Roger Birnbaum

In one of the more talked-about transactions in town, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sold their Malibu beach house to daytime host and comedian Ellen De Generes for $12 million. The 4,088-square-foot house, built in 1962, features walls of...

Entertainment industry executive Roger Birnbaum and his wife, Pamela, have put their Beverly Hills home up for sale at $15.75 million. Completed five years ago, the nearly 7,200-square-foot contemporary farmhouse was a project of former talent manager...

New MGM is focused on international TV, even while making movies....

Joe Carnahan, director of Liam Neeson movie "The Grey," will write and direct a reboot of Charles Bronson's "Death Wish."...

MGM said this week that returns of $231 million in worldwide box office wasn't enough to turn a profit on "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has bought back full control of its historic film label United Artists, the independent studio revealed in financial results reported this week. It also disclosed for the first time that television industry veteran Peter Liguori has...

With barely any movies to market since he joined the company three years ago or for the foreseeable future, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer marketing head Michael Vollman is leaving the company. Vollman, the studio's executive vice president of theatrical marketing,...

Carl Icahn still wants to see Hollywood's two lions get married. The billionaire investor has increased his stakes in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lions Gate Entertainment as he continues to seek a merger of the two independent studios. Since MGM and its......

Doug Finberg, previously an international marketing executive at Marvel Studios, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG, has been named executive vice president of marketing at MGM, where he will oversee all publicity for the studio....

Roma Khanna has joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as president of the studio's television and digital group. Khanna, a former NBCUniversal executive, will oversee MGM's television sales, production, program acquisitions, licensing, content creation and digital...

China has become such an important market for U.S. entertainment companies that one studio has taken the extraordinary step of digitally altering a film to excise bad guys from the Communist nation lest the leadership in Beijing be offended. When MGM...

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