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MGM's video division became known as MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group, Inc., more commonly known as MGM/UA Home Video. MGM/UA continued to license pre-1981 UA and pre-1950 WB films (as well as some post-1981 titles) to CBS/Fox (due to an agreement UA had with Fox years earlier dating back to when CBS/Fox Video was called Magnetic Video).
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.
Jackie would make his last film appearance at the beginning of an MGM film in Hearts of the West (1975); he was later seen in part of the rollercoaster filmstrip animation sequence in the 1993 MGM/UA Home Video logo, where he only roars once with Tanner's roar. In addition to the MGM logo, Jackie appeared in roughly a dozen films for the studio.
On June 12, 1985, David Gerber himself was appointed president of MGM/UA Television. [31] In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM/UA from Kirk Kerkorian, including all of the movies and television shows by MGM/UA. Due to a crushing debt, however, Turner was forced to return to Kerkorian all of United Artists and the MGM trademark 74 days later on June 8.
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
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 ...
Early FHE releases were distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, including the very first release of few episodes of Gumby. [f] In the late 1980s, FHE's releases were distributed by MCA (most notably in Canada). [72] In 1982, the company introduced USA Home Video as a non-family division of the company.
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