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...Moloshok, met repeatedly with Mark Burnett, producer of the Survivor series, trying to land the exclusive Internet rights to Burnett's other hit show. Semel knew Burnett was talking to competitors AOL and MSN too. So early last fall the former co-chairman of Warner Bros. made a Hollywood move: he combined a personal plea with a hard sell. When he walked into Burnett's office, Semel didn't waste time with niceties. Burnett recalls, "He said, 'We want to provide valuable content, and we think that your show is the perfect model. We'll invest more money...
Yahoo!'s Apprentice victory broke new ground in the awkward relationship between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Internet companies have long wanted to put entertainment content online, but fear of piracy, illegal downloading and disruption of their revenue model have so far made the studios hold on tightly to their product. Semel, who was brought in to run Yahoo! after 30 years in Hollywood, is determined to change that. In November he hired Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment who greenlighted shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost and earlier helped develop The Sopranos for HBO, to head...
...which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) has worked with shows like Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on advertising cross-promotions and last month announced it was talking to TV production houses about developing its own online content. Microsoft, though slower to embrace Hollywood, is putting its Encarta encyclopedia on its search site. Even Google, which says it is committed to search, last month launched a service allowing users to look up movies, find local screen times and link to reviews...
...Confederation of Indian Industry, for which he champions Asia as the promised land of cinema. "With the rise of Asian consumerism, in a decade 70% of all movie revenues will come from Asia," Kapur declares. "Asian culture will become the international norm. It's reverse cultural colonization. Hollywood will still be making Spider-Man movies, but when Spider-Man takes off his mask, he'll be Chinese...
...years ago, when Kapur left Bollywood for Hollywood, America still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says...