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Unlike its cakewalk in the online music business, however, Apple will probably face a fierce battle over films. Amazon just launched a rival service, and it's only a matter of time before Netflix and Wal-Mart jump in. So far, Disney is the only major Hollywood studio on board with Jobs' Web plan. But that could soon change. "We'll absolutely do a deal with them at some point," says a studio executive. In the meantime, here's a guide to the coming attractions in the download wars. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...news that Apple's video store had started stocking movies was no surprise to most industry watchers, nor was the fact that the first studio on board would be Disney. Not only did Disney recently purchase Jobs' Pixar animation company in May, but the studio was the first to supply TV shows for Apple's iTunes store last October...
...jazz before, it hits him like something he has always known. He thinks, "That's it. That's going to be my life." And for the next three decades or so, it is--sort of. After studying music in college, he becomes a busy pianist, saxophonist and arranger at Disney theme parks and Hollywood studios, with a five-year interlude as musical director for Johnny Mathis. He wins three Emmys for scoring TV cartoons and starts getting assignments for mainstream movies like Con Air and Armageddon...
...corkscrewing interiors. But it was a gamble that has paid off spectacularly. Libeskind's museum addition, which opens Oct. 7, is the most captivating building to appear in the U.S. in a while, the first to compare in complexity, daring and brave-new-world beauty to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles that Frank Gehry set loose three years ago. If anyone doubts that Libeskind's ideas are a route to a powerful new model of space and form--and there are people who still think of his work as eccentric grandstanding--this is a building to change...
...Today/Gallup poll several months ago had an unfavorable opinion of Cruise, in the wake of his controversial public statements and puzzling behavior such as using Oprah Winfrey's couch as a trampoline while declaring his love for future wife Katie Holmes. And coming just weeks after Disney's decision to drop out of a Holocaust TV miniseries project with Mel Gibson following the torrents of negative publicity about Gibson?s anti-Semitic comments during his DUI arrest, it's an indication that in this celebrity-gossip-saturated age, even stars with stellar box-office records are no longer immune from...