Lions for Lambs” tracking poorly, may jeopardize MGM’s financing?
The Post spots another anti-war bomb falling from the sky. Seems awfully premature considering that the film hasn’t opened domestically yet but the early reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are not promising, with even the raves tossing around words like “talky” and “stilted.” Leave it to Redford to turn a war movie into My Dinner With Andre II. First they came for Rendition… The initial negative reception to “Lions for Lambs” – the first movie to come out under Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s resurrected United Artists label – could harm parent studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s own attempts to raise money for film productions. MGM had enlisted Goldman Sachs to raise between $500 million and $1 billion before the credit markets crashed this summer, and several sources confirmed that while the credit markets are still tight, the investment bank is again making the rounds for MGM. But with “Lions for Lambs” – which also stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep – so far tracking the worst among audiences fo
