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UA revived by Cruise/Wagnerhttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953175.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
Nearly a century after United Artists was founded as a studio run by artists, it’s being reborn under the same auspices.
U.A. is being revived and will be run by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, with Wagner serving as chief executive officer of U.A. and Cruise to star in and produce pics for the label, a unit of MGM.
In its new incarnation, U.A. will produce four pics a year, a number that eventually increase. The films will be marketed and distribbed by MGM.
Cruise and Wagner will control the development, production and greenlighting of U.A. films, though subject to certain parameters.
Cruise/Wagner Productions had long been based at Paramount, but exited the Melrose lot in August when Par would not re-up the deal at the $10 million annual rate the duo had been receiving. The split became national news when Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone publicly chastised Cruise for his "inappropriate" behavior and said the star’s salary was too high considering the current economics of the movie industry.
News is the latest development at MGM since chairman-CEO Harry Sloan took over the studio last year and has been aggressively rebuilding the company into a distribution and marketing entity.
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So much for the studio founded by Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith. Now John Travolta and Kirstie Alley can keep doing Look Who's Talking pics till they die, with subliminal recruiting messages inserted throughout.
Nearly a century after United Artists was founded as a studio run by artists, it’s being reborn under the same auspices.
U.A. is being revived and will be run by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, with Wagner serving as chief executive officer of U.A. and Cruise to star in and produce pics for the label, a unit of MGM.
In its new incarnation, U.A. will produce four pics a year, a number that eventually increase. The films will be marketed and distribbed by MGM.
Cruise and Wagner will control the development, production and greenlighting of U.A. films, though subject to certain parameters.
Cruise/Wagner Productions had long been based at Paramount, but exited the Melrose lot in August when Par would not re-up the deal at the $10 million annual rate the duo had been receiving. The split became national news when Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone publicly chastised Cruise for his "inappropriate" behavior and said the star’s salary was too high considering the current economics of the movie industry.
News is the latest development at MGM since chairman-CEO Harry Sloan took over the studio last year and has been aggressively rebuilding the company into a distribution and marketing entity.
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So much for the studio founded by Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith. Now John Travolta and Kirstie Alley can keep doing Look Who's Talking pics till they die, with subliminal recruiting messages inserted throughout.
