MGM / UA Entertainment was sold back to Kirk Kerkorian.

The MGM / UA Studio lot in Culver City was sold to Lorimar / Telepictures.

Their first UA Buzzcocks single, " Orgasm Addict ", was a playful examination of compulsive sexuality that was ( and remains ) uncommonly bold.

was sold to United Artists ( UA ), which held them until 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought UA.

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.

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.

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 ).

The series was not picked up by a major network, but, distributed by MGM / UA Entertainment Co. Television, began a syndicated run in the fall of 1984.

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.

Company product was distributed by United Artists ( UA ), and was filmed at various studios.

UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $ 40, 000, 000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it.

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.

If, at the end of those five years, UA was profitable, they would be given an option to buy the company.

Since UA was barely alive, Pickford saw nothing to lose and agreed.

In 1958 United Artists Records was created, initially to release soundtracks from UA films, but it later diversified into many types of music.

In 1968, UA Records was merged with Liberty Records, along with their many subsidiary labels such as Imperial Records and Dolton Records.

For $ 1 million, UA backed Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli's Dr. No ( which was a sensation in 1962 ) and launched the James Bond series.

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.

UA was to remain a silent partner, putting up money, while Albert Broccoli took producer credit.

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.

** 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.

is an American / Japanese Super robot animated series created in a joint collaboration of TMS Entertainment and Intermedia Entertainment in association with MGM / UA Television.

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

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.

The Popeye cartoons passed on to United Artists in 1958 after its purchase of a. a. p., then to MGM in 1981 after they purchased UA.

In the United States, the United States Navy and shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration has adopted the name unmanned aircraft ( UA ) to describe aircraft systems without the flight crew on board.

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.

MGM agreed to let UA back on board, and gave it the international distribution rights, with MGM controlling North American / Caribbean rights.

Among their first clients were Sam Spiegel and John Huston, whose " Horizon Productions " gave UA one major hit, The African Queen ( 1951 ) and one slightly less successful one, Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), based on the life of Toulouse-Lautrec.

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.

Parretti had bought a smaller company and renamed it Pathé Communications anticipating a successful buy of the original French company, but failed in that attempt, so instead merged MGM / UA with his former company, resulting into MGM / Pathé Communications Co. Having bought MGM / UA by overstating his own financial condition, within a year Parretti had defaulted to his primary bank, Crédit Lyonnais, which foreclosed on the studio in 1992, also resulting in the sale or closure of MGM / UA's string of US theaters.

UA managed to acquire full rights to a majority of these films later on.

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.

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.

The ban has been upheld by UA and the successive owners of the pre-August 1948 Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies catalog to this day, and these shorts have not been officially broadcast on television since 1968, and have only been exhibited once by Warner Bros., since then, theatrically in one theater in spring 2010 ( see below for more details ).

Mirisch Productions initially financed the film for United Artists, but the film's escalating costs led UA to drop the film but the project was picked up by Warners. Edwards wanted Robert Wagner to play the leading man, but studio executive Jack Warner insisted on Tony Curtis, possibly due to Wood having recently divorced from Wagner.

Alternatively, when the calling party is at the IP side, the User Agent ( UA ) piece of software of the dialler will allow to dial a E. 164 number, but the dialler UA will convert it into a URI, to be used for looking-up at the ENUM gateway DNS and fetch the NAPTR record obtaining the called party wishes about how the call should be forwarded or terminated ( again, either on IP or on PSTN terminations ).

UA opened its doors to students on April 18, 1831, with the Reverend Alva Woods as President.

Then on February 19, 1992, TCI sold the theatre chain in a leveraged buyout led by Merrill Lynch Capital Partners Inc and UA management.

* Steyr AUG 5. 56x45mm NATO rifle ( Service rifle ): Can be fitted with UA / 1116 or KITE night sight, replaced FN FAL rifle

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.

* 166 The Complete Blue Note / UA Curtis Fuller Sessions ( 3 CDs or 5 LPs )

* 172 The Complete Blue Note / UA / Roulette Recordings of Thad Jones ( 3 CDs or 5 Q-LPs )

In 1956, he signed with United Artists ; UA would contribute $ 2. 5 million to the movie's development and serve as distributor.