Osaka to team up with MGM Resorts-led group to bid for casino resort
The consortium is planning an initial investment of about ¥1.08 trillion ($9.7 billion) to open a casino complex in Osaka Bay in the late 2020s if selected for a government permit.
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MGM's longtime CEO Jim Murren to quit before contract ends
Jim Murren, MGM Resorts International's longtime chairman and chief executive officer, plans to step down before his contract expires, departing as the casino company copes with fallout from the deadly new coronavirus. Murren, 58, will remain on the job until a successor is named, the ...
Casino resort frontrunner MGM says winning and building Osaka facility by 2025 is tough but doable
Over the next few months, the government is expected to debate the structure of a new regulatory committee that will oversee so-called integrated resort complexes containing casinos and draft a basic policy specifying the selection criteria for such facilities. For Osaka, considered the frontrunner of ...
Revival-seeking rural Japan feels left out as casino plans favor major cities
Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama are emerging as likely candidates for casino resorts under the government's new bidding framework, triggering criticism from smaller cities that say it undermines Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of reviving rural areas. Most global casino operators have indicated an interest in ...
Say goodnight to the bad guy: The cost of making enemies in the age of globalized cinema
In the summer of 2010, Hollywood studio MGM had the film "Red Dawn" in the bag and ready for release. There was one little problem, though: The movie — a remake of the 1984 film of the same name, a Cold War paranoid-fantasy about ...
Sands czar bets he will win Japan casino race
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is willing to bet $10 billion that his Las Vegas Sands will become the leader in casino gambling in Japan, an offer he says his competitors can't match. What remains to be seen is whether one of the world's last great untapped ...
