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With Paula Wagner's Departure, UA Now Consists Of Tom Cruise And The After-Hours Cleaning Woman [Departures]
Gawker: defamer — ... after just 11 months, leaving no one at the company but Cruise, Wagner, an assistant fully engrossed in the latest OK!, and a cleaning woman chasing after Nazi-eyepatch-dotted tumbleweeds rolling through the hallways. Variety is now reporting that the trigger-shy Wagner "is in talks with MGM to leave her post," a departure Deadline Hollywood Daily explains was something of an inevitability: ...

Bryan Singer's Valkyrie Moved Back to December!
FirstShowing.net — ... In other news, United Artists CEO Paula Wagner, who rebooted the studio nearly two years ago with Tom Cruise, has decided to leave the company. Coincidence that Valkyrie is just now being moved from an idiotic to a smart release date? There's a big hoopla on the back story that you can read on Deadline Hollywood if you wish. Otherwise, we'll stick to Valkyrie. The film will now be battling ...

Hollywood Babble On & On #148: United Artists Is Feeling Divided
The Furious D Show- The One, The Only, The Best, Accept No Imitations — ... Paula Wagner has stepped down as CEO of the almost revived United Artists studio, though it is reported as of this writing that she will stay on as co-owner. Now I'm not going to talk about who is to blame for her departure, or comment on the rumours of rifts between her and Tom Cruise, and Harry Sloan of MGM, that's insider stuff, and I'm an outsider. ...

Tom Cruise's Life Is Imploding [Disasters]
Gawker — ... to have fled and Cruise's former agent, who was pushed out as CEO of the foundering studio Wednesday. Now, from the Post, comes word that Cruise himself ...

Paula Wagner’s Departure Endangers United Artists’ Status As World’s Best Movie Studio
Vulture — ... . According to Vulture buddy Nikki Finke, Wagner's exit comes after her failure to meet production deadlines imperiled part of the studio's $500 million financing deal with Merrill Lynch. Under her leadership, UA has made only two films — last fall's Lions for Lambs (currently on track to recoup its budget in DVD sales by 2064) and the upcoming Valkyrie, in which Cruise plays a one-eyed Nazi who botches an assassination on Hitler — and her exit leaves behind just Cruise, production president Don Granger, and "a few junior execs." As part of her ...

Into The Diaspora: UA To Wander In Hollywood Desert For Another 40 Years [United Artists]
Gawker: defamer — ... Tom Cruise's Movie Studio Imploding: Paula Wagner Is DOA At United Artists; But Was It Suicide or Murder By MGM? [Deadline Hollywood Daily] ...

Paula Wagner Leaves Tom Cruise To Deal With That Nazi Movie All By Himself
RadarOnline.com — ... , which pretty much leaves Cruise and some assistants to right the ship. Over at Deadline Hollywood, Nikki Finke attributes Wagner's disastrous tenure to her inability to greenlight movies fast enough to appease investors . "I'm told specified start dates and release dates haven't been met, so UA could lose a goodly portion of that [Merrill Lynch's $500 million] credit line," she writes. Per a source: The only future for UA was "if Paula calls it a day, or the company implodes on its own, or a gun is put to Wagner's head by financiers and she greenlights things and then ...

'Valkyrie' Gets New Release Date - Again
Reel Talk — ... that his longtime production partner Paula Wagner is leaving United Artists. That's the studio she revived with Cruise. Various industry reports indicate Wagner was forced out because she couldn't get new movies on track. ...

Tom Cruise Project Update
Screen Rant — ... myself. As much as I’ve enjoyed my time as an executive, I have longed to return to my true love, which is making movies, so that’s what I’ve decided to do. I still believe in our vision for UA, and I am confident that Harry Sloan and our colleagues at MGM will see that vision through to reality.” What a week for Tom Cruise. We will have more on these films when (and if) they move forward in development. Sources: Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood ...

You fickle bastards abondoned Tom Cruise and now his career is ending. Are you happy now?! (lol)
Oh No They Didn't! — ... Over at Deadline Hollywood, Nikki Finke attributes Wagner's disastrous tenure to her inability to greenlight movies fast enough to appease investors. "I'm told specified start dates and release dates haven't been met, so UA could lose a goodly portion of that [Merrill Lynch's $500 million] credit line," she writes. Per a source: The only future for UA was "if Paula calls it a day, or the company implodes on its own, or a gun is put to Wagner's head by financiers and she greenlights things and then trusts in luck..." ...

Seriously, Fuck Tom Cruise
Agent Bedhead — ... on behalf of the Cult, including indoctrination videos and other methods of recruitment, which actually lead to the forced labor and false imprisonment of thousands of individuals, is a moot issue. Whether or not he truly recognizes the harm that he does, or whether he even cares, doesn’t matter. He is one damn dangerous individual and, as far as I’m concerned, pure evil. So, when Nikki Finke publishes detailed articles such as Top Execs Exiting United Artists & Tom Cruise’s Movie Studio Imploding , this is all good news, especially when the NY Post ...