{"id":180,"date":"2007-08-18T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/08\/18\/mgm-ua-face-manic-money-day\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T22:27:52","slug":"mgm-ua-face-manic-money-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/08\/18\/180-mgm-ua-face-manic-money-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM, UA face manic money day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">United Artists closed its $500 million deal with Merrill Lynch late Thursday morning in the wake of news that Goldman Sachs had backed away from committing to a $1 billion fund for MGM. Goldman Sachs was one of five banks considering underwriting the MGM fund. Move was Hollywood&#8217;s first brush with the widening credit crunch. However, MGM CEO Harry Sloan said Goldman Sachs&#8217; move &#8212; or any delay in the franchise fund &#8212; would not impact the movies it has in the works, including &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; a co-production with New Line, or the next installment with the Bond franchise, which it is cofinancing with Sony. &#8220;No MGM property will wait for a film (finance) slate,&#8221; Sloan said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117970390.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Artists closed its $500 million deal with Merrill Lynch late Thursday morning in the wake of news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}