AMC Celebrates America's Independence With Blockbuster Movies During the "Indy-Pendence Day" Festival On Thursday, July 4.Entertainment Editors AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. celebrates the Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. with the "Indy-Pendence Day" festival featuring three back-to-back airings of Stephen Spielberg's Oscar(R)-winning RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and the sequel INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM on Thursday, July 4. The festival airs in the tradition of blockbuster summer movies. The festival begins at 11:30 AM (ET) with Stephen Spielberg's Academy Award(R)-winning RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981). Harrison Ford stars as archeologist Indiana Jones on a quest to find the sacred Covenant of the Lost Ark before his archenemy arch·en·e·my n. 1. A principal enemy. 2. often Archenemy The Devil; Satan. Used with the. archenemy Noun pl -mies a chief enemy , Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman), secures it for the Nazis. Karen Allen co-stars as Marion Ravenwood, his shrewd love interest. (Also at 3:50 PM and 8:00 PM.) Following, at 1:40 PM (ET), Ford is back as the global adventurer in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984). This time he's in India searching for a sacred stone - believed by villagers to have magical powers - accompanied by 12-year-old sidekick Short Round (Jonathan Ke Qwan) and nightclub singer Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott (Kate Capshaw). (Also at 5:55 PM and 10:05 PM). AMC is a premiere 24-hour movie network dedicated to the world of American film. With one of the finest, most comprehensive libraries of popular films, and a diverse blend of original series, documentaries and interstitials, AMC offers an elegant and contemporary entertainment destination. AMC is a fully distributed network reaching over 83,000,000 U.S. homes (as of May 2002) and ranking #16 in size among all 55 networks. Since its launch in 1984, AMC has been dedicated to deepening the movie experience for its viewers, featuring film-loving celebrity hosts and an increasingly visible, critically acclaimed slate of original programming. AMC has more than doubled its original programming over the past 3 years and garnered many of the industry's highest honors, including seven Emmy awards. AMC is owned and managed by Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., a leader in news, sports and entertainment programming. A subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVC See CSC. ) and NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , Rainbow manages American Movie Classics, WE: Women's Entertainment, Bravo, The Independent Film Channel, MuchMusic USA, Rainbow Sports Networks, News 12 Networks, MetroChannels and Mag Rack, 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 the Rainbow Media Group tracking stock (NYSE: RMG RMG Roularta Media Group RMG RiskMetrics Group, Inc. RMG Revenu Minimum Garanti (French: Guaranteed Minimum Income) RMG Risk Management Group RMG Ready Made Garment RMG Raw Materials Group (mining industry) ), a series of Cablevision common stock. MGM (NYSE: MGM) owns a 20% stake in four of Rainbow's national networks - AMC, Bravo, IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. , and WE: Women's Entertainment. |
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