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Paula Wagner Leaving United Artists
We Are Movie Geeks —
Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise’s long-time partner, is planning to leave United Artists. According to Variety, Wagner, co-owner and CEO of UA, is in negotiations with MGM to forfeit her post at the studio.
Wagner will likely retain an ownership interest in the studio. It is expected she will leave as soon as post-production on ‘Valkyrie’, the studio’s second film, is completed. Wagner is also a producer on the upcoming ‘Death Race’ being released by Universal next week.
Cruise News! Valkyrie, Tourist, and UA
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
Is that Tom Cruise in the elusive Valkyrie, or is he just getting ready to star in a touring company of The Producers?
Well, it seems like Tom Cruise can’t stay out of the news these days; however, much to his relief, I’m sure, the news is career-related, not personal. Actually, I think many others are relieved, too. I’m bored with the whole Scientology/TomKat thing. We get it, Scientology is weird, Katie is a Stepford wife. I’m up for a new freaky celebrity couple.
Anyway, to the business types, the big news is that Paula Wagner, Cruise’s longtime producing partner, is leaving her role as ...
Does Tom Cruise's career really need saving?
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Clooney with Smoke House. No, he decided to actually resurrect a whole studio. And not just any studio, mind: he chose United Artists - the prestigious "artists' co-operative", founded in 1919 by the all-star team of Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. This, of course, meant fewer acting opportunities and more meetings. Meaning less visibility and more headaches. It seemed a dubious choice at the time - and even less advisable yesterday, following the departure of his longtime colleague Paula Wagner who quit (or "ankled", in trade-speak) her ...
Paula Wagner & Six (Shooter) Degrees. Trade Roughage 08/14/08
SpoutBlog —
Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise’s long-time producing partner, is leaving her post at the top of United Artists. Though Wagner will hold on to a share of UA––which has barely made use of their $500 million credit line, due to some friction with parent studio MGM over which movies to greenlight––apparently “it’s possible that the studio will once again go into hibernation and that the UA coin will go to MGM.”
Totally coincidentally, the release date on UA’s next big production, the bad buzz-plagued Tom Cruise-in-an-eye patch vehicle Valkyrie, has been moved to Dec. 26 from Feb. 13, ...
Paula Wagner’s Departure Endangers United Artists’ Status As World’s Best Movie Studio
Vulture —
... Variety reports that United Artists co-chairman Paula Wagner (the Chad Hugo to Tom Cruise's Pharrell) is in talks with parent studio MGM to vacate her post, making her the second executive to leave the company this week following the ...
