Cops Investigated in Encore's Original Special 'Shooting The Police: Cops On Film'

Cops Investigated in Encore's Original Special 'Shooting The Police: Cops On Film'

From 'Dragnet' to 'Die Hard' & Beyond - Special Kicks Off Encore's 'Summer Heat: 31 Days of Cop Movies'

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Encore examines the origin, popularity and phenomena of cop films in "Shooting the Police: Cops on Film," an original half-hour special premiering July 1 at 8:00 p.m., and throughout the month. The special was produced by Encore, as part of the promotion for "Summer Heat: 31 Days of Cop Movies," a month-long festival of cop films every night at 8:00 p.m., all month in July.

"Shooting the Police: Cops on Film" explores the transformation of the cop/hero from '50s squeaky clean/by the book image -- to today's darker hero/antihero, with more gray areas than black and white. Replacing the Western "good guy" of Hollywood's Golden Era, the modern cop film with its seamier lawman, has scored a larger commercial appeal with mainstream audiences.

Filmmakers such as Larry Cohen ("Phonebooth," "Maniac Cop"), Carl Franklin ("One False Move," "Out of Time"), Steven de Sousa ("Die Hard," "48 Hours"), Irvin Kershner ("RoboCop 2," "Naked City") and others discuss the different types of cop films that have defined and advanced the genre. They will break down the concepts of the lone cop, the buddy-cop, the science fiction cop film, and the real-life cop films and the realism behind them. The special delves into these categories through use of clips from cop films such as "Die Hard," "Supercop," "Heat," "Nighthawks," "Copycat," "Rush Hour," "Hostage," "RoboCop," "Dragnet," "The Corruptor" and others.

"The cop film has always been a crowd pleaser, thrilling movie fans all over the world," says Michael Ruggiero, vice president of programming and scheduling for Encore and the special's executive producer. "Although the genre has taken on many new forms through the years, the films continue to evolve and excite."

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG) is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. SEG offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 14.6 million and 26.4 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment Group airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand and Vongo(SM). Starz Entertainment Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation that is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, www.starz.com.

Contacts: Steve Belgard/SEG Jonathan Taylor/The Lippin Group
(720) 852-5843 (323) 965-1990
steve.belgard@starz.comjtaylor@lippingroup.com

"Summer Heat: 31 Days of Cop Films" on Encore

The summer gets really hot every night at 8:00 p.m. on Encore, with a month full of action-packed cop films, plus the original promotional special "Shooting the Police: Cops on Film"

* "Shooting the Police: Cops on Film" -- 7/1 -- Original Promotional
Special, followed by "Heat" at 8:30 p.m.
* "Die Hard With a Vengeance" -- 7/2 (Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons,
Samuel L. Jackson)
* "Nighthawks" -- 7/3 (Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams,
Rutger Hauer)
* "RoboCop" -- 7/4 (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn)
* "RoboCop 2" -- 7/5 (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn)
* "RoboCop 3" -- 7/6 (Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn)
* "Die Hard" -- 7/7 (Bruce Willis, Allan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia)
* "Rush Hour" -- 7/8 (Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson)
* "Hostage" -- 7/9 (Bruce Willis, Jonathan Tucker, Serena Scott Thomas)
* "Runaway" -- 7/10 (Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons)
* "K-9" -- 7/11 (James Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe)
* "The Big Easy" -- 7/12 (Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty)
* "The Corruptor" -- 7/13 (Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg, Brian Cox)
* "RoboCop 2" -- 7/14 (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn)
* "Point Break" -- 7/15 (Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey)
* "Heat" -- 7/16 (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer)
* "Shooting the Police" -- 7/17
* "Die Hard With a Vengeance" -- 7/17 (Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons,
Samuel L. Jackson)
* "L.A. Heat" -- 7/18 (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jim Brown, Kevin Benton)
* "Nighthawks" -- 7/19 (Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams,
Rutger Hauer)
* "Judge Dredd" -- 7/20 (Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane)
* "Copycat" -- 7/21 (Holly Hunter, Sigourney Weaver, Dermot Mulroney)
* "Die Hard" -- 7/22 (Bruce Willis, Allan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia)
* "Fair Game" -- 7/23 (Cindy Crawford, William Baldwin, Salma Hayek)
* "Dragnet" -- 7/24 (Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer)
* "Final Payback" -- 7/25 (Richard Grieco, Laura Elena Harring,
Martin Kove)
* "Shooting the Police" -- 7/26
* "Alien Nation" -- 7/26 (James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp)
* "Loose Canons" -- 7/27 (Gene Hackman, Day Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise)
* "Hostage" -- 7/28 (Bruce Willis, Jonathan Tucker, Serena Scott Thomas)
* "Demolition Man" -- 7/29 (Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes,
Sandra Bullock)
* "Rush Hour" -- 7/30 (Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson)
* "Supercop" -- 7/31 (Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung)

Source: Starz Entertainment Group LLC

CONTACT: Steve Belgard of Starz Entertainment Group LLC,
+1-720-852-5843, steve.belgard@starz.com; or Jonathan Taylor of The Lippin
Group, +1-323-965-1990, jtaylor@lippingroup.com, for Starz Entertainment Group
LLC

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