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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. [63] On March 25 of the following year, the deal was finalized in a cash-stock deal for $1.5 billion, [ 20 ] [ 55 ] [ 64 ] [ page needed ] and the company was renamed ...
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.
The logo was revised again in 2008, with the ribbons, text, and drama mask given a more lustrous gold color since the 1993 MGM/UA home video logo. Leo's image was digitally restored and enhanced by staff at Pacific Title. This included a three-dimensional model of a new mane being designed, and then composited and blended onto Leo's actual mane.
United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.In its original operating period, UA was founded in 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.
Unlike many other Looney Tunes home video releases by MGM/UA Home Video, most of the a.a.p. logos were cut from the releases. As Volume 5 was released in 1997, however, newer "remasters" were used that Turner Entertainment had created in 1995, infamously known as Turner "dubbed versions", to make the shorts look more presentable for television ...
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