Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Productions.

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

* Paramount also has TV / digital rights to Dead Man Walking, originally from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ; MGM owns other ancillary rights.

In 1966, before they went their separate ways, and to capitulize on their previous hits, Verve / MGM issued a " Greatest Hits " comp, of which has been modified twice, in 1983 with 10 tracks, then again in 1990 with 2 more tracks.

This has been done in the case of AT & T, which uses a tone sound followed by a woman speaking the company's name to identify its long distance service, MGM, which uses the sound of a lion's roar, and RKO, which uses a Morse code signal for their motion pictures.

Steiner ’ s score for Gone with the Wind has been recorded many times, but when the film was reissued in 1967, MGM Records finally released an album of the famous score recorded directly from the soundtrack.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

Showtime has also agreements with IFC Films ( which it shares broadcasting rights with Starz ), ThinkFilm, certain films put out by The Weinstein Company ( those that are distributed theatrically in conjunction with MGM Studios ), and the newly re-formed United Artists ( still a subsidiary of MGM ).

Robby the Robot is a fictional character who has made a number of appearances in science fiction movies and television programs after his first appearance in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet.

MGM has assigned international video distribution rights to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, while international theatrical rights are co-held by Columbia Pictures ( previously held by 20th Century Fox and UIP ).

IGN gave the DVD their highest rating and was " thrilled by the special edition treatment that this landmark cult film has received at the hands of MGM.

MGM has filed suit to halt the project, saying that LaMotta does not have the right to make a sequel.

In order to close the deal, according to Osborne, an MGM executive contacted Tracy shortly before filming was to begin and said, " Don't worry, Mr. Tracy, a copy of the script has been sent to Alan Ladd and he has agreed to do the picture.

Since January 2000, this company has been the international distributor for MGM / UA releases.

MGM announces Bert Lahr has been cast as the " Cowardly Lion " on July 25.

Since then, United Artists has merely served as a co-producer with MGM for two releases: the 2009 remake of Fame and Hot Tub Time Machine.

* Most ancillary rights to Convoy ( an EMI Films production ) are now with EMI's successor company, StudioCanal, although its copyright and US home video re-release issues are with MGM, but an official home video / DVD re-issue has yet to be announced.

The film is based on a story by novelist Phyllis Bottome who has had several of her works transferred to film, such as The Mortal Storm ( MGM, 1940 ).

As time has put distance between Berkley and the infamous film ( which has since achieved cult status among film fans and placed number 36 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 50 Cult Movies and is also one of top 20 highest grossing films of all time for MGM ), she has performed in strong supporting roles in independent films such as The Taxman, Tail Lights Fade, Roger Dodger ( which her manager advised her not to do ), and Moving Malcolm.

( It is often erroneously stated — by the MGM publicity department of the 1950s — that Keel's birth name was Harold Leek ).

Louis B. Mayer, his co-founding partner at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, said he had lost " the finest friend a man could ever have ," while MGM president Nicholas Schenck stated that " Thalberg was the most important man in the production end of the motion-picture industry.

III Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses.

However, Harlow ’ s mother barred some visitors, such as the MGM doctor, who later stated that it was because they were Christian Scientists.

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., Don Verrilli, representing MGM stated: " And let me clarify something I think is unclear from the amicus briefs.

According to legend, after seeing the first prints, the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, stated that " Pal had entered the water, but Lassie had come out ," and a new star was born.

Mr Lanni ’ s corporate profile on the MGM Mirage web site had, until the week of his resignation, stated that he had received an MBA from the university.

On the other hand, the three gaming operators Wynn Macau, MGM Macau and SJM Holdings who are yet to be granted plots in Cotai have filed applications before that policy was stated.

An " official " version has been released on DVD by MGM, the film's original distributor and now the ancillary rights holder ( having inherited the film from the Samuel Goldwyn Company, the former owners of the picture ).

In Journey Back to Oz, the official sequel to the 1939 film, Dorothy is voiced by Liza Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland, who played the role in the MGM film.

Stargate Infinity ( often abbreviated as SGI or just Infinity ) is an American animated science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ( MGM ) Stargate franchise, but is not considered official Stargate canon.

The writers and producers of Stargate SG-1 and the main canon of the Stargate franchise were not involved with Infinity, and neither MGM, the production teams nor the fans of Stargate consider Infinity to be an official part of the Stargate universe.

In the official sequel to the MGM film, Journey Back to Oz, " Ozonian " is used.

Journey Back To Oz is a 1974 animated film and the official sequel to the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz.

Speaking to an MGM official, Ertegün threatened that " If the movie is made, Turkey will launch a worldwide campaign against it.

The fansite GateWorld became a major franchise news site with special arrangements with MGM ; GateWorld's founder Darren Sumner was later hired to serve as a news editor for the official Stargate SG-1 magazine and to check Stargate comic books for continuity errors with the TV shows before publication.

Prior to 2007, no official video releases of the Popeye cartoons were available due to licensing issues with King Features ( MGM / UA had attempted to release some cartoons in the 1980s, but KFS blocked their attempt ).

As noted in a documentary on the 2005 DVD, MGM did not publicize the reason for Ebsen's departure ; even Haley was not told until later.

One reason often cited for the film's lack of performance is that MGM forced Curtis to cut over 35 minutes from his finished film, and gave him only 24 hours to do the job.

She has said that she was never given a full reason for her dismissal, but that she had previously also got into trouble by trying to introduce the term " German expressionism " into some copy about the performing dwarves used in the MGM film, The Wizard of Oz, some of whom came from Weimar Germany.

Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

Capra also directed a film for MGM during this period, but soon realized he " had much more freedom under Harry Cohn's benevolent dictatorship ", where Cohn also put Capra's " name above the title " of his films, a first for the movie industry.

For State of the Union ( 1948 ) Capra changed studios, working for the only time for MGM Pictures.

Selznick sold half of Kelly's contract to MGM and loaned him out to MGM for his first motion picture: For Me and My Gal ( 1942 ) with Judy Garland.

Although MGM wanted Kelly to return to safer and more commercial vehicles, he ceaselessly fought for an opportunity to direct his own musical film.

There followed Summer Stock ( 1950 ) – Judy Garland's last musical film for MGM – in which Kelly performed the celebrated " You, You Wonderful You " solo routine with a newspaper and a squeaky floorboard.

In his book " Easy the Hard Way ", Joe Pasternak, head of one of the other musical units within MGM, singled out Kelly for his patience and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part.

In December 1951 he signed a contract with MGM which sent him to Europe for nineteen months so that Kelly could use MGM funds frozen in Europe to make three pictures while personally benefiting from tax exemptions.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

He negotiated an exit to his contract which involved making three further pictures for MGM.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ( 1967 ) in which Kelly appeared, was popular in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture ( Original or Adaptation ) but performed poorly, elsewhere.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a year.

Tod Browning made the once controversial Freaks ( 1932 ) for MGM, based on " Spurs ", a short story by Tod Robbins, about a band of circus freaks.

Amenities at Warners were few compared to those for their fellow actors at MGM.