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Investments (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Equity Method Investments, Cost Method Investments, and Investments in Debt and Equity [Abstract] |
Carrying Amount of Investments, By Category | The carrying amounts of investments, by category, at December 31, 2016 and March 31, 2016 were as follows:
|  | December 31, 2016 |  | March 31, 2016
|  | (Amounts in millions)
Equity method investments |  | $ | 314 |  |  | $ | 297 |
Available-for-sale securities |  | — |  |  | 124 |
Cost method investments |  | 43 |  |  | 43 |
|  | $ | 357 |  |  | $ | 464 |
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items] |
Carrying Amount of Equity Method Investments | The carrying amounts of equity method investments at December 31, 2016 and March 31, 2016 were as follows:
| December 31, 2016 |  |  |  |
Equity Method Investee | Ownership Percentage |  | December 31, 2016 |  | March 31, 2016
|  |  | (Amounts in millions)
EPIX | 31.2% |  | $ | 179 |  |  | $ | 172 |
Pop | 50.0% |  | 94 |  |  | 99 |
Other | Various |  | 41 |  |  | 26 |
|  |  | $ | 314 |  |  | $ | 297 |
Equity Method Investee, Income (Loss) | Equity interests in equity method investments for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 were as follows (income (loss)):
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| December 31, |  | December 31,
Equity Method Investee | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| (Amounts in millions)
EPIX | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 34 |
Pop | (3 | ) |  | — |  |  | (5 | ) |  | 1 |
Other | (4 | ) |  | (2 | ) |  | (5 | ) |  | (6 | )
| $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 29 |
Available-for-sale Securities [Abstract] |
Available-for-sale Securities | The cost basis, unrealized losses and fair market value of available-for-sale securities were as set forth below:
|  | March 31, 2016
|  | (Amounts in millions)
Cost basis |  | $ | 159 |
Gross unrealized loss |  | (35 | )
Fair value |  | $ | 124 |
EPIX |
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items] |
Summarized Balance Sheet | The following table presents summarized balance sheet data as of December 31, 2016 and March 31, 2016 for EPIX:
| December 31, 2016 |  | March 31, 2016
| (Amounts in millions)
Current assets | $ | 386 |  |  | $ | 356 |
Non-current assets | $ | 393 |  |  | $ | 360 |
Current liabilities | $ | 113 |  |  | $ | 91 |
Non-current liabilities | $ | 23 |  |  | $ | 24 |
Summarized Statement of Income | The following table presents the summarized statements of income for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 for EPIX and a reconciliation of the net income reported by EPIX to equity interest income recorded by the Company:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| December 31, |  | December 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| (Amounts in millions)
Revenues | $ | 101 |  |  | $ | 98 |  |  | $ | 298 |  |  | $ | 315 |
Expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating expenses | 73 |  |  | 56 |  |  | 194 |  |  | 190 |
Selling, general and administrative expenses | 5 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 18 |  |  | 18 |
Operating income | 23 |  |  | 36 |  |  | 86 |  |  | 107 |
Interest and other expense | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (2 | )
Net income | $ | 23 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 86 |  |  | $ | 105 |
Reconciliation of net income reported by EPIX to equity interest income: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net income reported by EPIX | $ | 23 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 86 |  |  | $ | 105 |
Ownership interest in EPIX | 31.15 | % |  | 31.15 | % |  | 31.15 | % |  | 31.15 | %
The Company's share of net income | 7 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 27 |  |  | 33 |
Eliminations of the Company’s share of profits on licensing sales to EPIX(1) | (4 | ) |  | — |  |  | (10 | ) |  | (6 | )
Realization of the Company’s share of profits on licensing sales to EPIX(2) | 2 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 7 |
Total equity interest income recorded | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 34 |
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(1) | Represents the elimination of the gross profit recognized by the Company on licensing sales to EPIX in proportion to the Company's ownership interest in EPIX.
(2) | Represents the realization of a portion of the profits previously eliminated. This profit remains eliminated until realized by EPIX. EPIX initially records the license fee for the title as inventory on its balance sheet and amortizes the inventory over the license period. Accordingly, the profit is realized as the inventory on EPIX's books is amortized.

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