Premiere weekend on M-Net Movies: The Smurfs, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and more…

The new M-Net Movies Premiere channel features four new blockbusters each Friday at 5:30pm WAT, with the biggest blockbuster on Sundays at 7:30pm WAT (shared with sister channel M-Net at 9pm WAT).

IN DETAILS …

FRIDAY NIGHT PREMIERES

THE SMURFS MOVIE
Friday 12 October at 5:30pm
Directed by Raja Gosnell. Starring the voices of Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Hank Azaria (2011)

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they’re forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York’s Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?
Friday 12 October at 7:30pm
Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor (2011)

A woman looks back at the past twenty men she’s had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.

ALL GOOD THINGS
Friday 12 October at 9:30pm
Directed by Andrew Jarecki. Starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella (2010)

Mr. David Marks was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Katie who disappeared in 1982, but the truth is eventually revealed.

                                                                                         SUNDAY NIGHT PREMIERES

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Sunday 14 October at 7:30pm (M-Net at 9pm)
Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Starring James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto (2011)

A substance designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp, Caesar, who leads an ape uprising against all of humankind.