Finally, my day ended with the 1 person I was most excited to see. Callum Blue.  Smallville has brought him in to play General Zod on the show…but that means little to me since I refuse to watch the show. He is still Mason from “Dead Like Me” to me. Which was evidently apparent to him by the fact I had 6 or 7 different photos of him from the show. He cracked a couple jokes about how his autograph might actually be worth something now that he is on Smallville, which I replied to “I cant stand the show…I still wish you were doing Dead Like Me”, which got an excited “me too” from him. He was asked by others why he thought the show died prematurely, he answered that he didnt know, but found it odd that it seems to always be Bryan Fuller shows. He had a laugh or two at some of the DLM photos myself & my friend had of him, the last one being from a scene where hes getting a full body search by airport security because they think hes carrying drugs. He said “is that the episode where I had illegals in my bottom” & I replied “yeah” which he laughed to, and I said as he was starting to walk away, “no problems like that today?”, which he responded “nope, got away with it this time”. As he walked towards the rest of the hounds that were outside, he gladly signed & took pics for them as well. While he was leaving I asked him if there was any talk of a 2nd DLM movie possibly. He siad there is, and was hopefull…..and ended the conversation with “and hopefully a return of the series”…which I certainly would be thrilled to see.

Random bloggings – CANADAGRAPHS

Ellen Muth (aka Georgia Lass aka Peanut) will have the leading role in a new Independent film with the working title ‘The Nephila’.

:::The Nephila:::

The maker, Joshua Mathieson, will be answering questions about the movie over at DLMO on this thread (will need to register):

Welcome to Dead Like Me Online! • View topic – Nephila Q&A

Joshua offers this teaser about the movie and Ellen’s role:

I will give you a bit of a teaser and say that Ellen is the daughter of the fallen angel that she believes is her Uncle. Imagine all that could be possible if you had all the powers of an angel, with the free will of a human? Would you use that for the advancement of mankind or would you fall to temptation? Hmmm…

First indications of this news appeared on a Twitter account for ‘EllenAMuth’.  This may well be her real account, so if you’re an Ellen Muth fan here’s the link:

Ellen Muth (EllenAMuth) on Twitter

Here’s a discussion of Ellen on Twitter from her website:

ellen-muth.net • View topic – Ellen Muth on Twitter

MGM passes audit

Court-supervised reorganization unlikely

By Carl DiOrio

July 15, 2009, 11:42 AM ET

MGM has passed its annual audit.

That’s the expected good news, delivered by the Century City-based studio on Wednesday. An unfortunate related update is that a J.P. Morgan-led creditors committee appears unmollified by the announcement.

There was never considered a sizeable risk that the audit would result in a warning being issued about MGM’s viability as a “going concern.” But the mere theoretical chance of that happening shook creditors, who then hired investment consultancy Houlihan Lokey to advise on possible strategies for dealing with the situation.

Fortunately for MGM, the successful conclusion of its audit means the creditors would be hard-pressed to force a court-supervised reorganization of the studio. It appears the more than 140 lenders comprising the creditors group can only jawbone about their concerns for the time being.

MGM, which is owned by a consortium of private equity firms, Sony and Comcast, also has been mulling how to restructure its finances. One big concern involves the April expiration of MGM’s credit facility at J.P. Morgan.

MGM didn’t mention a recent re-valuation of its film library conducted by Bank of Montreal. But the results of that new valuation will bear directly on any discussions the studio has with prospective new financial partners in the future.

Word among financial community sources was that the semi-annual library valuation came in considerably lower than MGM’s previous estimate but at a level that allows them to continue to operate under the current debt facility.

“MGM is in full compliance with all of its debt covenants,” the studio said.

MGM bears more than $4 billion in debt, and public trading in Lion debt instruments has been active. It’s believed that famed corporate raider Carl Icahn has been quietly buying debt derivatives instead of debt, because he’s not approved by creditors to acquire actual debt.

MGM passes audit

We’re at that point in the ‘House MD’ episode where the patient’s heart stops, but with the help of those handy little shocker devices the patient is brought back for the next round of treatment.

This means the bankers will wait for events outside their direct control to force the issue.  Ominously the library has been valued lower than prior years reflecting an industry devaluation in prospective dvd sales – not a temporary move but reflecting the fragmentation of audience and successful growth of competing avenues taking that audience.

Is there a pathway buried somewhere in all this mess for MGM to start up another Dead Like Me project?

That weight lifting program post DLM has been paying off.

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