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...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Blood+ (which debuts in Japan Oct. 8 on TBS) is a spinoff of the 2000 film Blood: The Last Vampire, Japan's first digital feature-length anim?, which won critical acclaim from the likes of James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino. TV series derived from old movies tend to be as reliably bad as movies derived from old TV series, but Blood+ should buck the trend. The effects budget is high for TV, and Production I.G.?the team behind the original film and groundbreaking anim? such as Ghost in the Shell?signed...
...whites from the MGM and Warner Bros libraries. "We're not trying to make bad films great," says Jack Petrik, executive vice president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice president of Color Systems Technology, which provides the new versions to TBS, calls the process "simply another state-of-the-art enhancement. Would you rather have a film sit on the shelf in its 'pure' form or be seen by large numbers of people only because it was colored...
...tbs. olive oil (huile d’olive...
Unlike CBS, which fought off Turner, financially strapped MGM/UA welcomed his offer, which amounted to $29 a share for the diversified entertainment firm. As a condition of the sale, TBS will immediately recoup about a third of the purchase price by spinning off United Artists for $470 million and selling it back for $9 a share to Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who owns 50.1% of MGM/UA's stock. The slimmed-down United Artists will have few assets other than its film library. In contrast, MGM will retain its extensive film and TV production and distribution operations, including the 24 sound stages...
Soon after the MGM news broke, Turner arranged simultaneous press conferences in New York City, Moscow, London and Phoenix, which were broadcast live on his SuperStation WTBS, to announce a groundbreaking agreement with the Soviet Union. As Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated...