Dead Like Me

Information from a series of recent meetings between Cooper at MGM and the 140 strong creditors has leaked. Cooper made a pitch for new debt to jumpstart MGM movie production, and the creditors declined the honor and opportunity to lose even more money.  Instead they made it clear they want the studio and its 4,000 film library (this would include Dead Like Me franchise) to be sold either now by MGM or by the creditors from bankruptcy.  The current agreement in which interest owed to the creditors is converted to equity expires on December 15th.

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Steve Cooper, new head of MGM, has accelerated negotiations with debt holders.  The current owners will be removed (or nearly so), significant amounts of debt converted to equity, and then the new owners will auction MGM off.  Interested bidders are rumored to be Lionsgate, Time Warner, and Fox.

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In a last stand bid to maintain some control of MGM the private equity firms have removed the current CDO, Harry Sloan, in favor of a work out specialist, Stephen Cooper (he stepped into Enron after it imploded).

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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

That weight lifting program post DLM has been paying off.

SMALLVILLE’s Zod: Kneel Before Him – Mania.com

‘Smallville’ casts its General Zod

Just read this post in the Dead Like Me Forum by DB7878 (who is now essentially running the site – a true Dead Like Me Fan!!!)

It basiclly says how Ellen Muth saw the movie as an end to the Dead Like Me franchise.

The movie, which is about iconoclastic 18-year old Georgia Lass, who is killed by falling space debris (a toilet seat from a satellite), and becomes a grim reaper. She joins a local grim reaper group and is assigned the task of helping the souls of the newly dead cross into the afterlife. Dead Like Me: Life After Death is a sequel to the Showtime series, Dead Like Me, which ran during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. After its initial run, reruns of the series could be seen on the Science Fiction channel. Jasmine Guy, Callum Blue, Joy Stevenson, and Britt McKillip reprised their television roles for the movie.

 

A question and answer period followed the film, during which time Muth revealed the bad news that she felt the movie represented the end of the Dead Like Me franchise.

It is sad what happed to the Dead Like Me series, it was really an amazing show. The movie tried to recapture that “magic” – getting (most) of the cast back together, but I felt that somehow it was just different. Very good! – but different.

Despite Ellens thoughts, I would still LOVE to see another Dead Like Me series – or move. There is so much they could still do.

Do you feel Ellens comments suggest the end?

Here is an article that many of us Dead Like Me Fans could relate to…

http://io9.com/5273419/what-it-would-take-for-new-firefly

“What It Would Take For New Firefly?”

So, any comments?

MGM, owner of the ‘Dead Like Me’ franchise , has two major stakeholders at odds.  On one side are  the private equity firms that bought it several years ago and then put Sloan and some $3.7 bil in debt in place.  On the other are the lenders of that debt, and the lenders, not unlike any good grim reaper, have a postit with the initials M-G-M and an ETD quickly approaching and are holding meeting discussing the collection.  The stakes are high for fans of ‘Dead Like Me’ because depending on the outcome we may see some new DLM project sooner, or perhaps never again.  

See the thread ‘MGM State of Financial Health’ inside the forum for more detail.

Just a quick “thanks” to DB7878 – who has agreed to help keep the site up-to-date with the latest Dead Like Me – and Dead Like Me Life After Death News!!! Thankyou