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New Moon’s Obliteration Of All Media Begins Today
4:51AM Richard Rushfield | We hope 2012 is enjoying its 15 minutes. Sure the movie had a humongous weekend at the box office, but even a Mayan-prophesied can not withstand an assault by a certain group of of teenage vampires. More »
Vengeful Gossip Bashes ‘Tom Cruise’s Nazi Apologia’: An Annotated Guide
6:08AM STV | We knew Fox News gossip and mortal Tom Cruise enemy Roger Friedman was upset last week when MGM denied him an advance look at Valkyrie. Today, he exacted his mouthbreathing, error-packed and all-around vicious revenge. More »
MGM Swats Rogue Critic in Latest Round of ‘Valkyrie’ Backlash
1:45AM STV | It’s been far too long since MGM was on the defensive over Valkyrie, the campaign for which uncomfortably started in its own office lobby but has since found decent enough traction in theatres and on TV. So! Right on cue, and apparently just for old time’s sake, a high-ranking New York film critic has found something new to whine about. More »
‘Three Stooges’ Revival Promises New Slapfights For N’yuk-Starved America
1:30AM STV | The Farrelly Brothers’ long-delayed dream of a Three Stooges revival may yet come true at MGM, which announced Monday it had green-lit the project for a 2009 release. It’s a stunning milestone correcting the project’s inertia at Warner Brothers, where execs were said to have balked at the introduction of the brothers’ trademark scrotum-zippering sight gags to the more conventional eye-gouging hallmarks of Larry, Moe and Curly’s ’30s-era shorts. But that was then, and this — despite the lingering questions of cast (Crowe as Moe?), storyline and whether or not MGM remembers how to produce films — is now.
Could New ‘Valkyrie’ Trailer Start Backlash to the Backlash?
3:48AM STV | MGM has released the final trailer for Valkyrie, and really, nothing here indicates why United Artists would have sabotaged this film with one Harveyesque bump after another, all the way off the cliff into the dead zone of February ‘09. (It now opens Dec. 26.) They may not have the viable Oscar contender they wanted, either, but beyond the late, portentous introduction of Tom Cruise’s eye-patched, would-be Hitler killer, this new clip has us marveling at the irony of a feel-bad Nazi drama potentially doubling as the feel-good comeback story of the year. It’s almost enough to make us want to swap the old Superman Returns stand-up at Defamer HQ with the fancy new Valkyrie display occupying MGM’s own lobby. Bryan Singer, you are a continued inspiration to one and all. [MGM] More »
Tacky Lobby Ad Reminds MGM It Still Has To Release ‘Valkyrie’
4:00AM STV | Now we think we know where Tom Cruise was last night while Katie Holmes laboured through her Broadway premiere all alone: Snapshots from a Defamer spy suggest he hit Century City after hours, sneaking the first of Valkyrie’s oversize stand-ups into the lobby at MGM. We have it on good authority from the inside that such direct marketing of an MGM release in the faces of its employees and other building tenants is an unprecedented move for the buttoned-down distributor, but face it: You’d probably do the same thing if you had the chance cut your studio’s holiday decoration budget by 95 percent. [Follow the jump for the enlarged detail.] More »
Stop Us If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before
3:35AM Mark Graham | We’re all outta Valkyrie jokes at this point, but it is our civic duty to relay to you that the MGM building has been evacuated this morning due to a bomb threat. As you’ll no doubt recall, this same thing happened last Friday and also in early August. And for those of you keeping score at home, the storied Constellation Blvd. office building has also suffered anthrax threats and an unprovoked attack of killer bees in the last two months. If you want more information, we have the email sent out to employees after the jump. More »
BREAKING: MGM Bomb-Threat Tradition Revived; Building Evacuated
5:30AM STV | It feels just like old times today at MGM, where the dawn of a new, Weinstein-free era shines on the horizon and staffers are once again evacuating MGM Tower — “Running with boxes of precious scripts and screeners under my arm,” in one Defamer operative’s words — in the wake of yet another bomb threat. An official e-mail circulating now notes that the LAPD are en route and that, if everything checks out, operations are expected to resume around 2 p.m. We also hear that Fanboys was safely moved to an undisclosed location until Harvey arrives to pick it up after work; hopefully the worst is over. More »
Harvey’s Peril Worsens as MGM Drops ‘Zack and Miri’ and Rest of Weinstein Slate
8:55AM STV | The three-year distribution match made in heaven the mildly optimistic spirit of convenience between MGM and the Weinstein Company was set to expire at the end of this year, but the Lion isn’t waiting around to box up the furniture. A day after Kevin Smith’s associates blogged that MGM had yanked its logo from the marketing materials for Zack and Miri Make a Porno — one of the few remaining titles it planned to distribute for the Weinsteins — new reports have surfaced saying that MGM has dumped everything but the Sam Jackson/Bernie Mac effort Soul Men back on Harvey’s lap. And yes, that includes The Reader, which Harvey wants for Dec. 12 despite his mortal mogul Scott Rudin’s insistence otherwise. Gasp! What now?
