Starting a quicktime movie at a set time

Does anyone know if there is a way to get a movie to start up at a set time? to play at full screen and loop?
Alex

Thanks but we need to deploy a package to all of our Macs.  I have a .DMG file that we can deploy.  But, once deployed to our Mac's how do you setup a schedule task to the app will auto run at a set time? 

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