In 2008, Plum Creek Timber company announced plans to purchase this property.

As of the beginning of 2008, the town was still on the list of potential sites ( along with four other candidate locations ) for the facility, which would replace the existing animal disease research center at Plum Island, New York.

In 2008 NASA agreed to pay $ 33. 5 million to have its Plum Brook Reactor Facility decontaminated and decommissioned.

When Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, a suspected al-Qaeda member, was arrested in Afghanistan in July 2008, she had in her handbag handwritten notes referring to a " mass casualty attack " that listed various U. S. locations, including the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

In 2008 June The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land announced they reached an agreement to purchase approximately of western Montana forestland from Plum Creek Timber Company ( NYSE: PCL ) for $ 510 million.

In 2008, Senator Max Baucus arranged for appropriations in the 2008 Farm Bill to be used to purchase of Plum Creek land in Montana.

The court at Plum Orchard was fully restored in 2008 with the tins in place and working electric lights.

* Complete 2008 Plum Book in Convenient Form

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

In 2008, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment premiered Straczynski's feature thriller Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie.

Originally released as a single DVD on August 29, 2000, it was re-released twice as part of two different Abbott and Costello collections, The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Three, on August 3, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.

Maple Pictures held the rights to distribute Miramax films in Canada from 2008 up until August 10, 2011 when Maple Pictures was acquired by Alliance Films.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures ( which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011 ).

A special 25th Anniversary edition DVD, released by Sony Pictures, arrived in 2008.

In 2008, the channel signed a deal with First Look Pictures to air their films.

In September 2008, Main Street Pictures announced that it would collaborate with Bakshi on a sequel to Wizards.

* Beerenberg Expedition 2008 Pictures

Although The exception to the code was granted as a " special and unique case " and was described by The New York Times at the time as " an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent ", in his 2008 study of films during that era, Pictures at a Revolution, author Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA's action was " the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years.

The Gong Show eventually had three later revivals, one under Barris ' title ( with Don Bleu ) in 1988-89, one on The Game Show Network in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current format owner Sony Pictures Television ( with Dave Attell ) in 2008.

Opening in late April 2009 was a film Downey finished in mid-2008, The Soloist ; the film was pushed out from a November 2008 release by Paramount Pictures due to the studio's tight end-of-year release schedule.

In 2005, Geller starred in Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice, a XI Pictures / Lion TV production for Sky One, which led to a behind the scenes release in early 2008 called Cursed ; both productions were directed by Jason Figgis.

Also, as a result of the Sony-BMG merger, Arista once again became related to Columbia Pictures, which is fully owned by the Sony Corporation of America ( through Sony Pictures Entertainment )-who would buy out BMG's share in 2008.

In 2008 Harryhausen and Dalton published a history of stop-motion model animation, A Century of Model Animation and to celebrate Harryhausen ’ s 90th birthday The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation published Ray Harryhausen – A Life in Pictures.

In late 2008, DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films are distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

* In 2008, another new orchestral arrangement of " When You Wish Upon a Star " ( the theme from the current Walt Disney Pictures logo, orchestrated by Mark Mancina ) and a brand-new opening title sequence ( depicting a montage of the company's work ) were shown.

* Pictures of the exterior of St Leonard's church, Feb 2008

Pictures taken in August 2008.

* Pictures from the 2008 THCH Hop Festival

From around 2008 until May 2011, the rights to Liberty Meadows were in the hands of Sony Pictures Digital which wanted to develop it as a downloadable series, and then Sony Pictures Television which wanted to develop it as an animated television series.

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

On 1 September 2008, Aston Martin announced the revival of the Lagonda marque.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, who operated AMPS networks in Canada, announced that they would observe the same timetable as outlined by the FCC in the United States, and as a result would not begin to dismantle their AMPS networks until after February 2008.

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

In 2008, Foundation director Inder Singh announced that deals to reduce the price of anti-malaria drugs by 30 % in developing nations.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

In February 2008, the Malaysian government announced the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy plan to harvest the virgin hinterlands of Northern Borneo.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

On May 11, 2008 Sudan announced it was cutting diplomatic relations with Chad, claiming that it was helping rebels in Darfur to attack the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).

In 2007, he announced he would release his autobiography, planned for March 2008, published by Hodder Headline and titled On the Rocks, which would cover the recent incidents in his life.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.

On July 11, 2007, PBS announced that it had greenlit an animated adaptation of Car Talk, to air on prime-time in 2008.

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

In March 2008 TfL announced that it had reached agreement to buy TCL for £ 98m.