TIME WARNER INC. has named Warner Bros. current chief operating officer
BARRY MEYER as the new chairman and chief executive of the film studio, and
Castle Rock Entertainment Chairman ALAN HORN as its president and chief
operating officer. The new team, which takes over October 4, replaces
Warner Bros. co-chairmen Robert Daly and Terry Semel, who announced last
month that they would step down from the studio they have run together for
nearly twenty years. Meyer joined Warner in 1971 as a director of business
affairs, and became executive vice president in 1984, taking charge of all
the studio's television operations. He assumed the additional post of chief
operating officer in 1994. Horn was the co-founder of Castle Rock
Entertainment, which produced the hit TV comedy SEINFELD, as well as such
films as WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and IN THE LINE OF FIRE. Castle Rock was
acquired in 1993 by Turner Broadcasting prior to its merger with Warner
Bros. parent company, Time Warner.