MGM

  • Studio Chief Daniel Melnick Dies at 77

    At MGM and Columbia, he was responsible for hits like “Goodbye Girl,” “China Syndrome” and “Total Recall.”

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  • Struggling MGM Wins Break From Bondholders

    Debt-laden studio wins agreement for forebearance

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  • Re-Name That Film!

    The Title Doctors make house calls armed with what they call “proven proprietary naming methodologies.”

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    Ray Richmond

  • Report: Summit Entertainment Eyes Deals

    Studio hires Morgan Stanley to take a bite on Hollywood deals.

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    the New York Post

  • MGM in Crisis: Stalemate with Bondholders

    Company needs new $20 million in cash in the next two months — and another $130 million or so after that — to stay afloat.

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  • MGM Pleads With Shareholders to Stay Alive

    Bankruptcy threatened; “Hobbit” and James Bond in peril.

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    Amy Kaufman and Sharon Waxman

  • ‘Fame’ Director Tancharoen Grilled

    “I didn’t want to turn it into another ‘Hairspray’ where people just turn to camera and start singing.”

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    Amy Kaufman
    ‘Fame’ Director Tancharoen Grilled

  • MGM leaks: Stephen Cooper Scares the Staff (updated)

    At a company-wide meeting on Wednesday morning at an AMC theater, Cooper presented a three-part plan “to make MGM solvent,” says one attendee.

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  • Kavanaugh’s Takeover Plot Thickens at MGM

    The news that turnaround expert Stephen Cooper has been brought in to replace Harry Sloan at MGM has apparently put a new glint in the eye of hungry Hollywood dealmaker Ryan Kavanaugh.   Waxword reported previously that Relativity Media’s backer Elliott Associates had been quietly buying up bonds from debtholders in an attempt to orchestrate…

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  • MGM’s Upcoming Slate

    Three remakes pepper the list of films coming down the pike.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Stymied by Debt, MGM Ousts Sloan

    Sloan failed to turn around the debt-strapped studio. Stephen Cooper has been brought in to restructure.

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    Sharon Waxman & Michael Speier

  • Hey, Nikki: How’s That About Relativity and MGM?

    Maybe Nikki’s off her game because she’s on vacation. But I wish for her sake she’d stop embarrassing herself by tsk-tsking others without having the facts to back it up. Today she decided that TheWrap’s exclusive story in May that Relativity was eyeing a plan to take over MGM — which she couldn’t match, and…

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  • Bauer-Martinez: Forgotten, But Not Gone

    Philippe Martinez is one of those people who make the movie business worth writing about. The super-sized, baby-faced, would-be mogul rode into town four years ago, boasting of his plan to upend the Hollywood independent studio system and replace it with what he knew audiences wanted: better films. With financing from the City of London,…

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  • Coming Soon: A Look At Some of MGM’s Upcoming Titles

    A look at some notable MGM coming soon:     FameSept. 25, 2009Director: Kevin Tancharoen                         The Three StoogesNov. 19, 2009Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly                     Red Dawn Date: TBA Director: Dan Bradley    …

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    Wrap Staff