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(The logo's design was based on that of MGM's print logo, which had been introduced in 1980.) The following year, a new "MGM/UA Communications Co." logo was introduced, and would precede both the MGM and UA logos until it was dropped in 1990. However, both logos would maintain the byline "An MGM/UA Communications Company" until 1992.
Ahead of the merger, MGM/UA Distribution Co. become the newly minted joint venture UA/MGM Distribution Co., which would handle sales and operations of MGM and UA feature films. [62] On March 25 of the following year, the deal was finalized in a cash-stock deal for $1.5 billion, [ 19 ] [ 54 ] [ 63 ] [ page needed ] and the company was renamed ...
United Artists (UA) is an American film production and (formely) distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.In its original operating period, it was founded in February 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.
MGM/UA may refer to: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, American film and television production and distribution company United Artists, American film and television studio, now a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios; MGM/UA Home Entertainment, the home video arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MGM/UA Television, American television production/distribution studio
United Artists (UA) (1919–1981) – one of the "Little Three" (or "major minor") studios, originally only a distributor for independent film producers, [21] acquired by MGM in 1981; brand name was resurrected in 2019 when Annapurna Pictures and MGM renamed a distribution company, which was a joint venture between the two companies, to United ...
When Turner sold back the MGM/UA production unit, he kept the MGM library, including the Warner Bros. Pictures films and Popeye cartoons from the a.a.p. library, for his own company. On June 16, 1982, Warner Communications was in talks to buy back rights to the pre-1950 Warner Bros. Pictures library (with the pre-1948 Warner Bros. live-action ...
United Artists Television (UATV) was an American television production/distribution studio of United Artists Corporation that was formed on January 1, 1958. The company is remembered for producing series such as This Man Dawson, World of Giants, Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, Gilligan's Island, My Mother the Car, The Fugitive, The Rat Patrol, thirtysomething, The New Phil Silvers Show, The ...
In 1984, MGM/UA TV again launched an ad hoc TV network, MGM/UA Premiere Network, with movies. [28] Also that same year, producer David Gerber, who was lured from Columbia Pictures struck a deal with MGM to produce television shows. [29] In 1983, producer Jerry Ludwig has struck a two-year contract with MGM to produce programming. [30]