In other words, the power to make a sure-to-be-embarrassing movie about News Corp.
He credits the show's staying power to its timing ("We were in the right place at the right time, " he told The Associated Press), the power of producer James L. Brooks ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show, " the movie "Broadcast News") and its animated format, which allowed the show to avoid meddling Fox note-givers.
"I've got lots of examples from research where college students and older say, 'I feel uncomfortable in a certain situation, and I trace it back to news or movie, ' " she said.
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Serle sold the movie rights to Fox 2000, the movie-making division of News Corp.
Millions of people now rely on their Facebook page to get everything from their daily news, to movie reviews, to figuring out what products they want to purchase.
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After news of the movie deal broke, publishers pounced again.
Cooper has grown, serving as fodder for countless news articles, a movie and ballads.
That's what eventually sold Greenwald on an Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) movie.
Most cable providers offer packages with well over 100 channels filled with content unaffected by the labor strike: news, news magazines, sports, movie channels, cooking shows.
The design work has to shift to the player, but with an assist by technology that makes the game look like a Pixar (nasdaq: PIXR - news - people ) movie.
In addition to all the latest breaking movie, music, TV and celebrity news, Nokia subscribers receive access to over 55, 000 SHOUTcast radio stations and free music album streaming via AOL Music, along with Moviefone's on-device movie search and ticketing features.
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The Daily Show host Jon Stewart has announced that he will take a break from the Comedy Central mock-news show to direct his first movie.
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While artists like The Counting Crows are embracing the brighter sides of new distribution, file-sharing sites can still be bad news for established record labels and movie studios.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) cult-favorite movie, The Princess Bride.
The network, which is owned by Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ), airs the movie Jan. 5.
The television news may look like the trailer for a gangster movie.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is even offering digital movie rentals on its XBox 360 game console.
Rupert Murdoch may want to add to his newspaper collection by taking over the Wall Street Journal, but his News Corp. is making its money from its movie business.
On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) in about 40 seconds.
Movie and TV assets, including Twentieth Century Fox, the Fox News cable channel and Fox broadcasting will remain grouped together.
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In this framework, news is primarily a click-generating engine, featuring movie listings, weather forecasts, or the doings of the Kardashians.
To recap, Disney, CBS, and News Corp, are all reportedly talking to Apple about cheap movie rentals.
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The upgrade itself gives broadcasters the opportunity to distribute multiple channels at a time: A local network affiliate, for instance, might have one news channel, one sports channel and one 24-hour movie channel.
At any rate, at a press conference for the U.K. premiere of the movie, Kermit and Miss Piggy had a chance to respond to the Fox News allegations.
's Fox broadcast network (this magazine has a contractual relationship with the Fox News cable network to jointly produce the show Forbes on Fox) and movie studios remain capricious, hit-driven businesses that do well when they guess right.
"While Call of Juarez: The Cartel touches on subjects relevant to current events in Juarez, it does so in a fictional manner that makes the gaming experience feel more like being immersed in an action movie than in a real-life situation, " a Ubisoft spokesman told Reuters news agency.
After the release of Cohen's 2006 movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, News Corp.
Sony ( SNE - news - people ) BMG and auditioned to appear in the final Harry Potter movie.
Among the new fare: four pay-per-view Cineplex movie channels, including America's Home Box Office, six round-the-clock news services and coverage of major sport events.
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