Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

La MGM TowerThe former headquarters of the company.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, initialized as MGM; often known as Metro; common metonymy: the Lion or Leo) is an American film and television production and distribution company, owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings. Its main subsidiaries were MGM Studios Inc., United Artists Corporation, and Orion Pictures Corporation (acquired in 1997).

In an important commercial operation, the company was bought by the Japanese multinational company Sony, an offer that outbid its competitors and on September 14, 2004, MGM is sold to Sony for an amount of $5 billion, of which which about $2 billion would be used to pay the company's debts. MGM has been headquartered in Beverly Hills, California since August 22, 2011. Prior to this date, MGM was headquartered in the MGM Tower in Century City, Los Angeles.

The name comes from the three companies that formed a corporate merger to create MGM Studios in 1924; Metro Pictures Corporation (founded 1915), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (founded 1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (founded 1918).

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is not affiliated with MGM Resorts International, MGM Grand Las Vegas, MGM Grand Garden Arena, The Signature at MGM Grand or MGM Distribution.

On May 26, 2021, Amazon announced that it intended to acquire the studio for $8.45 billion. The purchase closed on March 17, 2022.

History

Foundation

This all began with the Metro Pictures Corporation, founded in 1915 by Richard A. Rowland (1880-1947). Louis B. Mayer, worked for Metro Pictures, but in 1918 he left and created his own company, Louis B. Mayer Pictures.

Goldwyn Pictures, was founded in 1917, with the distinctive Leo the Lion logo. In 1924 Marcus Loew bought Louis B. Mayer Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures, merging them with Metro Pictures Corporation, thus creating the veteran studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg formed the new management team.

With the merger, each of the three small companies would bring their own unique qualities: Mayer would bring in its stars and technical staff; Goldwyn would contribute, mainly, with an extraordinary studio located in Culver City, a small chain of cinemas and the emblematic symbol of the roaring lion; finally, Metro would bring its most celebrated directors and stars.

Gradually, MGM became one of the most important studios in Hollywood. They produced films that revolved around their stars, to promote them, and they maintained a high-level film bill thanks to their main technicians. Individual creativity was respected as long as it did not conflict with the studio's premise: stars come first.

In 1927, Marcus Loew passed away, and control passed to Nicholas Schenck. William Fox, Loew's rival, tried to buy out the family's holdings, Loew's Inc., which controlled the MGM studios. When the family agreed to sell, the merger between Fox and Loew's Inc. was announced. But Mayer – not included in the deal – refused, and with his political connections he called the Antitrust Unit and avoided the fusion.

Mayer's fortunes changed when Fox was in a car accident and when he recovered, the stock market crash of 1929 wiped out most of his fortune and ended his dream of the merger.

Development

MGM was the last studio to start the conversion to sound, but despite this fact, during the silent era and into the 1950s, Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the dominant studio in Hollywood. During the 50s and 60s, he lost significant sums of money, despite the fact that many of his films did well at the box office, due to his slow response to all the legal, economic and technical changes that were taking place in the industry. of the cinema

In 1966, the studio was bought by Edgar Bronfman, whose son would later buy Universal Studios. Three years later MGM, which was becoming increasingly unprofitable, was sold to Kirk Kerkorian, who had to cut both staff and costs. Because of this, the studio was forced to produce low-cost films and shut down theatrical distribution in 1973. For quite some time, MGM continued this dynamic by producing 5-6 films that were released by other studios, mainly United Artists, which It was purchased by MGM in 1981.

In March 1986, Turner Entertainment acquired MGM for $600 million. Five months later, Turner returned MGM to Kerkorian for $300 million. However, Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 catalog and since then the pre-May 1986 catalog belongs to Warner Bros.

The company filed for bankruptcy and closed on June 30, 2010, after failing to pay some $3.5 billion in debt, spelling the end of a nearly 90-year history of existence, success, and movies like The Gallows 12, Gone with the Wind (1939), Singing in the Rain (1952), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Wizard of Oz (1939) or Ben-Hur (1959). MGM reported on July 14 of 2010 that he obtained a new extension to pay part of the debt of 3.7 billion dollars that threatens to bankrupt him.

JP Morgan's lenders have granted the sixth deferral to MGM so that the production company can present a restructuring plan that will allow the company to be refloated and avoid its dismantling. In June 2011, a larger letter estimated at one billion dollars expired and by 2012 the debt should be resolved, if the deadlines are met.

Finally, on November 11, 2010, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer files for bankruptcy, filing for bankruptcy in a Manhattan court. Under the protection of the US Bankruptcy Law, MGM will be able to get rid of its heavy debts, which amounted to around 4 billion dollars by JP Morgan. In 2014 it celebrated 90 years since its foundation, in 1924.

In December 2020, MGM began exploring a potential sale of the studio, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the dominance of streaming platforms due to theater closures as contributing factors, hiring Morgan Stanley and LionTree Advisors to handle the process on behalf of the studio. On May 17, 2021, Amazon entered negotiations to acquire the studio for around $9 billion. The purchase closed on March 17, 2022.

Lion logo and tagline

The studio's official motto, "Ars Gratia Artis," is a Latin phrase meaning "Art by the grace of art." She was chosen by Howard Dietz, the studio's director of publicity. The studio logo is made up of a roaring lion surrounded by a ring inscribed with the studio's motto.

This logo, featuring Leo the lion, was also created by Dietz in 1916 for Goldwyn Pictures, based on Columbia University's mascot lion, and was later adopted by MGM in 1924. It was originally A silent logo, the roar sound was first added to movies in August 1928.

Starting in the 1980s, producer Mark Mangini decided to add tiger roars to the audio. Mark mentions that he needed more powerful, "Thunder Roar" style roars. so he needed tiger roars since according to him, they were more incredible and impressive and: & # 34; lions could not roar like that & # 34;

During the 1930s and 1940s, the studio boasted that it had “more stars than there are in the sky,” in reference to the long list of celebrated actors and actresses who worked for the company. This second motto was also created by Dietz and used for the first time in 1932.

Organization

MGM's main subsidiaries are:

• MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)
• MGM Networks
• Orion Pictures
• The Samuel Goldwy Company
• United Artists

Notable Films

1920s

• Greed (AvariciaErich von Stroheim, 1924. Masterpiece of world cinematography, often cited in the lists of the 20 best works in the history of cinema.
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924) starring Lon Chaney and led by Swedish Victor Sjöström (the same one who would sign that masterpiece that is The wind and that decades later would lead Wild strawberries for Ingmar Bergman).
• Ben-Hur (1925) by Fred Niblo, with Ramon Novarro premiering as a Hollywood star. Also the [other] version par excellence of 1959 directed by William Wyler and with a luxury cast, that copied entire scenes from the original with minimal changes.
• The Big Parade (The big paradeKing Vidor's 1925. For criticism in general, the most complete and accomplished work of his enormous director and a whole milestone of American dumb cinema, with John Gilbert achieving fame and Renée Andore reconquering the public.
• La bohème King Vidor's 1926. Adaptation of the dramatic knot of the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini. Minor in this stage in the director's career.
• Flesh and the Devil (The devil and the fleshClarence Brown's 1926. Absolute summit of the romantic cinema of all time, by three dream scenes and the climate that is reflected throughout the film, consecrated (Greta Garbo) in the American cinema.
• The Scarlet Letter (The scarlet letter1926).
• Love (1927).
• The Wind (The wind1928) by Victor Sjöstrom. Inmeasurable dramatic piece that, in the history of celluloid, closes the silent stage. Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson were never better than in this film that reaches a pair of lirism in their images difficult to match, although the real protagonists are the meteorological phenomenon that gives name to the film and the magistral direction of Swedish Victor Sjöström. A masterpiece, no doubt.
• Modern virgins (Our Dancing Daughters) (1928, plus two sequels).
• The cameraman (The Cameraman) (1928) by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton. One of the latest jewels of Buster Keaton in feature format, the same year that the comic book itself premiered in cinemas its equally glorious The Hero of the River. Influenced in a certain sense by Dziga Vertov and some of the most influential visual narrators of the time (Murnau, Dreyer,...), Keaton builds a delicious pantomime where the great public only sees assured fun, and the cynéphile appreciates the film complexity of the proposal. Imprescindible for all lovers of seventh art.
• Show People (mirageKing Vidor's 1928. The best film of "cinema inside the cinema" filmed in the silent stage of the seventh art, with an acid Vigor and adjusting accounts with the industry, which contains the best interpretation of Marion Davies that is remembered.
• The Crowd (1928).
• A Woman of Affairs (1928).
• (Broadway melody), The Broadway Melody (1929), and the rest of the series. All the stars of the American musical of the 1930s participate in some delivery of this series (Judy Garland, Dick Powell, Fred Astaire, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler).
• Hallelujah (Hallelujah!), (1929) of King Vidor. Classic of anti-racist cinema, censored by this in many regions of the United States itself, which shows us the lives of the slaves of the South, their frustrations and desires, and where Vidor builds a touching song to hope.
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) by Charles Reisner. Entertainable musical tape that counts among its cast with future American film stars (Anita Page and Spencer Tracy among them.

1930s

• Anna Christie Clarence Brown. Great adaptation of the play by Eugene O'Neill, for one of the greatest successes of Greta Garbo at the popular level. Melodrama of a classic style, with a young man trying to rebuild his life and to whom his dark past persecutes without truce, contains excellent interpretations (formidable Marie Dressler), and an accused sense of film narrative. The film had two versions.
• The divorcee (The divorcee, 1930) by Robert Z. Leonard. Melodrama of great dramatic force, with Norma Shearer premiering as an absolute protagonist and winning the precious Oscar to the best dramatic actress, and accompanied nothing less than by some young Robert Montgomery and Clark Gable. The Shearer embroidered a role that would then resume, in a sense, in the master's Women of George Cukor (1939).
• The Big House George Hill. A small classic of prison cinema, which made a star to an unforgettable Wallace Beery, accompanied by some of the best male side of the time (Phillips Homes, for example).
• Min and Bill (The bitter fruitGeorge Hill, 1930. Famous melodrama on a couple who take away the guardianship of their children, who has almost acquired the rank of mythical, although today he has lost much of his charm. Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler (who managed to achieve Oscar) perform memorable performances in a careful and realistic film (for the commercial cinema of that moment).
• The Champ (The championKing Vidor's 1931. One of the greatest wins in his director's box office, and for many, the germ of the modern tear melodrama — understand, then imitated until the satiety in the 30s, 40s and 50s. With this film, Wallace Beery and the kid Jackie Cooper consolidate their international stardom.
• A Free Soul (Free soulClarence Brown's 1931. In her day, she was considered one of the best films in the first sound Hollywood, and this black-judicial drama eventually influenced her genre. Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable shine full on this beautiful tape.
• Grand Hotel (Gran Hotel, 1932) by Edmund Goulding. A true milestone of American cinema for three reasons: for being the first film in whose cast are gathered all the great stars of the studio (Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone...), for their fascinating romantic halo (between the Garbo and John Barrymore) and for being one of the most successful superproductions of their time. Really remarkable.
• Tarzan the Ape Man (Tarzan of the monkeys1932) of W. S. Van Dyke. The film that opened one of the longest series in film history. The Metro rolled only the first (from this to Tarzan in New York in 1942), but the protagonist, Johnny Weissmüller, continued in the role he had immortalized until 1945. They stand out, in addition to this first delivery, Tarzan and his partner (1934), Tarzan and his son (1939) and The Treasure of Tarzan (1941), with the unforgettable Maureen O'Sullivan as a companion on the screen of the forzudo central character.
• Freaks (The Stop of MonstersTod Browning, 1932. Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams lead the cast of this extravagant but great film, an absolute jewel of the seventh art that was worn in his time by the great public but claimed in the 60s by the young and renovative French critics, revisited by the international critique in the 70s and praised as "work of worship" since the 1980s. Being deformed physically but emotionally and sentimentally valid, survive in a world that despises them/teme/exhibe, with an impossible love story as a co-impulsor of the plot.
• Smilin' Through (The eternal flameSidney Franklin, 1932. Luxurious, perfect and delicious production of Irving Thalberg himself in person, for greater glory of his wife, already at that star moment of the study Norma Shearer. Decorated, script, music and staged round the artistic results of this huge film, which the passage of time has deservedly turned into a classic.
• Dinner at Eight (Dinner at eight.1933). Theatrical work of the indispensable George S. Kaufman on how it affects several characters belonging to the upper class the collapse of the bag (crack of 29) on Wall Street, Cukor moves her to the big screen leaving us one of the most mythical titles of the decade, of very much elaboration, great interpretations and huge echo of criticism and public. The cast includes the best of the time (John and Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, etc.).
• Queen Christina (Queen Cristina of Sweden1933) Rouben Mamoulian. The definitive immortalization of Greta Garbo - if necessary - with, for many, its best and brightest composition next to its examiner and already ex-star with the arrival of the sound John Gilbert. An authentic film lesson from the hands of a currently forgotten director, where aesthetics, visual plasticity and cinematographic narrative merge into an unforgettable wrap.
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
• The Thin Man (The Supper of the Defendants, 1934) (including its continuations)
• The Merry Widow (The happy widow1934)
• Treasure Island 1934 (The Treasure Island1934)
• Babes in Toyland (1934)
• Party in Hollywood (1934)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• A Night at the Opera (One night at the opera1935)
• David Copperfield (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
• Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
• Romeo and Juliet (1936)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Camille (1936)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• A Day at the Races (film) (One day in the races1937)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• The Good Earth
• Test Pilot (1938)
• Boys Town (Forge of men1938)
• Marie Antoinette
• Everybody Sing (1938)
• The Citadel (1938)
• Babes in Arms (1939)
• Gone With the Wind (What the wind took, 1939, only distribution)
• The Wizard of Oz (The Wizard of Oz1939)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• The Women (Women1939)
• Ninotchka (1939)

1940s

• The Shop Around the Corner (The bazaar of surprises, 1940)
• The Philadelphia Story (Philadelphia Stories, 1940)
• The Mortal Storm (1940)
• Tom and Jerry (1940)
• Boom Town (1940)
• Waterloo Bridge (The Waterloo Bridge, 1940)
• Pride and Prejudice (1940)
• in the Dust (1941)
• For Me And My Gal (1942)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Random Harvest (1942)
• Madame Curie (1943)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• A Guy Named Joe (1943)
• Lassie Come Home (1943)
• The Human Comedy (1943)
• Gaslight (Gas light1944)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• National Velvet (1944)
• The Valley of Decision (1945)
• Anchors Aweigh (Reading anchors, 1945)
• The Harvey Girls (1946)
• The Yearling (1946)
• Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (The mailman always calls twice, 1946) (more remake 1981)
• Lady in the Lake (1947)
• Feast 1947 (1947)
• The Three Musketeers (1948)
• Easter Parade (1948)
• The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
• On the Town (One day in New York1949)
• Adam's Rib (The rib of Adam1949)
• Battleground (1949)
• That Midnight Kiss (1949)
• Little Women (Little women, 1949) (more remake Columbia Pictures, 1994)
• A Christmas Carol (1949)

1950s

• King Solomon's Mines (The mines of King Solomon1950)
• The Toast of New Orleans (The Brindis of New Orleans1950)
• Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
• Summer Stock (1950)
• Father of the Bride (The father of the bride1950)
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
• Show Boat (1951)
• An American in Paris (An American in Paris, 1951) 5 Oscar Winner
• Angels in the Outfield (1951)
• What Vadis? (1951)
• The Great Caruso (1951)
• Singin' in the Rain (Singing in the rain, 1952)
• Because You're Mine (Because you are mine, 1952)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• Dumb and Dumberer (1952)
• Ivanhoe (1952)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
• Knights of the Round Table (1953)
• Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar, 1953)
• Mogambo (1953)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven brides for seven brothers, 1954)
• The Student Prince (1954)
• Brigadoon (1954)
• Rhapsody (1954)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
• Forbidden Planet (The forbidden planet1956)
• High Society (High society, 1956) (new version of The Philadelphia Story)
• The seven hills of Rome (The seven hills of Rome1957)
• Silk Stockings (1957) (new version of Ninotchka)
• Jailhouse Rock (1957)
• Raintree County (1957)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The cat on the roof of zinc, 1958)
• Gigi (1958) 9 Oscar Winner
• The Brothers Karamazov (Karmazov brothers) (1958)
• For the first time (1959)
• North by Northwest (Death in the heels1959)
• Some like it hot (With skirts of madness1959)
• Ben-Hur (1959) Winner of 11 Oscars
• Frankie the Bird

1960s

• The Unforgiven (1960)
• Butterfield 8 (1960)
• Where the Boys Are (1960)
• Cimarron (1961)
• King of Kings (King of kings, 1961)
• West Side Story (1961) winner of 10 Oscars
• How The West Was Won (The Conquest of the West, 1962)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
• Lolita (1962)
• The Great Escape (The great evasion1963)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
• The Haunting (1963)
• Viva Las Vegas (1964)
• The Americanization of Emily (1964)
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Molly Brown always afloat1964)
• The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
• Dr. Zhivago (1965)
• Blow-Up (1966)
• Grand Prix (1966)
• The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
• Point Blank (Burning., 1967)
• The Dirty Dozen (Twelve of the gallows, 1967)
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001: A space odyssey, 1968)
• Ice Station Zebra (Cebra polar station, 1968)
• Where Eagles Dare (The Challenge of Eagles, 1968)
• The Green Slime (1968)
• The Party (The glove, 1968)

1970s

• Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's daughter1970)
• Shaft (Harlem's red nights1971)
• Soylent Green (When fate reaches us1973)
• Westworld (1973)
• That's Entertainment! (1974)
• The Wind and the Lion (The wind and the lion, 1975) (with Columbia Pictures)
• The Sunshine Boys (The crazy couple1975)
• Logan's Run (Logan's escape1976)
• Carrie. (1976)
• Rocky (1976)
• That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
• Network (1976) (with United Artists)
• The Goodbye Girl (1977) (with Warner Bros.)
• Corvette Summer (1978)
• Hair (1979)
• Rocky II (1979)
• Manhattan (film) (1979)

1980s

• Fame (Fama1980)
• Raging Bull (Toro Salvaje, 1981)
• Pennies From Heaven (Money fallen from heaven1981)
• Clash of the Titans (1981)
• Escape from New York (1997: Rescue in New York1981)
• Diner (1982)
• Pink Floyd The Wall (The wall1982)
• Victor. (1982)
• Rocky III (1982) (co-production with United Artists)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• The Secret of NIMH (NIMH, the secret world of Mrs. Brisby, The secret of NIMH in Latin America. 1982)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• WarGames (War games1983)
• Octopussy (1983)
• The Hunger (1983)
• The Bounty (Motín aboard1984)
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Rocky IV (1985)
• A View to Kill (Panorama to kill1985)
• Platoon (1986)
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
• Spaceballs (The crazy history of galaxies1987)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Moonstruck (1987)
• RoboCop (1987)
• The Living Daylights (007 High voltage1987)
• Overboard (1987)
• A Fish Called Wanda (A fish called Wanda1988)
• Poltergeist III (1988)
• Rain Man (1988)
• For Queen and Country (1989)
• The Mighty Quinn (1989)
• License to kill (1989)
• Dry White Season (An arid white station1989)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (All dogs go to heaven, 1989, co-production with United Artists)

1990s

• Dances with Wolves (Bailing with Wolves, 1990)
• The Russia House (The house Russia1990)
• Rocky V (1990)
• Capitan America (film) (coproduction with Marvel Entertainment)
• Misery (1990, distribution) (co-production with Nelson Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment and Columbia Pictures)
• RoboCop 2 (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Shattered (1991)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• The Cutting Edge (1992)
• Benny & Joon (1993)
• RoboCop 3 (1993)
• Stargate (1994)
• The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) (co-production with Don Bluth Productions)
• Get Shorty (1995)
• Fluke (1995)
• Showgirls (1995)
• GoldenEye (1995, distribution) (co-production with United Artists)
• Houses and Sites(1995, co-production with Touchstone Pictures)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (Tomorrow never dies, 1997) (co-production with United Artists)
• Ronin (1998)
• The Man In The Iron Mask (1998)
• The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (The secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the rescue1998)
• The World Is Not Enough (007: The world is never enough1999)

2000s

• Original Sin (2001)
• In the time of Butterflies (In the time of the butterflies2001)
• Antitrust (Conspiracy in the network) (2001)
• Hannibal (2001) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
• Legally Blonde (A very legal blonde in Spain, Legally blonde in Latin America, 2001)
• Barbershop (The barbershop2002)
• Wise Kids (2002)
• Die Another Day (007: Die another day(distribution, co-production with United Artists)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (A very legal blonde 2) (2003)
• Agent Cody Banks (Agent Cody Banks2003)
• De-Lovely (2004)
• Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
• Swimming Upstream (2005)
• Be cool (2005)
• Beauty Shop (2005)
• The Brothers Grimm (The Grimm brothers, 2005) (coproduction with Dimension Films)
• Into the Blue (2005) (coproduction with Columbia Pictures)
• It runs in the family (2003) (co-production with Touchstone Pictures)
• Yours, Mine and Ours (Yours, mine and ours in Spain and Yours, mine and ours, in Latin America. 2005) (co-production with Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, and Columbia Pictures)
• The Amityville Horror (The Amityville case, 2005) (coproduction with Dimension Films)
• My Favorite Knight (2006)
• Dark Angel (2006) (coproduction with Dimension Films)
• The Pink Panther (The pink panther, 2006 version of the 1963 film (coproduction with Columbia Pictures)
• Basic Instinct 2 (Basic instinct 2 in Spain and Low instincts 2 in Latin America; 2006) (co-production with Intermedia Films and C2 Pictures)
• Lucky Number Slevin (The Slevin case, 7, the wrong number, in Latin America; 2006) (distribution, produced by The Weinstein Company)
• Stormbreaker (2006) (distribution, produced by The Weinstein Company and Isle of Man Film)
• Casino Royale (2006) (coproduction with Columbia Pictures)
• Rocky Balboa (2006) (co-production with Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios)
• Clerks II (2006) (produced by The Weinstein Company)
• I could Never Be Your Woman (My mother's boyfriend) (2006)
• School for Scoundrels (2006) (with Dimension Films, produced by The Weinstein Company)
• Breaking and Entering (2006) (coproduction with Miramax Films, produced by The Weinstein Company)
• The Clones Diaries (2007, co-production with Miramax Films)
• Quantum of Solace (2008) (coproduction with Columbia Pictures)
• Superhero Movie (2008) (coproduction with Dimension Films)
• Picture This (2008)
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
• Fame (2009)

2010s

• Hot Tub Time Machine (co-production with United Artists) (2010)
• Zookeeper (co-production with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions) (2011)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (co-production with Columbia Pictures) (2011)
• 21 Jump Street (coproduction with Columbia Pictures) (2012)
• Hope Springs (coproduction with Escape Artists and Mandate Pictures) (2012)
• Skyfall (coproduction with Columbia Pictures) (2012)
• Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (co-production with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros) (2012)
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (coproduction with Paramount and spyglass entertainment) (2013)
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Distributor Paramount Pictures, produced by Hasbro and Skydance Productions) (2013)
• The hobbit: the desolation of Smaug (co-production with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.) (2013)
• Carrie (coproduction with Screen Gems) (2013)
• RoboCop (coproduction with Columbia Pictures) (2014)
• The Hobbit: the battle of the Five Armies (co-production with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros) (2014)
• Hercules (film of 2014)(coproduction with Paramount Pictures, Nimar Studios and Film 44) (2014)
• 22 Jump Street (co-production with Columbia Pictures) (2014)
• Poltergeist (coproduction with Fox 2000 Pictures) (2015)
• Spectre (coproduction with Columbia Pictures and Eon Productions) (2015)
• Creed (coproduction with Warner Bros) (2015)
• Max (co-production with Warner Bros and Sunswept Entertainment) (2015)
• Hot tub time machine 2 (coproduction with Paramount Pictures) (2015)
• Barbershop: The Next Cut (co-production with Cube Vision) (2016)
• Me before you (co-production with Warner Bros and New Line Cinema) (2016)
• How to be single (co-production with Warner Bros, Flower films and New Line Cinema) (2016)
• Ben-Hur (coproduction with Paramount Pictures and Sean Daniel Company) (2016)
• The Belko Experiment (co-production with The Safran Company) (2016)
• Everything, everything (co-production with Alloy Entertainment and Itaca Films) (2017)
• Max 2 White House hero (co-production with Warner Bros) (2017)
• Gnomeo and Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes (coproduction with Paramount Pictures and Rocket Pictures) (2018)
• Every day (co-production with FilmWave, Likely Story and Silver Reel) (2018)
• Death Wish (coproduction with Cave 76) (2018)
• Tomb Raider (co-production with GK Films, Square Enix and Warner Bros) (2018)
• Overboard (co-production with Lionsgate and Pantelion) (2018)
• Operation Finale (co-production with Automatik Entertainment (2018)
• Creed II (co-production with Warner Bros and New Line Cinema (2018)
• Fighting with My Family (co-production with Channel 4, Misher Films, Seven Bucks Productions and WWE Studios) (2019)
• The Hustle (co-production with Pin High Productions and Camp Sugar) (2019)
• The Sun Is Also a Star (co-production with Alloy Entertainment, SuperMarioLogan and Warner Brothers) (2019)
• Child's Play (co-production with Orion Pictures, BRON Creative and KatzSmith Productions) (2019)
• The Addams Family (co-production with BermanBraun and Cinesite Animation) (2019)

Years 2020

• Gretel and Hansel (co-production with Orion Pictures, Automatik and Bron Creative) (2020)
• Bill " Ted Face the Music (co-production with Orion Pictures, Hammerstone Studios, Dial 9, Dugan Entertainment and TinRes Entertainment) (2020)
• Candyman (co-production with Universal Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, Bron Studios, Creative Wealth Media Finance) (2020)
• Breaking news in Yuba County (co-production with AGC Studios, Nine Stories Productions, The Black List, Wyolah Films and Sarma Films) (2021)
• Respect (co-production with Bron Studios, Creative Wealth Media Finance and Cinesite) (2021)
• No time to die (coproduction with Eon Productions) (2021)
• The Addams Family 2 (co-production with Universal Pictures and Bron Creative) (2021)
• Licorice Pizza (coproduction with Focus Features, United Artists and Forum Hungary) (2022)

Bankruptcy

MGM went bankrupt after being unable to pay the sum of $4 billion. MGM is currently analyzing the possibility of merging with LionsGate Entertainment, all thanks to Carl Icahn (majority shareholder of both companies), since he was looking at this company, and that he would manage to revive MGM. Icahn said that this merger would pay off 10% of the debt that bankrupted MGM. MGM has a debt that surpassed the previous one of 4000 million dollars.

This merger would save more than $100 million in operating costs and another $120 million in cash flow. With the merger, the Lions Gate company would also control 70% of the shares of MGM. Previously, some companies offered money, like the News Corporation, owner of 20th Century Fox, which offered 1.5 billion dollars.

Therefore, it is also unable to distribute movies either new or old in Home Formats which is why it is distributed as Warner Home Video (1980-1990), Sony Home Video (some with Columbia Pictures), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (some after 2007).

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, LLC is the video division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was founded in 1978 as MGM Home Video, releasing MGM movies and television shows. In 1980, MGM joined forces with CBS Video Enterprises, the video division of the CBS television network, and was established as MGM/CBS Home Video. In October of that year, they released their first batch of movies on Betamax and VHS.

The initial pressings of the 24 films were packaged in brown leather slipcases with gold lettering; they were introduced to CBS executives. Later pressings of these films, as well as all pressings of subsequent MGM/CBS releases, were packaged in oversized gray boxes with either the MGM Abstract Lion logo or the CBS Video logo in the upper right corner of the package. MGM/CBS also edited some of the first films produced by Lorimar; those releases would instead bear the Lorimar logo where the MGM/CBS Video logo would normally be printed on the sleeve.

In 1982, a year after MGM bought and merged with United Artists, near bankruptcy and with Transamerica exiting the movie-making business, CBS ended its video partnership with MGM and joined 20th Century Fox to create CBS/Fox Video. 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 UA's pre-1981 and WB's pre-1950 films (as well as some post-1981 titles) to CBS/Fox (due to an agreement UA had with Fox in 1980 when CBS/Fox Video left). called Magnetic Video Corporation).

In 1986, MGM and its pre-May 1986 library, (which also included the Warner Bros. pre-1949 archive, Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios cartoons, most RKO Pictures films, etc..) was acquired by Ted Turner and his company Turner Entertainment Co. After the acquisition of the library, MGM/UA signed an agreement with Turner to continue distributing the MGM catalog prior to May 1986 and to begin distributing the catalog of films from Warner Bros. before January 1, 1950 for release on VHS (the remainder of the library went to Turner Home Entertainment).

In October 1990, after Pathé bought MGM, MGM/UA Home Video reached an agreement with Warner Home Video for them to distribute MGM/UA titles exclusively on VHS. MGM/UA began distributing UA's films in 1989 after its contract with CBS/Fox ended. In 1995, MGM/UA Home Video launched the MGM/UA Family Entertainment label for family releases. In 1996, Warner made an exclusive deal with Image Entertainment to distribute MGM/UA titles on LaserDisc.

In 1997, MGM/UA, along with the other studios distributed by Warner Home Video, began releasing their titles on DVD. Some of the movies that MGM released on DVD were from Turner's catalogue, which they were still allowed to keep after Turner merged with Time Warner some time ago due to their distribution deal. That same year, MGM acquired Orion Pictures. As a result, Orion Home Video (the video division of Orion Pictures) was purchased by MGM/UA, remaining a division in name only until the acquisition agreement was finalized in 1998. In 1998, the company was renamed MGM Home Entertainment and MGM/UA Family Entertainment was renamed MGM Family Entertainment.

MGM Home Entertainment (1997–2004)

In March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. $225 million to end their distribution deal in February 2000; the initial agreement was to have expired in 2003. As a result of the agreement, MGM relinquished the home video rights to Turner-owned MGM/UA films to Warner Home Video. [5] Upon the expiration of the Warner deal, MGM sold the foreign video rights to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. When MGM ended its distribution deal with Warner Home Video in 1999, they moved to 20th Century Fox.

In 2001, MGM and Amazon.com launched the "MGM Movie Vault" to distribute VHS copies of select films, previously unreleased on video or out of print, exclusively through Amazon.

On March 3, 2003, MGM Home Entertainment launched the MGM Kids sub-label.

Partnerships with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2004-present) On June 7, 2005, following the acquisition of MGM by the Sony-led consortium, MGM began releasing all of its new products through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment under the standard MGM label in United States.

In 2006, after MGM ended their distribution deal with Sony, they announced they would sign a new distribution deal with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Originally, the MGM/UA DVD releases and the Columbia TriStar co-releases continued to be distributed by SPHE, as Sony still owned 20% of MGM, while Fox did not have a majority stake; however, Fox has released DVD editions of films based on MGM's IP. On April 14, 2011, Fox's deal distributing MGM Library was extended until the end of 2016. On June 27, 2016, Fox's deal distributing MGM Library is extended again through June 2020.

In 2010, parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had emerged from bankruptcy. As of 2011, MGM no longer releases or markets its own films. Instead, MGM now shares distribution with other studios that handle all distribution and marketing for MGM projects. Since then, only a few of MGM's more recent films such as Skyfall, Red Dawn, Carrie, RoboCop, If I Stay, Poltergeist (which Fox 2000 Pictures co-produced), Specter and Lightworkers Media's Son of God have been released on DVD. and Blu-ray by its home video output and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Others, like The Hobbit, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Hercules, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Creed, 22 Jump Street, Ben-Hur and The Magnificent Seven have all been released by the co-distributor's home video outlet, in this case Warner Home Video, Paramount Home Media Distribution and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment respectively.

In 2011, MGM launched the "MGM Limited Edition Collection," a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD service that pulls unreleased and out-of-print titles from the MGM-owned library. His releases are sold through the Warner Archive Collection.

As of October 2019, the majority of MGM's internal distribution is handled through 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. In the company's 2019 report, MGM announced that they would not renew their agreement with Fox after the current agreement expires and would seek a new distributor after the current agreement with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment expires. [19] MGM also currently licenses portions of its film and television library to Olive Films and Kino Lorber and previously licensed its library to The Criterion Collection.

As of December 2018, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is distributing MGM releases released through the United Artists Releasing joint venture, beginning with the DVD/Blu-ray release of Operation Finale on December 4, 2018.

Many of Orion Pictures' images since the company was revived have been released through various outside companies. Image Entertainment released the remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

Acquired Libraries

Through its acquisitions of different film and television companies and libraries, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has greatly enhanced its film and television holdings. As of 1998, MGM owned the rights to 5,200 films.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's library includes its own library, as well as the film and television libraries of:

• United Artists, including: 187 Monogram Pictures movies released from 1931 to 1946.
• Orion Pictures (the post-September 1982 library), including:
  • Filmways, including:
    • American International Pictures.
  • MCEG Sterling Entertainment, including:
    • Manson Distributing / Manson International.
  • The Samuel Goldwyn Company, including:
    • Motion Picture Corporation of America (biblioteca 1986-1996).
  • PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (previous library as at 31 March 1996), which includes:
    • Interscope Communications.
    • The Virgin Films / Palace Pictures catalogue.
    • Island Pictures, including:
      • Atlantic Entertainment Group, including:
        • Clubhouse Pictures.
    • Epic Library of CDR.
      • Castle Rock Entertainment (pre-1994 library).
      • Hemdale Film Corporation.
      • Sherwood Productions / Gladden Entertainment.
      • Nelson Entertainment, including:
        • Galactic Films, Inc.
        • Spikings Corporation.
      • Empire International Pictures, including:
        • Urban Classics.
    • Cinecom.
• Most of The Cannon Group, Inc.
• 21st Century Film Corporation.
• Video distribution of American Broadcasting Companies in Buena Vista Home Entertainment license since 2003.