The SCI FI original movie, MAMMOTH, premieres Saturday, April 22, 2006, at 9:00 pm. The movie replays April 22 at 1:00 am and April 27 at 9:00 pm.
When a meteor smashes into the Pleistocene museum, the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000-year-old mammoth is unleashed on a small country town. Under orders to contain the threat that possesses the mammoth at all costs, Special Agents Powers (Leila Arcieri) and Whitaker (Marcus Brown) are given 17 hours to kill the mammoth or the entire town will be decimated. They recruit local paleontologist, Dr. Frank Abernathy (Vincent Ventresca), to help them hunt the creature down before its rampage of death and destruction gets to the outside world. With the clock ticking and the body count rising, the only chance Dr. Abernathy has of saving his daughter (Summer Glau) and B-movie fanatic father (Tom Skerritt) is to help the agents destroy his life's work.
MAMMOTH credits include:* Creature Design: Veneiin Dinkov* Visual effects supervisor: Armen Kevorkian* Produced by Tavin Martin Titus & Richard Titus* Story by Don Guarisco* Written by Sean Keller, Tim Cox & Brooke Durham* Directed by Tim Cox* Co-producer: Jeff Steele* Original music by John Dickson* Edited by Carsten Becker* Production design: Cynthia Slagter & Lucy Leary* Director of photography: Viv Dragon Vasile* Exec producers: Chris A. Dantin, James R. Lewis & Tim Cox
SCI FI's original movie franchise is the channel's homage to the drive-in, a re-imagination of cinema's earliest sci-fi treats. Like the classic sci-fi fare of yore, these films over escapist fun while simultaneously challenging the imagination. The channel will supercharge Saturdays in 2006 with an unprecedented 28 original action movies, up from 2005's slate of 23.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic website (www.scifi.com) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 84 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
