In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

Discs, Epic, Charisma, CBS, Line Records, United Artists and Riddle Records.

With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

Having satisfied his First National contract, Chaplin was free to make his first picture for United Artists.

Chaplin would sever the last of his professional ties to the United States in 1955, when he sold the remainder of his stock in the United Artists, which had been in financial difficulties for some time.

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

McLean's major break came when Mediarts was taken over by United Artists Records thus securing for his second album, American Pie, the promotion of a major label.

The 1974 album Homeless Brother, produced by Joel Dorn, was McLean ’ s final studio collaboration with United Artists.

Ironically, this led to the foundation of United Artists by Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Pickford, and Chaplin, and to the loss of First National's biggest stars.

Four were independent productions distributed by United Artists, the " studio without a studio ": Gun Crazy ; Kiss Me Deadly ; D. O. A.

* 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.

Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses.

Within the United States Graffiti Artists such as Mike Giant, Pursue, Rime, Noah and countless others have made careers in skateboard, apparel and shoe design for companies such as DC Shoes, Adidas, Rebel8 Osiris or Circa Meanwhile there are many others such as DZINE, Daze, Blade, The Mac that have made the switch to gallery artists often times not even using their initial medium, spray paint.

Category: United Artists films

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

Jan & Dean Anthology Album ( United Artists UAS-9961 )

Gotta Take That One Last Ride ( United Artists UA-LA341-H2 )

The Very Best of Jan & Dean ( United Artists UA-LA443-E )

The Very Best of Jan & Dean, Volume 2 ( United Artists UA-LA515-E )

After Frank Sinatra committed to the film, they secured backing from United Artists.

: See also Hawkwind ( 1970-75: United Artists era )

Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979 ) was a Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 1919, Pickford — along with D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks — formed the independent film production company United Artists.

In a partnership with Microsoft, Steele connected 28 of the top Independent Art Houses in the United States including many Landmark Theaters, The Angelikas in New York and Houston, The Charles in Baltimore and many others.

Paramount also had a monopoly over Detroit movie theaters through subsidiary company United Detroit Theaters as well.

Paramount Pictures Corporation was formed to be the production distribution company, with the 1, 500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949.

United Paramount Theaters was renamed ABC Theaters in 1965 and was sold to businessman Henry Plitt in 1974.

Noble finally found a white knight in United Paramount Theaters.

The call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theaters, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U. S. government.

It was shown in ' A ' Theaters in large cities across the United States.

Wayne County is also home of one of the United States few still operational Drive-In Movie Theaters, The Jesup Drive In, located on U. S. Highway 301 North in Wayne County.

This shopping center includes a Ross, Sports Authority, OfficeMax, Frank Theaters ( formerly United Artists ), and a Home Depot.

Noble ’ s network almost went bankrupt and in 1951 Leonard Goldenson and United Paramount Theaters bought ABC for $ 25 million.

KKR and Hicks Muse had initially intended to combine Regal with Act III Cinemas, which KKR had acquired in 1997 for $ 706 million and United Artists Theaters, which Hicks Muse had agreed to acquire for $ 840 million in November 1997.

In 1953 American Broadcasting merged with United Paramount Theaters, the divested former exhibition / cinema division of Paramount Pictures.

* To promote the general welfare of resident Theaters in the United States and its territories

* To encourage and promote sound communications and relations between and among resident Theaters in the United States and between resident theaters and the public ;

Noble tried valiantly to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but was hampered by financial problems and the pressure of competing with long-established NBC and CBS, and by 1951 was forced to enter negotiations to merge the network with United Paramount Theaters, headed by Leonard Goldenson ; Goldenson would become chairman of the ABC network, while Noble remained on the ABC board of directors for the remainder of his life.

Paramount Pictures Inc. was forced to split into two companies: the film company now called Paramount Pictures Corp. and the theater chain ( United Paramount Theaters ) which merged in 1953 with the American Broadcasting Company ( which would be led, with great success, by the now-former United Paramount Theaters boss Leonard Goldenson for decades ).

Paramount Pictures, which owned a stake in DuMont, vetoed a merger with ABC who had merged with United Paramount Theaters, Paramount's former theater division, a year before.

Knowing that DuMont needed WDTV's cash flow to get its programming cleared in larger markets but also needed a short-term cash infusion after DuMont investor Paramount Pictures vetoed a merger between DuMont and ABC, which itself had just merged with United Paramount Theaters.

In 1953 United Paramount Theaters, then-owner of WBKB, merged with ABC, who already owned WENR-TV ( channel 7 ).

United Artists Theaters was purchased in the late 1940s by the Naify Brothers, who owned theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area.