Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer



Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is an American media company founded in 1924 by Louis B. Mayer and Marcus Loew. The company as of now, emerged from bankruptcy from former Spyglass Entertainment executives, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman.

The company studio was a merger between Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures and was one of the largest film studios of all time next to Universal Pictures (owned by NBCUniversal), Walt Disney Pictures (by its own eponymous company), Columbia Pictures (by Sony), Paramount Pictures (by Viacom), Warner Bros. (by TimeWarner) and 20th Century Fox (by 21st Century Fox, formerly News Corporation).

MGM was well known for lots of movies they produced and distributed throughout the years, including the Rocky films, Ben-Hur, James Bond ,Red Dawn, and others. Their studios related to MGM, was mostly of Orion Pictures and United Artists.

MGM has been part of the Hasbro/Hollowfox Humanoidverse series, as the television arm distributes the television series with Hasbro Studios, Hollowfox Television Productions (nationwide), and Entertainment One (except for Japan and USA). While Twentieth Century Fox distributes the film series (produced by Ivanna The Movie and Allspark Pictures) with the film branch of MGM, Aniplex and Kadokawa, despite the former two's home video partnership ending.

In 2017, Annapurna Pictures entered into a multi-year partnership deal to distribute MGM's upcoming films, and internationally vice-versa, starting with Detroit and Death Wish (2017). Due to this, Annapurna will co-finance and co-distribute the ECS feature films with Fox, Kadokawa, Aniplex and eOne alongside MGM. That partnership led to a joint venture with MGM named United Artists Releasing  Which will distribute future Humanoidverse films from MGM and Annapurna alongside eOne instead of Fox, which the Disney-owned company will still distribute future films on home video as an exception from the move from Fox to Universal until late 2020.

In 2021, e-commerce company Amazon has announced that they are acquiring the production company for $8.4 billion, resulting in the studio strengthening the former's streaming service, Prime Video (which days before Montalvo Media Group announced a secondary partnership for second-run content for Prime Video as well as Montalvo-produced Amazon originals) while still developing films for theatres. Amid both the established Montalvo/Amazon partnership and Amazon/MGM acquisition, this will result in Prime Video acquiring exclusive secondary (US) and international streaming rights to future Humanoidverse content such as The Crusadin' Years as well as future films after hitting MontalVue VIP-OD and theatres.