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AMC making push for minis.(AMC Entertainment Inc.)
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Daily Variety
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April 18, 2007
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AMC is drawing on theatrical-film talent to make a push into miniseries.
For a new development slate of historical minis, movie-themed net has signed "Dances With Wolves" scribe Michael Blake for "Against the Guns of Quantrill," a project about Confederate prisoners defending a Union town.
It also will develop "Berlin Mesa," a project centering on the FBI and Nazi prisoners in the southwest U.S. written and exec produced by "Spy Game" scribe Michael Frost Beckner; project is exec produced by "The Mexican" producer John Baldecchi.
"We're taking a lot of people and projects from the feature world and finding a home for them," said Christina Wayne, veep of scripted ...
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