MonsterFest 2001: YOU DON’T KNOW JACK(r)

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MonsterFest 2001: YOU DON’T KNOW JACK(r)
…About MonsterFest Sierra and Jellyvision team with AMC to celebrate the 5th
annual MonsterFest Halloween festival

BELLEVUE, WA & JERICHO, N.Y., October 10,
2001 – For five years running, television viewers have turned to AMERICAN MOVIE
CLASSICS for television’s biggest and best festival of Halloween horror. For
this year’s edition, MonsterFest 2001: YOU DON’T KNOW JACK(r) … About
MonsterFest, the network has teamed with the best name in horror film, Universal
Studios, director/author Clive Barker, sexy SCREAM star Carmen Electra and the
hottest purveyor of trivia in new media and television, "YOU DON’T KNOW JACK(r)"
(
www.ydkj.com
). The result is a multimedia Halloween festival, with a month of special online
material culminating with six days of films, specials and online games dedicated
to movie scares.

YOU DON’T KNOW JACK(r) … About MonsterFest
monster trivia contest will kick-off on AMC and amctv.com Friday, October 26 and
run through Wednesday, October 31. Listen closely as Clive Barker and Carmen
Electra introduce horror films, then go to amctv.com and compete JACK style. The
top 500 players from the six days of competition 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 game every night, and two on Halloween, dedicated to the monsters
featured in the films.

Beginning Monday, October 8, horror film fans
can 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?" Throughout the month of October, the
Institute will provide offbeat courses about the monsters and films featured in
MonsterFest 2001. YOU DON"T KNOW JACK(r) about monsters … but you will!

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 SCREAM 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:

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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