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- <text id=89TT2751>
- <title>
- Oct. 23, 1989: Business Notes:Litigation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 23, 1989 Is Government Dead?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- LITIGATION
- The Battle Of Burbank
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- <p> More than most industries, the movie business is dependent
- on the creative talents of a few top people. That is the basis
- for a feud that has broken out on the sprawling Burbank, Calif.,
- studio lot that Columbia Pictures shares with Warner Bros.
- Friction between the neighbors began last month when Japan's
- Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to
- hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man,
- Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an
- exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner. The
- two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, but last week both
- filed major lawsuits. Warner wants $1 billion for the loss of
- Guber and Peters, while Sony rejects Warner's claims and is
- asking for $100 million.
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- </body></article>
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