Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distribution Company and Film Production Company
Lions Gate (and every other media company) says it would buy MGM at right price...Bros. -- was on track to buy it. It would also make sense because Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema unit plans to co-produce two "Hobbit" movies with MGM. News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox, which distributes MGM's movies on DVDs around the... In this article: MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, Michael Burns, The Hobbit, News Corp, Time Warner, Warner Bros, Hollywood, Summit Entertainment, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
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New York Post | September 17, 2009
Dick Parsons may help Providence ditch MGM
...that happens, deal talks are likely to start heating up. Beyond Time Warner, other suitors circling MGM include Qualia Capital, Lionsgate, News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox and others. (News Corp. owns The Post.) Given its $9 billion in cash,...
In this article: MGM, Time Warner, Dick Parsons, Providence, Bankruptcy, News Corp., Balance sheet, Providence Equity Partners, Jeff Bewkes, and Citigroup
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Sunday Mirror | November 03, 2009
PlayStation video store: titles named
...on… Major studios including 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros are all on board to push out new blockbusters on the PlayStation video store, letting you download flicks to your PS3 and PSP. The first...
In this article: PlayStation, PS3, Angels & Demons, Crank 2, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Sony, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Universal
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Contactmusic.com | September 03, 2009
Mgm - Hollywood Writerproducer Berg Dies After Fall
...in the U.S. By the late 1950s, Berg was an in-demand writer in Tinseltown and enjoyed careers at leading studios MGM, 20th Century Fox and Universal, where he created detective drama Johnny Staccato starring John Cassavetes. He moved into...
In this article: MGM, Hollywood, Universal, American Film Institute, TV Movie, International Creative Management, Elmore Leonard, 20th Century Fox, and House of Cards
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Rede Telecine
Rede Telecine Rede Telecine ("th Telecine Network") are six premium television channels in Brazil, jointly owned by Globosat, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, MGM and DreamWorks. The flagship channel, one of the...
In this article: SporTV, Globosat, GNT, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Numb3rs, and Brazil
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L.A. Times - TV News | September 03, 2009
Dick Berg dies at 87; television and film writer and producer
...Berg to Hollywood as a screenwriter in 1957. Over the next few years, Berg worked on numerous scripts at MGM and 20th Century Fox before Universal Studios put him under a long-term contract. He began by creating the 1959-60 television...
In this article: Cliff Robertson, A. Scott Berg, Hollywood, Rod Serling, Mark Rydell, Sydney Pollack, American Film Institute, Universal Studios, and Charlton Heston
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www.washingtonpost.com | January 16, 2007
Netflix to Be Delivered on the Internet
...Bridge On the River Kwai." The studios contributing to Netflix's new service include NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Lion's Gate and New Line Cinema. "We are going into this with...
In this article: Netflix Inc., DVD, Blockbuster Inc., Apple Inc., NBC Universal, MovieFlix, Itunes, Amazon.com Inc, and IPod
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | October 20, 2009
Lives Remembered
...Straw Dogs, Midnight Express and Network. Became head of production at MGM and president of Columbia after being responsible for the spoof spy television series Get Smart in the 1960s. In 1980 he moved to 20th Century Fox, producing...
In this article: Sean Connery, Mario, Charles Addams, Cyndi Lauper, The Addams Family, Trademark, Academy Awards, James Bond film, BBC Radio 4, and Time After Time
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Guardian Unlimited | February 16, 2009
Pirate Bay in dock in filesharing trial
...the file contributes a piece to the overall download. Plaintiffs in the case include Warner Bros, MGM, Colombia Pictures Industries, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI. Led by the International Federation of the Phonographic...
In this article: The Pirate Bay, Defendant, Carl Lundstrom, BitTorrent, Plaintiff, File sharing, and Peer-to-peer
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Advertising Age | July 07, 2009
Patti Pruett Named Publisher of The Atlantan
At WhittmanHart, Mr. Ouvaroff will oversee new business and work for clients including Scion, Black & Decker and TelCel, as well as studio and entertainment business, including 20th Century Fox, HBO, MGM, Paramount and Sony Pictures. In...
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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.
The studio's official motto, "Ars Gratia Artis", is a Latin phrase meaning "Art for art's sake." It was chosen by Howard Dietz, the studio's chief publicist, in 1924. The studio's logo is a roaring lion surrounded by a circle inscribed with the studio's motto. The logo, which features "Leo the Lion," was created by Dietz in 1916 for Goldwyn Pictures and updated in 1924 for MGM's use. Dietz based the logo on his alma mater's mascot—the Columbia University lion. Originally silent, the sound of Leo the Lion's roar was added to films for the first time in August 1928. The studio's informal motto is "more stars than there are in heaven", a reference to the large number of A-list movie stars under contract to the company in the 1930s. This second motto was also coined by Deitz, and was probably first used in 1932.
MGM purchased Metromedia's film subsidiaries (Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America) for $573 million 1997, and Kerkorian bought out Seven Network the following year. MGM used debt to acquire Polygram Filmed Entertainment's 1,300-title library from Seagram in 1999 for $250 million, and obtained the broadcast rights to more than 800 of its films previously licensed to Turner Broadcasting. MGM then purchased 20 percent of Cablevision Systems for $825 million in 2001. MGM attempted to take over Universal Studios in 2003 but failed, and was forced to sell several of its cable channel investments (taking a $75 million loss on the deal).
- Name:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
- Type:
- Private
- Location:
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Founded:
- April 16, 1924
- Owned by:
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- Quadrangle Group
- DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
- Comcast
- Sony Corporation of America
- TPG Capital, L.P.
- Providence Equity Partners
- Industry:
- Motion pictures
- Key People:
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- Mary Parent, Bedi A. Singh, & Stephen F. Cooper, Office of CEO
- Harry Sloan, Chairman
- Products:
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- Television programs
- Motion pictures
- No. of Employees:
- 400 (as of 2006)
- Parent Company:
- MGM Holdings, Inc.
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