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Liquidation threatens debt-laden MGM
NY Post ^ | 09/25/09 | PETER LAURIA

Posted on 09/26/2009 2:57:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Liquidation threatens debt-laden MGM

By PETER LAURIA

Last Updated: 12:28 PM, September 25, 2009

Posted: 1:39 AM, September 25, 2009

The efforts to restructure Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's massive debt load are beginning to play out like a war movie that, at this point, the studio itself could have trouble financing.

According to multiple sources, discussions between the studio's debtholders and equity owners have begun on a contentious note, with both sides threatening to force MGM into bankruptcy in order to gain leverage and extract better terms from the other.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; liquidation; mgm

1 posted on 09/26/2009 2:57:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 09/26/2009 2:57:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not to worry. Obama will bail them out.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 3:42:20 AM PDT by itsinthebag (E)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They are too big to fail.
I see take over like GM.
4 posted on 09/26/2009 3:54:48 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Barack Insane Obama-Wrong Place Wrong Time.)
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To: Voter#537

GM and MGM will merge. New company to be called GMGM.


5 posted on 09/26/2009 4:51:17 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: itsinthebag

> Not to worry. Obama will bail them out.
I shudder at the thought of Monster Government Movies (MGM).
Imagine the propaganda films they would produce.


6 posted on 09/26/2009 5:48:29 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Imagine the propaganda films they would produce.

And that would be different from the current propaganda fare coming out of Hollywood?

7 posted on 09/26/2009 6:20:48 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

As bad as hollywood current propaganda films are, they would just up it a notch or two.


8 posted on 09/26/2009 6:23:23 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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To: 6SJ7

LOL, GMGM would not exist as a conglomerate.


9 posted on 09/26/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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10 posted on 09/26/2009 8:30:47 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The first of the monsters begins totter from starvation. Maybe the rest of them will start to feel the pinch.


11 posted on 09/26/2009 8:38:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (Obama is a kamikaze president aimed at the heart of this Republic.)
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