Motley Crue "not mad" at MTV over movie delay

Motley Crue recently revealed that they are trying to extricate themselves from a deal with MTV Films, a division of Paramount Pictures, to make a movie out of the band's best-selling 2001 memoir, The Dirt. Although bassist Nikki Sixx said in an interview with Reuters that MTV has become "bogged down," Sixx told us that he's not bitter about the situation: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "I'm not mad at MTV, I don't think the band's mad at MTV, we just need a partner, you know. And after 2005 and 2006 and how successful that was, and we have a brand new album out, it's just a bit ridiculous to not have partners that are pushing -- that movie should be on the street today."

A deal was first announced for the film version in 2006 but has since gone nowhere. Sixx told Reuters that MTV was "a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip...They are not the right partner."

Neither MTV Films nor Paramount Pictures had any comment on the matter.

According to Hits Daily Double, Motley Crue's new album, Saints of Los Angeles, is likely to debut in the Top Four on the Billboard album chart, with first-week sales expected in the range of 90,000 copies.

The disc was issued this past Tuesday (June 24th) and is the first all-new collection from the Crue since 2000's New Tattoo.

The band's summer tour, Crue Fest, which also features Buckcherry, Papa Roach and others, kicks off on July 1st in West Palm Beach, Florida.