ALIENS INVADE EARTH IN SYFY ORIGINAL MOVIE "INDEPENDENCE DAY-SASTER" PREMIERING THURSDAY, JUNE 27 AT 9PM

NEW YORK - May 28, 2013 - A pair of unlikely heroes are all that stand between Earth and extinction in the newest Syfy Original Movie Independence Day-Saster, premiering in a special time period Thursday, June 27 at 9PM (ET/PT).

In Independence Day-Saster, an alien invasion cripples America's conventional defense forces. When the President's helicopter is shot down, his brother (a small-town hero) and a renegade scientist must find the aliens' weakness and defeat them.

Independence Day-Saster stars Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3), Tom Everett Scott (Southland), Emily Holmes (Snakes on a Plane) and Andrea Brooks (Supernatural). Independence Day-Saster is a production of Cinetel Films.

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