Warner Bros. Pictures Presents THE BUCKET LIST Sunday, December 16th at the Cinerama Dome

Red carpet arrivals at the premiere of THE BUCKET LIST on Sunday, December 16th at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles.

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Orange - Company Background

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. France Telecom serves more than 167 million customers in five continents as of September 30, 2007, of which two thirds are Orange customers. The Group had consolidated sales of 51.7 billion euros in 2006 and 39.4 billion euros for the first nine months of 2007. At September 30, 2007 the group had 106.9 million mobile customers and 11.4 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers.

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MGM Signs Multiyear VOD Agreement With France Telecom’s Orange Company’s “24/24 Video”

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) has signed a multiyear agreement with France Telecom’s Orange and its “24/24 Video” service, providing the studio’s latest feature film releases and classic movies from the MGM library to Orange’s customers via Video-on-Demand. The agreement was announced today by Gary Marenzi, Co-President, Worldwide Television, MGM.

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CNN Digital Network Attracts Largest Audience in 11-Year History

The CNN Digital Network in November scored its largest unique audience ever in its 11-year history and – with 32.8 million unique users – bested Yahoo! News and the MSNBC Digital Network to be the top Current Events and Global News site for the month, according to Nielsen Online.

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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group - Company Background

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment’s home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and transactional VOD, and delivery of theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles.

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution - Company Background

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) was founded in October 2005 to manage the worldwide electronic distribution streams of the Studio’s product over existing, new and emerging digital platforms, including pay-per-view, electronic sell-through, video-on-demand, subscription-video-on-demand, wireless and more. WBDD also oversees the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group’s worldwide digital strategy, partnerships in digital services and emerging new clients and business activities in the digital space.

Thomas Gewecke Named President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD)

Thomas Gewecke has been named as President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD), it was announced today by Kevin Tsujihara, President, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, to whom he will directly report.

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MTV Networks and AOL to Deliver Expansive Library Of MTVN Entertainment Content through AOL Video

MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), and AOL today announced that show clips from MTVN’s music, kids and family, comedy and pop-culture brands will be available to consumers for free through AOL Video (http://video.aol.com). Beginning later this week, audiences will be able to view short-form video from COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, CMT, Logo, The N, Spike TV, MTV2, AtomFilms and GameTrailers, including show clips from COMEDY CENTRAL’s Emmy and Peabody-Award winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MTV’s The Hills, Nickelodeon’s iCarly, VH1’s I Love New York, and much more.

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Dan Lin Establishes Lin Pictures - Long-Term Production Deal With Warner Bros. Pictures

Highly respected creative executive and Senior Vice President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures Dan Lin has founded Lin Pictures and will segue from his position at the Studio into an exclusive, long-term production deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, effective January 1. This announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, who currently serves as President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures and will move into the newly created post of President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group on January 1, 2008.

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New Line Cinema’s The Golden Compass Points to Box Office Success in U.K. on Opening Day

On its first day of release in the United Kingdom, New Line Cinema’s The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig scored a major box office success, garnering $1.9 million around the country on Wednesday. The film marks Entertainment Film Distributors’ highest opening outside of New Line’s The Lord of the Rings franchise.

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