MGM
Legendary movie company and once a major movie studio MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer), is sitting on the edge of 4 billion dollars debt and a potential sale of the company! The death of Hollywood begins…
We all know MGM… the Lion that growls before the movie starts… yeah, that company. This is very sad news for every movie lover in the world. MGM is the birth and blood of moving motion pictures.
The MGM studio lot was sold years ago to Sony Pictures (wish they kept the org MGM sign!), which still resides over in Culver City. I had the opportunity to work there a few times, one being on “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons” movie. MGM currently has an office building over in Century City. I’m not aware of any current standing “MGM” named studios, but the company does shoot at the Sony studios. Sony owns part of the MGM brand/name/company now, along with a few other odd companies like Texas Pacific Group, Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group.
This must mean that the new MGM owners can’t take care of their baby due to their own company failures! We’re calling child protection services!
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Sweet merciful entity! People magazine reports that amid a mob of frenzied fans, Robert Pattinson collided with a taxi on the streets of downtown Manhattan Thursday.
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The Twilight actor, in New York City filming Remember Me, apparently attempted to run across the street near the famed Strand bookstore to escape a hoard of fans when he was clipped on his hip by a moving cab, whose driver slammed on his breaks upon impact.
Pattinson, 23, did not appear to be injured and walked away from the incident.
Of course he walked away unharmed, he’s Edward Cullen. I wonder what the taxi looked like after it hit him. You fools have no idea what he’s capable of. He can read minds for goodness sake! A little old New York taxi isn’t going to hurt him. On a quick sidenote I feel really bad for this guy. He’s horribly famous and at 23 years old he can’t walk down the street without being attacked, he just looks so uncomfortable. Guffaw.
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3 men and a random baby
The Warner Bros. comedy “The Hangover” took in another $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates.
This brings it’s total to $105.4 million after 10 days in theaters making it the summer’s first movie to finish at No. 1 for two weekends in a row.
Disney’s latest hit, the action comedy “Up,” came in a close second again with $30.5 million bringing it’s total gross to $187.2 million.
Debuting at No. 3 with $25 million was Sony’s action remake “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.”The thriller stars Denzel Washington as a dispatcher going toe to toe with John Travolta, a criminal mastermind of a subway hijacking.
Year One and The Proposal will put an end to all this repeat business, but it is slightly saddening to see Eddie Murphy’s “Imagine That” only bring in $5.7 million with a 6th place finish. Pluto Nash, Norbit, and now this major flop,I think it’s time for Eddie to go back to raunchy adult comedy. Delirious or Raw anyone?
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David Carradine in Kung Fu show
More than 400 people, including numerous actors, attended actor and legend David Carradine’s funeral today in Los Angeles.
Breitbart reports: ”Services and the burial were private. Among those seen entering the memorial service were the actor’s brother, Keith Carradine, longtime friend Michael Madsen and “Kill Bill” co-star Lucy Liu.”
We at ThecounT are big fans of DC. Love and RIP. XO
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“Transformers” star and object of my eternal affection, Shia Labeouf is celebrating his 23rd birthday today. Thank you for entertaining me for all these years. I’d like to wish you a very Happy Birthday. If you’re reading this Shia, I’ll make you dinner, if you make me breakfast.
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A few more images have been revealed from the set of Iron Man 2, which opens May 7, 2010. Here’s a pic of Mickey Rourke as Ivan, Tony Stark’s Russian nemesis. I’m just happy to see Rourke in this role because he is a total bad ass and this movie is going to be HUGE. Maybe he’ll get a spin off movie out of this deal where he’ll fight Jean Claude Van Damme to the death in the African jungle set to the music of Devo.
Either way I’m watching Iron Man 2 like 6 times opening weekend because Tony Stark is my hero.
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Patrick Swayze is a quintessential badass
Variety reports that sources say A&E has canceled its Patrick Swayze series The Beast after airing the 13-episode first season, which ended on April 23. Reps for the network are not confirming the report, however. Ratings were weak for the show, about a rogue cop in Chicago. The cancellation is no surprise as speculation was that the series would not be renewed due to Swayze’s critical battle with pancreatic cancer.
I totally missed this show but Swayze as a rogue cop sounds right on the money. I hope this sudden hiatus means that he can get to work on the sequel to 1991’s Point Break. I started drafting the script an hour ago, it should be finished in 20 minutes. I think I’ll call it “Point Break 2: The Revenge of Johnny Utah”.
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Mel Gibson is a piece of work
The Spike TV Guys Choice Awards were taped yesterday in Los Angeles. Mel Gibson was handed the awesome duty of handing out the Guy Movie Hall of Fame Award to Brad Pitt and Edward Norton accepting the award for their movie “Fight Club” . He showed up looking like quite an ass.
In an all out effort to clean up his raggedy reputation Gibson has been self deprecating himself all over Hollywood in the last 2 weeks.
So after the introduction, Brad, Edward, and Director David Fincher came out to accept the award and Brad yelled out to Mel, “Thanks, sugar tits!“. And that is one reason why Brad Pitt rules.
If you can remember a little drunken incident that Mel had back in ‘06 that included him calling a lady cop, “sugart*ts” and peppering the other officer with anti-semitism, then being called out by People’s sexiest man on stage at an awards show is a little case of getting what was coming to you.
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Lindsay Lohan manifested another job again! She recently had that so-called ‘Marilyn Monroe-esque’ photo shoot with Spanish Vogue. Now, she finally got hired to do a legit movie with notable actors.
The film is called The Other Side, and it’s an independent fantasy comedy that is expected to start shooting in October on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. It will costar Jason Lee, Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Kent Harper, Alanis Morissette and Dave Matthews.
Producer and actor of the film, Kent Harper, told People Magazine that he is hiring Lindsay in the movie, and he is not worried about her past work ethic. Harper expresses his confidence in Lindsay, to People Magazine:
“I believe where she’s at now with her commitment to the art that she’s going to be phenomenal and I’m not worried whatsoever,” Harper says. “Now if anything happens, you just handle it as it goes.”
“She [Lindsay] said, ‘I’m going to turn down a lot of other work right now. I really want to get serious.’ She said, ‘I’m committed. I’m not going to be late. I’m really, really excited about doing this and working with these other actors,’ so we’re excited.”
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