Lord of the Rings Trilogy Featurette Debuts Today on 1,200 AMC Screens.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 24, 2003 A three-minute featurette filmed at last week's Lord of the Rings Trilogy Tuesday debuts today in 1,200 AMC Theatres equipped with the Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS DTDS Disaster Tolerant Disk System DTDS Dumber Than Dog Stuff (polite form) (TM)). Moviegoer mov·ie·go·er n. One who goes to see movies. mov  ie·go ing adj. response to the Dec. 16 back-to-back-to-back marathon of Lord of the Rings trilogy was so enthusiastic, AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. documented festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. at theatres in Chicago, Kansas City, and Los Angeles. The result is an entertaining three-minute featurette that AMC will exhibit as part of the AMC MovieWatcher Network's pre-feature programming. "The featurette showcases our ability to use digital technology to create and distribute exciting original content -- in this case, putting our moviegoers on the big screen," said Richard King, senior vice president, corporate communications for AMC. "The fun of Trilogy Tuesday is contagious, and we think our featurette will bring extra holiday enjoyment to our guests." DTDS, developed by AMC's subsidiary National Cinema Network, is a system for distribution and exhibition of digital content from a variety of sources for pre-feature programming as well as for special events programming, such as last month's theatrical premiere of Avril Lavigne's MY WORLD concert DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. . AMC has installed the DTDS system in more than 1,200 screens in the U.S., and will expand the system to more than 2,500 screens in 2004. Theatres showing the featurette are located in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Atlanta, Houston and Kansas City markets. AMC Entertainment Inc. is a leader in the theatrical exhibition industry. Through its circuit of AMC Theatres, the company operates 235 theatres with 3,565 screens in the United States, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Its Common Stock trades on the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Stock exchange in the U.S. Originally known as “the Curb,” it began as an outdoor marketplace in New York City c. 1850. It moved indoors to its present location in the Wall Street area in 1921. under the symbol AEN AEN Address Enable AEN America's Emergency Network AEN Australian Energy News (magazine) AEN Agenzia per l'Energia Nucleare (Italian: Nuclear Energy Agency; OCSE) AEN Administrative Exception Note . The company, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., has a Web site at www.amctheatres.com. |
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