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Welcome to the beautiful month of July! We are featuring a fabulous Canada Day Marathon on our nation’s birthday, including the premier of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Canada’s top box office-grossing-film of all time (July 1, 9pm). Get ready for a Rocky-Thon, July 2-4! And tune in again to get the ‘eye of the tiger’ by checking out all, yes all, the Rocky movies back-to-back, in a glorious, training montage-filled marathon on July 31st! Not enough for you? Check out Canadian funny man Eugene Levy, whose outstanding career somehow continues to reinvent itself south of the border! The Eugene Levy Spotlight takes place on July 17, and includes premiers of American Pie and American Pie 2! Did I ever tell you about that one time at band camp? Finally, don’t miss our Fame retrospective, Fame: Then And Now, where MPix shows the classic 1980 film Fame (the one you know and love), and our brother station TMN shows the 2009 remake in the following time slot.
Canada Day Marathon July 1st!
Join us for a full day of popular Canadian films, on Canada’s Birthday! Happy Birthday, Canada!
11:40am Bye Bye Blues
1:45 pm The Red Violin
4pm Hollywood North
5:30pm Waydowntown
7pm Bollywood/Hollywood
9pm Bon Cop, Bad Cop (premier)
Rocky-Thon July 2nd to July 4th!
If these movies don’t make you want to run, punch, lift, and live every moment to the fullest, then you may want to check yourself for a pulse. Make sure also to tune in for Amerika Idol, a whimsical documentary look at a small town that deeply venerates Rocky.
July 2nd!
8:10pm Amerika Idol (Rocky documentary – premier)
9pm Rocky (Academy Award Winning Film - premier)
11pm: Rocky II (premier)
July 3rd!
9pm Rocky III (premier)
10:45 pm Rocky IV (premier)
July 4th!
9pm Rocky V (premier)
10:50pm Rocky Balboa (premier)
July 31st!
A full day of Rocky starting at 7:30am!
Eugene Levy Spotlight July 17th!
An SCTV alumnus Eugene Levy continues to impress the world with his tireless comedic genius! Join MPix in celebrating the gifted Canadian actor in a three-film spotlight!
7:20pm A Mighty Wind
9pm American Pie (premier)
10:40pm American Pie 2 (premier)
Fame: Then And Now! July 31st
Join us on MPix for a look at two-time Academy Award Winner Fame! Check out your old favourites like Irene Cara as Coco, and Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy! Check out the remake on TMN at 9pm, with Debbie Allen! Also includes Cheers alums Bebe Neuwirth and Kelsey Grammer, to say nothing of the irrepressible Megan Mullaly!
6:45pm Fame (Mpix)
9pm Fame (2009 remake – TMN)
You got big dreams? You want fame? Well right here is where you can watch Fame! Tune in to MPIX!
Viewer’s Pick for July 2010!
Mpix thanks Loren, of Ottawa, Ontario for her excellent choice for her July! Loren chose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the incredible Ang Lee directed Chinese language wuxia epic, which garnered the following awards:
2001 4X Academy Award Winner (with 6 additional nominations, including Best Director, and Best Film):
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Timmy Yip (art director)
Best Cinematography: Peter Pau
Best Foreign Language Film: Taiwan
Best Music, Original Score: Tan Dun
Martial arts actors and authorities appear to agree that with this film director Ang Lee advanced the genre to a level of unprecedented mainstream acceptability.
Have a great July and thanks for tuning in to MPix!
RJD
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