you were aroducer, bridge between late of the legony as warner bros., -- the company as warner bros.,be don't happen. kissing scene in the movie, did you keep it in or taken out as part -- take it out? >> i was trying to protect the brand of lego. i wanted to immerse myself in who they are. i went to the theme park, the original factory. i have gotten to know who they are as a company. i also know warner bros. well. i am trying to bridge both their interest. what is the best version of the movie that honors warner bros. rallies and legal values? -- lego values? >> are some big stars in this movie. when you start reaching out to say, celebrities, do they "awesome? " >> they were super excited. we got everyone we wanted for the movie. most of them play with legos themselves. they wanted to play with their kids. they are coming from a place where they are really passionate about it. >> it has already been reported that there is a lego sequel in the works. when you start a process like you, are you thinking, -- want to respect the brand. do you want to make this one film, or do you think

i know warner bros. as well, as i was an executive there before.ice to be able to bridge both of their interest, and find the best version of the movie that honors both warner bros. values and lego values. thise some big stars in movie, will barrel, and others very when you start to redound to the celebrities, do they say awesome, or not sure? >> they were super excited. if we got everyone we wanted for the movie. legos, them play with and are begins inside, playing it with their kids. the cast was really passionate about the product, and you see it on the screen. >> it was reported that there was a lego sequel in the group -- works. wanting tolk about respect the brand, and would you think that you would want to make this one film, or that there was something we could do more substantially over time? >> when you first start the movie, you just want to make a great movie. as we started to tell the story convoy fell in love with the characters. you will see, you go to all of these different worlds, go to the wild west world we go to we go to the cit

i also know warner bros. well. i am trying to bridge both their interest. the best version of the movie that honors warner bros. values and lego values? >> there are some big stars in this movie. when you start reaching out to these celebrities, do they say, "awesome?" >> they were super excited. we got everyone we wanted for the movie. most of them play with legos themselves. they wanted to play with their kids. they are coming from a place where they are really passionate about it. >> it has already been reported that there is a lego sequel in the works. when you start a process like this, are you thinking -- you want to respect the brand. do you want to make this one film, or do you think there's something more substantial we can do with it? >> when you first start making the movie, you just want to make a great movie. we fell in love with the characters. you can go to all these different worlds. you can go to the wild west, space, the city. we can take a lot of characters and go to other worlds for future movies. if audiences respond to the movie, we wo

being the bridge between lego and warner bros.. what do you do in that role?g businessweek highlighted the kissing scene. do you keep it in or take it out? tried hat that i wear, i to be the brand stewards of lego and protect their brand. i have gone to the theme parks, the original factory. i really get to know who they are as a company. at the same time, i know warner bros. well. i have produced a lot of movies for them. ultimately it is about the movie . brick thomas blago's the second largest in the world. your is a look at the journey. >> lego is probably the most popular toy in the world. war than 560 billion people -- pieces have been produced since the first and denmark in 1949. it is the second largest toy company. only mattel is larger. they are still owned by the family of kirk picks -- kirk christiansen, founder and pointer of the brand name lego. wooden planes and buses for children, he'd bought the first last big injection molding machine and denmark and began aching small recs that's not together. the design was an enduring success. in fact, any

when warner bros. approached them, i was looking at the financials. they are a private company. >> they are crushing. >> they are crushing. >> why not? greed is good. can haveone when you three. >> legos compass group -- the 512-year-oldrs are kids and you need teenagers. >> look at pixar. they are springing. >> is a good song. >> tom was a professional musician at one point. able do not know that. star?u a rock you are a rockstar. >> always a rockstar. >> some of the humor is a little more edgy than lego wanted. figure toa lego mini sing. when they tested that, lego did not want that and they took it out. >> scandalous. like a love scene? >> exactly. they cut that. ist of the main characters played by will arnett and is incredibly funny. he is incredibly jerky. -- it isn's toward geared toward teenagers and adults. they have incredible brand awareness in asia and other parts of the world. >> what you know about the ways the refuse and profits are being distributed between warner and legos question mark >> basically, legos kept all of the licensing ri

it really took warner bros.me just to get the ball rolling saying yeah, you should do this. >> what impressed me with the fact that you had different characters from different movies like superman from marvel -- i might be getting my comic books wrong here. and then other characters, mixing it up because that is how kids play with their lego sets. "theat bilbo baggins from hobbit" movie, and they could be playing with wonder woman. >> yes, kids do not really care who owns the ip. >> do companies care? >> they do. but lego has been a big buyer of analytical property in hollywood. 1999, they went out and bought the rights to "star wars," and that has been one of their top sellers. one or twice a year they buy a movie or tv show. >> the headline here from "pinocchio" onto the disney success, and all of a sudden "toy story" was the new kid on the block was of you are giving this movie a rave review. is this like the new "toy story"? >> yeah, on rotten tomatoes, i think it have a 99% rating at this point. part of the

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very popular movie, warner bros. legendary pictures the newest incarnation of superman. watch this little boy's reaction to superman's first full flight sequence from this movie. you can almost hear him under his breath going wow, wow, wow. >> yeah. >> yeah. he sat up. he's excited. >> he's in a trans. keep watching. he starts applauding and moving around on dad's lap. he can't get enough of this movie. it makes you want to watch the movie through this 16-month-old's eyes. people are starting to share this video and they are talking about this video and you can see why because it's so full of cuteness and innocence and pure joy. >> instead of the director commentary they should include this kid like, oh. >> listen to the parents' reaction at the end of the this video once the movie clip is over. >> you are adorable. >> oh, mom, your adorable and he's, like, yay! >> he's super boy. >> yeah. and he's super cute. and for other superman fans out there no matter what the age the batman versus superman movie is due out may 6th of 2016 so go ahead and mark your calendars. >>> d

a big sigh of relief is coming from warner bros. the film studio's lego movie is a smash hit at the box office and dollars are stacking up. our movie man-- erik childress is here to talk about lego. >>last week we talked about expecting it to hit 200 million. it's probably going to do that this weekend. so now it's a question of whether it can hit 300 millionand i think it can. >>audiences are loving it. take a look at the numbers from last weekend at the box officeclearly number one coming in at $62 million, followed by about last nightwhich you also predicted would have strong numbersand it did. then there's robocop, the monuments men, and endless love. the one thing you notice on this screensony, sony, sony. >>yeah, it's sort of a good news bad news front for sony. about last night was produced on a $13 million budgetthat's already obviously in the black. it was a very big hit for sony. robocopthat's another question. it's doing pretty well overseas. i think the american numbers we're gonna see those dip quite a bit this weekend.

[captioning made possible by warner bros.tic television distribution] >> today on "tmz" -- >> a naked internet selfie has gone viral. supposedly of emma stone. emma stone says it's not emma stone. >> it looks like her. >> i just pulled up a photo right now of emma at the airport the other day holding a cell phone. looks the same. >> it's the same phone. >> diddy and drake are both performing "worst behavior," which is drake's song. drake's microphone goes bad and he decides to grab diddy's microphone. >> does that violate good etiquette? >> you can't do that.

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the film from warner bros. collected more than $48 million.favorable reviews and lack of competition have helped the movie. this would help the firm. it is not disclosing the financial terms of the action -- acquisition. >> george soros has boosted its stake in tether. as the world largest maker of generic drugs. now for more on teva. a big a big bold bet by soros. >> that is right. he did not become a billionaire out of chance. they have boosted their stake in this since last year. he holds about one percent of what is the world's largest maker of generic drugs. this is a $57 billion company. percentccounts for four of the asset -- assets under management. why is george soros going into teva now. , among theery cheap cheapest of the global pharmaceutical companies listed around the world. that iten very vague could be a takeover target. it is in the process of restructuring, letting go 10% of the workforce to get $2 billion worth of cost every year. this is aos thinks bet taking. they are doubling down. the shares are up 10% so far this year.

the animated film from warner bros.lected more than $48 million, favorable reviews, and a lack of clear competition has certainly helped. an asset check. jonathan ferro is at the touchscreen with the latest. >> no trading in the equity markets in the u.s. trading in europe ok. uninspiring session outside of the ftse 100. a touch of losses on the dax and the cac 40. the action is outside the equity markets. here in the bond markets, look at italian debt. the yield on that has hit the lowest since 2006. what instability? do investors like it this way? you know that one over. elsewhere, it is a quiet day. one euro buys you roundabout $1. 3708. all of this is just the calm before the storm. a busy week. we have eurozone pmi, china pmi, thing coming in minutes, bank of england unemployment, does that matter any more? to spend a lotg of time talking about this over the next few weeks. thank you very much. >> it is going to be good. coming up, just the right measure of glitter, gold, and glamour last night as the stars showcas

terry was the head of warner bros. pictures and yahoo! for a while. >> the work of bob daly?rrect. news newss --was nbc the head of that. did two of them are minority investors. we also have a partnership agreement with our journalists. >> you went to t>> yall street journal and said that you want to go out on your own. did they say no you can't do that? we will make it so attractive that you cannot leave? >> we have never gotten an investment from dow jones. we have been profitable, we made money. we were doing while. there was never any investment. wn you are covering an industry and you think about growth and where you can go, it become me that owns you does not want to invest, but are ahappy just making money, itak becomes harder. we wanted to trading profits we were making fir equity.ing that was one of the issues. owey wanted to own 100%. ig to be fair, they might have wanted to own 80%. >> they want control. we were like the crazy cousins. we did really well. >> you attracted a lot of attention? >> we had a lot of interest. it was not comfortable for them. it was not c

and warner bros., "the lay go movie" won top spot -- "the lego won the top spot over presidents' daynd. and it was a huge weekend for netflix. this season two premiere of the hit show "house of cards" came out. according to the latest data, and watching in the first three days after the release was way up over last year. 16% of u.s. netflix subscribers watched at least one episode of "house of cards" within hours of its midnight release pacific time on friday. i want to bring in jon erlichman. in the ceo to bring of guru. guys, we have to try our hardest not to give anything away for people who haven't seen the first episode yet. i have to say that i am still reeling from the shocking plot twist in the very first episode. netflix'su make of ability to take the kind of a risk? >> the fact that we are talking about it right now on tv, i think that goes to the point that they are proving that anything can happen on netflix. people are talking about it. it is drawing a lot of people to the show. there are some that you wouldn't see on broadcast tv for sure. >> why wouldn't we see it on b

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. >> warner bros. which is a place ever after spent a lot of time auditioning. i was a kid. was auditioning sitting across from you were seven actors. guys i've had seen all my life growing up. all of these different shows. i thought to myself, when i am that age, i do not want to be auditioning for three lines. as the two of you began -- you were doing an audition you knew, hey, let's do this together. >> brighton beach. it is my first page up ever. abc at the time was doing a star search. it was old contract players. they paid 20 grand a year to be under contract. i was doing construction work and riding a bicycle to auditions. grant and i were an acting class doing a scene. we brought bunk beds onto the stage and i ran into a guy. he was like, george crosby -- [laughter] we are doing a thing. if you want to come over to the 20/20 building at abc and audition, three minutes, no props. maybe we will give you a go. i said, ok. grant and i were doing the same. it was very successful in class. the worst thing is i will never work with abc. i had never worked with them before.

have a [captioning made possible by warner bros.on distribution] >> today on "tmz" -- >> a naked internet selfie has gone viral. supposedly of emma stone. emma stone says it's not emma stone. >> it looks like her. >> i just pulled up a photo right now of emma at the airport the other day holding a cell phone. looks the same. >> it's the same phone. >> diddy and drake are both performing "worst behavior," which is drake's song. drake's microphone goes bad and he decides to grab diddy's microphone.

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knew best because i was seen in the student production at ucla, seen by a casting director from warner bros who was in the audience. he plucked me out of that and put me in my first feature film about alaska, "ice palace." so breaking into movies was a piece of cake, actually. advice. my father's and the same casting director put in a word for me later on when gene roddenberry was casting for "star trek." with that iconic, legendary now, sci-fi tv series. "star trek."out it broke ground in so many ways. we all grew up on it. it was a most diverse cast, to say the least -- women, people of color. who put this together? what was the brainchild? >> gene roddenberry was the visionary, creator and producer, and wrote some of the episodes. when i first went in for the interview, he shared his philosophy and his concept. the key thing was, he said -- the story will take place -- the majority of the story will take place on this vast starship, space craft but we're calling it a starship. and this starship will be populated by about 1000 professional scientists, engineers, people that are necessary

the story of the guy taking in $70 million in the opening weekend and setting a record for warner bros that produced. already plans for a sequel. >> of course. >> world war ii flick "the monuments men" distant second and "ride along" rounded out the top three. >>> development in the fight over the washington redskin. fans, native-american groups and su civil rights leaders criticized the team, now congress is getting involved. today, members of congress wrote to nfl commissioner roger goodell objecting to his recent claim the redskins' name honored native-americans. democratic senator maria cantwell and congressman tom cole reminding that the federal government determined the name is a slur, pointing to a december ruling by the patent and trademark office, and they also invoked the nfl's special status under current law, writing the nfl's on the wrong side of history. it's not appropriate for this multibillion dollar 501c6 tax-exempt organization to profit from the continued degradation of tribes and indian people. it's time for the nfl to formally push for a name change for the washin

the animated film from warner bros. collected more than $48 million.haraoh -- favorable reviews and a lack of competition helped the movie. to "countdown." is 7:13. when it comes to changes in the retail industry, our next guest says it is not about what you are buying, but how you are buying it. he joins us now. consumers could sit in the street withford their 3-d spectacular glass and see the top shot walk at the tate modern. what is next? >> i think a huge convergence of technology. we have already seen a number of retailerss, lots of bringing together on the online and in-store environment. we have seen it across the board. >> does innovation equal more consumers which equals more spend? is it that simple? >> i think it can help that way. if you are offering a multichannel experience, there are clear commercial dynamics, more online stores launched in the u.s. last year and france on the way this year. multichannel tendency is hugely important. a lot of these technological innovations are more about savvy than they are about commercial. the top sho

warner bros. is the studio behind this one. could be a big hit for time warner.p a little bit this morning. look at jcpenney. results are due out this week. quarter results are due out. those analysts are expecting a loss. the stock is down another 7% right now, 5.24 for jcpenney. a big winner, a new high. tell us why, nicole. nicole: insurers are doing so well today because we're talking about medicare advantage and reimbursements for insurers is looking from the government only about to be three and a half to 4%. some are anticipating 7% decline. ultimately this is good news which is why you are seeinn it a new high. stuart: and a high of 112.72. thank you, nicole. curious about a stock? using the? "ask charles." talk about what was dow chemical because the viewers asked. you are responsive guy, aren't you? charles: guys, keep them coming. i picked dow chemical because i think this is an ideal company for a lot of the viewers portfolios. a big, strong company. up 31%, record cash flow. they got rid of the low-margin businesses, 2006 only 20% of the business cam

i think warner bros. has really cracked the code on this.this will be a major franchise for the studio. they did everything right on this one. at probably the number two and three spots for the next couple of years. we are also looking at newbies based on hot wheels and ouija board game. how translatable is something like the ouija board? >> russia and brazil in china? of these brands are not as well-known that worldwide. you have to make a movie that will translate to the global market. the way you do that is you make a good movie. you can have a terrific branding like stretch armstrong that is coming up and other types, but if you do not have a good movie to back it up, it does not matter about the branding. of thes ago, a lot superhero movies could not get the a-list directors. movies are full of oscar nominees and great actors and directors. i think when you have a strong performances, you're going to get more filmmakers involved, and this will be the next seeing moviesr as based on products or a book or something else like that. this is

warner bros. filming a movie based on the popular videogame on -- and on caps the success of the game. and you have the lego movie. lego has taken an almost $190 million in the box office animals three weeks. i am not sure i am going to see the movie but i respect what they do. >> everything is awesome. remember that. >> the news flow out of the ukraine, on the verge of tearing apart, ethnic tensions in crimea. two airports taken by armed gunmen dared this morning, very difficult relations between ukraine, europe, and russia. we need to go to kiev. i were reporters there is iev,rting on the calm of k the tension of from you. i assume all of kiev is focused on crimea. is a major concern. i had a chance late last night. is a down with a man who security chief -- his official title i think is secretary of national security defense counsel in ukraine. i asked if he is worried about the russian military conducting exercises nearby. >> yes, i am. i am worried about it for sure. also the capture of the g

and bewkes is investing in content, they have turner, they have warner bros.for all of the networks. and then you have hbo. i think it really fits in there as a part of this new valuable video-focused content company. so i think that once they spun off time inc it wasn't necessary. >> thank you very much. >>> let's look at the markets. down 74 points on the dow at the moment. the adp was questionable. we had a good ism services report today. still stocks have fallen for three of the past four sessions. so where are we on a technical basis? dan fitzpatrick joins me now with stockmarketmentor.com. where are we on the technicals? >> i don't think we're as bad as a lot of people are saying that we are. we've definitely got to break an upside momentum but we're just in this consolidation phase. i really feel like the worst of it is already behind us. we can be talking about the correction that's already occurred. but we're really at some pretty good levels. the big deal for me is going to be the unemployment report on friday. if we can hold these current level, i r

. >>> excitement is building after warner bros.'. the sequel is scheduled to be released may 26 of 2017. so far, the lego movie has brought in more than $200 million worldwide and it appears it will dominate the box office for a third weekend in a row. it is the first major theatrical release to bring the popular toy to life. >>> state health officials are reporting an increase in the measles. so far this year, 15 cases have been reported, four right here in the bay area. health officials say last year there were only two cases reported statewide. earlier this month, a uc berkeley student tested positive for measles. that student commuted on bart, raising concerns that other passengers may have been exposed. health officials say the best way to protect yourself is through immunization. >>> meanwhile, state health officials have confirmed 35 new flu-related deaths. the latest update raises the statewide death toll to 278 for the flu season so. far here in the bay area, we've counted 48 flu-related deaths. santa clara county continues