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- As it pertains to the Dark Shadows franchise, MGM produced and distributed two full-length Dan Curtis Productions motion pictures that were released to theaters; House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows. A third Dark Shadows film entitled Death of Dark Shadows was optioned to MGM in 1962, but the production company never approved the project and it was permanently shelved.
- En 2010, MGM entró en bancarrota, dejando la producción de Skyfall en el aire durante varios meses hasta que pudo empezarse. Categoría:producción
- Spectre become the last James Bond film distributed by Columbia Pictures, However, it is understood that Walt Disney Pictures, or some other distribution company will have distribution rights as Sony did to the James Bond film series and to distribute Bond 25 if it depends on it.
- Most of the older cartoons are in the public domain, allowing film and television crews like Shining Time Station to use them.
- On December 20, 2010, MGM emerged from bankruptcy and the executives of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the company.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (ou MGM) est une société américaine spécialisée dans la production et dans la distribution de films de cinéma et de programmes pour la télévision. Ses principales filiales sont MGM Pictures et United Artists.
- Metro Studios was formed in 1916 after the success of Birth of a Nation (hey, it was the 1910s) and they found out you can do a lot with special effects. Studio founder Joe Metro then attempted to make an epic film called Civil War, but it flopped big time. So Metro resorted to making a few pornographic films for the next eight years, making it the most successful porn studio of its time.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., or MGM, is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Its mascot is Leo the Lion. In "Road to Rupert", Stewie Griffin is inserted into the scene in Anchors Aweigh where Jerry Mouse and Gene Kelly perform "The Worry Song".
- MGM was the last studio to convert to sound pictures, but in spite of this fact, from the end of the silent film era through the late 1950s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood. Always slow to respond to the changing legal, economic, and demographic nature of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 1960s, and although at times its films did well at the box office, the studio lost significant amounts of money throughout the 1960s. In 1966, MGM was sold to Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman, Sr., whose son Edgar, Jr. would later buy Universal Studios. Three years later, an increasingly unprofitable MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, who slashed staff and production costs, forced the studio to produce low-budget fare, and then shut down theatrical dis
- From the end of the Silent Film Era through World War II, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the preeminient motion picture studio in Hollywood, with the greatest output of all of the studios: at its height, it released one feature film a week, along with many short subjects and serials. A victim of the massive restructuring of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 60s, it was ultimately unable to cope with the loss of its theater chain (due to the Paramount decrees), and the power shift from studio bosses to independent producers and agents.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (abbreviated as MGM) is a movie producer and former distributor. The studio became famous for its mascot Leo the Lion, whose roar opened nearly every film (2001: A Space Odyssey being one exception). This was spoofed by Uli von Bödefeld in Sesamstrasse's season 1 outtakes reel, Fozzie Bear in The Muppets Go to the Movies, Animal in The Great Muppet Caper, Chicago in Sesame Street Episode 2911, Big Bird in A Brief History of Motion Pictures, and sheep Wolle on German co-production Sesamstrasse's first TV-movie Das Geheimnis der Blumenfabrik.
- MGM released Cartoon Moviestars VHS tapes in the mid-1980s. These were new transfers in the 1980s to replace the AAP prints for better quality of the cartoons. Of course, they only had the 16mm prints at the time so these restorations were not that great. These VHS tapes had blue borders on the opening and closing rings on the cartoons. These 1980s prints were later obliterated by 1995 Turner dubbed versions, with altered end cards and much better color corrections. Although, the 4 Inki cartoons still exist in these prints as well as a few others on the tapes.
- In 1963 , MGM was airing Gene Roddenberry's television series The Lieutenant when they approached Roddenberry for a new action-adventure series for the 1964 season. Roddenberry pitched his early ideas for Star Trek, and although MGM was initially interested, they eventually declined, becoming the first studio to reject Star Trek. The series would ultimately be accepted by NBC after CBS also rejected it.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or simply MGM) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. Once the largest and most glamorous of film studios, MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills. It is one of the oldest mini-major film studios and a former major film studio.
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