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...Fake Watch If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Fed up with losing revenue and market share to China's ubiquitous DVD pirates, Warner Home Video last week announced that it is setting up a mainland video distribution network with a local partner?a first for any foreign studio?and that it is pricing its discs to compete with local fake copies. The studio (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner) is gambling that people will be willing to pay about $3 apiece for authentic DVDs of Warner hits like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. With...
...Warner Brothers Pictures
Freston has been shaping kids' tastes for a quarter-century. In 1980, this former clothing entrepreneur with an M.B.A. from New York University read about the start-up MTV network (then co-owned by Warner Communications, which was later acquired by Time Inc., this magazine's publisher), applied for a job and became one of the founding executives. He oversaw properties like VH1 and Nick at Nite and, friends say, has remained true to MTV values, both personally, as a U2 fan, and as a businessman, believing that interesting content can make money. "Audiences want variety--in their television...
...years ago and said he had been talking with F.X. Toole, who'd written these great stories set in and around boxing. So I read them and particularly liked Million Dollar Baby. I thought it would be relatively simple. Mystic River had done reasonably well. So I went to Warner Bros., and they said, "We don't think boxing movies are really that commercial now," and I said, "Well, I don't quite see this as a boxing movie." I said it was a love story between a surrogate father and his surrogate daughter, and it's the next picture...
They predicted that Hagel will choose Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney as his vice presidential candidate in a race against Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and his running mate, former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. The students said Bayh’s centrist message will help him secure the Democratic nomination...