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October 25, 2001
MonsterFest 2001: YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) ... About MonsterFest
American Movie Classics' MonsterFest 2001: YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) ... About MonsterFest starts tomorrow. Six days and nights dedicated to horror movie scares. Watch Clive Barker and Carmen Electra introduce unforgettable horror films with help from your favorite irreverent quiz-show host, then go to amctv.com and compete JACK style. The top 500 players from the six days of competitions will each win a Compaq iPAQ "Pocket PC." In addition, visitors to the MonsterFest area of amctv.com can enter a national sweepstakes to win a trip to Transylvania. There is an exclusive new YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) game every night, and two on Halloween, dedicated to the monsters featured in the films.
And if you haven't already, log on to amctv.com and enroll in AMC's cyber college, The Transylvania Film Institute. A special MCAT (Monster College Aptitude Test) designed by the makers of YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) quizzes users on their personality traits to tell them- "what kind of monster are you?"
ABOUT MONSTERFEST
AMC's MonsterFest 2001 will feature many of the greatest films starring those four horsemen of horror - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and Wolfman
- along with an original documentary dedicated to one of filmdom's scariest movie sagas, THE OMEN. Each film during the festival, which runs from Friday, October 26 to the wee hours of Wednesday, October 31, will be introduced by Clive Barker, the director of legendary films such as HELLRAISER and author of fantasy best-sellers including Imajica and The Great and Secret Show, sexy SCARY MOVIE star Carmen Electra and Schmitty, the hilarious wise-cracking host featured in the popular CD-ROM game, "YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r)." They will provide clues that can help viewers win games that will be unveiled at amctv.com each day of the festival.
ABOUT YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r)
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r), the CD-ROM game, developed by Jellyvision, Inc. and published by Sierra, has emerged as one of the most successful CD-ROM games in interactive history garnering over 50 awards since its creation in 1995. The latest release YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) 5th Dementia is now available. For more information:
http://www.ydkj.com./Jellyvision (
www.jellyvision.com) is a creative company specializing in the invention of completely original interactive games and entertainment. Best known as the creators and developers of two of the best-selling mass-market CD-ROM properties ever: YOU DON'T KNOW JACK(r) and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Jellyvision is unusual because it is a writing company at the forefront of the computer software industry. The company's focus is to pioneer a form of interactivity that is, unlike a web site, a full-screen audio-visual experience with the pacing of television and the creative production values to engage a truly mass audience. Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com, a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing and part of its Games division, is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is renowned for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles that represent a wide variety of computer entertainment on both next generation console and PC platforms.Vivendi Universal Publishing (VU Publishing), the publishing division of the world's second largest communications group (Vivendi Universal), is an international leader in multi-platform publishing and content distribution. As one of the top three players in the global publishing market and the only publisher with an international reach, the Company's key content areas include literature, reference, education, games and consumer press. VU Publishing publishes content in four major languages, including English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and has strong local publishing brands, including Anaya, Atica, Houghton Mifflin, Knowledge Adventure, Larousse, Nathan and Scipione. In the games category, VU Publishing is a leading publisher of online, PC and console-based games. Its studios include Blizzard Entertainment, The Flipside Network, Sierra and Universal Interactive.
AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS is the nation's premier classic movie network, bringing timeless favorites to a broad audience by placing them in a fresh and contemporary context. Award-winning original documentaries, series and specials are infused with the energy and excitement of Hollywood past and present. Launched in 1984, AMC is currently available in 78 million homes.
Amctv.com is AMC's complementary interactive destination website, powered by the exclusive AMC Movie Companion Database. It features AMC's 20-year wealth of movie information, games, resources and behind-the-scenes Hollywood and celebrity entertainment for movie-lovers of all ages online.
AMC is owned and managed by Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. A subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) and NBC, Rainbow manages American Movie Classics, WE: Women's Entertainment, Bravo, The Independent Film Channel, MuchMusic USA, Rainbow Sports, News 12 Networks and MetroChannels as well as the Rainbow Advertising Sales Corporation and Rainbow Network Communications. In addition, Rainbow is a fifty-percent partner in FOX Sports Net. AMC is one of the assets included in a new series of Cablevision common stock -- Rainbow Media Group tracking stock (NYSE:RMG) -- which began trading on the NYSE on March 30th. MGM (NYSE:MGM) owns a 20 percent stake in four of Rainbow's national networks - AMC, Bravo, IFC and WE: Women's Entertainment.
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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK is a registered trademark of Jellyvision, Inc. All rights reserved.
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