Though MGM is dumping all their distribution for Weinstein films back on Harvey's lap, the studio may finally be seeing some pay-out for their co-ownership in United Artists. With Tom Cruise at the helm after partner Paula Wagner left, there's been some nail-biting to see whether or not UA would actually produce any films; so far, the only thing they've managed to get out recently was Lion for Lambs, and that was what? A year ago?

And despite promises of $500 million from Merrill Lynch, Cruise seems to be just sitting on his studio's pile of money, twiddling his thumbs and pushing around the release date of his ego project, Valkyrie, based on the life would-be Hitler assassin, Claus von Stauffenberg.

So MGM is smart to be nervous with Cruise leading the charge at UA, which is why they rushed out this trailer for Valkyrie before word got around about the MGM/Weinstein split-up:

So what, it's Schindler's List by way of The English Patient with a little bit of Indiana Jones thrown in for good measure? Actually, meh, it could be worse. Go the course, Cruise!