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.

Again produced by Charles Wallace for MGM / UA, it was released in the cinema with the James Bond film Octopussy, and later Wargames.

Many movie insiders have argued that United Artists was already struggling at the time with the box office flops of Cruising and Foxes, both released earlier in 1980 ( the former film was not even produced by UA ).

It was also released in North America by Taito America Corporation by UA Ltd. in 1982 for the Emerson Arcadia 2001 and other video game consoles.

Also in 1958 UA acquired Ilya Lopert's Lopert Pictures Corporation a company that released foreign films in the United States to release foreign films that may have attracted criticism or cause censorship problems.

In 1964 UA released the controversial Billy Wilder American made film Kiss Me, Stupid under the Lopert name.

The label mostly released foreign and independent films such as Ticket to Heaven and The Grey Fox, and occasional first-run reissues from the UA library, such as director's cuts of Joan Micklin Silver's Head Over Heels and Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way.

MGM / UA would drop out from the venture in 2000, to have their films released internationally by 20th Century Fox.

On November 2, 2006, MGM announced that actor Tom Cruise and his long-time production partner Paula Wagner were resurrecting UA ( this announcement came after the duo were released from a fourteen-year production relationship at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures earlier that year ).

Since UA produced very few of the pictures it released, the copyrights of UA's output up until the 1970s belonged to the individual or company producing.

* The Twentieth Century pictures released by UA between 1933 and 1935 rest with the successor company, 20th Century Fox.

* In another twist of irony, UA also owns theatrical distribution rights to the 1978 remake of The Big Sleep ( another ITC production originally released by UA ) by virtue of MGM's distribution rights to ITC's theatrical output.

* The pre-1941 Samuel Goldwyn films released by UA ( as well as the films made during his tenure at RKO ) are owned by the Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Family Trust.

* Rights to the Mexican films originally released by UA are now with Laguna Films, while others are in the public domain or owned by independent companies.

Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures, also known as Unlimited Adventures, or by the acronyms FRUA or UA, is a video game originally released on March 17, 1993, by Strategic Simulations, Inc. for the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh.

It was first released on DVD by MGM / UA.

The film is the first in the Child's Play film series and was the only film in the series released by MGM / UA, as the rights to the series were sold to Universal in 1990, right before production started on Child's Play 2.

The “ Christmas Time ’ s A Comin ’” CD released on Sonlite and MGM / UA was one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

MGM / UA released a series of Tom & Jerry laserdisc box sets in the 1990s.

In 1988, MGM / UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment released A Christmas Carol on VHS celebrating its 50th anniversary, for the first time in a colorized version.

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.

Legend has it that the new independent took a detour straight into the major studio camp when Zanuck became outraged by United Artists ' board including UA's co-founder Mary Pickford's refusal to reward Twentieth Century with UA stock, fearing it would have diluted the value of holdings by another UA stockholder and co-founder, D. W. Griffith.

In the late 70s, Capitol's parent company EMI later purchased United Artists Records and Capitol gained the American rights to the Let It Be soundtrack album ( along with the America rights to another, earlier, UA Beatles movie soundtrack LP, 1964's A Hard Day's Night ).

The dig uncovered a partial skull ( UA 8698, the holotype specimen ), another partial skull, a juvenile skeleton missing only a few tail vertebrae, and an unrelated vertebra.

In 1979, on the eve of winning two Academy Awards ( Best Director and Best Picture ) for The Deer Hunter, Cimino convinced UA to resurrect the project with Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, and Christopher Walken as the leads.

That same year, UA won its first Best Picture Oscar, for the film Marty.

The new leadership of UA agreed to back Heaven's Gate, the pet project of director Michael Cimino, who had won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter.

UA ( re-christened United Artists Films ) hired Bingham Ray, who previously founded October Films, to run the company in September 2001, and under his supervision produced and distributed many " art-house " films, among them Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine ; 2002's Nicholas Nickleby and the winner of that year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, No Man's Land ; and 2004's Undertow, directed by David Gordon Green, and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, a co-production of UA and Lions Gate Entertainment.

However, Transamerica was not pleased with UA's frequent releases of films rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America, such as Midnight Cowboy and Last Tango in Paris ; in these instances, Transamerica demanded the byline " A Transamerica Company " be removed from the UA logo on the prints and in all advertising.

Outraged at Breen's " unwarranted and unjustified attack " on " a harmless story ," the director joined forces with UA executives to appeal the decision with the Motion Picture Association of America board of directors, who ruled against them.

Through TCFHE, MGM Home Entertainment releases titles from MGM ( post-April 1986 ), United Artists ( post-November 1952 plus a fraction of the pre-1952 library UA still owns ), Orion Pictures ( post-1981, which itself includes the Filmways and most of the American International Pictures libraries ), pre-1997 Samuel Goldwyn film library, and the pre-1996 Motion Picture Corporation of America catalog.

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On the basis of its fantastic string of film and television hits in the 1960s, the company was an attractive property, and in 1967 Krim and Benjamin sold control of UA to the San Francisco-based insurance giant, the Transamerica Corporation.

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.

In 1964, UA introduced U. S. film audiences to The Beatles by releasing producer Walter Shenson's A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ) and Help!

He released a 4-track EP ' Rebel Trouser ' (' Trouser Freak /' Trouser Press '/' Release Me '/' Drop Out ' United Artists UP 35221 ) and two solo albums, ' Electric Shocks ' in 1972 ( United Artists UAG 29381, re-released 1997 on DJC Records DJC005 ), and ' Unusual ' in 1974 ( United Artists UAS 29508 ), from which were taken the singles ' On Her Doorstep, Last Night / Frank the Ripper ' ( United Artists UA 35683 ) and ' I Love To Bumpity-Bump / When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba Down in Cuba ' ( United Artists UP 35720 ) Roger also toured extensively ( and tirelessly ) with his solo show Roger Ruskin Spear and his Giant Kinetic Wardrobe ( aka Giant Orchestral Wardrobe ).

Her output as head of UA was two films, both starring Cruise, Lions for Lambs and Valkyrie, the latter of which, despite mixed reviews, was successful at the box office thanks to $ 117 million in foreign revenue.

** The 1976 Sidney Lumet film Network is owned by both MGM and Turner, since the film was a joint production between the former company and UA prior to the merger.

NANPA's utilised codes report will indicate ' UA ' ( unassignable ) for valid test prefixes ; if a formerly ' UA ' code newly appears on the available list or becomes an active exchange, any former test numbers from its time as a reserved prefix are presumable as invalid and deprecated.

They then had a mediocre record for six seasons and were ruined by a trade war with the Union Association ( UA ) in 1884, when its three best players ( Fred Dunlap, Jack Glasscock, and Jim McCormick ) jumped to the UA after being offered higher salaries.

ICAO also assigns 3-letter airline codes ( vs. the more-familiar 2-letter IATA codes — for example, UAL vs. UA for United Airlines ).

After Ted Turner failed in an attempt to buy MGM / UA Entertainment Co. in 1986, he settled for ownership of the library, which included the a. a. p.

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $ 1. 5 billion.

Five years later, Turner Broadcasting System, having failed to buy MGM, settled for ownership of the MGM / UA library.

To operate a UA for non-recreational purposes in the United States, users must obtain a Certificate of Authorization ( CoA ) to operate in national airspace.

Undeterred, Chayefsky and Gottfried shopped the script around to other studios, and eventually found an interested party in MGM Soon afterward, UA reversed itself and looked to co-finance the film with MGM, which for the past several years had distributed through UA in the US.

Home video rights for the film outside the U. S. went to Warner Home Video, as UA distributed the film because it was a co-production.

UA refused to distribute the Silly Symphonies unless Disney associated Mickey Mouse with them somehow, resulting in the " Mickey Mouse presents a Silly Symphony " title cards and posters that introduced and promoted the series during its five-year run for UA.

In 1946, after playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, including a role alongside Charles Laughton in the cheaply made production Captain Kidd ( 1945 ), Scott appeared in Abilene Town, a UA release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning up a lawless town.

Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of Twentieth Century, and Zanuck began discussions with other distributors, which led to talks with the foundering giant, Fox.

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

In the 1980s, Fox — through a joint venture with CBS, called CBS / Fox Video — had distributed certain UA films on video, thus UA has come full circle by switching to Fox for video distribution.