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Thunderfinger wrote: » New management team and structure whoaahh I am wetting myself. To quote myself: "That means Agent 007 is tethered to a studio where nothing seems to stay stable for long."
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Not that it matters that much, here is the story from the Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgm-unveils-new-management-team-ousting-ceo-1098173 And Variety http://variety.com/2018/film/news/mgm-reveals-new-managemen…
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FoxRox wrote: » Well at least they did mention it. One step above nothing haha Look at it this way. While they didn't say much about Bond 25, they said a lot more about it compared with Gary Barber. They didn't even mention Barber's last na…
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bondjames wrote: » At around 4:15 on the call, Christopher Brearton, the COO (who just joined the company last month from a law firm BTW) said the following: "The re-entry into the US theatrical distribution business under the MGM banner with a…
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Recording of the investor call is now on the MGM website.
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Tweet from a Wall Street Journal reporter. https://twitter.com/benfritz/status/979078409232904192
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bondjames wrote: » Strog wrote: » Perhaps there is some small hope yet remaining for B25 news on the conference call, assuming MGM opens up the lines to questions? Do they ever have transcripts created (Seeking Alpha or the like) or just recor…
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bondjames wrote: » Thanks @AlexanderWaverly. From what I understand about that Annapurna joint venture, it still doesn't necessarily mean that B25 will be distributed via that venture. It only exists for 'certain' (as opposed to 'all') MGM films. …
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SharkBait wrote: » Orion Pictures? Didn't they go bankrupt in mid-nineties? Didn't know they still existed in any form... EDIT: Deleted this comment, someone had more precise dates.
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Strog wrote: » I may be wrong but I believe that fourth quarter report has been up for a few weeks now? Not the report. They only had reports for the first three quarters on the website until a couple of hours ago.
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Creasy47 wrote: » So past the recording revealing anything, there's nothing we didn't already know. A shame, but expected. Right, unless there's something in the fine print, but I'm not seeing anything. I first did a search on the word "Bon…
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Update, 2:30 pm New York time (approximately). The fourth-quarter and year-end financial report is on MGM's website but the recording of the call is not yet. Here's the release: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-assets/assets/pdfs/investor-relation…
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bondjames wrote: » This is an investor call. Consequently I don't think you will get anything pertaining to 'creative' being discussed here, including director news. Rather, all we can hope for is 'business' related information, such as reaffir…
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barryt007 wrote: » DonnyDB5 wrote: » What time can we expect info (if any) on the MGM conference? DonnyDB5 wrote: » What time can we expect info (if any) on the MGM conference? Apparantly 10am US time. 6pm UK time... So m…
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bondjames wrote: » The trailers for Death Wish did nothing for me, and that is why I avoided it, despite being a huge Willis fan. Shame. Which idiot greenlighted that over at MGM? If it was Barber, perhaps his dismissal was warranted. It wa…
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Thunderfinger wrote: » doubleoego wrote: » With Wednesday's numbers($3.0M OS and $2,052,932 domestic) Black Panther has now officially passed $1.2B WW: Domestic: $612,103,128 + Foreign: $590,400,000 = Worldwide: $1,202,503,128 The incr…
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Goldeneye0094 wrote: » I really think the four year gap all boils down to both the distribution bidding and eon and craig wanting to do other projects Don't forget Barbara Broccoli wanting to do other projects. A trifecta.
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Goldeneye0094 wrote: » I'm pretty sick of all these random posts and focus of the week by eon to be honest I'm just ready for the official announcement dropped today confirming boyle and the distributor Maybe I missed more, but recently one…
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bondjames wrote: » @AlexanderWaverly I get your point and it's a valid one. However, as you say, these press releases are vetted even if written by others, & MGM appeared satisfied with Barber's strategic vision in October. So perhaps somet…
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//This is the announcement made in October when Barber's contract was renewed. Note Ulrich's glowing comments just 5 months ago on Barber's strategic vision (the very reason he was apparently sacked). Goes to show that we can't believe much of what …
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re: investor call on March 28. I've listened to every one of these calls since November 2012. It's a crap shoot whether they say anything newsworthy about Bond or not. In that November 2012 call, Barber said John Logan had been signed to write…
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Should Marvel's Kevin Feige get a Thalberg award? Cubby Broccoli got his in 1982 after producing 12 over 21 years (with a 13th in preparation). Feige has made 18 through Black Panther, with another two coming out this year. http://bit.ly/2G…
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Thanks, bondjames.
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The Wall Street Journal has weighed in with a story I can't access because it's behind a pay wall. But maybe others here have a Journal subscription. https://www.wsj.com/articles/mgm-ceo-gary-barber-was-fired-following-disagreement-with-board-on-…
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//Some people on this forum surprise me. They seem to lack any sense of business acumen. Bond 25 is definitely coming in 2019. MGM is a business and it needs to establish revenue.// If it was strictly business, Bond 25 would be out in 2018. Ho…
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noSolaceleft wrote: » Pierce2Daniel wrote: » New developments: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gary-barber-why-mgm-ceo-was-fired-1096079 Supposedly, Eon refused to work with Barber and often clashed with him. Some people on thi…
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Dennison wrote: » LeChiffre wrote: » Bond developing a heroin addiction would be quite radical! 24 did that already with Jack Bauer. It was also done with Hutch in Starsky and Hutch, which in turn was a rip from The French Connection. …
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Some more followup stories: The Tracking Board http://www.tracking-board.com/inside-the-mgm-coup-that-led-to-gary-barbers-firing-and-a-studio-without-leadership/ Variety http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/gary-barber-mgm-ceo-board-ouster-12027…
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bondjames wrote: » AlexanderWaverly wrote: » Mea culpa. Deadline, in its update, is reporting the board *didn't want to sell* while Barber did. Opposite of my speculation. http://deadline.com/2018/03/mgm-ceo-gary-barber-exiting-company-1202…
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Mea culpa. Deadline, in its update, is reporting the board *didn't want to sell* while Barber did. Opposite of my speculation. http://deadline.com/2018/03/mgm-ceo-gary-barber-exiting-company-1202346588/
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