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...JUMPING JACK FLASH: PW NewsLine reports that Warner Books must sell 700,000 copies of "Jack: Straight from the Gut," Jack Welch's autobiography, in order to earn out the $7 million advance. 500,000 copies have been sold thus...
...other words, we have a new (and French) vertically integrated media behemoth. The small group of big companies - AOL Time Warner, Disney, Fox - fighting not only to produce but deliver their sports, music, movies, TV shows and "interactive programming" to the U.S. couch potatoes that love them has a new member. Just a year after swallowing Universal Studios (and its theme parks), the former French water utility now figures it's ready to, in the words of former Fox TV creator Diller, "compete in the first tier of entertainment...
...JERRY LEVIN AND STEVE CASE Given the big egos of CEOs, it's no surprise that when companies merge, one boss usually departs. But since the creation of AOL TIME WARNER in January 2000, chairman Steve Case, 43, and CEO Jerry Levin, 62, have shown a unity of purpose at odds with the B-school case studies. It helps that they share a vision: subscriptions. Add up AOL, cable TV and magazines, and they have 137 million people mailing in payments. This year the duo clung for too long to profit promises they couldn't keep. But as they direct...
Liberty Media is an oddball idea. It's John Malone's collection of both public and private media-content businesses. It's at $11.50, and there's probably $10 worth of publicly traded stock in his collection of assets, including AOL Time Warner, Sprint, Motorola and News Corp. He also has about $10 a share worth of private companies like Discovery Channel and QVC. The list is as long as your...
Ocean’s Eleven, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts, is released by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Steven Soderbergh...