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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on July 18, 2009, 03:37:58 PM
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Yeah, I know that most, if not all, of us really don't care about this, but it seems that the guy is making more money in a box than when he was alive.
Studios Competing For Michael Jackson Concert Film; Bidding Began At $50M
EXCLUSIVE: AEG is right now trying to auction off to Hollywood that concert film of the Michael Jackson rehearsals for his final tour. I'm told Sony, Universal and Fox are in negotiations, but the price keeps going up and up. $50 million is where it started, I heard. As soon as executives involved in organizing Michael Jackson's 50-night schedule of shows at London's O2 arena learned of the performers death, they met at Staples Center in Los Angeles and secured all of the rehearsal footage which Jackson had done there, according to news reports. Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, ghoulishly boasted to The Associated Press he had "more than 100 hours of footage that could be turned into live albums, a movie and a pay-per-view special. He was our partner in life and now he's our partner in death." Phillips claimed the production budget for the shows reached $25 million, which also covered 3-D "mini-movies" of Thriller and Earth Song. He also said that, aside from AEG, the Jackson estate would get the "lion's share" of any profits from the high-def footage.
Since the story only goes one more paragraph, I'm not going to bring it over.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/hollywood-studios-competing-for-michael-jackson-concert-film-bidding-started-at-50m/
Unreal.
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Rehearsal footage? :whatever: :yawn:
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Just wait till the "never before recorded" stuff starts coming out.
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Just wait till the "never before recorded" stuff starts coming out.
What I'm waiting for is to see the money the inevitable biographical film is going to generate. Though I haven't figured out just which Latina Actress will get the starring role.. Though they could tap John Leguizamo for the part, because of his work in the film 'To Wong Foo'
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What I'm waiting for is to see the money the inevitable biographical film is going to generate. Though I haven't figured out just which Latina Actress will get the starring role.. Though they could tap John Leguizamo for the part, because of his work in the film 'To Wong Foo'
I think Johnny Depp has the part sewn up , at least for playing the post-surgery white lady MJ. :-)