COMPETING VIDEO VENDORS TO MAKE 100-BEST MOVIES DEAL.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Daily News Staff Writer Thirteen studios and home entertainment companies - usually bitter rivals for shelf space and customer attention at neighborhood video stores - will announce today an unprecedented cooperative effort to celebrate their titles deemed among America's greatest movies. The American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase has been compiling its ``100 Years . . . 100 Movies'' roster to mark a century of American filmmaking, and when it announces those titles June 16 in a three-hour CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. special, video retailers nationwide will be ready to present most, if not all, of the classics for sale in special displays noting their distinct status. One source says it represents a first-of-its-kind level of cooperation in the 22-year-old home video business ``as opposed to battling against each other.'' Sources say the video companies are considering packaging the top 10 vote-getters in a single set so that, say, MGM's ``Gone With the Wind'' could be bundled with 20th Century Fox's ``Star Wars,'' Paramount's ``The Godfather'' and Universal's ``E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.'' In addition to those four studios, the participants in the joint effort are: Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. , Miramax Home Entertainment, Disney's Buena Vista Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, PolyGram Home Video, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy Video, Republic Entertainment, Live Home Entertainment and Orion Home Video. In November, the AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación compiled a list of 400 American movies arranged chronologically from the recently recovered 1912 silent ``Richard III'' to 1996's ``Jerry Maguire'' and sent the ballots to a blue-ribbon panel of filmmakers, critics, historians, movie executives, artists and others in the industry. The votes have been counted and the results are said to be a very closely guarded secret even as CBS and cable's TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. have begun production on their television specials. |
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