The director, Joe Dante, and his team (which includes the screenwriter Charlie Haas and the effects supervisor Rick Baker) have made a multimillion-dollar, special-effects-crammed picture that has the loose, improvisatory feel of the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the forties and fifties.
Indeed, just rehabbing the existing building would have been cheaper, Leder noted, but that wouldn't have upheld the vision that Mayer, the Warner brothers, Laemmle and the others had when they moved a congregation founded downtown in 1862 to the edge of a barley field and laid the foundation for what would become one of the city's most vibrant areas.
The push, some three years in the making, comes in the form of deals with Warner Brothers Studios to restore and digitize the Warner motion picture and television library, the world's largest, and also create a digital post-production studio.
"As soon as we start seeing that we have more than 50, 000 names on our Web site, perhaps we will go to the Warner Brothers gate and do a bit of activism, " Pimentel said.
Mayer, along with fellow movie moguls Irving Thalberg, Carl Laemmle and the Warner brothers, helped bankroll the cavernous Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which debuted in 1929 as the cornerstone of the largest Jewish congregation west of Chicago.
Tencent did not disclose how much it paid for the shares on Tuesday, but industry rumors say the company bid ahead of Warner Brothers to acquire the position.
Executives at Warner Brothers, part of the Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) empire, say they were drawn to HP for its ability to store, organize and process huge amounts of data.
Those unable to attend the UCLA screenings can take comfort knowing that Tracy's most famous pictures are readily obtainable on DVD, the bulk from Warner Brothers.
Get Smart, which has been adapted for the cinema by Warner Brothers for release this summer, was a hit among fans who responded to Brooks' brand of comedy about the vulnerable everyman.
According to Intel's Erik Reid, the company has already struck deals with CinemaNow and Warner Brothers, and the plan is for all content to be made available at the same time as the DVD or Blu-ray release.
Billed as a TNT original story, Falling Skies borrows heavily from the old 80s series V, remade in 2009 by Warner Brothers Television and The Scott Peters Company, sold to ABC-TV.
The leader in MOD in every respect is Warner Brothers, which has led the charge since this technology's commercial debut three years ago.
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However, the two creators are now suing Warner Brothers and games developer 5th Cell in a California court over the appearance of the cats in the popular game Scribblenauts, published by WB Games.
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Warner Brothers, owned by Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, snapped up film rights on all four books -- as well as an option on the next three -- and the first Harry Potter movie became one of the most talked about projects in Hollywood.
None of that factors in the many millions more Warner Brothers (like Sheen) is raking in from syndication revenue on an annual basis.
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Take Madonna's current world tour, the first in eight years by the pop star, who is signed up to the group's Warner Brothers Records.
Hollywood talent agency CAA launched the comedy platform Funny or Die, Turner and Warner Brothers partnered to run Media Camp, and just recently the New York Times launched timeSpace.
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Unbelievably, my Forbes post about Charlie Sheen and the stock market is featured in the letter firing him written by Warner Brothers lawyers.
At the time that she and I met, I was living in Manhattan, working at Warner Brothers, and doing my little version of the rat race.
The film turned out to be a disaster for Warner Bros but Silver and his directors, the Wachowski Brothers, saw potential in Rain, who had a small role in the film.
"This is what the business is about, " says Warner Brothers' President of Domestic Distribution Dan Fellman.
The forthcoming biopic will be distributed by Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers exclusive backing of the Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format has not only warmed the hearts of Sony investors, it's good news for the companies that produce the expensive disc-making machines.
Variety reported yesterday that Warner Brothers is moving forward with the movie Rome Sweet Rome.
Next week Maybach Music and Warner Brothers will release Ambition, the second official album from rapper Wale.
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The result: The status quo remains, says Lehman Brothers cable analyst Lara Warner.
News Corporation's film studio came second for box-office receipts after Warner Brothers in 2005 and it claims the highest margins in Hollywood.
Warner Brothers is a staunch supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and keeps a keen eye out for infringement of its own copyright and trademarks.
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In that piece, NPR interviewed John Connolly, chief operating officer at Kinetic North America, on how he helps big companies like movie studio Warner Brothers and candy maker Mars find the best spots on which to place outdoor advertisements.
While well compensated for the original ad, the agency never benefited from the licensing or movie deals that went on to earn Warner Brothers billions.
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