Calling All Law Enforcement Professionals: Iridium Satellite Holds Sweepstakes for Tickets to Miami Vice Movie Premiere and After-Party in Los Angeles

Calling All Law Enforcement Professionals: Iridium Satellite Holds Sweepstakes for Tickets to Miami Vice Movie Premiere and After-Party in Los Angeles

BETHESDA, Md., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- One lucky police officer and companion will share the limelight as winners of the Iridium Satellite / Miami Vice sweepstakes, offering a grand prize trip for two to Los Angeles, Ca. to attend the exclusive premiere and after-party of Miami Vice, the movie, starring Academy Award(R) winner Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.

"It's our way of saying thank you to the men and women of law enforcement, and a chance for Iridium to give a little something back to those police officers who do so much to keep us all safe and secure every day," said Greg Ewert, executive vice president, Iridium Satellite.

Iridium Satellite supplied the true-to-life mobile satellite communications equipment for Miami Vice, in theaters July 28th, and has teamed up with Universal Pictures to offer one officer and a companion a chance to rub shoulders with Hollywood's elite.

The sweepstakes drawing will be held on July 10 and the winners notified by July 11.

All officers who serve as federal, state or local law enforcement officials in the U.S. are eligible to win the prize by visiting the Iridium website at http://www.iridium.com/miamivice. Contestants simply enter a name, affiliated department or organization, badge number, work phone number and e- mail address. There is no purchase necessary to win, and complete sweepstakes rules are available on the Web site.

About The Film

The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice.

Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award(R) winner Jamie Foxx of Ray, Jarhead) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, played by British actress Naomie Harris (28 Days Later, upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean II and III), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders.

Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell of S.W.A.T., The New World) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until -- while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group -- he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Isabella is played by the Chinese actress Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha).

The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one -- especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Miami Vice, as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover ... especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don't count ...

Miami Vice stars Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris and Ciaran Hinds and is written and directed by Michael Mann, who also produces along with Pieter Jan Brugge; Anthony Yerkovich serves as executive producer.

About Iridium Satellite

Iridium Satellite LLC (http://www.iridium.com/) is the only provider of truly global satellite voice and data solutions with complete coverage of the earth (including oceans, airways and Polar Regions). Iridium delivers essential communications services to and from remote areas where no other form of communication is available. The Iridium constellation consists of 66 low- earth orbiting (LEO), cross-linked satellites and has multiple in-orbit spares. The constellation operates as a fully meshed network and is the largest commercial satellite constellation in the world. The Iridium service is ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation and utilities. Iridium provides service to the U.S. Department of Defense. The company also designs, builds and sells its services, products and solutions through a worldwide network of more than 100 partners.

About Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios (http://www.universalstudios.com/). Universal Studios is part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80%-owned by General Electric, with 20% controlled by Vivendi.

Source: Iridium Satellite LLC

CONTACT: Liz DeCastro of Iridium Satellite LLC, +1-301-571-6257,
liz.decastro@iridium.com; or Jim Rhodes of Rhodes Communications,
+1-757-451-0602, jrhodes@rhodescomm.com, for Iridium Satellite LLC

Web site: http://www.iridium.com/
http://www.universalstudios.com/

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