Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

MGM hires adviser to restructure debt: reports

source: Melbourne Herald Sun

 Australia HOLLYWOOD studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has hired investment bank Moelis & Co to help it restructure mammoth debts of about $US3.7 billion ($4.87 billion), several media reports say. The studio behind classics such as the James Bond films and The Wizard ...

Published Fri, May 15

VAULTS: 'Gulliver's Travels' marks 70 years

source: Washington Times

 DC - Gary Arnold, Gary Arnold This choice has always owed a lot to the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the most prosperous and glamorous of the major film studios, had "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind" on its release schedule that year. As a matter of fact, ...

Published Sat, May 2

DETAILS Unveils 2009 Mavericks

source: Bosh

 NY Mary Parent, 41, Chairperson, Worldwide Motion Picture Group, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: credited with rebuilding MGM’s image and boosting its bottom line by bringing in such marquee titles as the James Bond franchise and the two Hobbit films. ...

Published Fri, Apr 3

ANALYSIS-Lions Gate may offer Icahn seats to avoid proxy war

source: MSNBC

There has been long-running speculation in Hollywood that a combination of Lions Gate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc might make sense, given that they own two of the most storied film libraries, including the "James Bond" and "Rocky" franchises, ...

Published Fri, Mar 6

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1928 Ident

source: uk.video.yahoo.com

As seen on "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), this is Jackie in the MGM logo! Note that the drama mask is so happy... uk.video.yahoo.com

Published Wed, Mar 4

"Quantum" tops domestic James Bond box office

source: Reuters

 India - Starting with the next Bond movie, the franchise returns to closely held MGM. There have been 22 Bond films overall. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; ...

Published Thu, Jan 8

Killing Off Bond

source: James Bond Wiki

In an effort to help the nefarious, we, at Licensed to Kill, here list the countless ways that villains, henchmen, lackeys and the merely amateurish have tried (so far, unsuccessfully) to kill off British Agent 007, James Bond. They range from the accidental to the purposefully complex,...

Published Fri, Jan 2

Irving Brecher | Comedy writer, 94

source: Philly.com Obituaries

Berle was their first customer, and he took Mr. Brecher along when he moved into radio and the movies and went to Hollywood, where Mr. Brecher got a contract with Mervyn LeRoy, head of production at MGM. He was an uncredited script doctor on The Wizard of Oz and wrote screenplays for the Marx Bro...

Published Sat, Nov 22