunately, his former partner didn’t live by that code and now he’s dead, Can Keith, with new partner Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas), pull off the heist of his lifetime and steal the last two original Faberge Eggs ever created in order to save his own life? The next evening has a powerful, nail-biting thriller, BEYOND SUSPICION. When a drug bust goes wrong, notorious ex-cop Danny Gallagher’s (Karl Urban) quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official’s wife. Discovering the woman’s secret lover was a seductive federal agent (Sofia Vergara), he finds himself under fire. But from who?

PAPILLON on the 12th is a gritty, intense remake of the 1973 classic film. Henri is wrongly convicted of murder and given a life sentence on Devil’s Island. Whilst there he meets someone who agrees to help his escape. This remarkable true story stars Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. Far less serious is the sublime exploitation favourite MACHETE KILLS on the 13th. Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federal agent Machete, who is recruited by the US President for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet. Things become far more serious on the 15th in OUT OF THE FURNACE. Russell (Christian Bale) and his younger brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) have always dreamed of escaping the Rust Belt and finding better lives. When a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, Rodney is lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or seek justice for his brother.

Fan-favourite Steven Seagal is back in DRIVEN TO KILL on the 16th. When Ruslan (Seagal), a successful crime writer, returns to his old neighbourhood to attend his estranged daughter’s wedding, his dangerous past emerges. His daughter is marrying the son of Ruslan’s age-old nemesis, Mikhail Arban, who is now the head of the brutal East Coast Russian Mafia. A brutal war of revenge begins. A true classic gets its channel premiere on the 17th, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. The acclaimed film about a deadly assassin bent on killing French president Charles de Gaulle. Filled with amazing twists and turns, peppered with fascinating political intrigue, and populated by unforgettably vile and heroic characters, Day of the Jackal is Academy Award winning director Fred Zinnemann’s most harrowing thrill ride ever! OFFICER DOWN on the 21st a rogue police officer (Stephen Dorff) tries to right the wrongs of his past by seeking revenge against the men responsible for a string of attacks on the young women working at a local strip club. Also starring Dominic Purcell, AnnaLynne McCord, David Boreanaz, Walton Goggins, Stephen and James Woods.

Classy sci-fi drama LIMITLESS on the 22nd where a Eddie Morra who is facing unemployment and his girlfriend’s rejection, has his life is transformed by a “smart drug”, allowing him to use 100% of his brain. But when he attracts unwanted attention of a greedy tycoon (Robert De Niro), he soon realises they’ll stop at nothing to uncover his secret. We go BEYOND THE LAW on the 22nd where a former mobster turned businessman (Steven Seagal), and a police detective must contend with a dirty ex-cop looking to bring the killer of his son to justice. If its action you’re after then DRAGON BLADE on the 28th is for you. Two thousand years ago, a mysterious legion of extremely fearsome warriors galloped along the famous Silk Road. The soldiers are part of a Roman legion led by General Lucius (John Cusack), marching east to protect Publius, the youngest son of Consul Crassus, from his vicious brother Tiberius (Adrien Brody. Reunited, they become lost in the desert where they meet Huo An (Jackie Chan), the Commander of the Silk Road Protection Squad of the Western Region. The two form an allegiance as Tiberius eventually arrives with his army. The stage is set for an epic battle. We round of 2024 with the channel premiere of RIGHTEOUS KILL. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star as two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.

October 27, 2024October 30, 2024

LEGEND reveals a bumper sixteen premieres for November

Sixteen action-packed Channel premieres light up LEGEND this November, including a double-dose of weird, stylish and depraved action with CRANK, starring Jason Statham and Any Smart, who both team up again for the sequel CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE. There are also two of legendary director Sidney Lumet’s films – the intense crime saga FAMILY BUSINESS, starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick and his critically acclaimed crime-legal drama Q & A, starring Nick Nolte and Timothy Hutton.

Plus, there are first showings for John Irvin’s underrated Vietnam war drama HAMBURGER HILL, Peter Berg’s PATRIOTS DAY, based on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Brad Furman’s slick Hollywood thriller RUNNER RUNNER, starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, and the Billy The Kid inspired Western YOUNG GUNS, starring 80’s Brat Packers Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips.

Other primetime premieres are, Scott Mann’s action potboiler HEIST, starring Robert De Niro, crime thriller LORDS OF WAR, starring Nic Cage, political thriller THE SENTINEL, starring Michael Douglas, diabolical thriller CRIMINAL, starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds, intense, psychological thriller, UNDER SUSPICION, starring Gene Hackman, Carl Rinsch’s action fantasy 47 RONIN, starring Keanu Reeves, who also shines in the gritty cop thriller STREET KINGS, and SABOTAGE, from Suicide Squad director David Ayer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Let’s start on the 2nd where we meet the STREET KINGS. Keanu Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. There’s another star-studded channel premiere on the 3rd, FAMILY BUSINESS. The McMullens are a family of career criminals, led by patriarch Jessie (Sean Connery). His son, Vito (Dustin Hoffman) has left the family “business”, and Vito is hopeful that his son Adam (Matthew Broderick), college-educated and with no criminal past, will have a bright future. But when Adam approaches his grandfather about the possibility of a big-time heist, Vito reluctantly joins his father and son in the burglary scheme. RUNNER RUNNER on the 8th concerns hustler and Princeton grad student Richie (Justin Timberlake), believing he’s been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Richie is seduced by Block’s promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever. This is followed by one of the most brutal and uncompromising movies depicting the Vietnam War, HAMBURGER HILL.

More from Keanu Reeves on the 9th in 47 RONIN. Outcast Kai (Reeves) joins the leader of the 47 Ronin. Together, they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors. We take you back on the 9th to a time when the Brat Pack ruled the box-office, YOUNG GUNS. John Tunstall (Terence Stamp), a distinguished British gentleman, employs downtrodden youths to tend his herd on the New Mexican frontier. When Tunstall is gunned down by the crooked Lawrence G. Murphy (Jack Palance), a ragtag group of cow hands including Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland), Richard Brewer (Charlie Sheen) and young William “Billy the Kid” Bonney (Emilio Estevez), ride forth in search of bloody vengeance for the death of their beloved mentor. Crime drama with a twist on the 16th, Q & A. When NYPD detective Mike Brennan (Brad Pitt) shoots a Hispanic drug dealer, the case is given to Assistant D.A. Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton). Brennan’s boss says it’s justifiable homicide, but Reilly can’t ignore the growing evidence pointing to murder and an old boys’ network based on ethnic loyalties.

Genres collide on the 17th in LORD OF WAR. Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage), an ambitious gunrunner from New York’s Little Odessa, dodges bullets and betrayal on his way to success. But after reaching the top, he must face his conscience-and the consequences of his criminal life-in this taut thriller co-starring Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, and Bridget Moynahan. This is followed by the political powerhouse of a movie, THE SENTINEL. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a U.S. Secret Service agent who once saved a president’s life by jumping in front of a hail of bullets. He now heads the First Lady’s detail, but deadly secrets begin to unravel his tightly controlled career. A fellow agent and friend, hints at wanting to share critical and confidential information but before he can do so, he is shot dead. Suspicion falls on Garrison, who must clear his name and find out who is framing him. Fans of Jason Statham have a real treat this month starting on the 22nd with CRANK. Ace hitman Chev Chelios (Statham), learns that he has been injected with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops below a certain point. Racing against time and against his own body, Chev must keep keeps his adrenaline cranked up as he tracks down the men responsible and exact his violent revenge. The brutal follow-up CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE is on the 29th.

In CRIMINAL on the 23rd a CIA operative (Ryan Reynolds) dies while traveling to a secret location to meet a hacker who can launch missiles at will. A neurosurgeon implants his memories and skills into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate (Kevin Costner) in a last-ditch effort to stop an international terrorist plot. Based on the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt, PATRIOT’S DAY on the 24th looks at the aftermath, as Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again. Also stars Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons and Michelle Monaghan. We end the month with twisty thriller from Emmy award winning director Stephen Hopkins and the producers of Fight Club, UNDER SUSPICION. A wealthy attorney (Gene Hackman) is questioned about the murders of two girls but is let free over a paucity of conclusive proof. However, his wife gives the police a conflicting version. Morgan Freeman and Monica Bellucci also star in this acclaimed movie.

September 24, 2024September 26, 2024

LEGEND reveals ten action-packed premieres for October

Ten action-packed Channel premieres blast onto LEGEND this October, including Michael Mann’s virtuoso cat-and-mouse thriller HEAT, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, Steven Soderbergh’s cult crime comedy OUT OF SIGHT, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, Adrian Lyne’s erotic thriller UNFAITHFUL, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, David Fincher’s dangerous mystery thriller THE GAME, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn and John Badham’s cop action comedy THE HARD WAY, starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods.

Other primetime channel premieres are action thrillers DAYLIGHT, starring Sylvester Stallone, THE ENFORCER, starring Antonio Banderas and Kate Bosworth, Western THE VIRGINIAN, starring Ron Perlman, dazzling legal thriller RUNAWAY JURY, starring Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, and dark mystery thriller THE BOX, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.

There is also the Channel premiere of Series 3 of the hugely popular THE A-TEAM, weeknights from Monday 14, and the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE continues on weekends with the Channel premiere of Season 3.

Michael J. Fox stars in THE HARD WAY on the 5th as a pampered actor who unexpectedly becomes partnered with a hard-boiled New York City cop – brilliantly played by James Woods. Christina Ricci, Annabella Sciorra, LL Cool J, and Delroy Lindo co-star. We play THE GAME on the 6th where Michael Douglas stars as a man who receives an unusual birthday present: he’s chosen to participate in a live-action game that penetrates all aspects of his life. But when it begins to go out of control – can he escape? Sean Penn co-stars in this thrilling film by visionary director David Fincher. The following Saturday in HEAT a high-level thief, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) rose to the top of his game by being impossible to capture. L.A.P.D. Detective Vince Hanna (Al Pacino) always gets his man…and he wants McCauley. When McCauley plans one last heist. Hanna is at the ready to capture him.

From master storyteller John Grisham comes an electrifying thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz on the 13th, THE RUNAWAY JOURNEY. A jury fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member and a mysterious outsider who both offer to “deliver” the verdict to the highest bidder. Soon, lives and millions of dollars are at stake in this pulse-pounder filled with twists and turns. Forward to the 18th and we get to meet THE ENFORCER. Miami’s top mob enforcer Cuda (Antonio Banderas) sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organisation he’s spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss, Estelle (Kate Bosworth), is putting a young runaway’s life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal. On Saturday the 19th we take you underground looking for DAYLIGHT. Sylvester Stallone plays Chief Kit Latura, a disgraced emergency services worker who is given his chance at redemption when a New York city commuter tunnel begins to collapse. Latura must find a way inside and rescue the trapped commuters before it’s too late. Also stars Viggo Mortensen.

We get UNFAITHFUL on the 20th where Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) plays a middle-aged wife and mother, who has an affair with Paul, a handsome, younger Frenchman Paul (Olivier Martinez). When Connie’s husband, Edward (Richard Gere), becomes suspicious, he hires a private investigator. When his fears are confirmed, Edward confronts Paul in a decision that will come to haunt him. If you want gritty western drama we have the very thing for you on the 22nd, THE VIRGINIAN. OUT OF SIGHT plays in the 26th where career criminal Jack Foley (George Clooney) escapes from prison with his partner (Ving Rhames), the two soon find the US marshals hot on their trail. What Foley doesn’t expect is to fall in love with one of them – Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), a tough, no-nonsense cop. Also stars Albert Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, and Michael Keaton. We spend Halloween in the company of Cameron Diaz as she dares to open THE BOX. The year is 1976. Norma Lewis (Diaz) is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur (James Marsden), is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son… until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep (Frank Langella) and presents them with a life-altering proposition: the box.

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024

LEGEND reveals ten epic premieres for September

Ten epic adventures have their Channel Premieres this September, including the star-studded neo-noir thriller L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, Jim Mickle’s twisty crime thriller COLD IN JULY, John G. Avidsen’s powerful South African drama THE POWER OF ONE, John Amiel’s masterful psychological mystery ENTRAPMENT, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Robert Aldrich’s classic violent Western ULZANA’S RAID starring Burt Lancaster.

Other primetime channel premieres are action thrillers CROSS THE LINE, starring Michelle Barton and Luke Goss, ASSAULT ON STATION 33, starring Weston Cage Coppola (Nicolas Cage’s son), THE HUNTED, starring Christopher Lambert, THE NEGIOTIATOR, starring Samuel L. Jackson and the biographical war film LONE SURVIVOR, starring Mark Wahlberg.

There is also the Channel premiere of Series 2 of the hugely popular THE A-TEAM and the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 3.

We start on the 5th with the gritty western, ULZANA’S RAID. Acclaimed director Robert Aldrich pulls no punches in his unrelentingly brutal story of a reign of terror perpetrated on Arizona settlers by the titular Apache warrior. Burt Lancaster is the laconic Indian scout who leads a young Cavalry officer (Bruce Davison) on a discouraging mission to bring Ulzana to justice. A gritty, violent, and powerful film that challenges typical Western notions of good and bad, re-examining the history of the American West with a fascinatingly revised perspective. Then on the 7th we CROSS THE LINE. When the daughter of veteran 911 call centre operator Pamela (Mischa Barton), and her estranged husband Jeremy (Luke Goss), a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped they have no choice but to follow the kidnapper’s rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, the one thing they do know is if they fail to collaborate with one another – they will be solely responsible for the biggest crime in the city’s history. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives – save the city – or save their daughter.

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, the critically acclaimed drama L. A. CONFIDENTIAL comes to Legend on the 8th. Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito) is a rag-mag mogul who bribes Detective Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) to set up celebrity arrests that he can scoop in his magazine. Millionaire pornographer Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn) runs a high-class operation, and his call girls are plastic surgery enhanced to resemble movie stars. Detective Bud White (Russell Crowe) thinks one of the girls, Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), knows something a mass murder that appears to be mob related, as does Detective Ed Exley (Guy Pearce). As the three detectives set out to solve the crime, both the glamorous and the seedy side of the film industry and Los Angeles surrounds them. ASSAULT ON STATION 33 on the 13th follows decorated veteran and PTSD sufferer, Jason Hill (Sean Patrick Flanery) meets his wife, Jennifer, for lunch at the Veteran’s Affairs hospital where she works. After Jennifer is called away for an emergency consultation with the head of US Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the hospital is taken hostage by heavily armed terrorists. Jason becomes the last line of defence and must battle the terrorists and his own PTSD induced demons to save his wife, the General, the hospital’s staff and patients.

We meet THE HUNTED on the 14th, where New York executive Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is on a business trip in Japan when he meets the stunning, enigmatic Kirina (Joan Chen). They spend the night together in her hotel room, and Racine returns the next day to retrieve his forgotten keys. But once he’s there, he witnesses Kirina’s assassination by Kinjo (John Lone), the leader of a ninja cult. Realizing that Racine has seen everything, Kinjo will do everything in his power to end the executive’s life. More crime drama on the 15th in THE NEGOTIATOR. Danny Roman (Samuel L Jackson), a skilled police negotiator, anxious to clear himself of false accusations, takes a group of people hostage in an office building to gain the time he needs to find the truth. The hostage negotiator, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey) , the Negotiator, comes in to try and defuse the situation and bring Roman in.

COLD IN JULY is another channel premiere on the 21st and asks the question, “How can a split-second decision change your life?” While investigating noises in his house one night in 1989, Richard Dane kills a low-life burglar, Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben arrives, hell-bent on revenge. However, not all is as it seems. Shortly after Dane kills the home intruder, his life begins to unravel into a dark underworld of corruption and violence. Twists and turns continue to pile up as the film reaches its inevitable destination: a gore-soaked dead end. Crime thrills with Sean Connery on the 22nd, ENTRAPMENT. Insurance investigator Virginia “Gin” Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones), looking into a stolen Rembrandt painting, suspects that accomplished thief Robert “Mac” MacDougal (Connery) is responsible. She decides to go undercover and help Mac steal an ancient artifact. When a suspicious Mac confronts Gin about her real intentions, she claims that she is, in fact, a thief and that the insurance job is a cover. To prove it, she proposes a new target that could net them $8 billion. But who is playing who?

Based on The New York Times bestselling book of the same name, LONE SURVIVOR is on the 28th. This is a true story of heroism, courage and survival, as four Navy SEALs go on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan. Faced with an impossible moral decision, the small band is isolated from help and surrounded by a much larger force of Taliban ready for war. As they confront unthinkable odds together, the four men find reserves of strength and resilience as they stay in the fight to the finish. We take you to the 1930s on the 29th, for THE POWER OF ONE. As the people he cares for die or leave his village, young South African P.K. bonds with much older Doc (Armin Mueller-Stahl). A foreigner, Doc is detained when World War II starts, but from his prison cell he encourages P.K. to learn boxing. As he travels to different bouts, the adult P.K. (Stephen Dorff) forges relationships that anger the state’s apartheid government, made more complicated when he meets Maria, a young white South African, and falls in love, only to discover Maria’s father is an Apartheid leader. But its his reunion with his onetime schoolyard nemesis (Daniel Craig) that presents him with his biggest challenge yet.

July 27, 2024August 2, 2024

LEGEND reveals Saturday night slate of premieres for August

Saturday nights on LEGEND in August feature a slate of action thrillers including BUSHWICK, starring Dave Bautista, ARMED RESPONSE, starring Wesley Snipes and NIGHT HUNTER, starring Henry Cavill, Stanley Tucci and Ben Kingsley. Plus, there is epic adventure EDGE OF THE WORLD, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and psychological mystery thriller BACKTRACK, starring Adrian Brody and Sam Neill.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 3.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Residing in the world of fantasy and science fiction, THE TWILIGHT ZONE has become the role model for TV anthologies, brilliantly exploring the foibles of humanity in metaphoric ways unseen in conventional drama. Casts have included Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin and Peter Falk The series were nominated for seven Emmy Awards and four Hugos and won three of each. Season 3 begins August 3rd. On the same day you can catch the channel premiere of BUSHWICK. Lucy (Brittany Snow) discovers her neighborhood, Bushwick, is under attack by black-clad military soldiers. When she is attacked, ex-Marine Stupe (Dave Bautista) intervenes, and the two are thrown together. As America declares war on itself, Lucy and Snow must fight to make it out of Bushwick alive.

Wesley Snipes stars in the channel premiere of ARMED RESPONSE on the 10th. When a team of highly trained operatives find the bloody corpses of a missing team in an isolated military compound, they begin investigating, but find themselves trapped inside. Soon encountering a strange supernatural phenomenon, it becomes clear that the compound itself is a sentient entity, harbouring deadly secrets of its own. The following week on the 17th, an all-star cast line up for NIGHT HUNTER. On the hunt for an elusive serial rapist and murderer, battle-hardened cop Marshall (Henry Cavill) meets vigilante duo Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Lara (Eliana Jones) as they trap online predators. But when Lara is kidnapped, the hunt for the perpetrator leads to deeper mysteries.

We travel to the EDGE OF THE WORLD on the 24th which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Sir James Brook, the English adventurer who fought pirates and slavery to rule a kingdom in the jungles of Borneo in 1840. As he embarks on a lifelong crusade to end head-hunting, he is framed for murder and piracy charges. Also stars Dominic Monoghan. Sylvester Stallone is back on Legend on the 31st in the crime thriller BACKTRACE. After a bank heist goes wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) suffers a brain injury and develops amnesia. After being in a prison psychiatric ward for seven years he is encouraged by an inmate and a ward doctor to escape to be injected with a serum. This forces his memories to return. He tries to recover the stolen money whilst trying not to encounter a detective (Stallone), an FBI agent (Christopher McDonald) plus combat the very dangerous side-effects the drug creates.

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024

Bad Lieutenant heads up Channel premieres on LEGEND this July

Abel Ferra’s brilliant and controversial 70s neo-noir crime thriller BAD LIEUTENANT, featuring a magnetic performance from Harvey Keitel, gets its Channel premiere and heads up a summer season of action thrillers on LEGEND this July.

The exciting line-up includes the UK TV premiere of STAGECOACH: THE TEXAS JACK STORY, a sharp-shooting Canadian western based on the life story of the life story of outlaw Nathaniel Reed.

Other premieres are Lawrence Kasdan’s Western caper SILVERADO, starring Kevin Costner and Kevin Cline, Nick Love’s violent football drama THE FOOTBALL FACTORY, starring Danny Dyer, THE FAMILY (aka Violent City), an Italian / English crime thriller starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland, and badass survival thriller BRAVEN.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 2.

Here’s everything you need to know:

We kick off on the 6th when we visit THE FOOTBALL FACTORY.Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a member of the Chelsea Firm, whose life revolves around booze, drugs and violence, but whose increasing nightmares make him question his choice of life. Shot in documentary style, this film shows a realistic view of football hooliganism. Also stars Neil Maskell. We’ve more action on the 13th where we’ll meet BRAVEN. When Joe Braven (Jason Momoa), a humble logger living along the mountainous U.S./Canada border, is confronted by a group of deadly drug runners. Little do the drug runners know that, aside from fighting for the lives of his family, he has an instinctive love of the kill.

THE FAMILY is one of the most acclaimed action movies of the 70s. After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man (Charles Bronsan) sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it. Directed by Sergio Sollima, this stylish crime thriller also stars Telly Savalas and, which music by Ennio Morricone. One of the most controversial movies of the 80s comes to Legend on the 20th, BAD LIEUTENANT. While investigating the death of a young nun, ‘The Lieutenant’, a corrupt cop (played by Harvey Keitel), tries to change his ways and find forgiveness. He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He’s a gambler, a thief, a junkie, a killer – as well as a cop. Now he’s investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.

We saddle up for wild west adventure on the 24th ready for SILVERADO. Four drifters – Paden (Kevin Kline), Emmett (Scott Glenn), Emmett’s brother Jake (Kevin Costner) and Mal (Danny Glover), arrive in Silverado, a small frontier town, and become unlikely heroes in a battle against a corrupt sheriff (Brian Dennehy) and a formidable gambling salon owner (Linda Hunt). A UK TV premiere is a remake of a classic, STAGECOACH. Nathaniel Reed has left the outlaw life and settled down with a family until a US Marshal with a grudge hatches a revenge plot that forces Reed out of retirement. Reed returns to his criminal ways and becomes known as Texas Jack; one of the most infamous stagecoach robbers in history. Based on a true story.

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024

Summer sizzles on LEGEND this June with a season of hot premieres

Nordic warriors, arch assassins, menacing mercenaries and avenging heroes invade the June schedule on LEGEND, with Channel premieres for William Friedkin’s star-studded military legal drama RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley, Viking Apocalypse fantasy HAMMER OF THE GODS, and muscle-men Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme get to one-up in submarine action thriller BLACK WATER.

Other Channel premieres include sinister survivalist thriller FUGITIVES, black-op thriller MAXIMUM CONVICTION, starring Stephen Seagal, stunningly visual historical action-drama SWORD OF VENGEANCE, Vietnam war thriller P.O.W. THE ESCAPE in which David Carradine is a one-man killing machine, and gritty assassin thriller AGE OF KILL, starring Martin Kemp. Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran.

Also, the cult fantasy / science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 2.

We start on the 1st with FUGITIVES which was inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives. Directed by Shane Dax Taylor and starring Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang and Tricia Helfer. Then on the 7th in HAMMER OF THE GODS a young man transforms into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long-lost brother, Hakan the Ferocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom. A UK production, directed by Farren Blackburn and starring James Cosmo and Charlie Bewley. The following evening in MAXIMUM CONVICTION Tom Steele (Steven Seagal) is an operations genius. Manning (Steve Austin) is a weapons expert. Their next assignment is to safely deliver two female convicts to a top-secret military prison. But once the women have been incarcerated a squadron of ruthless, violent mercenaries targets them, intent on gaining high-risk information that could be lethal in the wrong hands. It’s now up to Steele and Manning to protect them at any cost.

SWORD OF VENGEANCE on the 14th is set where after years of slavery, a Norman Prince returns to the lost lands to seek revenge on his father’s murderer: his uncle, the ruthless Earl Durant. He gains the trust of a band of exiled farmers and leads them into battle against the Earl, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for revenge. Can there be any redemption for his deep-rooted rage and hatred, or has he lost his soul to vengeance? A British-Serbian production directed by Jim Weedon. The next night in P.O.W. THE ESCAPE, Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong. Directed by Gideon Amir and starring David Carradine. A star-studded Channel premiere on the 22nd in RULES OF ENGAGEMENT. Col. Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. But now, the country he served so well has put him on trial for a rescue mission that went terribly wrong. For his attorney, he has chosen Marine Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a comrade-in-arms who owes his life to Childers. Bound by duty and friendship, Hodges reluctantly takes the case, even as he begins to doubt the man who saved his life in Vietnam three decades ago.

Jumping to the 27th and AGE OF KILL Sam Blake (Martin Kemp) is running out of time. Living in the shadow of a botched mission that claimed an innocent victim, the disgraced special ops sniper is plunged into a world of darkness when his daughter is taken hostage by a mysterious terrorist. Out of options and with no one to turn to, Blake is forced to carry out their evil bidding and must assassinate six seemingly random targets within six hours on the streets of London. With his old unit closing in and his daughter at the mercy of a psychopath, every second counts. Our last Channel premiere is on the 29th, BLACK WATER. Suspected of attempting to sell information about CIA operatives around the world. legendary CIA agent Scott Wheeler (Jean Claude Van Damme) is imprisoned aboard a high-security navy submarine. Wheeler is interrogated before seizing his chance to escape his captors. Trapped on the ship and under ?re, Wheeler must befriend rookie agent Cassie (Jasmine Waltz) and German special forces operative Marco (Dolph Lundgren) in order to get off the ship alive.

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024

Crime and sci-fi adventures headline May 2024 premieres on LEGEND

Crime dramas, action thrillers and sci-fi adventures headline the May line-up on LEGEND, with UK TV premieres for prison drama A VIOLENT MAN, starring an outstanding Craig Fairbrass and UNCHAINED, a riveting crime thriller starring Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas and John Malkovich.

Channel premieres include two Dominic Cooper thrillers, STRATTON and THE ESCAPIST, which also stars Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes. Then there’s hard-hitting Brit gangster drama WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY, and superior sci-fi drama THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, starring Ashton Kutcher.

Plus, there are first time showings for the star-studded LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN, with Josh Harnett, Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman, the all-action sci-fi thriller DOUBLE TEAM, which teams Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mickey Rourke, and Italian WW2 film COMMANDOS, starring Lee Van Cleef.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday nights with Season 2.

Here’s all you need to know:

A case of mistaken identity on the 3rd with LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN where Slevin Kelevra (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of New York City’s most rival crime bosses, ‘The Boss’ (Morgan Freeman) and ‘The Rabbi’ (Ben Kingsley). Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) and assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis), Slevin must get them before they get him. THE ESCAPIST on the 4th is set fourteen years into the life sentence of convict Frank Perry (Brian Cox) who plans to escape from prison after learning his estranged daughter has fallen ill. He develops an ingenious escape plan and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists – misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Also stars Dominic Cooper and Joseph Fiennes. Then we have paranormal drama on the 9th you have the chance to experience THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has lost crucial moments of his life, his childhood scarred by a series of terrifying events he can’t remember. When Evan realises that by reading his diaries, he can unlock the past and go back in time, he tries to reclaim the missing memories by tampering with the past… with unexpected and disastrous results.

Fast-paced action and adventure on the 11th in STRATTON. Stratton (Dominic Cooper) is a dedicated SBS operative working alongside MI5. After losing his American counterpart on a mission, Stratton meets Sumner (Connie Nielsen) from MI6, who happens to have a past with Barofski, the terrorist he was targeting. Sumner deploys a team to capture him, and it becomes a race against time for the team to track down Barofski before he unleashes terror on London. A true classic on the 17th in COMMANDOS which is set during World War II, where an Italian American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind enemy lines in North Africa. Stars Lee Van Cleef and Jack K. Friday the 17th contains a hard-hitting UK TV premiere, A VIOLENT MAN. The life of a violent and institutionalised prisoner (Craig Fairbrass) is turned upside down when his estranged daughter Claire (Zoe Tapper,) requests to meet him and Marcus (Stephen Odubola), a 19-year-old serving his first sentence, becomes his new cellmate.

Another UK TV premiere is happening on the 18th, UNCHAINED. When an attempted robbery goes wrong, three career criminals (Brody, Malkovich and Culkin) make a run for it, hiding out in an abandoned industrial building. The group are terrified to discover the bloodied presence of De Niro, an attack dog who’s been abandoned by his owner, gangster Blue (Antonio Banderas). Trying to keep their distance from this new threat, and with the law closing in, the group start fighting for their lives. WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY on the 24th is a contemporary take on a classic plot. When his brother is brutally murdered at the hands of a sadistic mob of youths, expat Richie (Ian Ogilvy) is forced to trade the sun-kissed calm of Spain for the savage streets of London and return to his gangster roots on a violent quest for vengeance. With the odds towering against him alone, Richie must reunite with his old firm and prepare for battle in their biggest face-off yet. Our final channel premiere is on the 25th, DOUBLE TEAM. Top counterterrorist, Jack Quinn (Claude Van Damme) wants to get out of the spy game. But on the eve of his final mission, he misses his target and loses everything in a split-second. Now, his wife and unborn son have become the target of terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke). Quinn must turn to the one man who can put him back in the game – weapons specialist Yaz (Dennis Rodman).