directed by Shane Dawson, of Los Angeles, and Anna Martemucci, a writer and actress from State College, Pa., whose most recent project was "Breakup at a Wedding" an independent film produced by Quinto from a script she wrote.

"Shane has quite a YouTube following, so I asked him to read the script. It's a natural way for him to get to direct his first movie," Moore said.

If all goes as planned, the movies and nearly all of the television series will be in the can by July. The movies will both be released theatrically — also subject to still-pending deals — while the television series airs, with some kind of finale in which audience members will vote for their favorite of the two.

"I have two larger goals in theout on the dot-com boom. He shunned technology stocks in the late 1990s, missing out on huge gains. But when the sector crashed from 2000 through 2002, Berkshire shares almost doubled, vindicating the investor.

However, as the housing and credit markets boomed later on in the decade, Berkshire's stakes in financial-services companies like American Express and Wells Fargo remained large, even as he warned that the bubble might burst. See full story.

"He's the best out there, but it's amazing to see how Berkshire was so concentrated in financials," Auxier said.

'Too fast'

Berkshire waded further into the financial sector during the fourth quarter when Buffett bought $5 billion in the preferred stock of investment bank Goldman Sachs Group
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He also invested $3 billion in preferred shares issued by General Electric Co.
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