Monday, September 11, 2006

MGM can't think outside the box


MGM chairman-CEO Harry Sloan is moving the studio aggressively into the tentpole business with two or three big-budget releases a year reports Variety.

Over the next few years, MGM is planning to release half a dozen films, some in the $150 million to $200 million-plus range. Studio is ready to unveil such high-profile projects as "Terminator 4"; one or two installments of "The Hobbit," which Sloan hopes will be directed by Peter Jackson; and a sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair" with Pierce Brosnan.

The studio has already announced a "Pink Panther" sequel and the next 007 pic "Bond 22," due out in November 2008. "Rocky Balboa" unspools in February.

1 comment:

Octopunk said...

Yes, that is a huge amount of sequel money.

I forget if Cameron's attached to T4 or not. Probably not, since I haven't heard of any plot to send Terminators back in time to study ocean life.

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