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Bond 23 dies another day

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By THR Staff | July 7th, 2010 at 8:39 pm | View Comments

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The Internet was abuzz today with reports that MGM had put the brakes on any further development of the next James Bond movie, officially known as “Bond 23.”

The only problem was that it was old news.

In April, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Prods., producer of the long-running franchise, announced they were suspending development of the film because of the financial difficulties of the film’s distributor, MGM, which still have not been resolved.

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‘Red Dawn’ summons audiences to ‘Call of Duty’

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By Jay A. Fernandez | December 7th, 2009 at 5:44 pm | View Comments
The THR Women in Hollywood Power 100 breakfast on Friday morning was brimming with powerful industry women, established and new. While weaving through the crowd, I ran into MGM honcho Mary Parent, who was among the first group of women on the list to volunteer to mentor area high school sophomores as part of THR's new mentoring program with Big Brothers Big Sisters Los Angeles.  Red Dawn summons audiences to Call of Duty More importantly, she mentioned the footage she had seen of MGM's "Red Dawn" remake (due in theaters next November), currently shooting in Detroit (which, sadly, was pretty wrecked even before the production rolled in tanks and began blowing portions of it up). Let's just say Parent was enthused by the dailies, saying that first-time director Dan Bradley, who orchestrated all that crazy stunt work in the "Bourne" and "Spider-Man" movies, "has really outdone himself." She summed up by saying the movie plays like "a live-action 'Call of Duty,'" which should be machine-gun music to many an action gamer's ears.

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