At the risk of sounding all wimpy and lame, let me just say "Yee-hah!"Mad Men creator/producer/visionary Matthew Weiner signed a deal with Lionsgate earlier today after several months of back and forth. The deal secures Weiner for two more seasons of the show, and not only includes a deal for developing more TV shows but also includes a deal for movies.
There aren't any hard numbers on the deal (not yet anyway), but it is believed to be in the seven figures. Of course, that's a no-brainer. As if it wasn't going to be at least $1 million. But it's probably a helluva lot more than that. AMC might have helped with the money.
This is fantastic news. I suppose that Mad Men would have gone on regardless (it was picked up for a third season by AMC), but it wouldn't be the same without Weiner. Now everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, get back to work, and make sure those episodes debut this summer as planned.
To repeat: "Yee-hah!"
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1-17-2009 @ 4:19PM
StillBash said...
Mad Men movie. Now!
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1-17-2009 @ 5:54PM
MERVE-THE-PERVE said...
I don't understand why they didn't make it a 3 year deal. Now we're gonna have to go through this again for the final season. It was probably insisted upon by his agent so they can squeeze every penny possible out of AMC.
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1-17-2009 @ 10:11PM
C C said...
Sounds like AMC went the extra mile to keep Weiner. Lionsgate is not that invested in Mad Men. They don't need it that badly, and they certainly weren't going to shell out a million to Matt Weiner (who I personally think is overrated and I suspect the honchos at Lionsgate feel the same way). AMC, on the other hand, does. Mad Men is their "brand name", their identity.
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1-18-2009 @ 1:19AM
Joe in LA said...
Um, are you a honcho at Lionsgate?
1-20-2009 @ 3:00PM
Anna said...
Check out Allen Adamson's complete set of Digital Mad Men to see how the characters might talk in the biz today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRi4TH3M0w
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