M-Net's M-Net Movies channel division is creating another pop-up channel, this time a M-Net Movies Marvel Studios pop-up channel that will run for 10 days in April for DStv Premium subscribers.
The M-Net Movies Marvel Studios pop-up channel will start on Friday 13 April on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform on DStv channel 109, and will run until Sunday 22 April, showing 15 Marvel action hero films and some other content, in the lead-up to Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War movie being released in cinemas.
The M-Net Movies Marvel Studios pop-up channel will run from 06:00 to midnight daily.
Each day of the week a film from the Marvel action hero franchise, which has overlapping storylines, will be shown in chronological order.
Starting with 2008’s Iron Man, DStv subscribers can revisit the stories of the heroes all the way through to Spider-Man: Homecoming, which will close the channel on Sunday 22 April.
"This channel is a special treat for the legions of Marvel fans - both old and new - who have enjoyed the live-action exploits of favourite Marvel Superheroes in films that express the unique vision and creativity of their filmmakers, and deliver thrilling action and visual spectacles with relatable characters," says Lani Lombard, M-Net's head of publicity.
"The timing of our M-Net Movies Marvels Studios pop-up channel is also absolutely perfect with the franchise currently creating an incredible buzz worldwide."
The release of the recent Black Panther became the biggest film of all time in East, West and South Africa, showing that
Marvel Studios is at the forefront of the comic-book-turned-action-pop-culture
phenomenon.
While the M-Net Movies Marvel pop-up channel will give DStv viewers
the opportunity to enjoy more gems of the franchise, which has been ten years
in the making, it also serves as a lead-up to the new Avengers:
Infinity War which hits South African cinemas on Friday 27 April
2018.
On top of the 15 feature films there will also be programming linked to the behind the scenes of the
movies, such as: United We Stand, Divided We Fall; The
Making of Captain America: Civil War; Guide to The Galaxy with James Gunn and
more.
Additionally, avid fans of the blockbuster
franchise will be treated to a range of documentaries offering incredible
insight into the history of Marvel.
These include: Marvel 75 Years From
Pulp to Pop; From Asgard To Earth (Thor); Marvel's Captain America:
75 Heroic Years; Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of Iron Man 2 Rebuilding the
Suit, and Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe.
The 15 Marvel Studios blockbusters on the M-Net Movies Marvel Studios pop-up channel are:
Iron Man (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
