MGM Studios to Build Billion-Dollar Entertainment Complex in the Middle East

Associated Press ^ | 3-27-08

[kingattax]

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. reached an agreement with one of Abu Dhabi's largest real estate developers for an entertainment destination likely to cost billions of dollars, MGM said Wednesday.

Plans call for the joint project in the United Arab Emirates with Sorouh Real Estate to open by 2012 and include a complex with hotels, restaurants, retail shops and themed attractions based on MGM's library of 4,100 films, which include "The Pink Panther," "Rocky" and the James Bond franchise.

Some details such as the scale of the project remained to be determined, said Travis Rutherford, executive vice president of MGM's consumer products and location-based entertainment division.

"We're just embarking on that creative process," Rutherford said.

Under the memorandum of understanding, MGM would obtain licensing fees from the complex, while Sorouh would finance, construct and manage the property, he said.

Plans call for the project to involve 150 acres or more of Sorouh land.

With the deal, MGM became the latest entertainment giant to partner with a developer in the United Arab Emirates for as major project.

Last May, Universal Studios, a unit of NBC Universal parent General Electric Co., announced it would build a $2.2 billion theme park in Dubai by 2010 with government-held firm Tatweer.

Marvel Entertainment Inc. also announced last year that it would work with Al Ahli Group to create a $1 billion amusement park in Dubai to open by 2011.

[kingattax]

mohammed disney ?

[kellynla]

thanks to our gas dollars...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Movie selection:

"Bambi, Humanely Slaughtered Due to Contamination by Infidels"

"Snow Black and the Seven Infidels, Beheaded"

"Toto, Death Be Upon Him"

"The Sound Of Slaughter"

"Mary Poppins, Scourged"

[kingattax]

lol

[Ken H]

"Hans Islam Andersen" starring Danny al-Kaye

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Rules:

1) No jews allowed

2) No bibles or christian worship allowed

3) Nothing that a council of islamic clerics doesn’t vote on first

4) No movies about western culture

5) No movies with women showing any exposed skin

6) No movies deemed “unislamic”.

[Hildy]

No Jews allowed? Who will write the movies? Produce the movies, direct the movies, star in the movies...you catch my drift!

[ansel12]

I don’t expect that they will be making any movies with Arabs as villains.

[OeOeO]

Joan Crawford as

Mohamie Dearest

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. This is a GREAT story! Somebody really knows what they're doing.

We recently had a friend visiting us on a stop-over on one of his many travels. He's lived all over the world and according to him, the world is more prosperous today than it has been in decades. Life-and-death hunger has all but been eliminated; most diseases are held in check; and American commerce is revitalizing the planet.

Disneyland in Dubai? Who'd a thunk it?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. “Joan Crawford has risen from the graaave...”

[ikka]

Will they re-issue Song of the Saud (South) and leaver the kufr in?

[thackney]

The UAE, including Abu Dhabi, allows Christian Worship.

http://www.catholic-church.org/kuwait/mideast.htm#emirates

http://ebci.org/frame-map.htm

http://www.marthomasyrianchurch.org/directory.asp?code=CL&id=GULF&id1=GULF&id2=ABUDHA&countc=1&countd=5&countp=1&pname=ABUDHABI&dname=GULF%20REGION&cname=GULF%20REGION

http://www.aolplaza.com/mosc/MENUhtms/GULFChurches.htm

http://www.standrewauh.org/

http://www.indianorthodoxchurchabudhabi.com/

http://www.eccad.org/

And others...

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

If America can win pagans from their false religions to our cultural religion of consumerism, Christians may be able to win some from that death to life in Christ. People will find that worldly pleasures do not satisfy - ask Mark Spitz.

[blue-duncan]

“He’s lived all over the world and according to him, the world is more prosperous today than it has been in decades. Life-and-death hunger has all but been eliminated; most diseases are held in check; and American commerce is revitalizing the planet.”

Wow, that’s interesting. We just had the administrator from one of the mission agencies we support stay with us and she said that hunger and desease is rampant, terrorists are on the move, despots are taking over governments, children are being abandoned, floods, and drought are destroying the food supply. And things look like they will only get worse.

Unless we give $10.00 a month. Then they can feed a whole village which will then raise the children abandoned in the first part of her presentation.

[topcat54]

Wow, that’s interesting. We just had the administrator from one of the mission agencies we support stay with us and she said that hunger and desease is rampant, terrorists are on the move, despots are taking over governments, children are being abandoned, floods, and drought are destroying the food supply. And things look like they will only get worse.

I'm sure it depends on where you are at any given point in time. But it's probably safe to say there is less overall suffering today that one or two thousands years ago. And the gospel is certainly found in more places than it was one or two thousand years ago.

Kingdom progress is like a mustard seed.

Someone has said, "For you have the poor with you always, …".