* 1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada ( now Bally's Las Vegas ).

* The Patrick Garland version of A Doll's House, released in 1973, is now owned by MGM and StudioCanal.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

There is now also a TCM 2 in the United Kingdom which broadcasts films from MGM and Warner Brothers also.

K-tel Entertainment, Lynch-Biller Productions ( later Lynch Entertainment ; now The Tom Lynch Company ), RHI Entertainment, and MGM Television ( aka MGM-Pathé ).

Both Turner and MGM now share the film's copyright.

Polygram contended that Williams's contract with MGM Records, which Polygram now owns, gave them rights to release the radio recordings.

Mayer also became aware of Thalberg ’ s congenital heart problems and now worried about the prospect of running MGM without him.

In 1938, the multi-million dollar administration building built on the old MGM Studios in Culver City – now Sony Pictures Studios – was named for Thalberg.

It is now a fully owned subsidiary of MGM, which itself is owned by MGM Holdings.

Danjaq and UA have remained the public co-copyright holders for the Bond series ever since, and the 2006 Casino Royale release shares the copyright with Columbia Pictures, part of the consortium that now owns MGM / UA.

In part this was due to the continuing turmoil at MGM / UA ; bought by Ted Turner in 1986, he could not get financial backing to complete the deal and, seventy-four days later, re-sold UA and the MGM trademark to Kerkorian, and sold the MGM studio lot to Lorimar ( now the location of Sony Pictures Studios ), while keeping almost all of the MGM / UA library for himself ( with the exception of the United Artists library ).

MGM-Pathé, now simply known as MGM ( or, for legal purposes, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ), took over the copyrights to UA films ( particularly the in-house productions ) after the studio folded into the former company in 1990.

* 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 pre-May 1986 MGM films released through United Artists ( and outside Anglo-America through Cinema International Corporation and United International Pictures ) are also now with WB / Turner Entertainment.

Warner Bros ( via Turner Entertainment ) now own Gilligan's Island and it's animated spin-offs The New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet since Turner Broadcasting ( now part of Time Warner ) bought MGM / UA ( and later sold it ) in 1986.

All other TV shows made by United Artists Television are now owned by MGM Television.

MGM released her from her contract in 1928 after the failure of The Wind ( 1928 ), now recognized by many as among her finest performances and one of the most distinguished works of the late silent period.

It was filmed in Los Angeles at the MGM Studios ( now known as Sony Pictures Studios ) in Culver City over a 55-day period from March 12, 1985 to May 28 of that same year.

Titles included in this library are S. O. B., the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( WB also owns the 1946 MGM version through Turner ), The Sea Wolves, and Escape to Victory ( a. k. a. Victory ).

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

Headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company ( which also owns ABC ), Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers.

It is owned by Turner Entertainment – since 1996 a division of Warner Bros. – which owns the pre-1986 MGM library.

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.

As of 2011, Warner Bros ./ Turner owns the US and worldwide television distribution rights to Network, while international distribution rights remain with MGM.

Of the hundreds of films UA distributed over eighty years, those it still owns outright are most of its own productions from 1951 forward, plus a few pre-1951 films such as 1933's Hallelujah, I'm a Bum and Howard Hawks ' Red River ( 1948 ) with parent company MGM handling distribution.

" Dubai World through Infinity World owns 9. 5 % of MGM Mirage's stock and has invested a significant amount of funding into CityCenter giving it part ownership of the project are asking the court to relieve it of any obligations under the agreement.

In 1986, MGM formed MGM Music for the licensing of music of which MGM owns the rights.

It manages the music and music publishing rights of MGM films from 1986 and beyond ( Time Warner's Turner Entertainment unit owns the pre-1986 MGM soundtracks ) as well as the music and music publishing rights of United Artists and Orion films.

MGM now owns part of the copyright ( as they retained the rights to UA's releases ), sharing it with Turner ( as a result of the aforementioned purchase of MGM's library ).

* Pink Panther and Sons and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures are owned by MGM Television ( MGM acquired the Bill and Ted series after it bought Orion Pictures ; MGM also owns the DiC produced episodes of said show ).

MGM also owns the Hanna-Barbera produced episodes of Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt and the movie C. H. O. M. P. S ( as both were co-produced with American International Pictures, AIP became Filmways Pictures and was acquired by Orion, and Orion was bought by MGM ).

Spun off from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Resorts International owns and operates several properties, including the Bellagio, the current MGM Grand resort complex, The Mirage, the New York-New York, Circus Circus, Mandalay Bay, The Luxor, Excalibur and the newly completed CityCenter in Las Vegas.

MGM owns the Fame franchise, except for the original movie.

* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).

* 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 );

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.

However these cartoons were not a success and in 1937 MGM fired Harman and Ising and purchased their studio to create MGM cartoons, thus obtaining the rights to Bosko.

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

In 1931, during the Great Depression, he sold the film rights to his life story to MGM for $ 1, 500 ($ today ).

In 1997, King World Productions bought the worldwide format rights to Hollywood Squares from MGM, successor-in-interest to the series ' previous production companies Orion and Filmways.

However, this is merely a rumor, as Harlow died in June 1937, several months before MGM had even purchased the rights to Oz.

* In 2011, MGM and Screen Gems gained rights to make a new film version with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's hand at the screenplay, and directed by Kimberly Peirce, known for her work on Boys Don't Cry.

MGM bought in 1944 the rights to Gone with the Wind and, at some point, the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda for its 1952 remake ( all today part of the Turner Entertainment library owned by Time Warner ), and 20th Century Fox still holds rights to the remake of A Farewell to Arms.

To do so, the French group buys exclusive rights from Warner Bros. for first runs of all new films, previously held by TPS Star ( a subsidiary of the Canal + group ), as well as all films in its catalogue and rights to the film catalogues of Gaumont, HBO and MGM.

MGM had purchased the rights to Robbins ' short story, Spurs, in the 1920s at Browning's urging.