Comments on: Monday afternoon news update (10/22)

By: Leland Roling

Leland Roling — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:27:59 +0000

Ahh, I thought you meant from a past source. I haven’t heard that one, but I would think the UFC may be trying to break down Fedor’s status to make themselves not look like idiots. Just my two cents.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:45:53 +0000

I was referring to the press conference info conflicting an earlier report by Meltzer from the WO, where he stated that UFC inside sources said part of the the litany of reasons for the difficulty in coming to a deal was Fedor (or his management’s) insistence on not wanting to take a fight with certain fighters, which included Sylvia.

Maybe I’m not reading your post correctly…

By: Leland Roling

Leland Roling — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:33:44 +0000

The report was that the UFC turned down Fedor based on the same fact in this instance, Sylvia was under the UFC banner and wouldn’t be allowed to go outside the organization and Fedor wouldn’t be allowed to come fight unless he was under contract. He was under contract with PRIDE. That’s what I got out of the whole situation. Fedor offered, Sylvia turned down when in reality, Dana probably said no.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:24:45 +0000

“UFC turned down an offer to match Emelianenko up against Tim Sylvia when both were champions in there respective organizations.”

Well someone is lying about Fedor wanting to fight Big Tim…cuz this is exactly the opposite of the story that ‘inside UFC sources’ were saying about Fedor selectively turning down certain fights.

By: Jeff Comstock

Jeff Comstock — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:38:54 +0000

working hard… too many… random, crazy, details…so many unanswered questions.

By: m.d.

m.d. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:24:27 +0000

I didn’t see the Grice/Black fight, but according to the pbp Black had several quality sub attempts. Gregg Doyel, who jumped on the MMA train in March, better have a rudimentary understanding of how to score “effective grappling” before he starts running his yap.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:42:08 +0000

Producers are either there just to give the movie credibility, or they do the scheduling of the movie. Obviously I don’t work in Hollywood, but often times it is mentioned that Producers are the biggest idiots of the production.

The thing with this company is that they have never really done live TV. That is so hard to pull off and look respectable.

By: Leland Roling

Leland Roling — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:58:35 +0000

Well, Bob Clark is what is listed on the M-1 Global website. I’ll keep it.

By: Preach

Preach — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:07:44 +0000

Leland, in regards to your article on the Siblings:

Sibling Pictures hasn’t produced a single film up until now. They’re only listing films that Mitchell and Victoria Maxwell were credited on as a producer (which, like i stated before, were based on their plays). The only “real” production they did was a film called “Spin the Bottle” (under the name “Maxwell Entertainment Inc.”). And the list of actors they worked with looks good, but most of them did only small cameos, and/or worked for minimum SAG wages, as these films were having very small budgets. Most of them were in the adaption of “Jeffrey” (which had a budget of 1.75 mio $).

And perhaps you should change “Bob Clark” to “Robert K. Clark”. Not that anyone mistakens this man with the late Bob Clark, director of such cult classics as “Porkys” and “Black Christmas”.

By: Leland Roling

Leland Roling — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:12:44 +0000

I’ll be updating my posting as well. There are some real interesting SEC Filing notes as well as the fact that the company has jack all for cash. I’m interested to hear if another backer is involved as well.