With the app movies, Warner Bros. can include things like digital comic books and content can be added to the app over time through updates.

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With the convergence of DC Comics already successful from comic books to blockbuster movies like The Dark Knight Rises to hit games like Warner Bros.

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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.

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Books by American author Ben Lerner and Scot Jenni Fagan join the latest works by Alan Warner and Kirsty Gunn to make up the shortlist for the fiction prize.

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