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Ten Thoughts About James Bond: No Time To Die
© 2020 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1 A Braver Bond There are going to be a lot of spoilers to avoid for this movie That's not usually the case with a Bond film, but this takes a couple of twists that others have avoided The kind of stories that James Bond movies are not[...]
American Gladiators: MGM, WWE Tag Team for Competition Series Reboot
American Gladiators, the competitive reality series is getting another reboot courtesy of MGM and WWE with a reimagined version of the non-scripted series that features a number of WWE sports entertainers, according to Deadline Hollywood Originally created by Johnny Ferraro and Dan Carr in 1989 that ran until 1997 for syndication, the new one comes[...]
Don Bluth's Rock-A-Doodle Publicity Cel Hits Auction
Credit: Heritage Rock-A-Doodle Publicity Cel Signed by John Pomeroy, Gary Goldman, and Don Bluth (MGM, 1992). Here's a huge publicity cel from the animated feature film, Rock-A-Doodle signed by the film's producers The film tells the story of a rooster named Chanticleer, who lives on a farm and crows every morning to raise the sun The image[...]
New Trailer, Images, and Summer Greetings for The Addams Family 2
MGM is the latest studio to take advantage of PVOD, and last month, they announced that The Addams Family 2 would be a hybrid release in theaters and on-demand That makes sense since for kid's movies, you are just paying a fee that is a lot cheaper than taking a family of four to a[...]
No Time to Die Latest Bond Trailer Reveals Key Characters, More Plot
These movies are already massively expensive to make, and now MGM has to eat the cost of multiple marketing pushes There is a good chance that this movie needs to break upwards of $500 million to break even, and then that might not be enough This movie succeeding or failing could be the thing that[...]
CinemaCon: MGM/UA Bring New No Time to Die Clip & Title Announcements
The State of the Industry, MGM, and UA presentation at CinemaCon got off to a kind of a rough start The lights went dark, and the music cut out…and nothing happened And then nothing continued to happen because pitch blackness and silence are exactly the right metaphor for the theater industry these days[...]
CinemaCon Posters
Today, bright and early which is cruel considering how late dinner and drinks went last night after the Ghostbusters: Afterlife screening, we have MGM/UA and the State of the Industry presentation. Photo Credit: Denz Used with permission. Today that MGM has had a rough time would be the understatement of the year One of the first big movies[...]
Addams Family 2 (2021) 3-D poster
MGM and United Artists released a new standee for their upcoming animated sequel The Addams Family 2 It's one of the photo op standees where you can get in the car and go on a family vacation with the Addams as well Those featured are Gomez (Oscar Isaac), Morticia (Charlize Theron), Wednesday (Chloë Grace Moretz),[...]
No Time to Die Latest Bond Trailer Reveals Key Characters, More Plot
However, MGM can't keep sitting on this movie forever So far, it has a release date of September 30th in the United Kingdom and October 8th in the United States It was supposed to open on September 30th in Australia as well, but according to Variety, the movie has been delayed to November 11th due[...]
The Addams Family 2 Getting PVOD-Theatrical Release
Credit: MGM/United Artists Releasing The Addams Family was released on October 11, 2019, and grossed over $200 million at the worldwide box office While the reviews were mixed, it appeared that the audience really liked the more comic-accurate animation style, and the performances were really excellent MGM announced The Addams Family 2 on October 15th, just[...]
The Addams Family 2 Debuts New Trailer, Out On October 1st
You can see the new Addams Family trailer down below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd82bSBDE84Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 | Official Trailer | MGM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd82bSBDE84) The Addams Family 2 Synopsis "Morticia and Gomez are distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond, they[...]
Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions Will Arrive In September
Survios and MGM have come together to reveal that Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions is set to be released this September As you might suspect from the title, the game will put you in the legendary Rocky franchise as you take on the all-time greats from both the original series of films as well as[...]
Rocky IV Star Sylvester Stallone to Release Director’s Cut
Image courtesy of MGM The new poster shows the near silhouette of Stallone's Rocky in the shadow of a larger-than-life Ivan Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren The original film is set during the Cold War setting of the US and the Soviet Union rivalry Drago took the boxing world by storm with his imposing frame and[...]
Amazon Buys MGM For Eight-And-A-Half Billion Dollars
MGM Amazon and MGM have just announced the widely-expected news that the two will merge and that Amazon will acquire MGM for $8.45 billion US dollars Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios is one of the world's oldest surviving film studios brands, formed in 1924 and as part of the announcement, Amazon states that it will help "preserve MGM's[...]
The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem Will Release This Fall
MGM and Outright Games announced that The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem will be released this Fall on PC and consoles The game is a play on the new films that have been released as you'll be playing one of the four main members of the family in a four-player co-op throughout the mansion Gomez, Morticia,[...]
Pink Panther Time Traveler Announced For Smart TV Devices
MGM and Play.Works announced today they have a new Smart TV game on the way with Pink Panther Time Traveler Yes, you read that correctly, the game is being produced to be played on Smart TV systems such as Roku or Comcast's XfinityX, which will be available in select territories, as well as through the[...]
Slitherine & MGM Announce New PC Title Stargate: Timekeepers
Slitherine Games have partnered with MGM to announce a brand new Stargate strategy PC game called Stargate: Timekeepers The game will be a real-time-tactics game that will be developed by Warsaw-based Creative Forge Games, the same people behind games like Phantom Doctrine and Hard West The game will carry on the story of Stargate SG-1[...]
Creed III: Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa Won’t Return for Sequel
Stallone confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter. Image courtesy of MGM In the 1976 film's initial release, Rocky won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director for John G Avildsen, and Best Film Editing It also scored seven additional nominations for Stallone and co-starred Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, and Burt Young for all the major[...]
Bond: George Lazenby’s Birthday Wishes to Fellow 007 Timothy Dalton
George Lazenby, the second actor to play 007 in the MGM's James Bond franchise, wished successor Timothy Dalton, the fourth in the role, a happy 75th birthday The On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) star shared a photo of the two Bonds together on March 21st over Twitter, writing, "From one fella to another… Happy[...]
Stargate: SG-1 – TV Veteran Actor Cliff Simon Passes Aged 58
Some of his co-stars and crew across the franchise posted tributes on social media like Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Claudia Black, Tony Amendola, Torri Higginson, EP Joseph Mallozzi, Simone Bailly, David Blue, Jewel Staite, and Peter Kelamis. Image courtesy of MGM "So incredibly sad to hear of @cliffmsimon passing away," Tapping, who played Major Samantha Carter,[...]
It Looks Like We're Getting A Legally Blonde Mobile Game
Australian-based PlaySide Studios has signed a deal with MGM to develop and publish a Legally Blonde-themed mobile game The game will be based on the two Legally Blonde films and will be free-to-play on iOS and Android mobile devices According to the info released today, this game will be a combination of puzzle and choice-based[...]
No Time to Die Latest Bond Trailer Reveals Key Characters, More Plot
According to Deadline, No Time To Die will be released in the United Kingdom on September 30th to begin the international rollout for this movie. James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) in NO TIME TO DIE an EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2020 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM[...]
Someone Leaks A Remastered XBLA Version Of Goldeneye 007
Courtesy of MGM. Apparently, the company got through the process of getting the source code and had worked their way to remastered the remaster for XBLA, but just could never get all the parties involved to make it work As Xbox's Phil Spencer said on Twitter, there were "Lots of different parties to work with, we've[...]
Tomb Raider
MGM got the rights and said that they want to make another one, but the last we heard was in October when the former director Ben Wheatley provided an update saying, "It's kind of in the mists of COVID at the moment in terms of what's going on … Video games have trouble crossing back[...]
No Time to Die Latest Bond Trailer Reveals Key Characters, More Plot
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the last Daniel Craig James Bond movie has moved from April 2nd to October 8th James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) inNO TIME TO DIEan EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios filmCredit: Nicola Dove© 2020 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. At this point, we can hope[...]
Sylvester Stallone Photo by Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com
Credit MGM Well Samaritan Just Became One Of My Most Anticipated Films "We didn't really have superheroes," Samaritan director Julius Avery (Overlord, Son Of A Gun) tells Total Film of growing up in the 1980s "We only had action heroes And Sly was the closest thing we had to a superhero So to put him in a superhero[...]
Steven Soderbergh Almost Directed a James Bond Movie
So Soderbergh was likely talking to MGM about either Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, or Skyfall. "Aspects of it have shown up elsewhere I would say, there are things in 'Haywire,' in terms of its approach to the character, and it's not a big movie, but there's a little bit of activity in it[...]
Tessa Thompson Confirms That Michael B. Jordan is Directing Creed 3
Credit: MGM So it sounds like they have a general production start time of the summer or fall of this year, so perhaps we're going to see a release date of sometime in early 2022 However, both of the Creed movies have been award contenders, and for the oldies on the voting committees to remember that[...]
Star Trek: Ronald D. Moore Reflects on DS9 Bond-Inspired Episode
Image courtesy of ViacomCBS Despite the episode being a love letter to the spy genre, MGM and Eon, the creative forces behind the Bond franchise were less than amused "MGM sent us a letter," Moore remembers "I don't recall [Bond producers] the Broccolis being on it or having signed it, but I remember after the episode[...]