Starz Free Preview & Contests on DirecTV

The free preview will highlight 12 channels in the Starz Super Pack including Starz East, Starz West, Starz InBlack, Starz Edge, Encore East, Encore West, Encore Love, Encore Westerns, Encore Mystery, Encore Wam, Encore Drama and Encore Action.

“The Starz Super Pack has a comprehensive movie offering and we are thrilled to give our customers a free weekend to enjoy and sample the great films,� said Dan Ferguson, director, marketing, DIRECTV. “The Starz Super Pack is a perfect product for movie lovers and the ‘The Starz Walk with Santa Sweepstakes’ will provide early holiday presents for lucky DIRECTV subscribers.�

“The Starz Super Pack consistently provides the best movie value on DIRECTV with an unparalleled library of hundreds of movies each month for the whole family,� added Tom Wenzel, director of affiliate sales with Starz Entertainment. The free preview weekend introduces DIRECTV customers to big Hollywood blockbusters available exclusively on Starz including Chicken Little, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Flightplan and Zathura: A Space Adventure. Movies coming to Starz later in 2006 include Memoirs of a Geisha, Glory Road, Eight Below, Freedomland, Fun with Dick and Jane and more.

“The Starz Walk with Santa Sweepstakes� begins at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Saturday, Sept. 9 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET Friday, Sept. 22. The sweepstakes is open to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older as of the promotion period start date. To enter the sweepstakes go to http://www.directv.com/starz during the promotion period, click on “The Starz Walk with Santa Sweepstakes� banner, complete the entry form and click the submit button. The limit is one entry per person per day. Eligible entrants will have a chance to win:

• One (1) grand-prize: trip for two to Los Angeles, Calif. with two admissions to the premiere of the movie The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Included in the trip is transportation to/from Los Angeles; two (2) nights hotel accommodations (double occupancy); two (2) admissions to the Oct. 29, 2006 premiere of the Disney Pictures’ The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause at El Capitan Theater; private car service to/from hotel/airport; use of a limousine for one 5-hour period of time Oct. 29; and $500.
• Or one-hundred fifty (150) first prizes: A The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause gift pack.

Holiday magic mixes with comical chaos at the North Pole in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Tim Allen reprises his role of Scott Calvin – a.k.a. Santa – as he juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost (Martin Short), who is trying take over the “big guy’s� holiday. At the risk of giving away the secret location of the North Pole, Scott invites his in-laws (Ann-Margret and Alan Arkin) to share in the holiday festivities, and upcoming birth of baby Claus with expectant wife, Carol – a.k.a. Mrs. Claus (Elizabeth Mitchell).

Along for the adventure are Scott’s extended family, son Charlie (Eric Lloyd), ex-wife Laura Miller (Wendy Crewson), her husband, Neil Miller (Judge Reinhold) and their daughter, Lucy (Liliana Mumy) who, together with head elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin), foil Jack Frost’s crafty scheme to control the North Pole.