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Warner Village Cinemas is to build a £7m seven-screen multiplex cinema in Hartlepool by next March, as part of the £200m Marina scheme being developed by Discovery Properties and Freehold Portfolio Estates. 30-Sep-1998 Warner Village has won the contract to operate the 10-screen cinema in Reading's Oracle centre, and it will open next autumn with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 30-Sep-1998 Warner Music and Sony Music are planning to merge their distribution facilities to create a major new distribution centre for music, videos and electronic games, through a new joint venture company called The Entertainment Network. 01-Apr-1998 United News & Media and Warner Bros of the US have identified three potential sites between London and Birmingham for a £225m film production studio and theme park, and a final decision is expected within two months. 19-Mar-1998 Warner Bros and United News & Media are looking at sites in the Midland to set up a Movie World film production studio and theme park, and hope to select a location early next year. 19-Nov-1997 Warner Village is to build four multiplex cinemas in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Kilmarnock at a cost of £40m, creating 500 jobs. 08-Jul-1997 Warner Bros has dropped plans to set up a movie theme park in Uxbridge due to problems with the planning authorities, and is now considering other sites around London. 02-Jun-1997 Warner Village, the joint venture between Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow of Austria, is now expected to go-ahead with plans to build a multiscreen cinema complex at the Battersea power station redevelopment project in London. 30-May-1997 HTV is discussing a possible alliance with Warner Brothers of the US, in which it will provide Warner with a way of expanding its European TV production interests. 28-Feb-1997 Carlton Communications is discussing the acquisition of Metrocolour, the London-based film and television processing laboratory currently owned by Warner Brothers. 17-Sep-1996 Warner Bros is to set up a state-of-the-art animation studio in London which will employ 70 animation experts. 22-Jun-1996 Warner Brothers Television is to launch a UK satellite channel in November through the BSkyB multichannel package. 20-Jun-1996
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