Opens Friday, Feb 7, 2014 Synopsis: Robocop gets rebooted in this big-screen MGM production from director José Padilha. The picture will once again surround a slain police officer (played by The Killing's Joel Kinnaman) who gets resurrected as a crime-fighting cyborg until memories of his previous life begin to make him doubt his corrupt corporate overlords. Gary Oldman co-stars as the doctor who suffers a crisis-of-conscience after bringing life back to the man in the form of a mechanical body and reprogrammed brain, while Samuel L. Jackson plays a larger-than-life media mogul. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton Movie Details Movie Review

Opens Friday, Dec 13, 2013 Synopsis: MGM and Warner Bros. present the second half of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh share writing duties with Guillermo del Toro on the production, which will shoot simultaneously with the first film. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood Movie Details Movie Review

Opens Friday, Aug 2, 2013 Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident in Wyoming to create an impressionistic tapestry of Western conflict between poor immigrant settlers and rich cattle barons led by Canton (Sam Waterston) and his hired gun Nate Champion (Christopher Walken). Attempting to mediate is idealistic Harvard graduate and county marshal Averill (Kris Kristofferson), who is both Nate's friend and his romantic rival for the affections of Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). However, war erupts, at great cost to all involved. Flush from his success with the Oscar-winning The Deer Hunter (1978), Cimino demanded creative control, and his insistence on shooting on location and building historically accurate sets and props multiplied the film's original budget to a then-astronomical $36 million. When United Artists premiered the original 219-minute version (sight unseen), they discovered that Cimino had produced an elliptical epic, compounding the box-office difficulties of making a Western without any major stars. Critics howled about Cimino's incomprehensible self-indulgence, and United Artists pulled the film after several days. Re-released five months later, 70 minutes shorter, Heaven's Gate bombed again, and MGM bought out the financially crippled United Artists. The ailing Western genre virtually vanished during the 1980s, Cimino's career never recovered, and Hollywood studios had had enough of bankrolling financially risky ventures by "auteur" directors. Heaven's Gate's reputation recovered somewhat after its video release, as it garnered praise from some viewers for such visually remarkable sequences as the Harvard dance and the final battle, as well as for David Mansfield's haunting score. Steven Bach's book Final Cut provides a full production history. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif Movie Details Movie Review

...Northwest Paper Mill and Park Methodist Church. Work continued on the Army Reserve armory.60 years ago (1952)(Adv.) MGM's drama of a wicked empire and the love story between a pagan soldier and a Christian slave girl. "Quo Vadis," starring...

...nightcrawlers on Pelican Lake, with Darrell Jensen of Nisswa as guide. 60 years ago (1951)(Adv.) On the screen it's MGM's glorious new Technicolor Musical - "Show Boat," starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel and William Warfield...

...Hollywood in 1946 at a friend's suggestion. After a slow start in which he took jobs as a carpenter and salesman, a role in MGM's "Battleground" (1949) was a career turning point. Parts in more than 20 films followed, including "The Thing...

...widely known. Feb. 11. Betty Garrett, 91. The vivacious Broadway star who played singer Frank Sinatra's sweetheart in two MGM musicals before her career was hampered by Hollywood's blacklist in the 1950s. Feb. 12. George Shearing, 91. A Britsh-born...

Opens Friday, Dec 13, 2013 Synopsis: MGM and Warner Bros. present the second half of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh share writing duties with Guillermo del Toro on the production, which will shoot simultaneously with the first film. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood Movie Details Movie Review

...Hilmer and Lydia (Kolstad) Aga. Helen graduated from Minneapolis Business College and worked as a secretary for many years for MGM and other film distributors, commuting downtown by bus. She took voice lessons at MacPhail School of Music which helped her...

...LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Cirque du Soleil and MGM Mirage Inc. plan to bring two new shows...in 2004 across Las Vegas Boulevard at the MGM Grand hotel-casino, will attempt to alter...said Terry Lanni, chief executive of MGM Mirage, the largest hotel-casino operator...