The MGM, Lions Gate drama continues. The latest from Bloomberg.com: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is suing billionaire Carl Ichan over the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. studio deal in federal court in New York, alleging the financier was \u201csecretly plotting\u201d to merge the studios. In the lawsuit, Vancouver-based Lions Gate, the studio whose films include \u201cCrash\u201d and \u201cPrecious,\u201d alleges that Icahn realized by June that Lions Gate was in advanced negotiations with two unidentified studios. Aware that the deals might dilute his stake in Lions Gate, Icahn \u201ctook drastic and improper action,\u201d the studio said.<\/p>\n
Icahn, 74, the studio\u2019s largest shareholder, undermined any proposed transactions by making false and misleading statements, Lions Gate said. He told the investing public that such a deal would be a \u201cfinancial debacle\u201d and issued press releases vowing to challenge any transaction and sue any entity that interfered with his tender offer, the studio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIcahn opposed a merger with MGM not because it was bad for Lions Gate shareholders, but because it was good — so good, in fact, that he wanted to postpone it until he could buy as much of both companies as he could and thus extract for himself as much of the value stemming from the merger as possible,\u201d Lions Gate said in the complaint, filed today in U.S. District Court in New York. Thanks to message board member Owain<\/strong> for the link.\u00a0 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MGM, Lions Gate drama continues. The latest from Bloomberg.com: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is suing billionaire Carl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[4,1156,498,148],"tags":[1337],"class_list":["post-39906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","tag-carl-ichan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t