HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/09 -- RCN announced today that it will carry Sundance Channel's cable exclusive video-on-demand preview of the new season of its late-night destination Asia Extreme™, now through August 31. This special preview is being offered in advance of the season's on-air premiere on Sunday, September 6.

RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) is a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, in Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley, PA, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Washington D.C, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers.

Sundance Channel's Asia Extreme showcases cutting-edge genre films -- horror, crime drama, fantasy, action/thrillers, and more -- from leading filmmakers in Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan.

"We recently launched our World Wide Lens series to bring deserving independent films to our platform so this Asia Extreme preview will appeal to fans across the genre," said RCN's Strategic External Affairs & Programming Senior Vice President Richard Ramlall. "These are good-quality films, including 10 U.S. TV premieres."

The lineup includes an unprecedented 10 U.S. television premieres, including: Dae-wung Lim's "Bloody Reunion"; Ho Choi's "Bloody Ties"; Benny Chan's "Divergence"; Akihiko Shiota's "Dororo"; Songyos Sugmakanan's "Dorm"; Johnnie To's "Election"; Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai's "Mad Detective"; Johnnie To's "Triad Election"; Nicky Loi's "The Victim"; and Feng Xiaogang's "A World Without Thieves." Rounding out the package are Norio Tsuruta's "Premonition" (a Sundance Channel premiere), Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's "6IXTYNIN9," and Chan-wook Park "Old Boy."

Also in August, an all new Asia Extreme mini-site will launch on sundancechannel.com. (www.sundancechannel.com/asiaextreme) featuring exclusive video interviews with the directors, actors and creative minds behind these cutting edge films as well as blogs, video extras, making-of videos, deleted scenes, trailers, photo galleries and music videos from the films. Sundance Channel's SUNfiltered blog will also feature original blog posts exploring the state of Asian cinema throughout the month of August (sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered).