they use this against warner bros. d time warner caved area to we don't know if this will be successful. the fight is getting more and more public. davidas talking to stretched her. aazon purports itself to be customer friendly place. if you go there and you can't get what you want, that is the opposite of their mission statement. >> in a short pain for long-term gain. the strategy is to make everything is cheap as possible. david also covers walmart, so he knows that part of the strategy. betty liu talked to an author who is representing this off as united group of 900 riders who want to put pressure on amazon for holding authors hostage. this is what she said. >> everybody who makes a product should have the right to price that product where they can make a profit. is simple ifing it you go by those terms. >> douglas preston is responsible for leading the charge in the new york times. he said that his pre-sales across the board for a hard copy were a quarter of all sales. he is a well-known author. if you get routed o

they've also been in pricing battles with warner bros. disney is directing customers to walmart and best buy. and it is shark week -- one of the most critical weeks of the year for the discovery channel. this year, an underwater drone got involved, equipped with five go pro cameras designed to swim with the sharks and castor their every move. first, buzz feed, the website popular for list and general news gets a major round of funding to help it grow. in true buzzfeed style, here are the top five things you need to know -- buzzfeed is getting $50 million in series e funding from andreessen horowitz. second, buzzfeed's evaluation is a reported 850 million dollars. it has raised over $96 million in funding. they will convert to buzzfeed motion pictures which will produce short clips and full-length movies and let them expand internationally to india, germany, japan and five, they are among the top 10 most visited news and information sites with an average 150 million monthly viewers compared to 31 million viewers for the "new york times" we

it looks like they might have gotten a concession from warner bros..y is not budging, so they are fighting back saying your new movies are not going to show up as pre-orders. they will be there when the dvd comes out that they will not be there as a pre-order which means first a sales will suffer and will get as much word-of-mouth and probably not sell as many dvds in the aggregate. >> how much money are we talking about? how much money is amazon get if they sell a dvd of a disney movie? >> it's not really a big moffet hunter. it is a is this for amazon but from the disney perspective it is interesting because the physical dvd business isn't nearly what it used to be and has declined of the last 10 years. it still a meaningful business for hollywood studios but a bigger part of their home theater and home entertainment business is digital. it is still an important business for disney. they are probably going to negotiate aggressively here but at the end of the day, they will come to an agreement with amazon which compares to hachette -- if they make or

>> this is a youtube clip posted by warner bros.e "curse," when she is cursed and goes from size two to size eight. that is the curse. blogers are posting saying this exaggerates size eight. an average woman wears between a 12 and 14. and a father writes it is sad to think his daughter cannot watch a cartoon without negative body stereotypes and some say it uses her fixation on her looks to teach a lesson of acceptance. >> considering a big bodying? it -- a big bodying? there is a link between a big formal bodying and future happiness in marriage. researchers say couples with larger net woulds of friends and fell have more help getting through the challenges of marriage. the fewer relationship you have before tying the knot the more happen you are after. lets comparison leads to more happiness. >> okay. a frightening wake up for families in the east bay, huge flames forcing dozens testify evacuate. >> the worst crimes miss have ever seen on camera, a surveillance video they hope will lead to a pair of cold flooded killers. >> we hav

they have done it when that comes to warner bros. movies.looks like they're doing it with disney movies, where it is not allowing pre-orders of physical dvds of captain america : the winter soldier. this is a negotiating tactic that amazon has employed before. bros., ite of warner was successful. clearachette it is not what the outcome will be. it is allowing folks to buy the streaming version of many of these movies, just not a physical dvd version. streaming movie sales now account for about a third of all movie sales once they get out of the theaters. >> thank you. an author of a test selling book, and also president of the authors guild. roxana robinson joins us. one part of amazon's letter. they say, when a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be reflected in the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move. it was never in george orwell's paperbacko suppress books. he was wrong about that. >> there are many parts to the question. george orwell was never trying to suppress able back. amazon mi

her father had been president of warner bros. international. she was born and raised in south america and then also in italy and germany and throughout europe. you know, what with her father moving with the movie business and then coming back to the suburbs of chicago in high school and going to high school there and going on to loyola law school later on after college. she passed the bar without difficulty in illinois and then moved on later on to los angeles where she passed the california bar, went to the justice department, was very efficient and very affect their and was therefore chosen by governor pete wilson to replace a fleeting judge who had retired. as i said, this was her first trial by jury. some people say trial by fire. >> host: did she talk to you for this book? >> guest: she did not talk to me. i had to rely on the interview she gave to the press. that is the tv press as well as the local newspaper price. >> host: issue enacted judge in california? >> guest: she is still doing legal work. she is still a legal professional. she

and the third one is warner bros. studios. both television and films. two of these three groups generally do not trade in don't trade a double judges multiples. we are talking about film and film does not trade at those levels. the question is, they are running almost a 20 multiple. he was at 85, maybe 90. out there by yourself now, maintaining that multiple with those kinds of his mrs., as good as they are. -- businesses, as good as they are. i just think it is a very full bed. that stake will be there for a long time. >> stay with me as you will be for the hour. this week, this morning, wall street went back to the drawing board and took immediate action to simplify their living wills. without damaging the wider financial system. erik schatzker joins us now with more on the reassessment. >> i want you to play with this analogy. the financial system is akin to an airplane. if the captain comes over the pa in an airplane and tells you we have got a serious problem, one of the engines went out, we have an electrical failure and it won't come down, what d

what is happening in the case of the studios like disney, warner bros.n what you call home entertainment. dvds, for example. go to ticketn you sales, the business model is that you split that between the distributor,d the the feeders basically -- the basically.theaters >> amazon is basically withholding its consumers, its market not only from the publishers. they are going hard-core with the e-books as well. >> it is the same thing that is happening. in bookso be sales stores. now it is paperbacks on amazon. it is now e-books on amazon. you have the content provider. standoff between amazon and hash out, french publishing group. last week, amazon again making the case that lower book prices simply increase sales and volume. ist amazon is defending that, you look at what happened between -- when everyone was paperbacksut destroying the book industry. people say, it is tend -- 10 times cheaper than a hardbound book. it has not quite done that. we have e-books, only slightly cheaper than a paperback, but it is going to keep driving sales forward. don't want

warner bros. studio is posting record profits. it will take a lot of premium multiple to get it done. the deal that foxx put on the times value to ebit da, that is somewhat of a lowball. warner,ly, i think time we think it is an effective play. i would not be surprised at the potential of a white night did. bid.will -- a white night this will probably play out in the next weeks and months. >> think you so much. -- thank you so much. could apple be looking for a presence on social media? we explain after this break. ♪ >> i'm emily chang. this is "bloomberg west." uber will have two versions of taxis. withresident spoke earlier bloomberg television. but if you look at the industry in japan, there is a pretty wide variety of different cars running around, the regular taxi that we are used to, to the very high end cars, which include the that.d cars like we want to create a mechanism where the user can actually request one of those. there is an additional fee that we take as uber, as the handling fee. but sometimes the user wants that

you have warner bros., nbc universal, abc and disney.ou have all these upstarts like netflix or hbo. >> hbo lead again with a number of emmy nominations. that is a function of the quality of content they have been putting on for the past 15 years. we are starting to see, not just the other premium networks like showtime investment in original programming, but also some of the basic cable networks that used to rerun. , those networks are investing in new original programming. the new online video entrants like netflix -- netflix has a handful of nominations. >> even yahoo! . >> they hired katie couric to be their news source. it is not just the broadcast networks were the cable networks, it is everybody, including the online players that are investing in original content. i will tell you was a winner -- hollywood. everybody from the actors to writers and producers, everybody is fully employed. the hollywood folks love it because it is more content to be created. >> maybe everybody gets a trophy just for showing up. i want to thank you for

we are a leader in a bunch of categories, in movies like warner bros.. this is my case to you, the analyst and the investors, that of a loan is a better proposition than us as part of fox. but obviously, we talk about the stock selloff that has happened since fox pulled the plug on its pursuit. >> how do you see this? is it not in play in the near future? >> yes, inasmuch as it is not still in play from fox. if we can believe murdoch at his word that he is not interested in the property at all, which i find hard to believe. i don't think any other players who would want to acquire the company are available to do so. rupert murdoch was bidding against himself. it's not a position you want to be in, but backing away from this bid for my he puts himself in a better position where it is not first offer or higher. >> should jeff bewkes have engaged a little bit more with rupert murdoch? >> look, he has clearly been a position to get the benefit of the doubt from shareholders, because as we have been highlighting, he took a strategy to get out of businesses th

warner bros. domestic television distribution] >> today on "tmz," obvious horrible news. williams committed suicide. of all the people we've covered on tmz who have died, more people were interested in this story than any other including michael jackson's death. >> i feel like people had a connection to him. >> all his characters were loveable. "patch adams," the good morning vietnam guy. >> he was great in that. >> good morning vietnam. >> good movie. >> sheryl underwood. we asked her about "the view" and we say, who do you think would be the best new addition? >> i love new edition! >> joseph was there. the

. ♪ [captioning made possible by warner bros.tribution] >> today on "tmz" -- d.m.x. almosto of pooping his pants. is hysterical. >> have you ever wondered what amusementriding an an park ride with d.m.x., it's exactly what you would think. right before you take off -- bieber and orlando bloom are in a beef. beelined right for justin bieber and took a swing at him. >> the coolest thing to do is like you don't care. yo, it's all good, right? then you knock him clean out. we got the ebony chameleon at l.a.x. chadwick boseman. he played james brown and ck

expected revenue, earnings and user metrics, and new licensing deals with the nfl tiger woods and warner bros. are sparking concerns about lower margins, and zynga's inability to create valuable new brands. is is it time to dabble back in? >> you won't el about the geopolitical risks at all have an effect on the investor sentiment, especially because the chart we're going to show you is so interesting. it really s it's going to show you the 200-day moving average. what that is is trader-speak for the longer term batting average, if you will, for where the market should trade. every time you see there the little red-orange circles, it came down, it did it yesterday, goes there, touching it, but then you can see every time it does that, it goes right back up again. this rightmost one was just yesterday. it touched there, we closed up just above it, now we see this nice rally, so you wonder whether or not traders and investors are using this as a longer-term signal to get back into the markets. if you look -- if you're looking for individual stock plays, how about these ones now in correction sh

they've also been in pricing battles with warner bros.

it's got warner bros. it's got turner which includes cnn. it's a pure play content company. e valuable a year or two down the line. what would time warner would want is what any company would want. not just one bidder like murdoch but multiple bidders. >> even in the changing landscape of media and the new players on this scene -- >> it is because actually time warner earnings beat wall street estimates. one of the striking things to me was hbo. hbo subscription rates were up. people were having to be paying more. but they're willing to. hbo is making money from some new services like amazon. these big media companies are in a pretty safe position. >> and sports, you know, and time warner turner has sports and these live -- >> disney came out, espn is owned by disney, and those earnings were strong as well. >> sports are by definition live broadcasts, hard to tivo, hard to dvr. people want them. >> people may not like their cable company. but they like the service. they like the programming. they may hate paying so much for it, but people continue to be willing to pay for tel

we'll see yo [captioning made possible by warner bros.levision distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> this is sad news. suri cruise, who rescued a dog just a month ago, now is looking for that dog. the dog is missing. >> suri wanted -- she took the collar off the dog and the dog pulls it out of the front gate. >> this is like what katy did. >> marlon wayans is being sued for racial discrimination. >> this guy says he does not look like cleveland from "the cleveland show." >> marlon instagramed a picture saying doesn't he look like cleveland. to be fair to this brother, he looks like cleveland. >> mariah carey and nick cannon split in may. >> it will be interesting how she announces it.

. >>> warner bros. considering bringing back an iconic sitcom with the same cast but a new twist. >> according to tv guide, the company and former cast members of "full house" talking about filming new episodes. leading the charge, who else, uncle jessy. >> the yogurt guy. >> you still see him to this day. the original cast is on board with the idea, including bob saget and dave couliet. stamos said the sequel would come with a twist. >> lori laughlin. >> a broadcaster. going way back into the cobweb of my mind. >> see what's stored in there? "today in the bay," a stabbing in a normally quiet south bay neighborhood. now, police looking for a suspe suspect. >>> a big step in the recovery, students in napa get ready to head back to class for the first time since sunday's earthquake. ...we need to break up. is it the biting? cuz i can stop? no! i love you and your show. it's cable. customers are more satisfied with u-verse. switch and we can stay together forever. forever? ow. i'm not gonna lie to you. it'

[captioning made possible by warner bros.tic television distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> there is actually a big problem in malibu with the school that may have carcinogens and cindy crawford is talking about the calking problems. >> if it needs to be removed let's remove the calk. >> i don't know about removing the calk, but testing the calk -- >> casper smart got him out on this bmw.tiful white >> for her it's got to be hard. >> if you do that, don't do that in public. just come over and bang me. >> then he's like then i have to take the bus and the transfer. >> kourtney kardashian is claimi

[captioning made possible by warner bros.c television distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> we have about a thousand videos of the shooting at one oak where suge knight got shot six times. >> what happened? >> shooting? >> it was a shooting? >> at first they probably were like, suge, get in the car. oh, wait. >> nicki minaj, she was a performer at the vma's. she was going to be have a live anaconda. it hit a dancer. she said she performed today. >> you could tell which one it was. >> game of thrones is shooting in croatia. this scene requires searcy to walk out of a church buck naked

[captioning made possible by warner bros. distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> beyonce and jay-z, we may know what's going on with them. >> beyonce and nicki minaj and references their elevator shot. she says of course [bleep] goes down when billion dollars on the elevator and my sister. >> there is a billion and $50,000 on the elevator. >> we have great video. she's bouncing her butt around and dancing. >> this is the best video we've had a long time. >> she was so drunk. somebody had a good afternoon with that. >> michael strahan and nicole murphy. he was getting his gold jacket at the nfl hall of fame ceremony. >> who does that?

. >> video to follow we [captioning made possible by warner bros.levision distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> charlie sheen took the ice bucket challenge, but instead of water he made it rain. >> $10,000 of cash falls out of the bucket. >> if you don't donate for als, which is what it's for, dumping water on your head does nothing. >> he did make it about himself. >> no, he didn't. you don't really hear about it and donating to charity. >> that's because they're anonymous. >> he got on stage. he did jump on it. >> he's a dj and djing. >> it would have been hilarious. >> it would have been just the two of them. >> we got video of joe jonas in las vegas. it's

[captioning made possible by warner bros.estic television distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> from "star trek" voyager spent three hours with bill nye the science guy. in a bitter, bitter, divorce. the science guy.apparently the p.i. claims they spent three hours together inside bill nye's bedroom doing experiments. >> they just wanted to see what happened when you mixed fluids. >> chris pratt is on his media tour. they said, what can you rap? there's no feeling in it. >> we figured out what michael strahan might have done. >> she had an inkling he w n

[captioning made possible by warner bros.television distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> kanye west clearly has a high opinion of himself. >> he's giving a deposition from the paparazzi beating case he had. >> they're all saying he's the smartest celebrity you've ever dealt with. >> you know britney spears is coloring somewhere going, really? >> kenny loggins, we say a fan of yours is trying to raise $30,000 to get you to perform at his home. >> he said that's a rate to play with his new band. >> he just said his new band which means he has new music. >> he's got to do "footloose or "danger zone." >> what if he says, this is a new one and you're in your living room and you're like, i'm going to head upstairs. >> nicole murphy went to puerto rico and had a little trip with

[captioning made possible by warner bros. distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> okay, ladies. tyga and future are back on the market. big break ups in the hip hop world. >> big in the hip hop world. >> it is a tricky baby daddy season right now. i promise you this. >> it's true. .of the e season of the >> kim kardashian is on whafp watch what happens live. >> she's on there face frozen. it's bad. she looks like a 57-year-old who had a ton of plastic surgery. >> the only thing that moves is the bottom of her jaw. she's very close to saying, "oil can." >> george clooney and amal are over at lake cuomo. there is one shot who says she

[captioning made possible by warner bros.television distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> kevin hart is victorious over his ex-wife at a strip club the night he proposed and the night her show debuted. ones ands $40,000 in her show debuted. him and his new fiance start throwing the money in front of the ex-wife. >> who goes to the strip club to celebrate their engagement? it's like i love you and i want to spend the rest of my life with you and i want boobs in my face. >> who would you rather rihanna and her little daisy duke shorts or selena gomez? >> that's too easy. >> why don't you throw lena dunham in there just to make it interesting. >> jackie chan's son was arrested. he was arrested with 100 grams of marijuana.

. ♪ ♪ milk man, paper boy ♪ ♪ >> warner bros. considering a new take on "full house."d include original cast. uncle jesse, john stamos, leading the charge. no wore on whether the show would air or if it would be set in san francisco. the original series aired from 1987 through 1995. candace cameron, she's been back, "dancing with the stars." >> you don't have little kids, young twins are grown up, they have the -- >> they have an empire. >> they don't need it. >> very good. see you in 25 minutes for a live look at news and traffic. >>> good morning. breaki >>>ng good morning. breaking news overnight. an american journalist freed after being held hostage in syria for 22 months, returns to the u.s. and renights with his mom. we learn more about another american who joined isis militants andas killed file thing alongside them. >>> two hurricanes creating dangerous surf on both coasts. while in the center of the country, powerful storms knock out power to hundreds of thousands. al is tracking it all for your labor day plans. >>> gun range tragedy. a young girl accidently s

[captioning made possible by warner bros.vision distribution] >> today on "tmz." >> reese witherspoon has breathed new life into the gay anthem. >> she looks so happy. >> she is happy. tory ne reese witherspoon we've done where she wasn't drunk. >> so she's drunk four times a year. >> i got jessica alba. >> she's ignoring me. she was so devoted to the part she ignored me completely. >> george clooney over at lake comey. one shot of her getting onto the boat and people are saying she's got a baby bump. >> it's just

warner bros.n distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> johnny depp kind of on the q.t. exchanged phone numbers with a basketball player outside a famous restaurant. >> demar derozan said i need a picture. this is not real johnny depp. >> have you ever been to a bar and somebody mistakes you for somebody else? >> yeah, i'm newman. > adam levine and his new wife ran out of gas on sunset boulevard. >> yeah, i'm newman. a, he's a celebrity and doesn't necessarily want to get hassled. b, kind of embarrassing that he a, he's a celebrity and doesn't necessarily want to get hassled. b, kind of embarrassing that he celebrity and doesn't necessarily want to get hassled. >a, he's a embarrassing that he celebrity and doesn't necessarily want to get hassled. b, kind of embarrassing that he celebrity and doesn't necessarily want to get hassled. b, kind of embarrassing that he ran out of gas in a sweet car. >> that is a mercedes. >> why does it move like jaguar?

warner bros. has the batman, superman film coming out. justice league as well.g to be joining in superheroes? >> there is a basic formula that is being used throughout these films. the mix of humor and bringing superheroes back down to earth. with warners, it is a different tact. they are bringing them down with dark psychology. those things are continuing to work for them. it is working really well. they are making hundreds of millions of dollars. probably in the billions of dollars by now. >> what did you think about the wonder woman outfit? it caused a bit of a stir. like the warrior princess. the wonder woman of the 1990's. kitsch like that kind of 60's, 70's look. >> more gold. >> blue and gold. touch -- i will try to pioneer thunder cats as well. >> you have sold it to me. if you had said one star, i would have watched it. tella, film critic. firing sanctions at inking sectors. -- banking sectors. we are joined by yuliana slashcheva, the boss of ctc media. the biggest free to air broadcaster in the country. thank you for joining us. you just had earnings o

[captioning made possible by warner bros.vision distribution] >> today on "tmz," >> tyson beckford says justin bieber isn't man enough to ex-girlfriend. >> little boys can't have man toys. >> seems like a direct challenge at the manhood of bieber. >> he insulted him in the weiner. >> chris brown, he was at a charity basketball event and then you see courtside rihanna. what is she doing? she just went to drake's concert, just followed him to the club. >> thirst. >> like moses in the desert thirst.

they did this earlier this year with warner bros. and various of their films.has happened before. these films, they really need dvd success. often, films aren't profitable from their theater runs. >> captain america, the number one grossing film of 2014. that top spot has to be hard in terms of revenue. when you are trying to get your money back, you need to be able amazon once again making things a little bit difficult. in fact, a lot more book publishers are about to start renegotiating with amazon. but amazon needs the money. >> israel and gaza. they are abiding by another truce. will it give the negotiators time to craft a lasting accord? we will have more from tel aviv next. ♪ >> let's have a look at the yen against the dollar today. the yen is following against major currencies. we did have reports that russia's warplanes ended trails and the nation is seeking to mediate between kiev and pro-russian forces. on humanitarian grounds ukraine's military dismissed as lacking in substance. they pushed ahead with the campaign to put down the uprising in the east

that is a big part of the story with warner bros., of course. e do take the view that content is king, time warner is sitting on some of the best content. you have to assume there could be others out there. >> we will keep an eye on that and come to you if there are any developments. thank you so much, matt campbell, our senior deals reporter in london. that brings us to our twitter question of the day. does the unraveling of two big signal the top of the market? maybe the top of the market for certain sectors, like media, tech, and telecom? we want to hear from you. we will be right back. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." markets continue lower after what we saw yesterday afternoon. let's get right to our top headlines. here is scarlet fu. >> new concerns about president's exit strategy in afghanistan. in kansas, senator pat roberts turned back a key party rival in the republican primary. wolf.t milton he's the fifth republican senator to stave off a tea party backed challenger. the cease-fire in gaza is holding. cairoators

they have experienced this with warner bros..have ordered mcdonald's to reveal their product sources. a shanghai supplier was caught labeling old meet as fresh. brands is also being required to list supplier information. >> let's go to the geopolitics of the moment. we absolutely stand behind iraq massoon, so says john kerry. richard haas is with the council on foreign relations. if i can have you walk through the president of iraq, does that mean we are not standing by the prime minister? >> it does. the problem is, we cannot insist or install who we want. this is an american vote of no-confidence. >> who will make that decision? >> in terms of the new prime minister, maliki will do everything he can to stay on. his backers have a lot of power. >> let me go to the money. that is south and east away from this turmoil. shiiteliki control the people to the south? >> iran is the most internal asset. at the end of the day, you have somebody that they're comfortable with. >> i still am not completely sure. we do not know who is in cha

warner has had a very good plan over the last couple years. they have executed well. the focused on cable networks and on creating content. thewarner bros. production company in terms of movies and television. hbo is doing very well. time warner management felt like they could get on the call and talk about how good their value is. >> to what degree is the $10 18 center dot a rebuke for not addressing this issue? >> it is a direct rebuke. all they wanted was a deal. the stock is still above what it was pre-deal. the fast money is coming out of the stock. >> it is worth $100 a share, you kept hearing him say that. doesn't he have to unlock some kind of value to make it $100 per share? >> they basically trimmed down the company and sold everything other than the score, key assets. they spun off the time publishing business. aol, and so on. now they are focused on the businesses that they think are the highest gross, highest returning. the market agrees with them. stocks have performed well. in addition to running good assets and good segments of the media, the management has been working very hard for shareholders. they return every piece o