Encore Westerns Presents World Television Premiere of Remastered Academy Award(R)-Winning Masterpiece How the West Was Won

Encore Westerns Presents World Television Premiere of Remastered Academy Award(R)-Winning Masterpiece How the West Was Won

Classic Epic Western Directed By John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall & Stars Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark and Debbie Reynolds

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment's Encore Westerns presents the world television premiere of the restored and newly remastered (from the original Cinerama three-panel print) Academy Award(R)-winning epic How the West Was Won on Saturday, August 30 at 8:00 p.m. (et/pt). The film will also be available on Encore HD On Demand day and date with Encore Westerns.

The 1962 production, directed in three parts by John Ford (Stagecoach), Henry Hathaway (True Grit) and George Marshall (Destry Rides Again), follows four generations of a family from 1839 to 1889 as they move westward from New York State toward the Pacific Ocean. The film features a "who's who" of Hollywood legends including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Walter Brennan, and is narrated by Spencer Tracy.

An Oscar winner for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Sound, How the West Was Won was one of only two features made using the three-strip Cinerama widescreen process. Warner Home Video recently completed a six year frame-by-frame restoration, eliminating the original three-panel join lines.

George Feltenstein, Senior Vice President, Theatrical Catalog Marketing, Warner Home Video, said, "For more than 45 years How the West Was Won has stood alone as a unique cinematic testament to the brave pioneers who forged our country, and the dedicated talents who brought this epic story to the panoramic Cinerama screen. Our colleagues at WB Motion Picture Imaging took on their own challenges as they sought out to, and finally achieved a way to capture the essence of the Cinerama process within a home viewing experience. We are extremely pleased that Encore Westerns viewers will be among the very first to experience the How the West Was Won in this new, meticulously remastered presentation."

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 17 million and 31.3 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (http://www.starz.com/) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.

Contacts:

Steve Belgard
Starz Entertainment
720-852-5843
steve.belgard@starz.com

Ronnee Sass
Warner Home Video Vice President, Publicity and Promotion
(818) 977-6439
Ronnee.Sass@warnerbros.com

Robin Mesger
Lippin Group
323-965-1990
rmesger@lippingroup.com

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Source: Starz Entertainment, LLC

CONTACT: Steve Belgard of Starz Entertainment, +1-720-852-5843,
steve.belgard@starz.com; or Ronnee Sass, Warner Home Video Vice President,
Publicity and Promotion, +1-818-977-6439, Ronnee.Sass@warnerbros.com; or Robin
Mesger of Lippin Group, +1-323-965-1990, rmesger@lippingroup.com, for Starz
Entertainment, LLC

Web site: http://www.starz.com/

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