Development, Politics, Pop Culture

The new James Bond movie is “canned“.  Not in the can, but delayed indefinitely until MGM can raise some money.  Some lenders are pressuring MGM to sell their rights in “The Hobit“.  Warner Brothers offered 1.5b for the studio in its entirety, but considering the last back of Tolkien movies grossed about 3b, I think MGM was right in rejecting the offer.  On the other hand, MGM is 4b in debt right now.

Motorola launching a “Grab Life by the Calls” tie-in campaign with Discovery’s Dirty Jobs show. The slogan sounds  like Dodge’s “Grab Life by the Horns“, retired in 2007.  It also sounds a bit like “grab life by the balls”.  Motorola also has another (much worse) tag line, “Slap Mother Nature in the Face“.  BP joke, anyone?