Sony Angling To Get Jackson's Half Of Catalog

Michael Jackson

Pop singer, Michael Jackson, has not even been dead for a month and already Sony is angling to pry the other half of the music publishing catalog he co-owns with them, from his lifeless hands.

They seek to make an offer for it, while informing the press, their half is not for sale. Sony CEO, Satan incarnate, Howard Stringer, was busy responding to inquires about it at Camp Allen last week. Just pathetic.

To Mrs. Jackson and co.: do not sell it to Sony. They seek to buy you out at a discounted price, due to Jackson's untimely death, with the knowledge, the catalog is going to increase in value over time, leaving you, your son's children and his favorite charities, shortchanged.

Sony harassed, antagonized, abused, vilified, exploited and threatened your son during his life, in well documented incidents. They added to his pain. He fought tooth and nail to keep that catalog. Now that he has passed, they seek to do him this final injustice, trying to obtain the catalog for far less than it is worth.

Jackson Assets Draw the Gaze of Wall Street

Published: July 19, 2009 - ...Howard Stringer, top, Sony’s chief, and Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the head of Colony Capital, had deals with Michael Jackson.

A handful of major financial firms have made inquiries into buying the Jackson estate’s 50 percent share of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the company that controls most of the Beatles song catalog, according to people briefed on the matter...

“Sony/ATV’s really started to gain greater value in recent years,” said Barry Massarsky, a music industry consultant who has done work for Sony/ATV and its rivals. “I’m very bullish on its prospects.”

John G. Branca, the entertainment lawyer who structured Mr. Jackson’s initial purchase of the Beatles catalog and is now one of two executors of his estate, declined to comment by e-mail on Sunday, saying only that the Jackson stake in Sony/ATV “is not for sale.”...

Mijac has an estimated worth of $50 million to $100 million and is likely to grow with the pickup in album sales since his death...

It remains possible that Sony could seek to use its option, leaving the Jackson family with a 25 percent stake in the business. Some of the private equity firms have proposed teaming with Sony to buy the remaining stake from the family, these people said...

Speculation about the Jackson stake in Sony/ATV swirled at the Allen & Company retreat for media moguls in Sun Valley this month. Several attendees said Mr. Stringer had fielded inquiries into the possibility over dinner. Mr. Saban made an informal inquiry then, these people said.

The stake is likely to continue to grow in value, and some members of the Jackson family have pondered the merits of selling. Still others have proposed eventually cobbling together a consortium to buy out Sony’s share in the publisher.

http://www.nytimes.com

Michael Bay Made Megan Fox Wash His Ferrari

Megan Fox

Transformers director, Michael Bay, made Megan Fox wash his Ferrari, as her audition for the film. Another piece of the puzzle, why she has been badmouthing him of late.

How was washing his sports car, a sexual innuendo often used in music videos, supposed to show her acting abilities. No wonder she keeps throwing Bay under the bus, stating the most embarrassing items about him in the press. Bay repeatedly objectified her.

Michael Bay

Dude, if you wanted to go out with her, why didn’t you just ask. Oh yea, that’s right, she had a bag, Brain Austin Green. Considering she had a boyfriend, Bay, that was pervy and underhanded.

MICHAEL BAY MADE MEGAN FOX WASH FERRARI FOR 'TRANSFORMERS' AUDITION

THERE'S a video of Megan Fox we want to see. When the sizzling star of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" went to director Michael Bay's house to audition for the part, "He made her wash his Ferrari while he filmed her," reports Jason Solomons in Britain's Guardian. "She said she didn't know what had happened to that footage. When I put it to Bay himself, he looked suitably abashed -- 'Er, I don't know where it is either.' " Come on. Cough it up!

http://www.nypost.com

Megan Fox Shook Her Butt For Michael Bay At 15

Megan Fox

The Comic Book Movie website, unearthed old footage of a then 15-year-old actress Megan Fox, in one of Transformer director Michael Bay's previous films, Bad Boys II.

Underage Megan, was featured in a club scene, wearing a skimpy bikini and stated she received more money for letting them throw water on her for the shot ($600).

That is highly inappropriate for a 15-year-old and they should have known better. Bay clearly liked her from a very young age, as he cast her in such a sexual role.

His fascination with her continues, as he made her pose for a few male members of the cast and crew in all 18 skimpy outfits she wore in this summer's Transformers' sequel. Exactly what is going on between those two.

Michael Bay

Has Bay subjected Megan to the casting couch and did she go along with it for fortune and fame. Has Bay become obsessed and her disses are her way of telling him to back off.

She clearly doesn't make the best choices, says very off the wall things, has made a career out of emulating Angelina Jolie, who is not happy with her and brags about her marijuana use.

Estelle Getty

A funny joke about the casting couch. The late actress, Estelle Getty, of the television show "The Golden Girls" who found fame in her late 50's, once remarked in her 60's:

People ask, "Have you had a hard time being chased around the casting couch?" The answer is no. My body has taken the concept of the casting couch and turned it upside down. If I suspect I might not get a part, I'd threaten to get undressed.

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Megan Fox appeared as a "club kid" in BAD BOYS II before teaming with Shia LaBeouf and the TRANSFORMERS... She also dropped the news that she worked with Bay before:

"I was actually an extra on Bad Boys II. There's a club scene, and I was one of the club kids. I was in a stars-and-stripes bikini and a cowboy hat, dancing under a waterfall."

Before you get too excited, realize that Fox was only 15 when she filmed the scene:

Yeah, I was still in ninth grade. I liked it at the time, because I was getting out of school. So I was like, F--- yeah, I don't care! And I got paid extra because if you allow them to put water on you, you get paid extra. I got probably $600.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com