AMC Announces Plans for Largest Marketing Initiative in History of
the Network to Support Broken Trail


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Famed Musicians and Composers David Mansfield & Van Dyke Parks To
Score AMC's First Ever Original Movie, Western-Themed Broken Trail

Two-Night Movie Event, Directed by Walter Hill, Premieres on AMC
June 25-26, 2006

New York, NY, April 10, 2006 - AMC announced today plans for the
network's largest marketing initiative to date for its first-ever
original movie event, Broken Trail. Executive produced by and
starring Academy Award® winner Robert Duvall, the four-hour, two-
part movie event, will make its world premiere on AMC on June 25 and
June 26 at 8:00 pm ET/PT.

"As the first-ever original movie event for AMC, Broken Trail will
be supported with a multi-tiered comprehensive marketing initiative
that will be the largest in network history," said Linda Schupack,
Senior Vice President of Marketing for AMC. "We are excited to
showcase the cinematic beauty of Broken Trail and expand our brand
presence through a variety of outlets - print, radio, online, and
outdoor."

The multi-tiered marketing campaign for Broken Trail will include
advertisements in top tier national print, radio and online outlets,
as well as local television, print and outdoor coverage in key AMC
markets. The network will also create an extensive online presence
including a Broken Trail mini-site that will boast insights into the
inspiration behind the story and highlights on the production from
screenwriter Alan Geoffrion. Leading up to the premiere of Broken
Trail two-minute behind-the-scenes vignettes and :60 and :30 second
trailers will run nationally in select movie theatres. Interstitials
produced by an onsite documentary film maker with extensive
interviews of the cast and crew will also air on the network.

AMC also announced today that renowned musicians and composers David
Mansfield and Van Dyke Parks have been named as composers for Broken
Trail. Both Mansfield and Parks have a successful and extensive
history working in the film and music industry creating original
music that has captivated audiences. They will collaborate to create
an original score for Broken Trail that compliments the epic tales
homage to the popular, timeless genre of the western.

Broken Trail is an epic story set in the American West at the close
of the 19th century. Academy Award®-nominated actor Thomas Haden
Church (Sideways, Spider-Man 3) co-stars with Duvall, and Rob
Carliner (The Apostle) and Stanley M. Brooks (Living with the Dead)
join Duvall in executive producing the mini-series. Broken Trail is
directed by legendary filmmaker and Emmy Award winner Walter Hill
(48 Hrs., Deadwood) and was written by Alan Geoffrion. Also featured
in the cast is Greta Scacchi (The Player, Shattered).

Western-themed programming has proved to be successful for AMC. The
network's recent exclusive licensing agreement with Paramount
Pictures provided the network with 32 of John Wayne's greatest
films, including the world premiere of the fully restored, digitally
remastered High and the Mighty and Island in the Sky. The premieres
of these movies, as well as the premiere of the 20th Anniversary of
Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider, rank as AMC's highest rated telecasts
ever, furthering the network's ratings success.

Broken Trail joins a list of strong original network programming on
AMC, including the successful network series Sunday Morning ShootOut
and Movies 101. AMC's commitment to the original programming genre
garnered record ratings growth for 2005 leading to the best year
ever in the history of the network. 2005 ranked as the network's
strongest year in Primetime HH ratings, Household, and A18-49 & A25-
54 deliveries. Additionally, AMC ranked among the top 20 networks in
primetime performance of key demos.

Broken Trail is co-executive produced by Robert Duvall, Stanley M.
Brooks (Living with the Dead) and Rob Carliner (The Apostle). The
film is produced by Butchers Run Films and Once Upon a Time Films in
association with Sony Pictures Television. Chad Oakes' and Mike
Frislev's Nomadic Pictures provided production services in Alberta.
Alan Geoffrion, Ron Parker, Chad Oakes and Damian Ganczewski are the
producers. International Creative Management (ICM) brokered the
deal.

**Source: Nielsen Media Research, 2005 (12/27/04-12/25/05)
Primetime: M-Su 8-11p; Since beginning of Nielsen measurement 4/97.
Comparisons to ad-supported network performance exclude Nick, which
does not broadcast more than 51% of primetime daypart.

About Van Dyke Parks:
Van Dyke Parks has spent the last four decades as a composer and
recording artist. His film credits include "The Company" for Robert
Altman, "Shadrach" starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell and
produced by Jonathan Demme, "Bastard Out of Carolina" for Anjelica
Huston, "Wild Bill" for Walter Hill, "Private Parts" and "Casual
Sex" for Ivan Reitman, "The Two Jakes" and "Goin' South" for Jack
Nicholson, among others. Parks was also nominated for an Emmy for
Best Original Score for his work on "Stuart Little." As an arranger
and songwriter he has collaborated with such diverse artists as
Fiona Apple, U2, Sheryl Crow, Smashing Pumpkins, Bruce Springsteen,
Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

About David Mansfield:
David Mansfield is an award-winning film and television composer
with many major scoring credits. Most recently he established the
original score for the award-winning film "Transamerica" for Duncan
Tucker. His first film score was for the notorious epic "Heaven's
Gate," which led to four film collaborations with director Michael
Cimino and resulted in a Golden Globe nomination for Mansfield's
score for the Oliver Stone-penned "Year of the Dragon." Other long-
standing relationships are with the esteemed Mexican auteur Arturo
Ripstein, and with Maggie Greenwald ("Ballad of Little
Jo", "Songcatcher"). His score for Ripstein's "Deep Crimson
(Profundo Carmesi)" won David the Golden Ocelot at the Venice film
festival (Best Musical Score); this honor was repeated at the Havana
Film Festival. Other notable film credits include "The Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" for Callie Khouri and "The Apostle"
for Robert Duvall. Mansfield continues to be a world-class recording
and performing musician. A founding member of "Bruce Hornsby and the
Range", David was awarded an RIAA platinum album and a Grammy Award
for "The Way It Is", as well as RIAA gold albums for Bob
Dylan's "Desire" and "Hard Rain".

About AMC:
AMC, a division of Rainbow Media's Entertainment Services, which
also includes WE: Women's Entertainment and IFC Companies, is a 24-
hour, movie-based network, dedicated to the American movie fan. The
network, which reaches over 87 million homes, offers a comprehensive
library of popular movies and a critically-acclaimed slate of
original programming that is a diverse, movie-based mix of original
series, documentaries and specials. Over the past three years, AMC
has garnered many of the industry's highest honors, including 14
Emmy awards. AMC is "TV for movie people."

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http://www.gwendolineyeo.com/theactress.html
This June 2006. Shot in Calgary, Canada, This AMC mini-
series "Broken Trail" is an old fashioned Western with a twist. Yeo
plays Sun Fu, a stolen girl from mainland China forced into
prostitution until she is saved by Prentis Ritter (Robert Duvall) &
his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church). She refuses to succumb
to the brutality from the years before and even finds love in the
most difficult of circumstances. Directed by the legendary Walter
Hill.

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Stan Brooks
PRODUCER OF TELEVISION MOVIES
http://www.hollywoodlitsales.com/questions/faq_it/about.shtml


Stanley M. Brooks is the award winning Producer and President of his
own motion picture production company, Once Upon A Time Films.
Established in 1989, Once Upon A Time has produced fifty movies,
including numerous movies-for-television, multiple mini-series, a
two hour music special and a feature film for Miramax.

Mr. Brooks' most recent production is the upcoming BROKEN TRAIL,
starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church for AMC. Brooks is
known for working with big name feature stars in their telefilm
debuts and was the Executive Producer on the directorial debuts of
both Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Candy.

Prior to starting Once Upon A Time, Brooks was the President of The
Guber-Peters Television Company and was responsible for finding the
story for RAIN MAN, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best
Picture.

His proudest achievement came eleven years ago when he established
The Hollywood Indies Little League Foundation to bring after-school
baseball back to inner city parks in South Central Los Angeles.

This program is now the largest in L.A. County. Brooks has been
awarded prestigious honors from the California Governor's Committee
for Employment of the Handicapped, the Prism Award (for accurately
depicting drug addiction), and the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Brooks
is a Senior Lecturer at The American Film Institute Center for
Advanced Film Studies and a former Governor of The Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences.

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DUVALL, HADEN CHURCH AND THE WESTERN TRAIL
by Shelley Gabert 1/13/2006 at 11:39
http://www.geocities.com/robertduvall_2/2006/fstew0601.htm


In the shadow of Brokeback and Deadwood, the basic cable networks
are doing their best to make the traditional longform western
popular again.

"People often say westerns don't sell," suggests actor Robert Duvall
at this week's Television Critics Association Press Tour. "But every
time we make one people definitely watch."

Duvall stars with Thomas Haden Church in the two-part Broken Trail,
AMC's first original scripted project but the eight time the
prestigious creative team of director Walter Hill (48 Hours, The
Warriors, The Long Riders, Last Man Standing, etc.) and
cinematographer Lloyd Ahern has collaborated. Their past credits
include Wild Bill, Geronimo, An American Legend (which also starred
Duvall) and, of course, the Deadwood pilot, for which Hill (pictured
at bottom) won an Emmy.

"You know, I always say the English have Shakespeare, the French
have Moliere, the Russians have Chekhov, and so forth and so on,"
Duvall ovserves. "And the western is uniquely ours, combined with
Alberta, Canada. From Alberta to Texas, it is our genre, and it's
our thing. So I think there's always a sporadic interest in the
western, whether it comes and goes it will always live, as the tango
will always live in South America."

Broken Trail is the story of two cowboys, Print Ritter (Duvall) and
his nephew Tom Harte (Hayden Church), who herd 500 horses from
Oregon to Wyoming but along the way meet up with a trafficker of
five Chinese girls, who will be forced to serve as prostitutes at a
local mining camp. Ritter and Harte rescue the girls but at great
risk to completing their journey. The film also stars Greta Scacchi
(Jefferson in Paris, The Player), Gwendoline Yeo (The Magic of
Ordinary Days) and newcomers Olivia Cheng, Valerie Tian, Jadyn Wong
and Caroline Chan.

"You know, it's like we got to make the best movie we can, and by
God, you know, we got to pick this big, heavy bastard up every day
and move it six inches and then come back and do it all over again
tomorrow," enthuses Haden Church.

"But, you know what, at the end of the trail, you're like, holy
sh*t, you know, we accomplished a pretty remarkable task. Believe
me, working with those horses every day is a blood inspiring feat
every single day, especially when they would get out of control and
they'd be charging right at you, and everybody would be yelling at
me to stop the herd."

Certainly, Duvall admits to really enjoying working on Westerns and
riding horses. He also praises the film's wrangler's. "I insisted
that the Bews be on the movie," he recalls. "Horses are collectively
a character in this movie so we needed everything to be right.
They're equal to any cowboy family on either side of the border. And
right after this movie was finished, they went up to Edmonton and
won the National Champion Working Ranch Rodeo of all the ranchers in
Canada."

Duvall also bought a horse a year before shooting began to literally
get back in the saddle, riding every day at his farm in Virginia.
And it's clear Church enjoyed working with the wily old veteran.

"I actually met him when I was in grad school and I was working at a
hotel, the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas," Church remembers. "But when I
was a freshman in college, a movie came out called True Confessions,
it's one of his more obscure performances. But it was directed by a
man named Ulu Grosbard, and he co-stars with Robert De Niro, and
it's a tremendous tale."

"Bob is absolutely just towering in it. And it really was an
inspiration. It was such an inspiration of a performance for me that
it was really right about then -- that and The Great Santini and for
so many performances of Bob's, going all the way back to
Mockingbird, that I thought, you know, this is an actor, but this is
a man who has tremendous dignity and poise in the roles that he
chooses."

At the end of shooting, Church gave Duvall a gift, along with a
special message of thanks. "I wrote in the note that he inspired me
to choose acting as a profession for the dignity of it and that, by
virtue of working with him, he was going to inspire me really for
the rest my life to choose projects that have dignity and have poise
and are going to be things that I can reflect on for the rest of my
adult, professional life as choices that were made for the right
reasons."

"That's who he is. I remember I saw Matt Damon in an interview with
Charlie Rose and he said, ¡®The Apostle should be a primer for all
actors.' And it should be required viewing because of the power and
the resonance and the complete -- the complete nature of a
performance by an actor. And I applauded that. I was by myself, you
know, naked and sweating in my apartment."

Broken Trail is a trilogy of sorts for Duvall, coming after Open
Range and Lonesome Dove. That last film, the actor says, is the one
he's most identified with today and one that stands as a
contemporary bible of the genre for real-life cowboys.

"People come up to me on the street and speak about Augustus McCrae
in Lonesome Dove more than The Godfather or any of the other films I
was fortunate enough to be in," he marvels. "People always ask,
¡®When will you do another Lonesome Dove,' and I say not for another
hundred years, because it's very unique.

====================

Elice scripts role at AMC
Hire reflects cabler's commitment to original dramas
By DENISE MARTIN
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936961?categoryid=30&cs=1


AMC has hired Jeremy Elice to head up the cablercabler's West Coast
scripted development.

Elice, whose title will be director of scripted series and movies,
will be the cabler's key programming exec in Los Angeles. He'll
report to scripted VP Christina WayneChristina Wayne, who joined AMC
two months ago (Daily Variety, Nov. 16).

Hire reflects AMC's commitment to launching original dramas. First
out of the gate will be "Broken Trail," the four-hour Western exec
produced by and starring Robert Duvall. Cabler also is
airing "Hustle," a heist skeinskein co-produced by the BBC.

"I was thoroughly impressed with (Elice's) wide breadth of
experience in both TV and feature development," Wayne said. "His
background at FX and Mutual Film Co. is the perfect fit for us as we
try to develop television shows with a cinematic feel."

Elice said he'll be the cabler's go-to guy on the West Coast and
hopes to "develop programming that reflects our brand. We're not
looking for anything procedural. We would like our viewers to watch
one of our movies and transition right into a series (of equal
quality)."

Most recently, Elice was director of creative and strategic
development for Mutual Film. There he secured funding for and helped
develop film projects including Samuel L. JacksonSamuel L. Jackson
starrer "Snakes on a Plane." He also worked in FX's programming and
public relations department.

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Wayne's domain is AMC skeins
Cabler reels in film scribe-helmer for series, pics
By DENISE MARTIN
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117933049?categoryid=1238&cs=1


AMC has hired feature writer-director Christina WayneChristina Wayne
to oversee scripted series and movies for the cablercabler.
Wayne, who has served as a consultant for the network for the past
year, will report directly to exec VP and programming, packaging and
production Rob Sorcher. Her title will be vice president.

AMC announced it was breaking into the scripted arena last month
(Daily Variety, Oct. 21), teaming with the BBC to produce the crime
caper skeinskein "Hustle." Sorcher said a handful of other one-hours
are already in development and that the cabler is finalizing deals
with several top-tier scribes to develop projects.

First order of business for Wayne will be to oversee AMC's first-
ever original minimini, "Broken Trail" (formerly "Daughters of
Joy"), exec produced by and starring Robert Duvall, and "Hustle."

Sorcher said recruiting Wayne was the first step in establishing
AMC's commitment to original hours.

With her "background in film, I'm hoping to set the sensibility of
AMC's series," Sorcher said. "We're going after shows that are
contemporary with something retro rooted in them. AMC is strong in
key movie genres, and we think it makes a lot of sense to do series
that link to our extensive library of features."

"Hustle," about a group of London-based con artists, is a heist hour
that "feels like a classic crime caper but has this cool modern
spin. That's the combination we're looking for," said Sorcher.

"Broken Trail," meanwhile, will likely pair with AMC's top-
performing Western films. Mini will premiere over two consecutive
nights June 24-25.

AMC averaged 566,000 primetime overall viewers in October -- up 13%
from the previous year.

Wayne wrote and directed the Lions GateLions Gate pic "Tart" and
more recently helped pen the sequel to "Dirty Dancing." Her TV
experience includes producing content for E!, USA and Fox.

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OLIVIA CHENG
http://www.oliviacheng.com/biography.html


Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, my parents and grandparents
sacrificed a lot to build a life in Canada. In spite of their best
efforts and the heaps of money spent enrolling me in Kumon, I didn't
become that doctor/ engineer/ accountant they were hoping for.
Instead, poor Mr. and Mrs. Cheng ended up with a wannabe Sandra Oh /
Oprah to tell their friends about (my mom always lost the my-
daughter-is-smarter-than-your-daughter smack talk when I was growing
up).

That's as much of a bio as I'm going to write. I find it stupidly
difficult to write one's own bio without sounding like a complete
tool. That's why rich people hire publicists after all.

So instead, I'll use this space to say this:

Please show some support and tune in to my television mini-series
Broken Trail debuting on AMC June 24th and 25th, 2006
(www.brokentrail.amctv.com)

Set in 1897, Broken Trail stars the Academy Award winning Robert
Duvall (The Apostle, Thank You for Smoking) and Academy Award
nominee Thomas Haden Church (Spiderman 3, Sideways). They play two
cowboys who stumble across 5 Chinese girls who've been brought to
America to be forced into prostitution.

I know I know, you're probably thinking, "Great, another movie that
portrays Asian Americans in a stereotypical light. Can Hollywood
please write a role for an Asian female that doesn't involve
prostitution, laundry or bad driving?"

That's exactly how I felt until I read the script, became intrigued
by the plight of the girls, and researched the historical context of
the story. Sadly, countless numbers of Chinese girls, some as young
as 12 endured the horrible fate depicted in Broken Trail. Because of
poverty, ignorance, and the social climate of China at the time,
thousands of girls were sold to sex slave dealers, and brought to
America where "Celestials" were valued for their exotic appeal. A
majority of these women took their own lives. The rest lived brief,
violent existenses before succumbing to homicide or disease. In
regards to the latter, when girls were "used up", their captors
often locked them away in death houses to starve: out of sight, out
of mind.

It's a shameful, and sad chapter of Asian American history. One
that's not highlighted enough in our history books. That's why I'm
proud to be a part of Broken Trail, and why I hope you'll tune in.
It's an important story to tell; and, unfortunately, the slavery
issue highlighted in Broken Trail is still relevant today as
hundreds of thousands of women and children are held captive around
the world.

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DUVALL, HADEN CHURCH AND THE WESTERN TRAIL
Shelley Gabert
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/boards/dcforum/DCForumID15/150.html


In the shadow of Brokeback and Deadwood, the basic cable networks
are doing their best to make the traditional longform western
popular again.

"People often say westerns don't sell," suggests actor Robert Duvall
at this week's Television Critics Association Press Tour. "But every
time we make one people definitely watch."

Duvall stars with Thomas Haden Church in the two-part Broken Trail,
AMC's first original scripted project but the eight time the
prestigious creative team of director Walter Hill (48 Hours, The
Warriors, The Long Riders, Last Man Standing, etc.) and
cinematographer Lloyd Ahern has collaborated. Their past credits
include Wild Bill, Geronimo, An American Legend (which also starred
Duvall) and, of course, the Deadwood pilot, for which Hill (pictured
at bottom) won an Emmy.

"You know, I always say the English have Shakespeare, the French
have Moliere, the Russians have Chekhov, and so forth and so on,"
Duvall ovserves. "And the western is uniquely ours, combined with
Alberta, Canada. From Alberta to Texas, it is our genre, and it's
our thing. So I think there's always a sporadic interest in the
western, whether it comes and goes it will always live, as the tango
will always live in South America."

Broken Trail is the story of two cowboys, Print Ritter (Duvall) and
his nephew Tom Harte (Hayden Church), who herd 500 horses from
Oregon to Wyoming but along the way meet up with a trafficker of
five Chinese girls, who will be forced to serve as prostitutes at a
local mining camp. Ritter and Harte rescue the girls but at great
risk to completing their journey. The film also stars Greta Scacchi
(Jefferson in Paris, The Player), Gwendoline Yeo (The Magic of
Ordinary Days) and newcomers Olivia Cheng, Valerie Tian, Jadyn Wong
and Caroline Chan.


"You know, it's like we got to make the best movie we can, and by
God, you know, we got to pick this big, heavy @#%$ up every day and
move it six inches and then come back and do it all over again
tomorrow," enthuses Haden Church.

"But, you know what, at the end of the trail, you're like, holy
sh*t, you know, we accomplished a pretty remarkable task. Believe
me, working with those horses every day is a blood inspiring feat
every single day, especially when they would get out of control and
they'd be charging right at you, and everybody would be yelling at
me to stop the herd."

Certainly, Duvall admits to really enjoying working on Westerns and
riding horses. He also praises the film's wrangler's. "I insisted
that the Bews be on the movie," he recalls. "Horses are collectively
a character in this movie so we needed everything to be right.
They're equal to any cowboy family on either side of the border. And
right after this movie was finished, they went up to Edmonton and
won the National Champion Working Ranch Rodeo of all the ranchers in
Canada."

Duvall also bought a horse a year before shooting began to literally
get back in the saddle, riding every day at his farm in Virginia.
And it's clear Church enjoyed working with the wily old veteran.

"I actually met him when I was in grad school and I was working at a
hotel, the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas," Church remembers. "But when I
was a freshman in college, a movie came out called True Confessions,
it's one of his more obscure performances. But it was directed by a
man named Ulu Grosbard, and he co-stars with Robert De Niro, and
it's a tremendous tale."


"Bob is absolutely just towering in it. And it really was an
inspiration. It was such an inspiration of a performance for me that
it was really right about then -- that and The Great Santini and for
so many performances of Bob's, going all the way back to
Mockingbird, that I thought, you know, this is an actor, but this is
a man who has tremendous dignity and poise in the roles that he
chooses."

At the end of shooting, Church gave Duvall a gift, along with a
special message of thanks. "I wrote in the note that he inspired me
to choose acting as a profession for the dignity of it and that, by
virtue of working with him, he was going to inspire me really for
the rest my life to choose projects that have dignity and have poise
and are going to be things that I can reflect on for the rest of my
adult, professional life as choices that were made for the right
reasons."

"That's who he is. I remember I saw Matt Damon in an interview with
Charlie Rose and he said, `The Apostle should be a primer for all
actors.' And it should be required viewing because of the power and
the resonance and the complete -- the complete nature of a
performance by an actor. And I applauded that. I was by myself, you
know, naked and sweating in my apartment."

Broken Trail is a trilogy of sorts for Duvall, coming after Open
Range and Lonesome Dove. That last film, the actor says, is the one
he's most identified with today and one that stands as a
contemporary bible of the genre for real-life cowboys.

"People come up to me on the street and speak about Augustus McCrae
in Lonesome Dove more than The Godfather or any of the other films I
was fortunate enough to be in," he marvels. "People always
ask, `When will you do another Lonesome Dove,' and I say not for
another hundred years, because it's very unique.

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http://www.ncta.com/ContentView.aspx?
hidenavlink=true&type=CableProgram&contentId=1932
Legendary Academy Award winner Robert Duvall ("The
Godfather," "Apocalypse Now," "Open Range"), Academy Award nominated
actor Thomas Haden Church ("Sideways") and acclaimed director Walter
Hill ("Aliens," "48 Hrs.," "Deadwood") present AMC's first original
movie, "Broken Trail," a two-part drama set in the American West of
the 1880s, told through the eyes of five Chinese girls sold into
prostitution in outlaw mining camps.

The four-hour drama is a haunting and poetic tale that follows a
veteran cowboy (Robert Duvall) and his nephew (Thomas Haden Church)
as they drive a herd of horses from Oregon to Wyoming, their trail
crossing with the enslaved girls. A fateful act of decency plunges
their lives in peril and forever changes their destinies. "Broken
Trail" follows the complicated paths of each travelers' life,
witnessed through the eyes of innocents lost in America.

=====================

http://brokentrail.amctv.com/
In the waning days of the Old West, veteran rancher Print Ritter
(Robert Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) set
out on an arduous horse drive from Oregon to Wyoming. On the trail,
they risk their lives to save five innocent Chinese girls who have
been sold into prostitution. With this decision, the horse drive
turns into an epic and perilous journey that leaves both the men and
women changed forever.

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http://www.rainbow-media.com/natbus/amc.html
AMC is a 24-hour, movie-based network dedicated to the American
movie fan. AMC offers a comprehensive library of popular movies and
a critically-acclaimed slate of original programming that is a
diverse, movie-based mix of original series, documentaries and
specials.

A commitment to celebrate movie culture while connecting TV viewers
with informed and entertaining programming has raised the network to
new heights in ratings and delivery. Its investment in stronger film
titles, programming stunts and specials and original programming had
a tremendous impact in 2004 and 2005, providing AMC with its best
ratings year EVER in 2005.

AMC recently completed production of its first original movie event,
Broken Trail, executive produced and starring Academy Award® winner
Robert Duvall, co-starring Academy Award® nominee Thomas Haden
Church and directed by Emmy award winning director Walter Hill.

It premieres on June 25 and 26, 2006. AMC recently premiered its
first original scripted series, the hit show "Hustle," a co-
production arrangement with the BBC starring Robert Vaughn and
Adrian Lester. Set in London, the fast-paced, smart and sexy 18 part
series follows the exploits of a polished crew of grifters who prey
on greedy, morally corrupt "marks."

The network's original programming slate also includes: "Movies
101," based on a popular course taught by NYU Professor Richard
Brown, the series features interviews with guests from Hollywood's
most acclaimed talent roster (season two premieres August 2006);
and "Sunday Morning Shootout," hosted by Hollywood heavyweights
Peter Bart and Peter Guber, "Shootout" welcomes the film community's
top actors, directors, producers and studio execs for energetic,
intelligent, and uncensored conversation on the hot topics that fuel
the film business. Among the guests welcomed by Guber and Bart:
Charlize Theron, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L. Jackson; Ron Howard,
Garry Marshall, Brian Grazer, Joe Roth and Harvey Weinstein.

The network's annual on-air special events include MonsterFest
and "An American Cinematheque Tribute." This year will mark the
tenth edition of MonsterFest, AMC's annual on-air Halloween
festival. AMC is also the exclusive broadcast partner of American
Cinematheque for their annual celebrity tribute through 2006. The
popular AMC special "Celebrity Charades," executive produced by
multiple-award winners Bob Balaban, Chad Lowe and Hilary Swank, will
return this year. "Celebrity Charades" features a variety of guest
celebrities "acting out" to raise money for charity and will air as
a special programming event featuring four new half-hour specials
back-to-back on Friday, August 18.

AMC's movie library includes exclusive television exhibition rights
to 22 films from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution, including
the network window for such mega-hits as Two Weeks Notice, Million
Dollar Baby, Ocean's 12, Mystic River and Batman Begins. The network
also has an exclusive licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures
providing the network with 32 of John Wayne's greatest films, and
included the world premiere of the fully restored, digitally
remastered High and the Mighty and Island in the Sky, further
cementing the network as the cable home for John Wayne.

Subscribers: More than 87 million U.S. households
(Source: Nielsen Media Research)
Executives: Ed Carroll,
President, Rainbow Entertainment Services

Gregg Hill,
President, Rainbow Network Sales

Launch Date: 1984

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AMC Hires Christina Wayne as Vice President, Scripted Series and
Movies
Released by AMC
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Wayne Overseeing Production and Development of AMC's First-Ever
Original Movie Event, Western-Themed Broken Trail, With Oscar®
Winner Robert Duvall, Oscar® Nominee Thomas Haden Church and Emmy-
Winning Filmmaker Walter Hill

Four-Hour Mini-Series Event Premieres on AMC June 2006

New York, New York - November 15, 2005 - AMC announced today that
Christina Wayne has joined the network as Vice President of Scripted
Series and Movies. Serving as a programming consultant for AMC over
the past six months, Wayne has helped ramp up the network's scripted
series department. In her new position, she will lead the production
and development of AMC's first-ever mini-series, newly titled Broken
Trail. Wayne will report to Rob Sorcher, Executive Vice President of
Programming, Packaging and Production for AMC, and will be based in
New York.

Wayne is an experienced screenwriter and director. Among her career
accomplishments, Wayne wrote and directed Tart, a film acquired and
distributed by Lionsgate, and was responsible for penning the sequel
to Dirty Dancing for Artisan Entertainment. Wayne has written and
directed numerous music videos for Propaganda Films and the A&R
group, directed a rock documentary film, and produced for E!
Entertainment television. She has also written television movies for
USA Network and Fox Television, and screenplays for Castlerock "Get
This", Paramount Pictures "Go Lightly" and Bel Air
entertainment "Rock and Roll". Earlier in her career, Wayne worked
as a journalist for such publications as Rolling Stone Magazine,
Spin, Vibe, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times Magazine.

"Christina Wayne's background in features and her focus on the
script makes her the ideal choice for AMC original series and
movies," said Rob Sorcher. "Broken Trail is the crown jewel of our
scripted projects for AMC in 2006, and sets a bar for future
projects. The network's established leadership in the western genre
makes us the ideal launchpad for this event."

In conjunction with today's announcement, AMC unveiled more details
on its first-ever original mini-series, executive produced by and
starring Academy Award® winner Robert Duvall. The four-hour, two-
part mini-series, Broken Trail (formerly dubbed Daughters of Joy)
will make its world premiere on AMC on June 24-25, 2006.

Broken Trail is an epic story set in the American West at the close
of the 19th century. Academy Award®-nominated actor Thomas Haden
Church (Sideways, Spider-Man 3) co-stars with Duvall, and Rob
Carliner (The Apostle) and Stanley M. Brooks (Living with the Dead)
join Duvall in executive producing the mini-series. Broken Trail is
directed by legendary filmmaker and Emmy Award winner Walter Hill
(48 Hrs., Deadwood) and was written by Alan Geoffrion. Also featured
in the cast is Greta Scacchi (The Player, Shattered).

In the waning days of the Old West, veteran rancher Print Ritter
(Robert Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Hayden Church) set
out an arduous horse drive from Oregon to Wyoming. On the trail,
they risk their lives to rescue five innocent Chinese girls who have
been sold into prostitution. This decision transforms their trip
from a demanding physical challenge into an unconventional emotional
journey that will change all of their lives forever.

Broken Trail began production in mid August on location in Calgary.
International Creative Management (ICM) brokered the deal and the
film will be distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Broken Trail
is a co-production between Duvall and Carliner's Butcher's Run Films
and Brooks' Once Upon A Time Films. Producer Chad Oakes' Nomadic
Pictures provided production services in Alberta.

Western-themed programming has proved to be successful for AMC. The
network's recent exclusive licensing agreement with Paramount
Pictures provided the network with 32 of John Wayne's greatest
films, including the world premiere of the fully restored, digitally
remastered High and the Mighty and Island in the Sky. The premieres
of these movies, as well as the premiere of the 20th Anniversary of
Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider, rank as AMC's highest rated telecasts
ever, furthering the network's ratings success.

AMC's commitment to celebrate movie culture while connecting TV
viewers with informed and entertaining programming has raised the
network to new heights in ratings and delivery. Its new investment
in stronger film titles, programming stunts and specials and
original programming has had a tremendous impact in 2004 and 2005,
providing AMC with its best season ever in the history of the
network. The 04/05 season ranked as the network's strongest ever in
Primetime HH ratings, Household, and A18-49 & A25-54 deliveries.

**Source: Nielsen Media Research, 04/05 season (9/27/04-9/25/05).
Primetime: M-Su 8-11p; Since beginning of Nielsen measurement 4/97.
Comparisons to ad-supported network performance exclude Nick, which
does not broadcast more than 51% of primetime daypart.

Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television is one of the television industry's leading
content providers. SPT produces and distributes top-rated, award-
winning programming in every genre, including series, movies and
family entertainment for network and cable television; first run
syndicated series; off-network syndicated programs; and theatrical
releases. SPT (www.sonypicturestelevision.com ) is a Sony Pictures
Entertainment company.

About AMC:
AMC, a division of Rainbow Media's Entertainment Services, which
also includes WE: Women's Entertainment and IFC Companies, is a 24-
hour, movie-based network, dedicated to the American movie fan. The
network, which reaches over 86,000,000 homes, offers a comprehensive
library of popular movies and a critically-acclaimed slate of
original programming that is a diverse, movie-based mix of original
series, documentaries and specials. Over the past three years, AMC
has garnered many of the industry's highest honors, including 14
Emmy awards. AMC is "TV for movie people."