Alcon's shareholders are not the only ones up in arms about the sequence of deals.
Jutland, and the island Laeso in particular, are among the last European strongholds of the Alcon blue.
Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind The Blind Side, was hoping that Beautiful Creatures might launch their first franchise.
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Last year Alcon set up a committee of independent directors to protect minorities in the event of a takeover bid.
Would that Novartis paid as much attention to Alcon's disgruntled minorities as Kraft appears to be to its most famous shareholder.
Earlier this month Novartis said it would acquire majority control of Alcon.
Alcon Entertainment announced Wednesday that Ericson Core will direct the project.
Unhappily for Alcon's shareholders, however, Swiss takeover law does allow bidders to pay one price to controlling shareholders and a lower one to the remainder.
Alcon bought the rights from producer-director Bud Yorkin, who will produce the new film along with Alcon, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
Novartis mentioned 16 major submissions in its pharmaceutical pipeline in 2010, along with its merger with eye-care company Alcon, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.
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The researchers studied several sites in Denmark where the Alcon (Maculinea alcon) caterpillars develop on a marsh plant before Myrmica rubra and Myrmica ruginodis ants bring them into their nests.
Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment.
The takeover of Alcon is further complicated because the firm is based in Switzerland but its shares trade in America, leaving it with neither the protections afforded by American corporate law nor those of Swiss securities laws, both of which would have been more favourable to Alcon's minority shareholders.
And how will both fare against other treatments, such as Visudyne, the gold standard from QLT Therapeutics (nasdaq: QLTI - news - people ) and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) and Alcon 's (nyse: ALC - news - people ) experimental Retaane.
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