Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zone had a reason to move quickly. A rival film on the same subject, Outbreak, directed by Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) and starring Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo, was also rushing toward a start date. Producer Arnold Kopelson had initiated the project at Warner Bros. after failing in his bid for the rights to Hot Zone. He got a script from Robert Roy Pool and Dr. Laurence Dworet, an internist. While visiting an Army virus center, the Outbreak screenwriters ran into Obst and Preston; it was like a cold war chance meeting...
...Time Warner is eyeing NBC and Disney has a hankering for CBS, according to published reports today. If consumated, the purchases would be two of the most dramatic in a decade when major news and entertainment companies have remade themselves into multi-media giants. Analysts familiar with the industries, however, told TIME Daily the deals are fraught with problems. Government regulations, for instance, may prohibit Time Warner from owning a TV network while it also dominates some cable markets. Time Warner is the number two cable provider in the U.S. And Disney, with its children-oriented shows, would...
...Natural Born Killers, the new outrage from Hollywood's most audacious auteur, takes a wild look at America's infatuation with twisted minds. The $34 million movie is so manic, so violent, so seemingly at one with the subject it satirizes, that Warner Bros. was reportedly spooked about a potential fire storm. Now the execs say they are feeling better. "I'm encouraged and excited," says marketing boss Rob Friedman. "The media response has been overwhelmingly positive...
...current success in the health-care fight -- remains chary of him. "I'm not the darling of everyone on the right," he says. So he makes occasional concessions. Despite original misgivings, he endorsed Oliver North's Senate candidacy in Virginia, the result of a convention dominated by ultraconservatives. John Warner, Virginia's G.O.P. Senator and a Dole ally, has disavowed North and is backing a rival...
Time Inc. is America's largest magazine publisher and one of its largest book publishers, a vital and fast-growing part of Time Warner Inc. around the world. Brack assumed the CEO post for magazines in 1986 and for all of Time Inc. in 1990, and under his energetic leadership, the number of magazines we publish has increased from eight to 24, and revenues rose from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion last year. He presided over the first successful launch of a weekly magazine in the U.S. in two decades, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. His record speaks for itself, and he passes...