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 Turner Broadcasting System Inc. said 
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it formed a unit 
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to make and distribute movies to theaters overseas and, eventually, to U.S. theaters, too.
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 The operator of cable-television networks said 
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the new Turner Pictures unit will produce movies 
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that will premiere on Turner Broadcasting's Turner Network Television channel, or TNT, 
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and then will be released internationally in movie theaters.
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 The unit's first two offerings are slated to be The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, a dramatization about the former British spy 
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who wrote the James Bond novels, 
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and Treasure Island, 
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produced by Charlton Heston, 
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who also stars in the movie.
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 Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting's chairman, was named chairman of Turner Pictures, 
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and Gerry Hogan, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, was named president of the unit. 
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 In an interview, Mr. Hogan said 
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the subsidiary's primary mission will be to make movies for TNT and to distribute them internationally.
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 But he said 
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Turner Broadcasting already has found some ideas 
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that might work well as films for theatrical release in the U.S. 
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 When that occurs, 
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and when the time is right,
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 we'll release the films in the U.S., 
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he said, 
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that Turner Pictures may develop such movies next year for domestic release in 1991. 
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 Turner has made several movies, docudramas and documentaries for its networks in recent years, 
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but the company has never acted as a full-fledged movie studio 
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and released its own pictures to theaters.
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 Mr. Hogan said 
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming and Treasure Island cost more than $6 million each 
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to make, 
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which is only about one-third the cost of most movies 
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made for theatrical release.
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 The Turner move is in line with a cable-TV trend toward more original programming 
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-- and toward finding more ways 
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to amortize the high cost of producing films.
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 In July, Viacom Inc. formed Viacom Pictures 
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to produce 12 low-budget movies a year 
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that will premiere on Showtime network 
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and be distributed later in various markets,
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 including foreign theaters.
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