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This idea of vampirism as a virus is similar to the latest version of I Am Legend, which you were supposed to direct at one point. Yep. Some of the notes about their biology actually came from me going to Warner Bros. to show them my ideas. I found it quite nice that visually the vampires in that movie had some passing similarity to those from my movie Blade II. The way they move, the fact that they all lose their hair and become these pale creatures. (See pictures of vampires in movies...
...that network grew and grew and grew, Time Warner's content divisions, from HBO to Time Inc., from CNN to Warner Bros., could have and should have been at the forefront of the digital-media revolution, leveraging that access against its powerful brands...
...coulds and all the shoulds couldn't put AOL Time Warner together again. I blame the company's curious entrepreneurial culture - curious because, while entrepreneurship is highly prized here, the jefes who run the big operating units still prefer the safety and comfort of a large corporation to the risk of running one's own business. And that creates powerful fiefdoms where divisions don't cooperate with each other and synergy becomes a bad word...
...Time Warner turned out to be the worst kind of conglomerate, a case study (no pun intended) in dysfunctionality. And once again, it was Case who saw this. In fact, he argued in public in early 2004 that AOL ought to be spun off. (He actually did a pretty good job of predicting the future then too, pointing out that online content would consolidate around powerful verticals.) (See the 50 best inventions...
...right person for the job. AOL can soon sell its own stock and raise money to do what big Internet companies must do, especially now: buy the great (undervalued) start-ups that are creating the future. The only question that remains is, What happens to the rest of Time Warner? That's another story...