MGM noticed the video was performing well because " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters ".

Picked up by MGM, Russell debuted in Evelyn Prentice ( 1934 ); and, although the role was small, she was noticed, with one critic saying that she was " convincing as the woman scorned.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

The MTM logo was a short video sequence parodying the MGM logo, but with a cat meowing instead of a lion roaring.

Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day ( the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in terms of international theatrical and worldwide home video releases ); however, MGM retains the domestic television rights.

This was especially noticeable on many pre-2000 video releases of color Warner Bros. cartoons released prior to August 1, 1948 – MGM / UA Home Video had to resort to faded 16mm " dupes " of the cartoons ( some with the logo of Associated Artists Productions – or a. a. p.

Composer Carl Davis created a new orchestral score for the film in the 1980s ( quoting the theme associated with Melisande in Axt's original setting ), and it was restored and released on video in the late 1980s as part of the MGM and British television Thames Silents project.

According to writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM capitalized on the idea.

Currently, MGM owns American domestic television rights, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment holds DVD rights, while the video archives reside with The Disney Channel.

Turner soon made a deal with MGM's video division for home distribution of most of Turner's library, allowing MGM to retain US video rights to Network for 13 more years.

Home video rights to the MGM and UA titles were moved to Warner Home Video in 1990, using the MGM / UA Home Video label under license.

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 ).

* 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.

MGM continued to distribute the film for many years ; however EMI assumed video distribution for a Blu-ray release in 2012.

In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.

Carlton released much of this material on video and DVD via its own label in the UK, and via A & E Home Video, Acorn Media, MGM Home Entertainment, and Lions Gate Home Entertainment in the USA.

In 2012, the New Video Group became the new video distributor to distribute the home entertainment business of Scholastic, including the Weston Woods Studios library, Scholastic Storybook Treasures, and most recently, their home entertainment rights to the 2002 movie adaptation of the book Stellaluna from MGM.

Turner Entertainment also distributes films from the RKO Radio Pictures, pre-May 1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries, certain films from New Line Cinema ( 1994 – 1997 ), and shows from TBS, TNT, Hanna-Barbera ( 1991 – 1997 ), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV and PBS ( 1994 – 2004 ) on home video via Turner Home Entertainment, and after 1996, Warner Home Video ( which currently operates Turner's home video subsidiary as an in-name-only division ) ( see below ).

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.

In 1964, Sib Tower 12 was absorbed by MGM and was renamed MGM Animation / Visual Arts.

( 1970 ), but his main focus during this time was producing the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth, which did lukewarm business when MGM released it in 1970.

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.

Escape from New York was released on DVD twice by MGM ( USA ), and once by Momentum Pictures ( UK ).

One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

I had an awful feeling that I was a tremendous flop " but the picture did well and, in the face of much internal resistance, Arthur Freed of MGM picked up the other half of Kelly's contract.

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.

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.

The third picture he completed was a co-production between MGM and himself, the B-movie The Happy Road, set in his beloved France, his first foray in his new role as producer-director-actor.

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.

His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.

At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped and all records of it expunged, and the incident never was publicized by the press.

In 1940, an MGM talent scout saw Grayson performing at a music festival.

Jackson began her singing career in 1974, performing with her siblings at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Mandel is currently performing a variety / comedy act at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Grahame was signed to a contract with MGM Studios under her professional name after Louis B. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway for several years.

The film features Orbison performing seven original songs which appeared on his 1967 MGM record album of the same name.

He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD “ Christmas Time ’ s A Comin ’” performing " Jingle Bells " with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM / UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

She, along with Johnnie and Bobby, joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night CD “ Christmas Time ’ s A Comin ’” performing " Jingle Bells " with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM / UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

She later began her Hollywood acting career while still a child, performing under her real name in several movies, beginning with her debut in the MGM movie Camille ( 1936 ) with Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor.

Following their departure from MGM, Pal and Weatherwax went on the road performing an 18-minute program at dog shows and department stores.

He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night ( TV Series ) cast CD “ Christmas Time ’ s A Comin ’” performing " Christmas Time's A Comin '" with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM / UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

The Beau Rivage and MGM Grand Detroit are considered to be MGM Mirage's top performing properties and if sold could fetch a total of $ 1 –$ 2 billion dollars which then would be used to lower MGM Mirage's debt load.

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.