Sky Movies Disney celebrates 1st Birthday
Sky Movies Disney, the home of new and classic Disney movies, today (Friday 28 March 2014) celebrates its 1st birthday. Launched a year ago today, the magical channel offers Sky Movies customers an unbeatable range of Disney titles – including animated classics, live action adventures, Disney·Pixar favourites and the latest blockbusters – with flexibility over where, when and how they choose to enjoy them.
This weekend, Sky Movies Disney celebrates its 1st birthday with the UK television premieres of Monsters University and Planes, along with Disney’s Greatest Moments (1x 90’), a retrospective celebration charting the top 30 moments of Disney movies as voted by the public. Featuring commentary from the creators, stars and celebrity fans of the most magical Disney moments including Jeremy Irons, Tom Hanks, Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Ashley Jensen, Richard E Grant and Jonathan Ross, Disney’s Greatest Moments (1x 90’) is a Sky Movies production.
To mark the channel’s first birthday, Sky Movies hosted a party for a group of babies who share their birth year with the channel. Dressed as Disney characters from Monsters University, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and Toy Story of Terror! – all of which are available on Sky Movies Disney this weekend – the one year olds enjoyed a giant birthday cake created by London cake and cupcake specialist Crumbs & Doilies.
Suggested credit: To mark Sky Movies Disney’s first birthday, a group of babies who share their birth year with the channel celebrate dressed as characters from movies available on Sky Movies Disney now including Monsters University, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Toy Story of Terror!
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Megan MacLeod - Publicist, Sky Movies HD, Sky Atlantic HD
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About Sky Movies
Sky Movies is Europe's largest in-home movie service providing a fantastic range of movies to its customers. At any time, Sky Movies subscribers can choose from hundreds of subscription movies, including recent blockbusters and classics from major Hollywood studios to independents.
Offering a choice of recent and quality titles, from cult indie cinema to the biggest blockbusters and hundreds of titles in HD every month, Sky Movies gives customers flexibility over what they watch, when and how – on the set-top box, on Sky’s comprehensive TV On Demand service and on Sky Go, the award-winning multi-platform TV service. Sky Movies is also available on NOW TV - the new internet TV service powered by Sky –as well as a range of other platforms including Virgin Media, UPC and TalkTalk.
Sky Movies provides viewers with a range of more than 700 titles to choose from On Demand, and up to 5 new Sky Movies premieres added to the service every week - at least a year before they appear on any other TV or streaming subscription service. The service offers customers access to around three-quarters of the year’s top 100 UK box office movies.
As part of your subscription, Sky Movies is available On Demand which gives customers access to hundreds of additional movies via a broadband connection directly to an enabled Sky+HD box. Sky Movies can also be watched on the move on your laptop, iPad, phone or selected Android smartphones with Sky Go. A host of benefits are available to Sky Movies customers including free tickets to preview screenings across the UK.
The Sky Movies App enables customers to browse movies currently showing on Sky as well as what’s on at the cinema, remote record movies to your Sky+HD and watch titles via Sky Go.
For more information visit www.skymovies.com or www.sky.com
About The Walt Disney Company Ltd
The Walt Disney Company Ltd has operated in the UK and Ireland for more than 70 years and currently employs over 3,000 people, and is dedicated to creating innovative, entertainment experiences for children and families. Disney’s magic is experienced in numerous ways including on a range of Disney branded channels, in Disney Stores, on stage with “The Lion King” and in cinemas and retail outlets all across the UK and Ireland. In 2008, Disney announced its partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity focused on raising £10 million towards the hospital’s redevelopment appeal. The Disney Appeal works across all of the Disney businesses to raise funds and provide unique and memorable experiences for patients and their families.
About Crumbs & Doilies
Crumbs & Doilies is a specialist bakery offering bespoke and ready-to-order cakes and cupcakes for commercial and private clients in and around London. Some of C&D's previous projects have included a 10,000-cupcake cherry blossom mosaic and the bakery was recently voted maker of the "Best Birthday Cake in London" by the Financial Times. Over 50kg of icing was used in the production of the Sky Movies Disney 1st Birthday cake, which stood just over 4.5 feet in height.
For more information visit www.crumbsanddoilies.co.uk
