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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).
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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.
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) 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.
It received a distribution pact with Wizard Video. In 1982, the latter had sold The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 10,000 copies a week. [3] Also that year, the label started distributing titles by Monterey Home Video. Later on, it received a distribution deal with MGM/UA Home Video to distribute the library. In 1983, it received a new agreement with ...
In 1982, CBS withdrew from the MGM joint venture. The MGM/CBS company reorganized into MGM/UA Home Video. A short time later, CBS purchased a stake in 20th Century Fox's home video operation, and formed CBS/Fox Video. The new company reissued many of CBS' properties issued under the CBS/Fox label, in addition to films under the 20th Century Fox ...