Comcast Launches On Demand Movie Event: Xfinity FreePass Latino
Xfinity TV Customers Get Two-Week, All-Access Pass to More Than 7,000
Hours of Programming in Spanish and English from STARZ Network,
Pantelion Films and More
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast today announced the launch of Xfinity FreePass Latino, a two
week, all-access pass to a bicultural content collection of more than
7,000 hours of content, including films, TV series, and music videos in
Spanish and English from networks like STARZ Network, Cine Sony
Television, Viendomovies, Music Choice, and Lionsgate’s joint venture
Pantelion Films.
Xfinity FreePass Latino takes place now through October 9 and will be
available at no additional cost to all Xfinity TV customers. The content
can be accessed on Xfinity On Demand, Xfinity.com/Latino
and on the Xfinity TV app and portal.
The bicultural collection features:
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Hundreds of recent and classic films from Cinema Dinamita, Cine
Latino, Cine Mexicano, and DePelicula. -
High profile titles like the highest-grossing Spanish-language
film of all time, Instructions Not Included, as well as Ladrones,
starring telenovela superstars Fernando Colunga and Eduardo Yañez, and
Casa de Mi Padre, featuring Gael Garcia Bernal and Will Ferrell. -
Kids programming including La Isla del Faro and Los
Happets from Vme Kids. -
Early access to the premieres of new series before they air
live, including NBC Universo’s The Riveras, a celeb-reality
series, and Azteca America’s Rabia, a drama series produced in
Spain. -
Catch up on cult favorites like From Dusk Till Dawn: The
Series, from El Rey based on the movie by Robert Rodriguez, and
Discovery en Español’s original series Texas Trocas, an
original series from Discovery en Español that follows the Mendez
family as they build their custom truck building empire. -
Music videos and original music programming from Music Choice
featuring the hottest Latino artists including Jencarlos Canela, Sofia
Carson, Gente de Zona, Zion and Lennox, and Chino y Nacho.
“We have more content than ever as part of this promotion and are hoping
to broaden the appeal of FreePass Latino to even more bicultural and
multigenerational Latino families,” said Javier Garcia, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Multicultural Services for Comcast Cable.
“We have it all, from an unprecedented bicultural collection of the
movie content they want most and more entertainment choices in their
language of preference to early access to premieres of TV shows before
they air live and the latest blockbusters available in Spanish through
the SAP feed.”
During FreePass Latino, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform will provide
Latino customers an immersive bicultural viewing experience complete
with an easy to navigate programming guide in their language of choice,
one touch access to turn the SAP feed on or off and the ability to speak
into the Voice Remote Control, which now recognizes commands in both
English and Spanish. These features empower Comcast’s Latino customers
to easily find and discover more of the programming that matters to
them, including hundreds of movies from STARZ, STARZ Encore, and
STARZ ENCORE ESPAÑOL as well as rental titles from Pantelion
Films available for the first time at no additional cost during
FreePass Latino.
The partnership with STARZ will allow customers to experience all of its
Spanish language programming for free during the two-week event, while
offering ungated access to STARZ ENCORE ESPAÑOL’s on demand features.
High profile movies in Spanish from STARZ include Ant Man, Spiderman
3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Good Dinosaur, and Inside Out.
Additionally, STARZ will make available complete seasons of popular
series Power and Black Sails, as well as Ash vs. Evil
Dead leading up to its season 2 premiere on October 2, 2016.
Xfinity FreePass Latino was formerly known as Free View Latino.
For more details on Xfinity FreePass Latino,including the full
programming list, please visit Xfinity.com/Latino
to browse through the thousands of hours of content available and check
the Xfinity Latino Entertainment Channel daily for recommendations on
what to watch, or join the conversation on www.facebook.com/XfinityLatino
and https://twitter.com/XfinityLatino
using hashtag #QNoTeLoCuenten. Content availability may vary across
platforms. For more information on the Xfinity Latino Entertainment
channel, Multilatino packages and Xfinity On Demand, please visit www.comcast.com/Espanol.
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and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and
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Contacts
Comcast
Jeannette Castaneda
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M:
267-582-9347
Jeannette_castaneda@comcast.com