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Time Warner CEO Bewkes Eyes Cuts, New Line

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2008-02-07 15:10:02 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Bewkes, "If you were Jeff, coming in--" he interrupted the questioner If I were Jeff," he said, "I would shoot myself Back then, Bewkes himself, mindful of the pressure from investors and the analysts who grill execs on their behalf as Time Warner's stock price continued to lay becalmed, said the company needed to take stern measures, and...
 
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The Microsoft-Yahoo News and Its Film-Biz Impact

2008-02-01 23:21:05 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
 
...Bewkes, as he steps up to the plate replacing Richard Parsons as new CEO of Time Warner, can do with the troubled New Line studio that's under his domain . It seems that despite a certain sexiness to the topic, with one or two film-biz pundits calling for co-chairman Bob Shaye's head (and that of his co-chair Michael Lynne) after a series of...
 
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End of an Era: Shaye and Lynne Ankle New Line

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2008-02-28 14:11:58 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Bewkes' memo to the Time Warner employees February 28, 2008 To: All Time Warner Employees From: Jeff Bewkes Subject: New Line to Become a Unit of Warner Bros This afternoon, we announced that New Line will be operated as a unit of Warner Bros. New Line will continue to retain its own brand identity and will maintain separate development,...
 
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The Perfect Storm That Sank Shaye and Lynne At New Line

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2008-02-29 23:10:27 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Bewkes, who made the move, is intriguing--but hardly a surprising one. (The shoe has been waiting to drop since a February 6 conference call in which Bewkes said, "there is an obvious question about whether it still makes sense for us to have two completely separate studio infrastructures at Warner and New Line Since then Shaye had been in...
 
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The Perfect Storm That Sank Shaye and Lynne At New Line

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2008-02-29 23:10:27 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Bewkes, who made the move, is intriguing--but hardly a surprising one. (The shoe has been waiting to drop since a February 6 conference call in which Bewkes said, "there is an obvious question about whether it still makes sense for us to have two completely separate studio infrastructures at Warner and New Line Since then Shaye had been in...
 
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Warner Bros. Streamlines as it Faces Future

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2008-08-11 23:16:00 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Bewkes' rebooting of the Time Warner empire as a window (no pun intended) into the challenges facing the entertainment business at large. Will Bewkes be able to gain a network by acquiring NBC Universal? Will increased profit margins on VOD save the corporation from declining DVD fortunes? And while The Dark Knight reins supreme this summer,...
 
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Warner Bros. Streamlines as it Faces Future

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2008-08-11 23:16:00 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Bewkes' rebooting of the Time Warner empire as a window (no pun intended) into the challenges facing the entertainment business at large. Will Bewkes be able to gain a network by acquiring NBC Universal? Will increased profit margins on VOD save the corporation from declining DVD fortunes? And while The Dark Knight reigns supreme this summer,...
 
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Warner Bros. Chooses Blu-Ray, Annoys Half Of MTV Movies Blog Staff

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2008-01-04 23:14:50 by Brian Jacks in MTV Movies Blog
...Bewkes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner Inc., the parent company of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Todays decision by Warner Bros. to distribute in a single format comes at the right time and is the best decision both for consumers and Time Warner A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward...
 
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New Line/Old Line

2008-02-07 22:44:54 by poland in The Hot Blog
 
...Bewkes' Wall Street call yesterday My current understanding of how the situation will change the movie situation for the company is that WIP is likely to be folded into Picturehouse for reasons of redundancy (with Bob Berney leading) and that Shaye & Lynne will stick around to run a thinner New Line which will move many of the operating...
 
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