But with spring and summer chockablock with movies, Warners decided its best shot was now.

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Warners Bros. disagreed but a judge decided there was a case to answer.

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The animated pre-credit sequence, featuring Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, was written and directed by Chuck Jones, who made some of the greatest Warners cartoons.

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If enough networks like this emerge, it could pressure the Time Warners of the world into unlocking their self-administered handcuffs and give viewers an online-only option.

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Individual producers like the Warners benefit from the scale of the collective, which partners with a professional vineyard to produce the wine from the grapes of each year's harvest.

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"Now is the time when the Time Warners and Disneys of China are going to be founded, " says William Brent, head of a Shanghai media consulting company, China Entertainment Network.

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Justin Chang, Variety: This hugely ambitious action-drama nonetheless retains the moral urgency and serious-minded pulp instincts that have made the Warners franchise a beacon of integrity in an increasingly comicbook-driven Hollywood universe.

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