COLLIDING PLANETS AND KILLER VOLCANOS SPARK JANUARY SYFY SATURDAY ORIGINAL MOVIES

NEW YORK - January 4, 2012 - Just in time for 2012, Syfy will kick off the New Year by threatening the end of all life on Earth with the Saturday Original Movies Swamp Volcano, starring Rachel Hunter (The Benchwarmers) and Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings), and Collision Earth, starring Kirk Acevedo (Fringe) and Diane Farr (Californication).

In Collision Earth, premiering Saturday, January 14 at 9PM (ET/PT), a solar flare knocks Mercury out of its orbit and onto a collision course with Earth. With global devastation quickly approaching, the secret military initiative, "Project 7," must be activated to save the world from disaster. The movie is a production of Cinetel Films.

In Swamp Volcano, premiering Saturday, January 28 at 9PM (ET/PT), oil rig drillers in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally hit an underground lava flow, causing a massive volcano to form in Miami. Now a volcanologist and her sister attempt to blow the whistle on an illegal oil drilling scheme before it sets off the eruption that will destroy civilization. Swamp Volcano is a production of Bullet Films.

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