By James Whittington, 17th December 2024
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.
Related show tags: THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE A-TEAM, T.J. HOOKER, LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES, BULLET TO THE HEAD, WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY, THE WILD GEESE, LOOPER, DEEPWATER HORIZON, DEADLY TARGET, EMPIRE STATE, WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, THE HITMAN'S APPRENTICE, ESCAPE PLAN MORE FEATURES RAMBO, ZORRO and CONAN join LEGEND schedule for September Posted on 21st August 2025
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