Last May he shut down Warner Independent and Time Warner's other art house distributor, Picturehouse.
Last year Time Warner closed Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse Entertainment, the studio's two art film divisions.
Besides dividing audiences, the glut of films caused Warner Independent's advertising costs to sometimes match the film's production budget.
Independent film branches like Paramount Vantage and Warner Independent closed their doors.
Mark Gill used to be head of Warner Independent, where he oversaw risky art films like George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck and Everything is Illuminated.
But Cass Warner, granddaughter of studio co-founder Harry Warner, onetime writing student of Koch and head of her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, is determined to have the sequel made, as she recently announced on her website.
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He said Time Warner Cable Inc. and AOL Inc. have both done better as independent companies, after Time Warner Inc. spun them off years ago.
The agreements are with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.
While in Australia, he founded Higher Level Records, an independent record label he later sold to Warner Music.
Wall to Wall is part of Shed Media, a production company that was independent until last August, when Time Warner bought a controlling stake.
In addition, Time Warner also agreed to recommend the election of two new independent directors to its board.
Media giant Time Warner has announced plans to spin off its Time Inc magazine unit into an independent, publicly traded company by the end of the year.
Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
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