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Warner Bros plans $100 mn cable car to ferry tourists to Hollywood sign

The idea has been floated for years but has always hit stumbling blocks

Hollywood is said to be shortchanged by Chinese exhibitors
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Warner Bros has announced plans for a $100 million cable car to take tourists from its studio lot to the iconic Hollywood sign, an area increasingly choked by tourist traffic.

The company, one of Tinseltown's "Big Six" film distributors, told city officials on Monday it would put up the entire funding for the "Hollywood Skyway." The six-minute ride would extend more than a mile (1.6 km) from Warner's base in Burbank up Mount Lee to a visitor centre near the sign, with pathways to a viewing area, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The iconic studio behind "Casablanca" and "Gone with the

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