Word: lynching
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Instead, Marvel secured a $525 million nonrecourse credit facility--other people's money--from Merrill Lynch to make 10 films by 2012. Production is under way for the first, Iron Man, to be released in May 2008. Marvel's new studio can spend up to $165 million a flick--still relatively low for the production of an action film with sophisticated special effects, warns media analyst Harold Vogel. "And they've got to create excellent stories to stick out in the oversaturated superhero genre," Vogel says. If the studio goes over budget on a film, Marvel could be forced...
...Bobby's best friend, is hilarious, serving as his teammate in early scenes (coining their grocery store-inspired slogan: "Shake and Bake") and then as his nemesis later on. Amy Adams, as Ricky Bobby's unexpected romantic interest, wins us over with only a few lines of dialogue. Jane Lynch, as a tough-talking grandma, gets a handful of laughs, all while Ricky Bobby's two young sons all but steal the show with a back-and-forth that takes place during a family dinner at Applebee...
...gone. When Hertz filed for an IPO in mid-July, it was up-front about why it needed the cash: to service debt that helped pay a $1 billion dividend to the outfits that had bought it less than a year before--Carlyle Group, Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity...
...complaint said that former Goldman Sachs analysts Plotkin and Pajcin hired Shpigelman to leak information about six mergers or acquisitions that Merrill Lynch was overseeing, including those between Proctor & Gamble and Gillette, Duke Energy and Cinergy, and Reebok and Adidas. According to the complaint, Shpigelman received cash and pledges for a share in profits...
Ultimately, though, he told the U.S. District Judge that he acted out of his own free will. Other than the Merrill Lynch plan, Plotkin and Pajcin are accused of hiring two Wisconsin printing plant employees to leak them information from a Wall Street column in BusinessWeek a day before the magazine’s publication...