The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed is the cop crossing it. Bloomberg News observed Tuesday that the conference is being held as major studios battle a 27-percent rise in production and marketing costs during the past year.
Rewards can be greater by spending more, and that can unfortunately hurt an over-leveraged studio.
The spirited demand surprised analysts and, in all likelihood, News Corp executives who had decided to sell only 13.4 percent of the spun-off company after originally announcing last June that it would put up 20 percent. Jonathan Levin's Killer Convicted A jury in New York Tuesday found a former student of Jonathan Levin, the son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of the high school teacher last year. The jury apparently had doubts about whether the defendant, Corey Arthur, or codefendant Montown Hart, fired the fatal shot. Hart is scheduled to be tried in January. Dole Says Hollywood Fails To Pony Up For Ww2 Memorial Former Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole has chided the movie industry for failing to contribute to his effort to create a memorial to honor the veterans of World War 2.