Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM, is a media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. On April 8, 2005 the company was acquired by a partnership led by Sony and Comcast for $US 4.8 billion. MGM now produces film and television content in conjunction with Sony Pictures, although in March 2006 it announced that it would continue distributing some theatrical films under the MGM name, separate from the Sony Pictures brand.

From the end of the Silent Film Era through World War II, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the preeminient motion picture studio in Hollywood, with the greatest output of all of the studios: at its height, it released one feature film a week, along with many short subjects and serials. A victim of the massive restructuring of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 60s, it was ultimately unable to cope with the loss of its theater chain (due to the Paramount decrees), and the power shift from studio bosses to independent producers and agents.

On November 3, 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.^[1][2][3] MGM emerged from bankruptcy on December 20, 2010, at which time the executives of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-Chairmen and co-CEOs of the holding company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[4][5][6][7]

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2.1 Founding 2.2 MGM's golden age 2.2.1 After the death of Thalberg 2.2.2 Dore Schary 2.3 MGM cartoon shorts 3 Decline 3.1 Vogel-Siegel 3.2 O'Brien-Weitman 3.3 Kerkorian takes over and MGM downsized 3.4 MGM/UA, Turner, and Parretti 3.5 1997–2001: MGM restructures 3.6 Consortium ownership and financial troubles 3.7 Attempted sale and bankruptcy protection 3.8 Post-bankruptcy 4 List of MGM Films 5 1920s 6 1930s 7 1940s 8 1950s 9 1960s 10 1970s 11 1980s 12 1990s 13 2000s 14 2010s 15 Upcoming films 16 TBA 17 See also 18 References 19 External links 20 Comments

OverviewEdit

former company headquarters highlighted by the famous Leo the Lion logo at the top]] The studio's official motto, "Ars Gratia Artis", is a Latin phrase meaning "Art for art's sake";^[8][9][10] it was chosen by Howard Dietz, the studio's chief publicist.^[10][11][12] The studio's logo is a roaring lion surrounded by a ring of film inscribed with the studio's motto. The logo, which features Leo the Lion, was created by Dietz in 1916 for Goldwyn Pictures and updated in 1924 for MGM's use.^[10][13][14] Dietz based the logo on his alma mater's mascot—the Columbia University lion.^[10][12][15] Originally silent, the sound of Leo the Lion's roar was added to films for the first time in August 1928.^[9] In the 1930s and 1940s the studio billed itself as having "more stars than there are in heaven", a reference to the large number of A-list movie stars under contract to the company.^[14][16] This second motto was also coined by Deitz,^[17] and was probably first used in 1932.^[18]

MGM was the last studio to convert to sound pictures, but in spite of this fact, from the end of the silent film era through the late 1950s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood.^[19] Always slow to respond to changing legal, economic, and demographic nature of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 1960s,^[20][21][22] and although at times its films did well at the box office the studio lost significant amounts of money throughout the 1960s.^[21][22] In 1966, MGM was sold to the Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman, Sr., whose son Edgar, Jr. would later buy Universal Studios. Three years later, an increasingly unprofitable MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, who slashed staff and production costs, forced the studio to produce low-budget fare, and then shut down theatrical distribution in 1973.^[22] The studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists. Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and an expanded film library when he bought United Artists in 1981.

MGM ramped up internal production as well as keeping production going at UA which included the lucrative James Bond film franchise.^[23] It also incurred significant amounts of debt in order to increase production.^[24] The studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM, but a few months later, sold the company back to Kerkorian to recoup massive debt, while keeping the library assets for himself. The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt.^[25] MGM was bought by Pathé Communications (led by Italian publishing magnate Giancarlo Parretti) in 1990, but Parretti lost control of Pathé and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio.^[22][25] The French banking conglomerate Crédit Lyonnais, the studio's major creditor, then took control of MGM.^[22][25][26] Even more deeply in debt, MGM was purchased by a joint venture between Kerkorian, producer Frank Mancuso, and Australia's Seven Network in 1996.^[27]

MGM purchased Metromedia's film subsidiaries (Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America) for $573 million in 1997,^[28] and Kerkorian bought out Seven Network the following year.^[29] MGM used debt to acquire PolyGram Filmed Entertainment's 1,300-title library from Seagram in 1999 for $250 million, and obtained the broadcast rights to more than 800 of its films previously licensed to Turner Broadcasting.^[30] MGM then purchased 20 percent of Cablevision Systems for $825 million in 2001.^[31] MGM attempted to take over Universal Studios in 2003 but failed, and was forced to sell several of its cable channel investments (taking a $75 million loss on the deal).^[32]

The debt load from these business deals negatively affected MGM's ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio. After a three-way bidding war which involved Time Warner (successor to Time, Inc. and current parent of Turner Broadcasting) and General Electric, MGM was acquired on September 23, 2004, by a partnership led by Sony Corporation of America, Comcast, Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital, L.P.), Providence Equity Partners, and other investors.^[33]

MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MGM", is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

1957 also marked the end of the cartoon era at MGM, as the animation unit was closed to cut costs. Instead, MGM decided to rerelease older cartoons (they had proved popular when released alongside new shorts). Hanna and Barbera moved to television with the formation of Hanna-Barbera Productions. In 1961, MGM resumed releasing new Tom and Jerry shorts, and production moved to Rembrandt Films in Czechoslovakia, under the supervision of Gene Deitch. Deitch's Tom and Jerry cartoons are noteworthy as being very distant from the original Hanna and Barbera style of animation. In 1963, the production of Tom and Jerry returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones and his "Sib Tower-12 Productions". Jones' group also produced their own works, winning an Oscar for The Dot and the Line, as well as producing the classic television version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (with Theodore Geisel). Jones' association with MGM ended in 1967.

MGM fell into a habit in this period which would eventually sink the studio: an entire year's production schedule was reliant on the success of one big-budget epic each year. This policy began well, in 1959, when an expensive remake of Ben-Hur was profitable enough to carry the studio through 1960. But later attempts at big-budget epics failed, among them Cimarron (1961), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), and most notoriously, the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.

As MGM sank (along with the other main-line studios), a series of studio heads came and went, along with a succession of corporate managers, all hoping to bring back the studio's glory days.

HistoryEdit

FoundingEdit

In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem. He had bought Metro Pictures Corporation (founded in 1916) and Goldwyn Pictures (founded in 1917) to provide a steady supply of films for his large Loew's Theatres chain. However, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York headquarters to oversee the 150 theaters. Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 17, 1924. Because of his decade-long success as a producer, Mayer was made a vice-president of Loew's and head of studio operations in California, with Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as heads of production. For decades MGM was listed on movie title cards as "Controlled by Loew's, Inc."

Originally, the new studio's films were presented in the following manner: "Louis B. Mayer presents a Metro-Goldwyn picture", but Mayer soon added his name to the studio with Loew's blessing. Though Loew's Metro was the dominant partner, the new studio inherited Goldwyn's studios in Culver City, California, the former Goldwyn mascot Leo the Lion (which replaced Metro's parrot symbol), and the Goldwyn corporate motto Ars Gratia Artis ("Art for art's sake"). Mayer wanted to replace the Latin motto with "Art is Beholding to the Artist" in English, but was overruled by Schenck.

Also inherited from Goldwyn was a runaway production, Ben–Hur (the silent version), which had been filming in Rome for months at great cost. Mayer scrapped most of what had been shot and relocated production to Culver City. Though Ben–Hur was the most costly film made up to its time, it became MGM's first great public-relations triumph, establishing an image for the company that persisted for years. Also in 1925, with successes from both The Big Parade and Ben–Hur, MGM surpassed Universal Studios as the largest studio in Hollywood, a distinction it would maintain for over 30 years.

Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loew's passed to Nicholas Schenck. In 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew family's holdings with Schenck's assent. Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision. Mayer used political connectionsTemplate:Clarify to persuade the Justice Department to delay final approval of the deal on antitrust grounds. During this time, in the summer of 1929, Fox was badly hurt in an automobile accident. By the time he recovered, the stock market crash in the fall of 1929 had nearly wiped Fox out and ended any chance of the Loew's merger going through. Schenck and Mayer had never gotten along (Mayer reportedly referred to his boss as "Mr. Skunk"),^[34] and the abortive Fox merger increased the animosity between the two men. Also, in 1933 Loew's Incorporated was in the process of acquiring bankrupt Paramount Pictures and its 1700 theatres, until profits from Mae West's risque features rescued the failing Paramount.

MGM's golden ageEdit

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From the outset, MGM tapped into the audience's need for glamour and sophistication. Having inherited few big names from their predecessor companies, Mayer and Thalberg began at once to create and publicize a host of new stars, among them Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, William Haines, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer (who followed Thalberg from Universal) . Established names like Lon Chaney, William Powell, Buster Keaton, and Wallace Beery were hired from other studios. They also hired top directors such as King Vidor, Clarence Brown, Erich von Stroheim, Tod Browning, and Victor Seastrom. The arrival of talking pictures in 1928–29 gave opportunities to other new stars, many of whom would carry MGM through the 1930s: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Robert Montgomery, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Jeanette MacDonald, and Nelson Eddy among them.

MGM was one of the first studios to experiment with filming in Technicolor. Using the two-color Technicolor process then available, MGM filmed portions of The Uninvited Guest (1923), The Big Parade (1925), and Ben–Hur (1925), among others, in the process. In 1928, MGM released The Viking, the first complete Technicolor feature with sound (including a synchronized score and sound effects but no spoken dialogue). MGM, however, was the very last studio to convert to "talkies" with its first all-color, "all-talking" sound feature with dialogue The Rogue Song, a 1930 musical. In 1934 MGM included a sequence made in Technicolor's superior new three-color process, a musical number in the otherwise black-and-white The Cat and the Fiddle, starring perky Jeanette MacDonald and faded Ramon Novarro. The studio then produced a number of three-color short subjects including 1935's musical La Fiesta de Santa Barbara, however MGM waited until 1938 to film a complete feature in the process, Sweethearts with MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, the earlier of the popular singing team's two films in color.

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From then on, MGM regularly produced several films a year in Technicolor, The Wizard of Oz and Northwest Passage being two of the most notable. MGM also released the enormously successful Technicolor film Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler. (Although Gone With the Wind was produced by Selznick International Pictures, it was released by MGM as part of a deal for producer David O. Selznick (L.B. Mayer's son-in-law) to obtain the services of Clark Gable. MGM did eventually acquire all rights to Gone With the Wind.

In addition to a large short subjects program of its own, MGM also released the shorts and features produced by Hal Roach Studios, including comedy shorts starring Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and Charley Chase. MGM's distribution deal with Roach lasted from 1927 to 1938, and MGM benefited in particular from the success of the popular Laurel and Hardy films. In 1938, MGM purchased the rights to Our Gang and moved the production in-house,^[35] continuing production of the successful series of children's comedies until 1944. From 1929 to 1931, MGM produced a series of comedy shorts called All Barkie Dogville Comedies, in which trained dogs were dressed up to parody contemporary films and were voiced by actors. One of the shorts, The Dogway Melody (1930), spoofed MGM's hit 1929 musical The Broadway Melody.^[36]

MGM produced fifty pictures a year, though it never met its goal of releasing a new motion picture each and every week (It was only able to release one feature film every nine days). Loew's chain of 153 theatres were mostly located in New York, the Northeast, and Deep South; Gone With the Wind had its world premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. A fine reputation was gained for lavish product that were sophisticated and polished to cater to an urban audience. Still, as the Great Depression deepened, MGM began to economize by "recycling" existing sets, costumes, and furnishings from yesteryear projects. This recycling practice never let up once started. Also, money was saved by MGM being the only one of the big five studios that did not own an off site movie ranch. Up until the mid-1950s MGM could make a claim its rivals could not: it never lost money, although it did have an occasional disaster like Parnell (1937), Clark Gable's biggest flop. It was the only Hollywood studio that continued to pay dividends during the 1930s.

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MGM stars dominated the box office during the 1930s, and the studio was credited for inventing the Hollywood stable of stars system as well. MGM contracted with The American Musical Academy of Arts Association to handle all of their press and artist development. The AMAAA's main function was to develop the budding stars and to make them appealing to the public. Stars like Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Jeanette MacDonald all four reigned as not only the top paid figures at the studio, but in Hollywood itself.Template:Clarify Another MGM sex symbol actress, Jean Harlow, who had previously appeared in the Howard Hughes film Hell's Angels, now had a big break and became one of MGM's most admired stars as well;.^[37] Despite Miss Harlow's gain, Garbo still was a big star for MGM. Shearer was still a money maker despite screen appearances becoming scarce, and Crawford continued her box office power up until 1937. MGM would also receive a boost through the man who would become "King of Hollywood", Clark Gable;^[37] Gable's career took off to new heights after he won an Oscar for the 1934 Columbia film It Happened One Night.^[38]

Mayer and Irving Thalberg's relationship began warmly but eventually the two became estranged; Thalberg preferred literary works to the crowd-pleasers Mayer wanted. Thalberg, always physically frail, was removed as head of production in 1932. Mayer encouraged other staff producers, among them his son-in-law David O. Selznick, but no one seemed to have the sure touch of Thalberg. As Thalberg fell increasingly ill in 1936, Louis Mayer could now serve as his temporary replacement. Rumors flew that Thalberg was leaving to set up his own independent company; his early death in 1936, at age thirty-seven, cost MGM dearly.

After the death of ThalbergEdit

As a result of Thalberg's death, Mayer became head of production as well as studio chief, becoming the first million-dollar executive in American history. The company remained profitable, although a change toward "series" pictures (Andy Hardy starring Mickey Rooney, Maisie starring Ann Sothern, Thin Man starring William Powell & Myrna Loy et al.) is seen by some as evidence of Mayer's restored influence. Also playing a huge role was Ida Koverman, Mayer's "right hand woman".

Within one short year, beginning in 1942, L.B. Mayer released his four highest-paid actresses from their studio contracts; Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer. Greta Garbo and Jeanette MacDonald. After a two-year hiatus Crawford moved to Warner Bros. where her career took a dramatic upturn for the better: Shearer and Garbo never made another film after leaving the lot. Of the four stars MacDonald was the only one whom Mayer rehired, in 1948.

Increasingly, before and during World War II, Mayer came to rely on his "College of Cardinals"—senior producers who controlled the studio's output. This management-by-committee may explain why MGM seemed to lose its momentum, developing few new stars and relying on the safety of sequels and bland material. (Dorothy Parker memorably referred to it as "Metro-Goldwyn-Merde."^[39]) Production values remained high, and even "B" pictures carried a polish and gloss that made them expensive to mount. After 1940, production was cut from fifty pictures a year to a more manageable twenty-five features per year. It was during this time that MGM released very successful musicals with players such as Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, to name just a few.

As audiences drifted away after the war, MGM found it difficult to attract them. While other studios backed away from the popular musicals of the war years, MGM increased its output to as many as five or six each year, roughly one-quarter of its annual output. Ann Miller once admitted that "Mayer kept making musicals that nobody wanted to see." A good example of this would be The Pirate (1948). Such pictures were expensive to produce, requiring a full staff of songwriters, arrangers, musicians, dancers, and technical support, and releasing so many each year affected the company's finances. By the late forties, as MGM's profit margins decreased, word came from Schenck in New York: find "a new Thalberg" who could improve quality while paring costs. Mayer thought he had found this savior in Dore Schary, a writer and producer who had found success at running RKO.

Dore ScharyEdit

Mayer's taste for wholesomeness and "beautiful" movies conflicted with Schary's preference for gritty message pictures. In August 1951, after a period of friendly antagonism with Schary, Mayer was fired. One report states that Mayer called Joseph Schenck at Loew's Corporate Headquarters in Loew's State Theater, New York, with an ultimatum— "It's either him or me!" Schenck chose Schary! Within a year Mayer tried to stage a boardroom coup to oust his old nemesis, but failed due to lack of support from former "yes men".

Perhaps because of Mayer's leaving (although this has never been confirmed), the credit Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents does not appear on any MGM film made between 1950 and 1957, the year of Louis B. Mayer's death. In films made during those years, the credits segue straight from the roaring lion logo to the title of the film (as in MGM's 1951 film of Show Boat^[40] or, in the case of above-the-title billing, the names of the stars and then the film's title. Beginning in 1957, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents credit was reinstated.^{(citation needed)}

Gradually cutting loose expensive contract players (perhaps most famously, $6,000-a-week Judy Garland in 1950), saving money by recycling existing movie sets instead of building costly new scenery, and reworking pricey old costumes, Schary managed to keep the studio running much as it had through the early 1940s though his sensibilities for hard-edged, message movies would never bear much fruit. One bright spot were MGM musicals pictures, under the aegis of producer Arthur Freed, who was operating what amounted to an independent unit within the studio. MGM produced some well-regarded and profitable Technicolor musicals that would be later acknowledged as classics, among them An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). On the other hand Brigadoon (1954), Deep in My Heart (1954), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), and Invitation to the Dance (1956), were extravagant song & dance flops, and even the now-classic The Band Wagon (1953) was only a modest box-office success. Movie audiences more and more were staying home and watching television.

In 1954, as a settlement of the government's restraint-of-trade action, United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. 334 US 131 (1948), Loews, Inc. gave up control of MGM. It would take another five years before the interlocking arrangements were completely undone, by which time both Loews and MGM were sinking. Schary bowed out of MGM in 1956.

MGM cartoon shortsEdit

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In animation, MGM purchased the rights in 1930 to distribute a series of cartoons that starred a character named Flip the Frog, produced by Ub Iwerks. The first cartoon in this series (entitled Fiddlesticks) was the first sound cartoon to be produced in two-color Technicolor. In 1933, Ub Iwerks cancelled the unsuccessful Flip the Frog series and MGM began to distribute its second series of cartoons, starring a character named Willie Whopper, that was also produced by Ub Iwerks. In 1934, after Iwerks' distribution contract expired, contracted with animation producers/directors Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising to produce a new series of color cartoons. Harman and Ising came to MGM after breaking ties with Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros., and brought with them their popular Looney Tunes character, Bosko. These were known as Happy Harmonies and in many ways resembled the Looney Tunes' sister series, Merrie Melodies. The Happy Harmonies regularly ran over budget, and MGM dismissed Harman-Ising in 1937 to start its own animation studio.

After initial struggles with a poorly received series of Captain and the Kids cartoons, the studio re-hired Harman and Ising in 1939, and Ising created the studio's first successful animated character, Barney Bear. However, MGM's biggest cartoon stars would come in the form of the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940. The Tom and Jerry cartoons won seven Academy Awards between 1943 and 1953. In 1941, Tex Avery, another Schlesinger alumnus, joined the animation department. It was Avery who gave the unit its image, with successes like Red Hot Riding Hood, Swing Shift Cinderella, and the Droopy series.

Avery left the studio in 1953, leaving Hanna and Barbera to focus on the popular Tom and Jerry and Droopy series. After 1955, all cartoons were filmed in CinemaScope until MGM closed its cartoon division in 1957.

DeclineEdit

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Vogel-SiegelEdit

As the studio system faded in the late 1950s and 1960s, MGM's prestige faded with it. In 1957 (by coincidence, the year L.B. Mayer died) the studio lost money for the first time in its 34-year history. Cost overruns and the failure of the 1957 big-budget epic Raintree County prompted the studio to release Schary from his contract. Schary's reign at MGM had been marked with few bona-fide hits, but his departure (along with the retirement of Schenck in 1955) left a power vacuum that would prove difficult to fill. Initially Joseph Vogel became president and Sol Siegel head of production. By 1960, MGM had released all of its contract players, with many either retiring or moving on to television.

At the urging of Leonard Goldenson, longtime head of Paramount's theater chain who now ran ABC, MGM began to enter television production. MGM's first attempts at programming were cross-promotion of feature films (The MGM Parade), and based on successful film properties like The Thin Man. Several years later, MGM produced highly successful TV series, like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the sitcom version of The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

The year 1957 also marked the end of MGM's animation department, as the studio determined it could generate the same amount of revenue by reissuing older cartoons as it could by producing and releasing new ones.^[41] William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, by then the heads of the MGM cartoon studio, took most of their unit and made their own company, Hanna-Barbera Productions, a successful producer of television animation.

In 1956, MGM sold the television rights for The Wizard of Oz to CBS, which scheduled it to be shown in November of that year. In a landmark event, the film became the first American theatrical fiction film to be shown complete in one evening on prime time television over a major American commercial network. (Olivier's version of Hamlet was shown on prime time network TV a month later, but split in half over two weeks, and the 1950 film, The Titan: Story of Michelangelo was telecast by ABC in 1952, but that was a documentary.) Beginning in 1959, and lasting until 1991, telecasts of The Wizard of Oz became an annual tradition, drawing huge audiences in homes all over the U.S. and earning additional profits for MGM. The studio was all too happy to see Oz become, through television, one of the two or three most famous films MGM has ever made, and one of the few films that nearly everybody in the U.S. has seen at least once. Today The Wizard of Oz is regularly shown on the Turner-owned channels, no longer just once a year.

In 1958, MGM released what is generally considered their last great musical, Arthur Freed's Cinemascope color production of Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan. It was adapted from the novel by Colette, and written by the team of Lerner and Loewe, who also wrote My Fair Lady and Camelot. Gigi was a box-office and critical success which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. From it came several hit songs, including Thank Heaven For Little Girls, I Remember It Well, the Waltz at Maxim's, and the Oscar-winning title song. The film was the last MGM musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, an honor that had previously gone to The Broadway Melody (1929), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), and An American in Paris (1951). The very last musical film produced by the "Freed Unit" was an adaptation of the Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing (1960) with Judy Holliday and Dean Martin. However, MGM did release later musical films, including an adaptation of Meredith Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) with Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell.

In 1959, MGM enjoyed what is quite likely their greatest financial success of later years, with the release of its nearly four-hour Technicolor epic Ben–Hur, a remake of their 1925 silent film hit, based on the novel by General Lew Wallace. Starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the film was critically acclaimed, and won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, a record that held until Titanic matched it in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.

In 1961, MGM resumed the release of new Tom and Jerry shorts, and production moved to Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) under the supervision of Gene Deitch. Deitch's Tom and Jerry cartoons are very different in style from the original Hanna and Barbera style of animation. In 1963, the production of Tom and Jerry returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones and his Sib Tower 12 Productions studio (later absorbed by MGM and renamed MGM Animation/Visual Arts). Jones' group also produced its own works, winning an Oscar for The Dot and the Line, as well as producing the classic television version of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (with the voice of Boris Karloff) in 1966. Tom and Jerry folded in 1967, and the animation department continued with television specials and one feature film, The Phantom Tollbooth.

MGM fell into a habit in this period that would eventually sink the studio: an entire year's production schedule relied on the success of one big-budget epic each year. This policy began in 1959, when Ben–Hur was profitable enough to carry the studio through 1960. However, later attempts at big-budget epics failed, among them four films which, in addition to Ben–Hur, were also remakes — Cimarron (1960), King of Kings (1961), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), and most notoriously, the 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The 1962 Cinerama film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, the first film in Cinerama to actually tell a story, was also a flop. But one other epic that was a success, however, was the MGM-Cinerama co-production How the West Was Won, with a huge all-star cast. King of Kings, while a commercial and critical flop at the time, has since come to be regarded as a film classic. The losses caused by these films led to the resignations of Sol Siegel and Joseph Vogel who were replaced by Robert M. Weitman (head of production) and Robert O'Brien (president).

O'Brien-WeitmanEdit

The combination of O'Brien and Weitman seemed to temporarily revive the studio. In 1965 MGM released David Lean's immensely popular Doctor Zhivago,^[42] later followed by such hits as The Dirty Dozen (1967) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). However the company's time was taken up fighting off proxy attacks by corporate raiders, and then MGM backed a series of flops, including Ryan's Daughter (1970). Weitman moved over to Columbia in 1967 and O'Brien was forced to resign a few years later.

Kerkorian takes over and MGM downsizedEdit

Edgar Bronfman, Sr. purchased a controlling interest in MGM in 1966 (and was briefly chairman of the board in 1969),^[43] and in 1967 Time Inc. became the company's second-largest shareholder.^[44] In 1969, Kirk Kerkorian purchased 40 percent of MGM from Bronfman and Time, Inc.,^[45] What appealed to Kerkorian was MGM's Culver City real estate, and the value of 45 years' worth of glamour associated with the name, which he attached to a Las Vegas hotel and casino. As for film-making, that part of the company was quickly and severely downsized under the supervision of James T. Aubrey, Jr. With changes in its business model including fewer pictures per year, more location shooting and more distribution of independent productions, MGM's operations were rationalized. Aubrey sold off MGM's accumulation of props, furnishings and historical memorabilia, including a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Lot 3, Template:Convert of back-lot property, was sold off for real-estate development.

Through the 1970s studio output slowed considerably—Aubrey preferred four or five medium-budget pictures each year, along with a smattering of low-budget fare. With the decline in output, Kerkorian closed MGM's sales and distribution offices in 1973 and outsourced those functions to United Artists. Kerkorian now distanced himself from the operations of the studio, focusing on his casino properties. Another portion of the back lot was sold in 1974. The last shooting done on the backlot was the introductory material for That's Entertainment! a retrospective documentary that became a surprise hit for the studio. The MGM Recording Studios were sold in 1975. In 1979, Kerkorian declared that MGM was now primarily a hotel company. The company hit a symbolic low point in 1980 when David Begelman, earlier let go by Columbia following the discovery of his acts of forgery and embezzlement, was installed as MGM's President and CEO.

MGM/UA, Turner, and ParrettiEdit

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In 1980, MGM split its production and casino units into separate companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. and MGM Grand Hotels, Inc.^[46] The rise of ancillary markets was enough to allow MGM Film Co. to increase production to 10-15 films a year compared to three to six in the previous decade, but first it needed its own distribution unit. MGM proceeded to get back into theatrical distribution in 1981 with its purchase of United Artists, as UA's parent company Transamerica Corporation decided to let go of the studio following the failure of Heaven's Gate.^[22][25] As a result, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. was renamed "MGM/UA Entertainment Company." Unfortunately, the new films were box-office flops and not even its greatest asset - its library - was enough to keep the studio afloat.^[46] After 1982, the studio relied more on distribution, picking up independent productions, rather than financing their own.^[46]

On August 7, 1985, Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System offered to buy MGM/UA. As film licensing to television became more complicated, Turner saw the value of acquiring MGM's film library for his superstation WTBS.^[46] On March 25 of the following year, the deal was finalized in a cash-stock deal for $1.5 billion,^[46][25][47] and was renamed "MGM Entertainment Co.".^[48][49] Turner immediately sold MGM's United Artists subsidiary back to Kerkorian.^[25][47] But unable to find financing for the rest of the deal, and concerns in the financial community over the debt-load of his companies, on October 17, 1986, he was forced to sell MGM back to Kerkorian for approximately $780 million USD ($480 million for United Artists and $300 million for the MGM logo).^[25][47][50] The MGM lot and lab facilities were sold to Lorimar-Telepictures.^[50] Turner kept the pre-1986 library of MGM films, along with pre-1950 Warner Bros. and RKO Pictures films which MGM had previously purchased.^[50]

How much of MGM's back catalog Turner actually obtained was a point of conflict for a time; eventually it was determined that Turner owned all of the pre-May 1986 MGM library, as well as the pre-1950 Warner Bros. catalog,^[51][52] the Popeye cartoons released by Paramount (both the pre-1950 WB library and Popeye cartoons were sold to Associated Artists Productions, which was later bought by United Artists), the US/Canadian rights to the RKO library, and a good share of United Artists's own back list, in addition to MGM's television series and Gilligan's Island, produced by UA.

Turner began broadcasting MGM films through his Turner Network Television, and caused a controversy when he began "colorizing" many black and white classics. After Kerkorian reclaimed MGM, the MGM/UA name continued to be utilized, but it changed its name to MGM/UA Communications Co., now using MGM and UA as separate brands.^[53]

In July 1988, Kerkorian announced plans to split MGM and UA into separate studios. Under this deal, Kerkorian, which owned 82% of MGM/UA Communications, would have sold 25% of MGM to Barris Industries (controlled by producers Burt Sugarman, Jon Peters, and Peter Guber).^[54] The proposition to spin-off MGM was called off a few weeks later.^[55] In 1989, Australian-based Qintex attempted to buy MGM from Kerkorian, but the deal collapsed.^[56]

In 1990, the Italian financier, Giancarlo Parretti, announced that he was about to buy MGM/UA. Although the French government had scuttled Parretti's bid to buy Pathé due to concerns about his character, background and past dealings, Parretti got backing from Crédit Lyonnais and bought MGM/UA from Kirk Kerkorian. He then merged it with his Pathé Communications Group (formerly Cannon Group, a distributor that Parretti had renamed before his aborted bid for Pathé) to form MGM–Pathe Communications Co. The well-respected executive, Alan Ladd, Jr., a former President of MGM/UA, was brought on board as CEO of MGM in 1991. However the same year Parretti's ownership dissolved in a flurry of lawsuits and a default by Crédit Lyonnais, and Parretti faced securities fraud charges in the United States and Europe. On the verge of bankruptcy and failure, Crédit Lyonnais took full control of MGM–Pathé and converted its name back to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The bank fired Ladd and replaced him with former Paramount executive Frank Mancuso, Sr. and former Warner Bros. executive John Calley (as United Artists head). As part of his exit package Ladd took some of the top properties, including Braveheart.

In 1991, Thelma and Louise became a critical and commercial hit for MGM, something that was increasingly rare at the time.

Because of the way they had acquired control of the company, Crédit Lyonnais soon put the studio up for sale, with the highest bidder being Kirk Kerkorian. Now the owner of MGM for the third time, Kerkorian's deal with Mancuso quickly angered John Calley, who quit United Artists and was named head of Sony Pictures Entertainment. By selling a portion of the studio to Australia's Seven Network, Kerkorian was able to convince Wall Street that a revived MGM was worthy of a place on the stock market, where it languished until he sold the company to a group of hedge funds tied to Sony, which wanted to control the studio library to promote the Blu-ray Disc format.

1997–2001: MGM restructuresEdit

On April 11, 1997, MGM bought Metromedia's film subsidiaries (Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America) for US$573 million, substantially enlarging its library of films and television series and acquiring additional production capacity.^[28] The deal closed in July of that year.^[57] This catalog, along with the James Bond franchise, was considered to be MGM's primary asset.^[58] In the same year, MGM's long-running cable television series, Stargate SG-1, first aired.^[59]

In 2000, MGM changed the way it distributed its products internationally. MGM had until that time distributed its films internationally through United International Pictures (UIP), a joint venture of MGM, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. UIP was accused by the European Union of being an illegal cartel,^[60] and effective November 2000 MGM severed its ties with UIP and distributed films internationally through 20th Century Fox.^[61]

Consortium ownership and financial troublesEdit

Many of MGM's competitors started to make bids to purchase the studio, beginning with Time Warner. It was not unexpected that Time Warner would bid, since the largest shareholder in the company was Ted Turner. His Turner Entertainment Group had risen to success in part through its ownership of the pre-May 1986 MGM library. After a short period of negotiation with MGM, Time Warner was unsuccessful. The leading bidder proved to be Sony Corporation of America, backed by Comcast and private equity firms Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital, L.P.), DLJ and Providence Equity Partners. Sony's primary goal was to ensure Blu-ray Disc support at MGM; cost synergies with Sony Pictures Entertainment were secondary. Time Warner made a counter-bid (which Ted Turner reportedly tried to block), but on September 13, 2004, Sony increased its bid of US$11.25/share (roughly $4.7 billion) to $12/share ($5 billion), and Time Warner subsequently withdrew its bid of $11/share ($4.5 billion). MGM and Sony agreed on a purchase price of nearly $5 billion, of which about $2 billion was to pay off MGM debt.^[62][63] From 2005–2006, the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has domestically distributed films by MGM and UA.

MGM announced that it would return as a theatrical distribution company. MGM negotiated and struck deals with The Weinstein Company, Lakeshore Entertainment, Bauer Martinez, and many other independent studios, and then announced its plans to release 14 feature films for 2006 and early 2007. MGM also hoped to increase the amount to over 20 by 2007. Lucky Number Slevin, released April 7, was the first film released under the new MGM era. Other recent films under the MGM/Weinstein deal include Clerks II and Bobby. Upon the MGM/Weinstein films' release on home video, however, full distribution rights revert to Weinstein (under Genius Products).

On May 31, 2006 MGM announced that it would transfer its home video output from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (excepting co-productions with Columbia or TriStar, such as Eon Productions' James Bond franchise where Sony is a majority partner).^[64][65]

MGM also announced plans to restructure its worldwide television distribution operation.^[66] In addition MGM signed a deal with New Line Television in which MGM would handle New Line's U.S. film and series television syndication packages. MGM served as New Line's barter sales rep in the television arena until 2008.^[67]

On November 2, 2006, producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, signed an agreement with MGM to run United Artists. Wagner will serve as United Artists' chief executive. Cruise will produce and star in films for UA and MGM will distribute the movies.

Over the next several years, MGM launched a number of initiatives in distribution and the use of new technology and media as well as joint ventures to promote and sell its products. In April 2007, it was announced that MGM movies would be able to be downloaded through Apple's iTunes service, with MGM bringing an estimated 100 of its existing movies to iTunes service, the California-based computer company revealed. The list of movies included the likes of modern features such as Rocky, Ronin, Mad Max and Dances with Wolves, along with more golden-era classics such as Lilies of the Field and The Great Train Robbery.^[68] In October, the company launched MGM HD on DirecTV, offering a library of movies formatted in Hi Def. Also in 2007, MGM sold its distribution rights for countries outside of the United States to 20th Century Fox. MGM teamed up with Weigel Broadcasting to launch a new channel titled This TV on November 1, 2008.^[69][70] On August 12, 2008, MGM teamed up with Comcast to launch a new video-on-demand network titled Impact.^[71] On November 10, 2008, MGM announced that it will release full-length films on YouTube.^[72]

As of mid-2009, MGM had US$3.7 billion in debt, and interest payments alone totalled $250 million a year.^[73][74][75] MGM earns approximately $500 million a year on income from its extensive film and television library, but the economic recession is reported to have reduced this income substantially.^[76][77]

Whether MGM could avoid voluntary or involuntary bankrupty had been a topic of much discussion in the film industry. MGM had to repay a US$250 million line of credit in April 2010, a US$1 billion loan in June 2011, and its remaining US$2.7 billion in loans in 2012.^[76] In May 2009, MGM's auditor gave the company a clean bill of health, concluding it was still on track to meet its debt obligations.^[74] At that time, the company was negotiating with its creditors to either extend the debt repayment deadlines or engage in a debt-for-equity swap.^[74] Industry observers, however, questioned whether MGM could avoid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing under any circumstances, and concluded that any failure to conclude the negotiations must trigger a filing.^[78] MGM and its United Artists subsidiary now produce very few films each year, and it was widely believed that MGM's solvency will depend on the box office performance of these films (especially its upcoming 23rd James Bond film).^[76][79] There was some indication that Relativity Media and its financial backer, Elliott Associates (a hedge fund based in New York), had been acquiring MGM debt in an attempt to force the company into involuntary bankruptcy.^[73][80][81]

On August 17, 2009, chief executive officer Harry E. Sloan stepped down and MGM hired Stephen F. Cooper as its new CEO,^[1][82][83] a corporate executive who guided Enron through its post-2001 bankruptcy and oversaw the restructuring and growth of Krispy Kreme in 2005.^[76][84] Expectations were that Cooper was hired to act quickly on MGM's debt problems.^[76][84] On October 1, 2009, the studio's new leadership negotiated a forbearance agreement with its creditors under which interest payments due from September to November 2009 did not have to be paid until December 15, 2009.^[85]

Attempted sale and bankruptcy protectionEdit

Template:Multiple issues After being installed in August 2009 as MGM's new CEO, Stephen Cooper tried to convince MGM's lenders that they should restructure the company's long-term debt in order to allow the studio to continue with its current business model.^[86] The lenders refused to do so and argued that a sale was the only way to recoup their investment.^[86] Cooper agreed to conduct an auction to gauge the level of interest by potential buyers and the value of the assets for sale.^[86]

On November 12, 2009, MGM announced it was "beginning a process to explore various strategic alternatives including operating as a standalone entity, forming strategic partnerships and evaluating a potential sale of the company."^[87][88] Alternatives the company was exploring included the sale of the company or merger with another media firm,^[89] or an asset auction, which could have included the sale of its 4,000-title film and television library, the company logo, rights to the James Bond franchise, and half-ownership in the three Hobbit films (part one now due for release December 14, 2012, part two December 13, 2013 and part three July 18, 2014).^[87] The studio also held out the possibility of gaining a large influx of cash from new investors, although industry analysts believed that alternative was unlikely to happen.^[89] Some industry analysts said sale of the studio could net $1.5 billion to $3 billion.^[89] Others pegged the value at between $2 billion to $2.5 billion.^[90] Potential buyers include Time Warner (which already owns the pre-May 1986 MGM library, has enough cash reserves, and is co-producing the Hobbit films with MGM), Qualia Capital (a private equity fund led by Hollywood producer Amir Malin), 20th Century Fox (MGM's home entertainment distributor), and Lionsgate.^[89][90]

MGM also announced that its creditors agreed to a forbearance on the company's debt payments originally until January 31, 2010,^{[87][88][89][90]} but the forbearance was extended to March 31, 2010.^[91]

As of early December 2009, 16 companies had expressed interest in purchasing all or parts of MGM, although only two had actually negotiated a confidentiality agreement that would allow them to examine MGM's financial statements.^[86] The Hollywood Reporter said Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate were the leading suitors for the company.^[86] Industry observers worried, however, that buyers might only bid on a few of MGM's assets such as the James Bond film franchise or The Hobbit film which would draw bids of less than $1 billion.^[86] At least one industry trade publication said creditors would accept offers amounting to $2 billion for parts or all of the studio.^[86] Even a bid or bids totalling $1.8 billion might be accepted, industry observers said, if the buyer agreed to "schmuck insurance" (the right to convert debt to equity, under certain conditions and time-frames).^[86] On December 18, press reports said that News Corporation's 20th Century Fox film studio had been interested in purchasing MGM, but that News Corp. could not agree to the "restrictive" terms of MGM's nondisclosure agreement,^[92] which (in part) do not permit potential buyers to speak with MGM's creditors.^[93] The strict terms of the nondisclosure agreement also led two other potential buyers to refuse to participate, and several others were negotiating over the terms and unable to participate in the process.^[94] The due diligence process was "going slowly" one trade publication reported, with only four of the potential 20 companies participating as of December 18.^[93][94]

MGM originally set Friday, January 15, as the deadline to receive bids from the companies interested in acquiring the studio.^[95][96][97] However, fewer bids than expected were made.^[98] Reliance Entertainment, which has a joint venture with DreamWorks, joined the bidding on the deadline date.^[99] News Corp. reportedly signed a nondisclosure agreement on or about January 15, and was considering a bid.^[99] On January 17, the New York Times reported that bids had been received from Time Warner, Lionsgate, and a few smaller companies but that most of the offers were below the $2 billion minimum.^[100] Some of the bids may have been below $1 billion, and nearly all the bids would require MGM to file for bankruptcy first and shed its debt obligations.^[100] But the Financial Times said sources believed most bids were within the $1.5 to $2 billion range.^[99] Barclays Capital, a British investment bank, was quoted as saying, "We find it unlikely that MGM's creditors would cleanly agree to a sale price materially below $2bn."^[99] Time Warner, one media source reported, is seen by industry observers as the leading bidder since it already owns much of the MGM library and has large cash reserves.^[99] Qualia Capital, previously thought to be a potential bidder, has suggested that MGM's creditors could avoid forcing the studio into bankruptcy by agreeing to transform $500 million of debt into company stock (which would provide MGM with a cash infusion as well as eliminate a substantial portion of debt).^[100] By January 23, bids from Relativity Media (about $1.6 billion) and Reliance Entertainment (about $1.8 billion) were received as well.^[101] Six days later, MGM extended its deadline to March 31,^[102] and by the next day, News Corporation suggested that the company should offer MGM some cash to keep the company running.^[103]

A few days later, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes stated that he was interested in MGM, but didn't need to be in any deals, but stated that they would think about it.^[104] At the same time, News Corporation announced that they were kicked out of the bidding after CEO Rupert Murdoch stated that he was being outbid by the other bidders, and later considered buying the now-defunct Miramax Films from Disney.^[104] Later, other bidders began bidding on Miramax and Liberty Media's Overture Films as well, which their respective owners have put up for bidding.^{[105][106][107]}

MGM stated in February 2010 that the studio would likely be sold in the next 4 months, and that its latest film, Hot Tub Time Machine, may be one of the last four films to bear the MGM name. However, some stated that the company may continue as a label for new James Bond productions, as well as other movie properties culled from the MGM library.^[108][109] A few weeks later, MGM set March 19 as a deadline to receive bids from companies interested in acquiring the studio, including Time Warner and Lionsgate, although Time Warner was considered the most likely to buy the studio since its Warner Bros. catalog already included all the pre-1986 MGM titles originally acquired by Ted Turner.^[110][111]

On December 2, 2010, the Federal Bankruptcy Court approved MGM's Chapter 11 reorganization plan.^{[112][113][114][115]} On December 17, 2010, the company laid off about 50 staff members.^[116][117]

Post-bankruptcyEdit

On December 20, 2010, MGM executives announced that the studio had emerged from bankruptcy.^[118][119] Spyglass partners Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the studio. After MGM emerged from bankruptcy, on December 23, 2010, MGM named Ann Mather, the ex-Pixar CFO to head MGM's new board of directors.^[120] On December 29, 2010, MGM signed a new lease with New York-based group George Comfort & Sons for a 6-story building in the corner of 235–269 N. Beverly Drive that was intended to be the new headquarters for William Morris Agency. MGM will be leaving its old headquarters in Century City.^[121]

On January 4, 2011, MGM and Weigel Broadcasting announced plans to distribute Me-TV nationwide.^[122][123] On February 2, 2011, MGM named Jonathan Glickman to be the film president of MGM. Six days later, MGM was finalizing a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to handle distribution of its 4,000 films and DVDs worldwide and on digital platforms, including the two upcoming Bond films: Skyfall and Bond 24. There were four studios who were bidding on the Bond distribution rights: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia Pictures. Paramount was the first studio who dropped out of the Bond bidding. The deal was finalized on April 13, 2011. Post-bankruptcy, MGM also co-financed SPE's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 20th Century Fox's deal with MGM handling its library distribution worldwide was set to expire in September 2011.^[124][125] However, the deal was renewed and extended on April 14, 2011 and will expire in 2016.^[126][127] A late 2011 financial report revealed that MGM reacquired its 100% stake in United Artists, which previously had a 30% stake by Tom Cruise. MGM might continue to make new films under the UA brand.^[128]

MGM is finally moving forward with several upcoming projects, including remakes of RoboCop and Poltergeist,^[129][130] and released their first post-bankruptcy film Zookeeper that was co-distributed by Columbia Pictures on July 8, 2011.

The new MGM, under Barber and Birnbaum's control, is focusing on co-investing on films made by another party, which will handle all distribution and marketing for the projects. MGM will handle international television distribution rights for the new films as well as its library of existing titles.^[131]

In separate deals, the rights to MGM's completed films Red Dawn and The Cabin in the Woods were handed to FilmDistrict as well as Lionsgate Films, respectively.^[132]

On July 31, 2012, MGM announced to acquire Carl Icahn's stake in MGM Holdings for $590 million. Once the sale is complete, MGM will become a public company.^[133] On October 3, 2012, Birnbaum announced his intention to exit his role as an MGM executive and return to "hands-on" producing. He will remain with the studio to produce films on "an exclusive basis."^[134]

List of MGM FilmsEdit

This is a selected list of feature films originally released and/or distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (include MGM/UA Entertainment Co.)

1920sEdit

• Along Came Ruth (1924)
• Bread (1924)
• Broken Barriers (1924)
• Cheaper to Marry (1924)
• Circe, the Enchantress (1924)
• Excuse Me (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924) (The first film made completely by MGM)^[135]
• His Hour (1924)
• Janice Meredith (1924)
• Lady of the Night (1924)
• Little Robinson Crusoe (1924)
• Mademoiselle Midnight (1924) (The first film released by MGM. April 14, 1924)^[136]
• Married Flirts (1924)
• One Night in Rome (1924)
• Revelation (1924)
• Romola (1924)
• Scaramouche (1923) (MGM acquired the rights to the film after the merger)^[137]
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
• Sinners in Silk (1924)
• So This Is Marriage? (1924)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1924)
• The Arab (1924)
• The Bandolero (1924)
• The Beauty Prize (1924)
• The Dixie Handicap (1924)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) (MGM acquired the rights to the film after the merger)^[137]
• The Great Divide (1924)
• The Navigator (1924)
• The Prairie Wife (1924)
• The Rag Man (1924)
• The Red Lily (1924)
• The Silent Accuser (1924)
• The Snob (1924)
• The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
• Wine of Youth (1924)
• A Slave of Fashion (1925)
• Ben-Hur (1925, partial Technicolor; remade in 1959)
• Bright Lights (1925)
• Confessions of a Queen (1925)
• Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
• Dance Madness (1925)
• Don't (1925)
• Exchange of Wives (1925)
• Go West (1925)
• His Secretary (1925)
• La Bohème (1925)
• Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
• Man and Maid (1925)
• Mare Nostrum (1925)
• Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
• Old Clothes (1925)
• Pretty Ladies (1925)
• Proud Flesh (1925)
• Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
• Seven Chances (1925)
• Soul Mates (1925)
• Sun-Up (1925)
• The Auction Block (1925)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Blackbird (1925)
• The Circle (1925)
• The Denial (1925)
• The Devil's Circus (1925)
• The Great Love (1925)
• The Masked Bride (1925)
• The Merry Widow (1925, remade in 1934)
• The Midshipman (1925)
• The Monster (1925)
• The Mystic (1925)
• The Only Thing (1925)
• The Sporting Venus (1925)
• Time, the Comedian (1925)
• The Tower of Lies (1925)
• The Unholy Three (1925, remade in 1930)
• The Way of a Girl (1925)
• The White Desert (1925)
• Torrent (1925)
• Zander the Great (1925)
• A Certain Young Man (1926)
• A Little Journey (1926)
• Altars of Desire (1926)
• Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
• Battling Butler (1926)
• Beverly of Graustark (1926)
• Blarney (1926)
• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Exit Smiling (1926)
• Exquisite Sinner (1926)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1926)
• Love's Blindness (1926)
• Lovey Mary (1926)
• Mike (1926)
• Money Talks (1926)
• Monte Carlo (1926)
• Paris (1926)
• Tell It to the Marines (1926)
• The Barrier (1926)
• The Boob (1926)
• The Boy Friend (1926)
• The Demi-Bride (1926)
• The Desert's Toll (1926)
• The Fire Brigade (1926)
• The Flaming Forest (1926)
• The Gay Deceiver (1926)
• The Magician (1926)
• The Red Mill (1926)
• The Road to Mandalay (1926)
• The Scarlet Letter (1926)
• The Show (1926)
• The Taxi Dancer (1926)
• The Temptress (1926)
• The Understanding Heart (1926)
• The Valley of Hell (1926)
• The Waning Sex (1926)
• There You Are! (1926)
• Tin Hats (1926)
• Upstage (1926)
• Valencia (1926)
• War Paint (1926)
• Winners of the Wilderness (1926)
• After Midnight (1927)
• Annie Laurie (1927)
• Becky (1927)
• Body and Soul (1927)
• Frisco Sally Levy (1927)
• Foreign Devils (1927)
• Heaven on Earth (1927)
• In Old Kentucky (1927)
• London After Midnight (1927)
• Love (1927)
• Lovers? (1927)
• Mockery (1927)
• Mr. Wu (1927)
• Quality Street (1927)
• Rookies (1927)
• Rose-Marie (1927)
• Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
• Spring Fever (1927)
• The Big City (1927)
• The Bugle Call (1927)
• The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
• The Crowd (1927)
• The Enemy (1927)
• The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
• The Garden of Allah (1927)
• The Road to Romance (1927)
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
• The Taxi Dancer (1927)
• The Thirteenth Hour (1927)
• The Unknown (1927)
• Tillie the Toiler (1927)
• Winners of the Wilderness (1927)
• The Cossacks (1928)
• The Divine Woman (1928)
• Our Dancing Daughters (1928, plus sequels)
• The Patsy (1928)
• Show People (1928)
• The Viking (1928, first color feature with a soundtrack)
• West of Zanzibar (1928)
• While the City Sleeps (1928)
• White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
• The Wind (1928)
• The Broadway Melody (1929)
• Desert Nights (1929)
• Devil-May-Care (1929)
• Hallelujah! (1929)
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
• The Mysterious Island (1929)
• Their Own Desire (1929)
• The Pagan (1929)
• Where East is East (1929)

1930sEdit

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Bishop Murder Case	January 3, 1930
The Woman Racket	January 24, 1930
They Learned About Women	January 31, 1930
The Ship from Shanghai	January 31, 1930
Not So Dumb	February 2, 1930
Anna Christie	February 21, 1930
Chasing Rainbows	February 23, 1930
Lord Byron of Broadway	February 28, 1930
A Lady to Love	February 28, 1930
The Girl Said No	March 15, 1930
Montana Moon	March 20, 1930
Free and Easy	March 22, 1930
This Mad World	April 12, 1930
The Divorcee	April 19, 1930
Children of Pleasure	April 26, 1930
Redemption	May 2, 1930
Strictly Unconventional	May 3, 1930
Caught Short	May 10, 1930
The Rogue Song	May 10, 1930	MGM's first all-color talkie
In Gay Madrid	May 17, 1930
The Lady of Scandal	May 24, 1930
The Florodora Girl	May 30, 1930
The Big House	June 14, 1930
Rookery Nook	June 21, 1930
The Sins of the Children	June 28, 1930
The Sea Bat	July 5, 1930
Estrellados	July 7, 1930
The Unholy Three	July 12, 1930
Our Blushing Brides	July 19, 1930
Way Out West	August 2, 1930
Let Us Be Gay	August 9, 1930
Call of the Flesh	August 16, 1930
Good News	August 23, 1930
Romance	August 26, 1930
Doughboys	August 30, 1930
Love in the Rough	September 6, 1930
Madam Satan	September 20, 1930
Men of the North	September 27, 1930
Olimpia	October 10, 1930
Those Three French Girls	October 11, 1930
Billy the Kid	October 18, 1930
Way for a Sailor	November 1, 1930
A Lady's Morals	November 8, 1930
El presidio	November 14, 1930
Remote Control	November 15, 1930
War Nurse	November 22, 1930
Min and Bill	November 29, 1930
Passion Flower	December 6, 1930
Wu Li Chang	December 18, 1930
Paid	December 30, 1930
Reducing	January 3, 1931
Anna Christie	January 5, 1931
The Bachelor Father	January 10, 1931
Monsieur Le Fox	January 16, 1931
New Moon	January 17, 1931
De frente, marchen	January 23, 1931
The Great Meadow	January 24, 1931
Inspiration	January 31, 1931
Dance, Fools, Dance	February 7, 1931
The Easiest Way	February 7, 1931
If the Emperor Only Knew That	February 21, 1931
The Prodigal	February 21, 1931
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath	February 28, 1931
La fruta amarga	March 13, 1931
Men Call It Love	March 14, 1931
En cada Puerto un amor	March 27, 1931
A Tailor Made Man	March 28, 1931
La mujer X	April 3, 1931
Strangers May Kiss	April 4, 1931
Stepping Out	April 11, 1931
It’s a Wise Child	April 11, 1931
The Secret Six	April 18, 1931
Shipmates	April 25, 1931
Daybreak	May 2, 1931
Gentleman’s Fate	May 7, 1931
Never the Twain Shall Meet	May 16, 1931
Trader Horn	May 23, 1931
Laughing Sinners	May 30, 1931
Just a Gigolo	June 6, 1931
Five and Ten	June 13, 1931
A Free Soul	June 20, 1931
El proceso de Mary Dugan	June 26, 1931
The Man in Possession	July 4, 1931
Su ultima noche	July 17, 1931
The Great Lover	July 18, 1931
Politics	July 25, 1931
Son of India	August 1, 1931
Sporting Blood	August 8, 1931
Guilty Hands	August 22, 1931
This Modern Age	August 29, 1931
The Squaw Man	September 5, 1931
The Phantom of Paris	September 12, 1931
Sidewalks of New York	September 26, 1931
Cheri-Bibi	October 2, 1931
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford	October 3, 1931
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)	October 10, 1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet	October 24, 1931
The Guardsman	November 7, 1931
The Champ	November 9, 1931
Flying High	November 14, 1931
Possessed	November 21, 1931
West of Broadway	November 28, 1931
The Cuban Love Song	December 5, 1931
Private Lives	December 12, 1931
Mata Hari	December 26, 1931
Emma	January 2, 1932
Hell Divers	January 16, 1932
Lovers Courageous	January 23, 1932
The Passionate Plumber	February 6, 1932
The Beast of the City	February 13, 1932
Freaks	February 20, 1932
Polly of the Circus	February 27, 1932
Arsene Lupin	March 5, 1932
Tarzan the Ape Man	March 25, 1932
The Wet Parade	March 26, 1932
But the Flesh Is Weak	April 9, 1932
When a Fellow Needs a Friend	April 30, 1932
Huddle	May 14, 1932
Letty Lynton	May 14, 1932
As You Desire Me	May 28, 1932
New Morals for Old	June 4, 1932
Night Court	June 4, 1932
Red-Headed Woman	June 25, 1932
Unashamed	July 2, 1932
The Washington Masquerade	July 9, 1932
Skyscraper Souls	July 16, 1932
Downstairs	August 6, 1932
Speak Easily	August 13, 1932
Divorce in the Family	August 27, 1932
Blondie of the Follies	September 1, 1932
Grand Hotel	September 11, 1932
Smilin’ Through	September 24, 1932
Kongo	October 1, 1932
Faithless	October 15, 1932
Red Dust	October 22, 1932
The Mask of Fu Manchu	November 5, 1932
Payment Deferred	November 7, 1932
Prosperity	November 18, 1932
Flesh	December 8, 1932
Fast Life	December 16, 1932
The Son-Daughter	December 23, 1932
Rasputin and the Empress	December 23, 1932
Strange Interlude	December 30, 1932

• Dancing Lady (1933)
• Dinner at Eight (1933)
• The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934, remade in 1956)
• The Thin Man (1934, plus sequels)
• Death on the Diamond (1934)
• Hide-Out (1934)
• Murder in the Private Car (1934)
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
• The Merry Widow (1934)
• The Show-Off (1934)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• Hollywood Party
• Babes in Toyland (1934)
• The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
• You Can’t Buy Everything (1934)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• China Seas (1935)
• David Copperfield (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, remade in 1962)
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
• Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
• Murder in the Fleet (1935)
• The Winning Ticket (1935)
• Romeo and Juliet (1936)
• Rose Marie (1936)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Tarzan Escapes (1936)
• Fury (1936, Fritz Lang's first American film)
• Camille (1936)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
• Maytime (1937)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Saratoga (1937)
• The Good Earth (1937)
• Conquest (1937)
• Rosalie (1937)
• The Firefly (1937)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
• The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
• Test Pilot (1938)
• A Christmas Carol (1938)
• Sweethearts (1938)
• Boys Town (1938)
• Marie Antoinette (1938)
• The Citadel (1938)
• Babes in Arms (1939)
• Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
• At the Circus (1939)
• Gone with the Wind (1939, distribution only; produced by Selznick International Pictures)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939, remade as musical in 1969)
• The Women (1939)
• Ninotchka (1939, remade as musical in 1957)
• It's a Wonderful World (1939)
• Broadway Serenade (1939)

1940sEdit

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Earl of Chicago	January 5, 1940
The Shop Around the Corner	January 12, 1940
Congo Maisie	January 19, 1940
I Take This Woman	February 2, 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940	February 9, 1940
The Man from Dakota	February 16, 1940
Northwest Passage	February 23, 1940
Strange Cargo	March 1, 1940
The Ghost Comes Home	March 8, 1940
Young Tom Edison	March 15, 1940
And One Was Beautiful	April 5, 1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case	April 12, 1940
Two Girls on Broadway	April 19, 1940
Forty Little Mothers	April 26, 1940
20 Mule Team	May 3, 1940
Edison, the Man	May 10, 1940
Waterloo Bridge	May 17, 1940
Florian	June 5, 1940
Susan and God	June 7, 1940
Phantom Raiders	June 7, 1940
The Mortal Storm	June 14, 1940
The Captain Is a Lady	June 21, 1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante	July 5, 1940
Sporting Blood	July 12, 1940
New Moon	July 19, 1940
We Who Are Young	July 19, 1940
Pride and Prejudice	July 26, 1940
Gold Rush Maisie	July 26, 1940
I Love You Again	August 9, 1940
The Golden Fleecing	August 16, 1940
Boom Town	August 30, 1940
Dr. Kildare Goes Home	September 6, 1940
Wyoming	September 13, 1940
Strike Up the Band	September 27, 1940
Sky Murder	September 27, 1940
Dulcy	October 4, 1940
Third Finger, Left Hand	October 11, 1940
Hullabaloo	October 25, 1940
Escape	November 1, 1940
Bitter Sweet	November 8, 1940
Gallant Sons	November 15, 1940
Little Nellie Kelly	November 22, 1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis	November 29, 1940
Go West	December 6, 1940
Comrade X	December 13, 1940
The Philadelphia Story	December 26, 1940	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. remade as High Society in 1956
Flight Command	December 27, 1940
Keeping Company	December 27, 1940
Maisie Was a Lady	January 10, 1941
The Wild Man of Borneo	January 24, 1941
Come Live with Me	January 31, 1941
Blonde Inspiration	February 7, 1941
The Trial of Mary Dugan	February 14, 1941
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary	February 21, 1941
Free and Easy	February 28, 1941
Rage in Heaven	March 7, 1941
The Penalty	March 14, 1941
The Bad Man	March 28, 1941
Barnacle Bill	April 7, 1941
Men of Boys Town	April 11, 1941
Washington Melodrama	April 18, 1941
Ziegfeld Girl	April 25, 1941
The People vs. Dr. Kildare	May 2, 1941
I'll Wait for You	May 16, 1941
A Woman's Face	May 23, 1941
Love Crazy	May 23, 1941
Billy the Kid	May 30, 1941
The Get-Away	June 13, 1941
The Big Store	June 20, 1941
They Met in Bombay	June 27, 1941
Blossoms in the Dust	July 25, 1941	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Ringside Maisie	August 1, 1941
Whistling in the Dark	August 8, 1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	August 12, 1941
Life Begins for Andy Hardy	August 15, 1941
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day	August 22, 1941
When Ladies Meet	August 29, 1941
Down in San Diego	August 1941
Lady Be Good	September 1, 1941
Honky Tonk	October 1, 1941
Married Bachelor	October 16, 1941
The Chocolate Soldier	October 31, 1941
The Feminine Touch	October 1941
Smilin' Through	October 1941
Shadow of the Thin Man	November 21, 1941
Two-Faced Woman	November 30, 1941
Unholy Partners	November 1941
Tarzan's Secret Treasure	December 1, 1941
H. M. Pulham, Esq.	December 18, 1941
Kathleen	December 18, 1941
Babes on Broadway	December 31, 1941
Design for Scandal	January 5, 1942
Johnny Eager	January 17, 1942
Woman of the Year	January 19, 1942
Nazi Agent	January 21, 1942
The Vanishing Virginian	January 23, 1942
Mr. and Mrs. North	January 23, 1942
A Yank on the Burma Road	January 29, 1942
The Bugle Sounds	January 30, 1942
Dr. Kildare's Victory	February 4, 1942
Born to Sing	February 18, 1942
Joe Smith, American	February 1942
This Time for Keeps	March 1942
The Courtship of Andy Hardy	March 1942
Kid Glove Killer	April 17, 1942
Fingers at the Window	April 22, 1942
We Were Dancing	April 30, 1942
Rio Rita	April 1942
Mokey	April 1942
Sunday Punch	May 8, 1942
Tortilla Flat	May 21, 1942
Pacific Rendezvous	May 21, 1942
Grand Central Murder	May 23, 1942
Tarzan's New York Adventure	May 1942
Ship Ahoy	May 1942
Mrs. Miniver	June 4, 1942	Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Affairs of Martha	June 21, 1942
Maisie Gets Her Man	June 1942
Her Cardboard Lover	June 1942
Jackass Mail	July 1, 1942
I Married an Angel	July 9, 1942
Calling Dr. Gillespie	July 9, 1942
Crossroads	July 23, 1942
Pierre of the Plains	July 29, 1942
The War Against Mrs. Hadley	August 7, 1942
Cairo	August 17, 1942
Somewhere I'll Find You	August 27, 1942
Tish	September 17, 1942
The Omaha Trail	September 1942
A Yank at Eton	September 1942
Apache Trail	September 1942
Panama Hattie	October 1, 1942
Eyes in the Night	October 16, 1942
For Me and My Gal	October 21, 1942
Seven Sweethearts	November 13, 1942
Talk About Jacqueline	November 30, 1942
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant	November 1942
Northwest Rangers	December 1, 1942
White Cargo	December 12, 1942
Journey for Margaret	December 17, 1942
Random Harvest	December 17, 1942	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Reunion in France	December 25, 1942
Whistling in Dixie	December 31, 1942
Stand by for Action	December 31, 1942
Keeper of the Flame	December 1942
Tennessee Johnson	January 12, 1943
Andy Hardy's Double Life	February 11, 1943
The Youngest Profession	February 26, 1943
The Human Comedy	March 2, 1943	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Assignment in Brittany	March 11, 1943
Harrigan's Kid	March 1943
Slightly Dangerous	April 1, 1943
Air Raid Wardens	April 4, 1943
Cabin in the Sky	April 9, 1943
Presenting Lily Mars	April 29, 1943
A Stranger in Town	April 1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case	May 8, 1943
Three Hearts for Julia	May 21, 1943
Bataan	June 3, 1943
Hitler's Madman	June 10, 1943
Pilot No. 5	June 24, 1943
Report from the Aleutians	July 30, 1943
Young Ideas	August 2, 1943
The Man from Down Under	August 4, 1943
Above Suspicion	August 5, 1943
Du Barry Was a Lady	August 13, 1943
Salute to the Marines	August 30, 1943
Thousands Cheer	September 13, 1943
The Adventures of Tartu	September 24, 1943
I Dood It	September 1943
Swing Shift Maisie	October 1, 1943
Lassie Come Home	October 7, 1943
Best Foot Forward	October 8, 1943
Swing Fever	November 1, 1943
The Cross of Lorraine	November 12, 1943
Cry 'Havoc'	November 23, 1943
Girl Crazy	November 26, 1943
Madame Curie	December 16, 1943	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Lost Angel	December 23, 1943
A Guy Named Joe	December 24, 1943
Whistling in Brooklyn	December 1943
Broadway Rhythm	January 19, 1944
Song of Russia	February 10, 1944
See Here, Private Hargrove	March 18, 1944
The Heavenly Body	March 23, 1944
Rationing	March 24, 1944
Tunisian Victory	April 1, 1944
Gaslight	May 4, 1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble	May 4, 1944
The White Cliffs of Dover	May 11, 1944
3 Men in White	May 25, 1944
Meet the People	June 1, 1944
Two Girls and a Sailor	June 14, 1944
Bathing Beauty	June 27, 1944
Dragon Seed	July 20, 1944
The Seventh Cross	July 24, 1944
The Canterville Ghost	July 28, 1944
Kismet	August 22, 1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair	August 23, 1944
Maria Candelaria	September 11, 1944
Barbary Coast Gent	September 28, 1944
Maisie Goes to Reno	September 28, 1944
An American Romance	October 11, 1944
Mrs. Parkington	October 12, 1944
Lost in a Harem	November 8, 1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	November 15, 1944
Meet Me in St. Louis	November 28, 1944
Blonde Fever	December 5, 1944
Nothing But Trouble	December 6, 1944
National Velvet	December 14, 1944
Music for Millions	December 18, 1944
This Man's Navy	January 4, 1945
Main Street After Dark	January 12, 1945
The Thin Man Goes Home	January 25, 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray	March 3, 1945
Keep Your Powder Dry	March 8, 1945
Without Love	March 22, 1945
Between Two Women	March 28, 1945
Son of Lassie	April 20, 1945
The Valley of Decision	May 3, 1945
Gentle Annie	May 4, 1945
Thrill of a Romance	May 23, 1945
The Clock	May 25, 1945
Twice Blessed	May 31, 1945
Dangerous Partners	June 7, 1945
Bewitched	July 4, 1945
Anchors Aweigh	July 14, 1945	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Ziegfeld Follies	August 13, 1945
The Hidden Eye	August 31, 1945
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes	September 6, 1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy	September 11, 1945
Week-End at the Waldorf	October 4, 1945
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood	October 5, 1945
Perfect Strangers	November 1, 1945
She Went to the Races	November 4, 1945
Yolanda and the Thief	November 20, 1945
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?	November 21, 1945
The Last Chance	November 27, 1945
They Were Expendable	December 20, 1945
It Happened at the Inn	December 21, 1945
The Sailor Takes a Wife	December 28, 1945
Adventure	December 28, 1945
The Great Morgan	1946
The Harvey Girls	January 18, 1946
A Letter for Evie	January 28, 1946
Up Goes Maisie	February 1, 1946
The Hoodlum Saint	April 4, 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice	May 2, 1946
Bad Bascomb	May 22, 1946
Two Smart People	June 4, 1946
Two Sisters from Boston	June 6, 1946
Little Mister Jim	June 10, 1946
Stormy Waters	June 15, 1946
The Green Years	July 4, 1946
Easy to Wed	July 25, 1946
Boys' Ranch	July 18, 1946
Piccadilly Incident	August 4, 1946
Holiday in Mexico	August 15, 1946
Faithful in My Fashion	August 22, 1946
Three Wise Fools	September 26, 1946
No Leave, No Love	October 3, 1946
The Cockeyed Miracle	October 24, 1946
Courage of Lassie	November 8, 1946
Undercurrent	November 28, 1946
Till the Clouds Roll By*	December 5, 1946
Gallant Bess	December 5, 1946
The Yearling	December 18, 1946	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Secret Heart	December 25, 1946
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy	December 25, 1946
The Show-Off	December 1946
The Mighty McGurk	January 2, 1947
Lady in the Lake	January 23, 1947
My Brother Talks to Horses	February 4, 1947
The Arnelo Affair	February 13, 1947
The Beginning or the End	February 19, 1947
Undercover Maisie	March 1, 1947
It Happened in Brooklyn	April 7, 1947
The Sea of Grass	April 25, 1947
High Barbaree	May 1947
Living in a Big Way	June 10, 1947
Fiesta	June 12, 1947
Dark Delusion	June 25, 1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge	August 4, 1947
The Hucksters	August 27, 1947
Song of the Thin Man	August 28, 1947
Cynthia	August 29, 1947
The Unfinished Dance	September 19, 1947
Song of Love	October 9, 1947
Merton of the Movies	October 11, 1947
This Time for Keeps	October 17, 1947
Desire Me	October 31, 1947
Green Dolphin Street	November 5, 1947
Cass Timberlane	November 6, 1947
High Wall	December 17, 1947
Good News	December 26, 1947
If Winter Comes	December 31, 1947
Killer McCoy	December 1947
Alias a Gentleman	February 3, 1948
Tenth Avenue Angel	February 20, 1948
The Bride Goes Wild	March 3, 1948
Three Daring Daughters	March 5, 1948
Big City	March 25, 1948
The Search	March 26, 1948
B.F.'s Daughter	April 2, 1948
Summer Holiday	April 16, 1948
Homecoming	April 29, 1948
State of the Union	April 30, 1948	distribution only; produced by Liberty Films
On an Island with You	May 3, 1948
The Pirate	June 11, 1948
Easter Parade	July 8, 1948
A Date with Judy	July 29, 1948
A Southern Yankee	August 5, 1948
Julia Misbehaves	August 8, 1948
Luxury Liner	September 9, 1948
The Three Musketeers	October 20, 1948
The Secret Land	October 22, 1948
No Minor Vices	November 12, 1948
The Kissing Bandit	November 18, 1948
Hills of Home	November 25, 1948
3 Godfathers	December 1, 1948
Act of Violence	December 21, 1948
Command Decision	December 25, 1948
Force of Evil	December 25, 1948
Words and Music	December 31, 1948
Tale of the Navajos	1949
The Bribe	February 3, 1949
Caught	February 17, 1949
Little Women	March 10, 1949
Big Jack	April 12, 1949
Take Me Out to the Ball Game	April 13, 1949
The Secret Garden	April 30, 1949
The Barkleys of Broadway	May 4, 1949
The Sun Comes Up	May 12, 1949
The Stratton Story	May 12, 1949
Edward, My Son	June 2, 1949
Neptune's Daughter	June 9, 1949
The Great Sinner	June 29, 1949
Any Number Can Play	July 15, 1949
Scene of the Crime	July 28, 1949
In the Good Old Summertime	July 29, 1949
Madame Bovary	August 25, 1949
That Midnight Kiss	September 22, 1949
The Doctor and the Girl	September 29, 1949
The Red Danube	October 14, 1949
Border Incident	October 28, 1949
Challenge to Lassie	October 31, 1949
That Forsyte Woman	November 3, 1949
Battleground	November 9, 1949	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Adam's Rib	November 18, 1949
Intruder in the Dust	November 22, 1949
Tension	November 23, 1949
East Side, West Side	December 22, 1949
Malaya	December 27, 1949
On the Town	December 30, 1949

1950sEdit

Title	Release Date	Notes
Ambush	January 13, 1950
Key to the City	February 2, 1950
The Outriders	March 1, 1950
Nancy Goes to Rio	March 10, 1950
Black Hand	March 12, 1950
The Yellow Cab Man	April 7, 1950
The Reformer and the Redhead	May 5, 1950
Stars In My Crown	May 11, 1950
Please Believe Me	May 12, 1950
Annie Get Your Gun	May 17, 1950
Shadow on the Wall	May 19, 1950
The Asphalt Jungle	May 23, 1950
Side Street	May 23, 1950
The Big Hangover	May 26, 1950
Father of the Bride	June 16, 1950	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. plus 1951 sequel
The Skipper Surprised His Wife	June 29, 1950
The Next Voice You Hear...	June 29, 1950
Crisis	July 7, 1950
The Happy Years	July 7, 1950
Three Little Words	July 12, 1950
Duchess of Idaho	July 14, 1950
Mystery Street	July 28, 1950
A Lady Without Passport	August 3, 1950
The Toast of New Orleans	August 24, 1950
Summer Stock	August 31, 1950
A Life of Her Own	September 1, 1950
Devil's Doorway	September 15, 1950
Right Cross	October 6, 1950
To Please a Lady	October 13, 1950
The Miniver Story	October 26, 1950
Dial 1119	November 3, 1950
Two Weeks with Love	November 10, 1950
King Solomon's Mines	November 24, 1950	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Kim	December 7, 1950
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone	December 8, 1950
Watch the Birdie	December 11, 1950
Pagan Love Song	December 29, 1950
The Magnificent Yankee	January 18, 1951
Grounds for Marriage	January 19, 1951
Vengeance Valley*	February 4, 1951
Three Guys Named Mike	March 1, 1951
Mr. Imperium	March 2, 1951
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story	March 12, 1951
Inside Straight	March 15, 1951
The Red Badge of Courage	March 16, 1951
Royal Wedding*	March 23, 1951
Soldiers Three	March 29, 1951
Cause for Alarm!*	March 30, 1951
Teresa	April 5, 1951
The Great Caruso	April 16, 1951
Father's Little Dividend*	April 27, 1951	sequel to Father of the Bride
The Painted Hills*	May 4, 1951
Home Town Story	May 18, 1951
Go for Broke!	May 24, 1951
Night Into Morning	June 8, 1951
No Questions Asked	June 15, 1951
Kind Lady	June 20, 1951
Excuse My Dust	June 29, 1951
Strictly Dishonorable	July 3, 1951
Rich, Young and Pretty	July 9, 1951
The Law and the Lady	July 20, 1951
The Tall Target	August 17, 1951
The Strip	August 1951
The People Against O'Hara	September 1, 1951
Show Boat	September 24, 1951
Texas Carnival	October 5, 1951
Bannerline	October 12, 1951
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	October 15, 1951
Angels in the Outfield	October 19, 1951	plus Disney remake in 1994
Across the Wide Missouri	October 23, 1951
An American in Paris	November 11, 1951	Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Callaway Went Thataway	November 15, 1951
The Unknown Man	November 16, 1951
It's a Big Country	November 20, 1951
Too Young to Kiss	November 22, 1951
The Man with a Cloak	November 27, 1951
Calling Bulldog Drummond	December 14, 1951
Quo Vadis	December 25, 1951	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Westward the Women	December 31, 1951
The Light Touch	January 16, 1952
Invitation	January 29, 1952
Lone Star	February 8, 1952
The Belle of New York	February 22, 1952
Love Is Better Than Ever	February 23, 1952
Just This Once	February 27, 1952
The Wild North	March 22, 1952
Singin' in the Rain	April 11, 1952	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Talk About a Stranger	April 18, 1952
Carbine Williams	April 24, 1952
Young Man with Ideas	May 2, 1952
When in Rome	May 11, 1952
The Girl in White	May 23, 1952
Skirts Ahoy!	May 28, 1952
Lovely to Look At	May 29, 1952
The Sellout	May 30, 1952
Glory Alley	June 6, 1952
Pat and Mike	June 13, 1952
Scaramouche	June 27, 1952
Washington Story	July 18, 1952
You for Me	July 18, 1952
Shadow in the Sky	July 18, 1952
Holiday for Sinners	July 25, 1952
Ivanhoe	July 31, 1952	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Fearless Fagan	August 15, 1952
The Merry Widow	September 5, 1952
My Man and I	September 5, 1952
The Devil Makes Three	September 19, 1952
Because You're Mine	September 25, 1952
Apache War Smoke	September 25, 1952
Everything I Have Is Yours	October 31, 1952
The Prisoner of Zenda	November 14, 1952
Desperate Search	November 19, 1952
The Hour of 13	November 21, 1952
Plymouth Adventure	November 28, 1952
Million Dollar Mermaid	December 4, 1952
Sky Full of Moon	December 12, 1952
The Bad and the Beautiful	December 25, 1952
Above and Beyond	January 2, 1953
The Clown	January 16, 1953
The Naked Spur	February 6, 1953
Rogue's March	February 13, 1953
Battle Circus	March 6, 1953
Confidentially Connie	March 13, 1953
I Love Melvin	March 20, 1953
The Story of Three Loves	March 26, 1953
The Girl Who Had Everything	March 27, 1953
Jeopardy	March 30, 1953
Small Town Girl	April 10, 1953
Bright Road	April 17, 1953
Sombrero	April 22, 1953
Code Two	April 24, 1953
Never Let Me Go	May 1, 1953
Cry of the Hunted	May 8, 1953
Remains to Be Seen	May 15, 1953
Scandal at Scourie	May 17, 1953
Fast Company	May 22, 1953
Young Bess	May 29, 1953
Julius Caesar	June 4, 1953	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
A Slight Case of Larceny	June 5, 1953
Dream Wife	June 19, 1953
Arena	June 24, 1953
Dangerous When Wet	July 3, 1953
Lili	July 10, 1953
Ride, Vaquero!	July 17, 1953
The Band Wagon	August 7, 1953
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis	August 14, 1953
Big Leaguer	August 19, 1953
Latin Lovers	August 28, 1953
Half a Hero	September 4, 1953
The Actress	September 25, 1953
Torch Song	October 1, 1953
Mogambo	October 9, 1953
Take the High Ground!	October 30, 1953
All the Brothers Were Valiant	November 13, 1953
Kiss Me Kate	November 26, 1953
Give a Girl a Break	December 3, 1953
Easy to Love	December 25, 1953
Saadia	December 1953
Knights of the Round Table	January 15, 1954
The Great Diamond Robbery	January 29, 1954
The Long, Long Trailer	February 18, 1954
Tennessee Champ	March 5, 1954
Rose Marie	April 1, 1954
Gypsy Colt	April 2, 1954
Rhapsody	April 16, 1954
Prisoner of War	May 4, 1954
Flame and the Flesh	May 5, 1954
Executive Suite	May 6, 1954
Men of the Fighting Lady	May 7, 1954
The Student Prince	June 15, 1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	July 22, 1954	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Valley of the Kings	July 23, 1954
Her Twelve Men	August 11, 1954
Betrayed	September 7, 1954
Brigadoon	September 8, 1954
Rogue Cop	September 17, 1954
Beau Brummell	October 6, 1954
Athena	November 4, 1954
The Last Time I Saw Paris*	November 18, 1954
Seagulls Over Sorrento	December 6, 1954
Deep in My Heart	December 24, 1954
Green Fire	December 29, 1954
Bad Day at Black Rock	January 7, 1955
Many Rivers to Cross	February 4, 1955
Jupiter's Darling	February 18, 1955
Hit the Deck	March 4, 1955
The Glass Slipper	March 24, 1955
Blackboard Jungle	March 25, 1955
Bedevilled	April 28, 1955
Interrupted Melody	May 5, 1955
The Prodigal	May 6, 1955
The Cobweb	June 7, 1955
Love Me or Leave Me	June 10, 1955
Moonfleet	June 24, 1955
Svengali	June 24, 1955
The Scarlet Coat	July 29, 1955
The King's Thief	August 5, 1955
It's Always Fair Weather	September 2, 1955
Trial	October 7, 1955
Kismet	October 8, 1955
Guys and Dolls	November 3, 1955	original distributor, produced by Samuel Goldwyn
The Tender Trap	November 4, 1955
The Adventures of Quentin Durward	November 23, 1955
It's a Dog's Life	December 23, 1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow	December 25, 1955
Diane	January 12, 1956
Ransom!	January 24, 1956
Forever, Darling	February 9, 1956
Meet Me in Las Vegas	March 9, 1956
Forbidden Planet	March 15, 1956
Tribute to a Bad Man	March 30, 1956
The Swan	April 26, 1956
The Last Hunt	April 30, 1956
Bhowani Junction	May 1, 1956
Gaby	May 9, 1956
Invitation to the Dance	May 15, 1956
The Catered Affair	June 14, 1956
Somebody Up There Likes Me	July 5, 1956
The Fastest Gun Alive	July 12, 1956
High Society	July 17, 1956	Musical remake of The Philadelphia Story
These Wilder Years	August 17, 1956
Lust for Life	September 17, 1956	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The Power and the Prize	September 26, 1956
Tea and Sympathy	September 27, 1956
Julie	October 17, 1956
The Opposite Sex	October 26, 1956	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
The Rack	November 2, 1956
Friendly Persuasion	November 25, 1956	Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Foreign distribution only[138]
The Great American Pastime	November 28, 1956
The Teahouse of the August Moon	November 29, 1956	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
The Iron Petticoat	January 7, 1957
The Barretts of Wimpole Street	January 16, 1957
Slander	January 18, 1957
Edge of the City	January 29, 1957
The Wings of Eagles	February 22, 1957
Hot Summer Night	February 1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms	April 3, 1957
Lizzie	April 4, 1957
Tarzan and the Lost Safari	April 12, 1957
The Living Idol	May 2, 1957
The Little Hut	May 3, 1957
The Vintage	May 8, 1957
Something of Value	May 10, 1957
This Could Be the Night	May 14, 1957
Designing Woman	May 16, 1957
The Happy Road	June 20, 1957
The Seventh Sin	June 28, 1957
Decision Against Time	July 12, 1957
Silk Stockings	July 18, 1957	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Musical remake of Ninotchka
Gun Glory	July 19, 1957
Man on Fire	August 22, 1957
Action of the Tiger	August 30, 1957
Tip on a Dead Jockey	September 6, 1957
House of Numbers	September 12, 1957
The Hired Gun	September 20, 1957
Les Girls	October 3, 1957	Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Until They Sail	October 8, 1957
The Invisible Boy	October 1957
Jailhouse Rock	November 8, 1957
Don't Go Near the Water	November 14, 1957	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Raintree County	December 20, 1957
All at Sea	December 21, 1957
Seven Hills of Rome	January 30, 1958
Underwater Warrior	February 14, 1958
The Brothers Karamazov	February 20, 1958
I Accuse!	March 5, 1958
Saddle the Wind	March 20, 1958
Merry Andrew	April 4, 1958
Handle with Care	April 18, 1958
Cry Terror!	May 2, 1958
The Sheepman	May 7, 1958
Gigi	May 15, 1958	Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical.
The High Cost of Loving	May 16, 1958
The Law and Jake Wade	June 6, 1958
High School Confidential	June 13, 1958
The Haunted Strangler	July 3, 1958
Fiend Without a Face	July 3, 1958
The Reluctant Debutante	August 14, 1958
Tarzan's Fight for Life	August 15, 1958
Imitation General	August 20, 1958
The Badlanders	September 3, 1958
Dunkirk	September 10, 1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	September 20, 1958	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The Safecracker	October 1, 1958
Man of the West	October 1, 1958
The Decks Ran Red	October 10, 1958
Torpedo Run	October 24, 1958
Party Girl	October 28, 1958
The Tunnel of Love	November 21, 1958
The Doctor's Dilemma	December 17, 1958
Some Came Running	December 18, 1958
Tom Thumb	December 22, 1958	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical.
Andy Hardy Comes Home	December 22, 1958
Frontier Rangers	1959
The Tale of the White Serpent	1959
The Journey	February 19, 1959
First Man Into Space	February 27, 1959
Night of the Quarter Moon	March 4, 1959
Nowhere to Go	March 11, 1959
Green Mansions	March 19, 1959
Count Your Blessings	April 23, 1959
The Mating Game	April 29, 1959
The Mysterians	May 15, 1959
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil	May 20, 1959
Ask Any Girl	May 21, 1959
Watusi	July 1, 1959
The Beat Generation	July 3, 1959
North by Northwest	July 17, 1959
The Angry Hills	July 29, 1959
The Scapegoat	August 6, 1959
For the First Time	August 26, 1959
The Big Operator	August 1959
It Started with a Kiss	September 4, 1959
Girls Town	October 5, 1959
Libel	October 23, 1959
The House of the Seven Hawks	October 29, 1959
Tarzan, the Ape Man	October 1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare	November 6, 1959
Ben-Hur	November 18, 1959	Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama .remake of 1925 film
Never So Few	December 7, 1959
The Gazebo	December 18, 1959

1960sEdit

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Last Voyage	February 19, 1960
Home from the Hill	March 3, 1960
Please Don't Eat the Daisies	March 31, 1960
Platinum High School	May 13, 1960
The Giant of Marathon	May 25, 1960
The Subterraneans	June 23, 1960
Bells Are Ringing	June 23, 1960	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical.
Alakazam the Great	July 30, 1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	August 3, 1960
The Time Machine	August 17, 1960
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England	September 4, 1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals	September 22, 1960
The Angel Wore Red	September 28, 1960
Key Witness	October 6, 1960
BUtterfield 8	November 4, 1960
The Law	November 11, 1960
Village of the Damned	December 7, 1960
Where the Boys Are	December 28, 1960
Cimarron	December 1960
The Murder Men	1961
Don Quixote	January 20, 1961
Go Naked in the World	March 10, 1961
The Secret Partner	March 15, 1961
Gorgo	March 29, 1961
The Green Helmet	April 20, 1961
Atlantis, the Lost Continent	May 3, 1961
Ring of Fire	June 14, 1961
Two Loves	June 21, 1961
Magic Boy	June 22, 1961
The Secret of Monte Cristo	June 22, 1961
Morgan, the Pirate	July 6, 1961
The Thief of Baghdad	August 10, 1961
The Honeymoon Machine	August 16, 1961
Ada	August 25, 1961
A Thunder of Drums	September 26, 1961
Bridge to the Sun	October 17, 1961
King of Kings	October 30, 1961
Bachelor in Paradise	November 1, 1961
The Colossus of Rhodes	November 1961
Invasion Quartet	December 10, 1961
Le meraviglie di Aladino	December 13, 1961
Private Potter	1962
Murder, She Said	January 7, 1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	February 7, 1962
The Light in the Piazza	February 9, 1962
Sweet Bird of Youth	March 21, 1962
The World in My Pocket	March 1962
All Fall Down	April 11, 1962
The Horizontal Lieutenant	April 18, 1962
Lolita	June 12, 1962
Ride the High Country	June 20, 1962
I tartari	June 20, 1962
Boys' Night Out	June 21, 1962	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy.
The Counterfeiters of Paris	July 17, 1962
A Matter of WHO	July 24, 1962
Tarzan Goes to India	July 1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	August 7, 1962	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical.
Two Weeks in Another Town	August 17, 1962
Damon and Pythias	September 5, 1962
I Thank a Fool	September 14, 1962
A Very Private Affair	September 28, 1962
The Savage Guns	October 1, 1962
Period of Adjustment	October 31, 1962	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy.
Mutiny on the Bounty	November 8, 1962	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Kill or Cure	November 12, 1962
The Dock Brief	November 16, 1962
Escape from East Berlin	November 1962
The Main Attraction	November 1962
Swordsman of Siena	December 5, 1962
Billy Rose's Jumbo	December 6, 1962	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical.
Arturo's Island	December 21, 1962
The Password Is Courage	December 21, 1962
A Monkey in Winter	January 30, 1963
The Hook	February 15, 1963
How the West Was Won	February 20, 1963
Follow the Boys	February 27, 1963
The Four Days of Naples	March 19, 1963
The Courtship of Eddie's Father	March 27, 1963
Come Fly with Me	March 27, 1963
Seven Seas to Calais	March 1963
It Happened at the World's Fair	April 3, 1963
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler	April 29, 1963
Drums of Africa	May 15, 1963
The Slave	May 29, 1963
In the Cool of the Day	May 29, 1963
Dime with a Halo	May 1963
Corridors of Blood	June 5, 1963
Lycanthropus	June 5, 1963
Captain Sinbad	June 19, 1963
Murder at the Gallop	June 24, 1963
Tarzan's Three Challenges	June 1963
Cattle King	July 31, 1963
Flipper	August 14, 1963
A Ticklish Affair	August 18, 1963	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Cairo	August 21, 1963
The Young and The Brave	August 1963
Hootenanny Hoot	August
The Haunting	September 18, 1963
The V.I.P.s	September 19, 1963
Any Number Can Win	October 8, 1963
Twilight of Honor	October 16, 1963
Family Portrait	November 11, 1963
Sunday in New York	November 13, 1963
The Wheeler Dealers	November 14, 1963
Square of Violence	December 8, 1963
The Prize	December 25, 1963
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon	January 1, 1964	co-production with United Artists, Warner Bros., Walt Disney Productions and Columbia Pictures
Le Gentleman d'Epsom	1964
Children of the Damned	January 29, 1964
A Global Affair	January 30, 1964
The Day and the Hour	February 19, 1964
Le glaive et la balance	February 28, 1964
Kissin' Cousins	March 6, 1964
Mail Order Bride	March 11, 1964
7 Faces of Dr. Lao	March 18, 1964
Night Must Fall	March 18, 1964
Gunfighters of Casa Grande	April 1, 1964
Tamahime	May 3, 1964
Gladiators 7	May 7, 1964
Viva Las Vegas	May 20, 1964
Rhino!	May 20, 1964
The Golden Arrow	May 1964
Rhino!	June 3, 1964
Advance to the Rear	June 10, 1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown	June 11, 1964	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Flipper's New Adventure	June 24, 1964
Gold for the Caesars	June 1964
Looking for Love	August 5, 1964
The Night of the Iguana	August 6, 1964	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The Big Parade of Comedy	September 3, 1964
Murder Ahoy!	September 22, 1964
Of Human Bondage	September 23, 1964
Murder Most Foul	September 1964
Quick, Before It Melts	October 5, 1964
The Outrage	October 8, 1964
The Americanization of Emily	October 27, 1964
Your Cheatin' Heart	November 4, 1964
The Young Lovers	November 12, 1964
Joy House	November 1964
The Golden Head	December 10, 1964
Get Yourself a College Girl	December 18, 1964
Wild, Wild Planet	1965
Guns of Diablo	January 29, 1965
36 Hours	February 19, 1965
The Rounders	March 5, 1965
Vice and Virtue	March 17, 1965
Young Cassidy	March 22, 1965
Operation Crossbow	April 1, 1965
Girl Happy	April 14, 1965
Hysteria	April 1965
Joy in the Morning	May 5, 1965
The Yellow Rolls-Royce	May 13, 1965
Signpost to Murder	May 19, 1965
Sandokan the Great	May 1965
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses	May 1965
She	June 9, 1965
The Sandpiper	June 23, 1965
Zebra in the Kitchen	June 1965
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion	August 4, 1965
Meurtre en 45 tours	August 18, 1965
Greed in the Sun	August 18, 1965
Once a Thief	September 8, 1965
The Hill	October 3, 1965
When the Boys Meet the Girls	October 10, 1965
The Loved One	October 11, 1965
The Cincinnati Kid	October 15, 1965
The Secret of My Success	November 3, 1965
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's	November 17, 1965
Harum Scarum	November 24, 1965
A Patch of Blue	December 10, 1965	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Doctor Zhivago	December 31, 1965	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
7 Women	January 5, 1966
To Trap a Spy	January 19, 1966
Where the Spies Are	January 26, 1966
The Money Trap	February 2, 1966
Made in Paris	February 9, 1966
The Spy with My Face	March 9, 1966
The Singing Nun	April 2, 1966
The Secret Seven	April 1966
The Alphabet Murders	May 17, 1966
Lady L	May 18, 1966
Son of a Gunfighter	May 1966
The Glass Bottom Boat	June 9, 1966
Maya	June 22, 1966
Hold On!	June 22, 1966
Around the World Under the Sea	June 22, 1966
Tiko and the Shark	June 1966
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon	June 22, 1966
Mister Buddwing	October 11, 1966
Hotel Paradiso	October 14, 1966
The Liquidator	October 28, 1966
Penelope	November 10, 1966
Spinout	November 23, 1966
One Spy Too Many	December 7, 1966
Marco the Magnificent	December 14, 1966
Blowup	December 18, 1966	distributor
Grand Prix	December 21, 1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing	December 1966
The Venetian Affair	January 18, 1967
Hot Rods to Hell	January 27, 1967
Return of the Gunfighter	January 29, 1967
The Spy in the Green Hat	February 3, 1967
The 25th Hour	February 16, 1967
Double Trouble	April 5, 1967
The Karate Killers	April 7, 1967
Welcome to Hard Times	May 1, 1967
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!	May 10, 1967
Three Bites of the Apple	May 24, 1967
The Dirty Dozen	June 15, 1967
Don't Make Waves	June 20, 1967
Point Blank	August 30, 1967
The Fastest Guitar Alive	September 1, 1967
Our Mother's House	October 9, 1967
Far from the Madding Crowd	October 18, 1967	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. co-production with Anglo-Amalgamated
The Comedians	October 31, 1967
The Girl and the General	October 1967
More than a Miracle	November 1, 1967
Jack of Diamonds	November 10, 1967
The Fearless Vampire Killers	November 13, 1967
Eye of the Devil	December 6, 1967
The Last Challenge	December 27, 1967
A Madona de Cedo	1968
Too Many Thieves	1968
A Man Called Dagger	1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter	1968
Hate for Hate	1968
Revenge for Revenge	1968
Jack and the Witch	1968	co-production with United Artists
The Biggest Bundle of Them All	January 17, 1968
Sol Madrid	February 7, 1968
The Power	February 21, 1968
Day of the Evil Gun	March 1, 1968
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	March 6, 1968
Stay Away, Joe	March 8, 1968
Guns for San Sebastian	March 20, 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey	April 6, 1968
A Dollar Between the Teeth	April 24, 1968
Battle Beneath the Earth	May 15, 1968
Speedway	June 12, 1968
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	June 19, 1968
The Helicopter Spies	June 21, 1968
Dark of the Sun	July 3, 1968
Kiss the Other Sheik	July 29, 1968
A Time to Sing	August 15, 1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare	August 21, 1968
A Man, a Horse, a Gun	August 1968
The Young Runaways	September 11, 1968
Hot Millions	September 19, 1968
The Subject Was Roses	October 13, 1968
Live a Little, Love a Little	October 23, 1968
Ice Station Zebra	October 23, 1968
The Split	November 4, 1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman	November 14, 1968	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The Impossible Years	December 5, 1968
The Fixer	December 8, 1968	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The Wolf Men	1969
The Extraordinary Seaman	1969
The Appointment	1969
Ghosts - Italian Style	January 22, 1969
Mayerling	February 13, 1969
How to Steal the World	March 7, 1969
Where Eagles Dare	March 12, 1969
Kenner	April 23, 1969
The Green Slime	May 21, 1969
Heaven with a Gun	June 11, 1969
The Maltese Bippy	June 18, 1969
The Best House in London	July 30, 1969
A Place for Lovers	August 22, 1969
The Gypsy Moths	August 28, 1969
The Trouble with Girls	September 3, 1969
Alfred the Great	October 8, 1969
Marlowe	October 31, 1969
Goodbye, Mr. Chips	November 5, 1969
Flareup	November 10, 1969

1970sEdit

Title	Release Date	Notes
...tick...tick...tick...	January 9, 1970
Zabriskie Point	February 9, 1970
The Five Man Army	February 20, 1970
Puss in Boots	March 14, 1970	co-production with United Artists
Brotherly Love	April 22, 1970
My Lover My Son	May 13, 1970
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart	May 26, 1970
The Walking Stick	June 10, 1970
The Strawberry Statement	June 15, 1970
Kelly's Heroes	June 23, 1970
The Moonshine War	July 1970
Flying Phantom Ship	August 12, 1970	co-production with United Artists
House of Dark Shadows	September 9, 1970
The Traveling Executioner	October 1, 1970
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City	October 7, 1970
No Blade of Grass	October 23, 1970
The Phantom Tollbooth	November 7, 1970
Ryan's Daughter	November 9, 1970
Elvis: That's the Way It Is	November 11, 1970
Dirty Dingus Magee	November 18, 1970
The Bushbaby	November 1970
Brewster McCloud	December 5, 1970
Alex in Wonderland	December 22, 1970
Freelance	1971
Pigeons	February 1, 1971
The Body	February 24, 1971
Percy	March 3, 1971
Get Carter	March 18, 1971
Mad Dogs & Englishmen	March 29, 1971
The Enchanted Years	April 22, 1971
Pretty Maids All in a Row	April 28, 1971
The Night Digger	May 12, 1971
Villain	May 26, 1971
Fortune and Men's Eyes	June 15, 1971
Wild Rovers	June 23, 1971
The Tales of Beatrix Potter	June 30, 1971	U.S. theatrical distribution only; produced by EMI Films
Shaft	July 2, 1971
The Last Run	July 7, 1971
Night of Dark Shadows	August 4, 1971
Clay Pigeon	August 1971
Catlow	October 1, 1971
Going Home	December 1, 1971
Chandler	December 1, 1971
Believe in Me	December 8, 1971
The Boy Friend	December 16, 1971	Co-production with EMI Films Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight	December 22, 1971
The Jerusalem File	February 2, 1972
Cool Breeze	March 22, 1972
The Carey Treatment	March 29, 1972
Corky	March 1972
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1971 film)	May 12, 1972	co-production with United Artists
Horror on Snape Island	May 19, 1972
Skyjacked	May 24, 1972
Dōbutsu Takarajima	May 31, 1972	co-production with United Artists
Black Belly of the Tarantula	June 7, 1972
Every Little Crook and Nanny	June 14, 1972
Shaft's Big Score	June 18, 1972
Sitting Target	June 19, 1972
Two Is a Happy Number	June 19, 1972
The Wrath of God	July 14, 1972
Kansas City Bomber	August 2, 1972
Melinda	August 16, 1972
Savage Messiah	September 1972
Private Parts	September 1972
Night of the Lepus	October 4, 1972
Elvis on Tour	November 1, 1972
The Great Waltz	November 1, 1972
They Only Kill Their Masters	November 22, 1972
Travels with My Aunt	December 17, 1972	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Hit Man	December 20, 1972
Nightmare Honeymoon	1973
Lolly-Madonna XXX	February 21, 1973
Slither	March 7, 1973
Ludwig	March 8, 1973
Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo!	April 11, 1973
Soylent Green	May 9, 1973
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid	May 23, 1973
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman	May 25, 1973
Wicked, Wicked	June 13, 1973
Shaft in Africa	June 14, 1973
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing	June 28, 1973
Trader Horn	June 1973
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears	July 25, 1973
Deadly China Doll	September 26, 1973
The Slams	September 26, 1973
The Outfit	October 1973
Westworld	November 21, 1973
The Super Cops	March 20, 1974
Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman	April 19, 1974	co-production with United Artists
Kazablan	May 8, 1974
That's Entertainment!	June 21, 1974
The Devil's Triangle	September 1974
Mr. Ricco	February 1975
Mazinger Z Vs. The Great General of Darkness	March 1975	co-production with United Artists
The Passenger	April 9, 1975
The Wind and the Lion	May 22, 1975	U.S. distribution only; co-production with Columbia Pictures
The Silent Stranger	June 20, 1975
Hearts of the West	October 8, 1975
The Sunshine Boys	November 6, 1975	Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo	January 1976	co-production with United Artists
Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo G: The Great Clash In The Sky	February 1976	co-production with United Artists
UFO Robo Grendizer Vs. Great Mazinger	March 1976	co-production with United Artists
Anderusen dowa: Ningyo hime	April 1976	co-production with United Artists
That's Entertainment, Part II	May 17, 1976
Logan's Run	June 23, 1976
Sweet Revenge	June 1976
Uchu Enban Daisenso	August 1976	co-production with United Artists
Norman, Is That You?	September 29, 1976
Network	November 27, 1976	Co-production with United Artists Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Demon Seed	April 8, 1977
The Goodbye Girl	November 30, 1977	Co-production with Warner Bros. Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Telefon	December 16, 1977
Coma	January 6, 1978
Space Battleship Yamato	February 20, 1978	Co-production with United Artists
Corvette Summer	June 2, 1978
International Velvet	July 19, 1978
Brass Target	December 22, 1978
Jamaican Gold	1979
Voices	March 14, 1979
The Champ	April 4, 1979	remake of 1931 film
Farewell Space Battleship Yamato	May 18, 1979	Co-production with United Artists
The Human Factor	December 18, 1979

1980sEdit

(company known as MGM/UA Entertainment Co. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co.)

Title	Release Date	Notes
Taro the Dragon Boy	January 2, 1980	Co-production with United Artists
Hero at Large	February 8, 1980
Hide in Plain Sight	March 21, 1980
Galaxy Express 999	April 4, 1980	Co-production with United Artists
Fame	May 16, 1980	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living	July 11, 1980
Why Would I Lie?	August 8, 1980
He Knows You're Alone	September 12, 1980
The Formula	December 19, 1980
Sunday Lovers	February 27, 1981
Clash of the Titans	June 12, 1981
Swan Lake	July 23, 1981	Co-production with United Artists
Tarzan, the Ape Man	August 7, 1981
Rich and Famous	September 23, 1981
...All the Marbles	October 16, 1981
Toward the Terra	November 28, 1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?	December 2, 1981
Buddy Buddy	December 11, 1981
Pennies from Heaven	December 11, 1981	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
A Stranger Is Watching	January 22, 1982
Cannery Row	February 12, 1982
Shoot the Moon	February 19, 1982
Diner	March 5, 1982	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Victor/Victoria	March 19, 1982	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. distributor, produced by Ladbrokes Entertainment
Koyaanisqatsi	April 28, 1982
Rocky III	May 28, 1982	Distribution only
Poltergeist	June 4, 1982
The Secret of NIMH	July 2, 1982	Distribution only
Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island	July 18, 1982	Co-production with United Artists
Forced Vengeance	July 30, 1982
Pink Floyd The Wall	August 13, 1982
The Beastmaster	August 20, 1982	Distributor
Endangered Species	September 10, 1982
Inchon	September 17, 1982
Yes, Giorgio	September 24, 1982
My Favorite Year	October 1, 1982	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Adieu Galaxy Express 999	September 24, 1982	Co-production with United Artists
The Year of Living Dangerously	January 21, 1983
Rock & Rule	April 15, 1983
The Hunger	April 29, 1983
WarGames	June 3, 1983	Distribution only
Octopussy	June 10, 1983	Distribution only
Dr. Slump: "Hoyoyo!" Space Adventure	August 22, 1983	Co-production with United Artists
Strange Brew	August 26, 1983
Brainstorm	September 30, 1983
Arcadia of My Youth	October 1, 1983
A Christmas Story	November 18, 1983
Yentl	December 9, 1983	Distribution only
Final Yamato	January 12, 1984	Co-production with United Artists
Reckless	February 3, 1984
Sahara	March 2, 1984
The Ice Pirates	March 16, 1984
Misunderstood	March 30, 1984
Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo, Great Across-the-World Race	Aril 6, 1984	Co-production with United Artists
Breakin'	May 4, 1984	distribution
Red Dawn	August 10, 1984	Distribution only
Oxford Blues	August 24, 1984
Just the Way You Are	November 16, 1984
2010	December 7, 1984
Mrs. Soffel	December 26, 1984
That's Dancing!	January 18, 1985
Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! The Treasure of Nanaba Castle	February 24, 1985	Co-production with United Artists
Kinnikuman: Stolen Championship Belt	March 6, 1985	Co-production with United Artists
Cat's Eye	April 12, 1985
Movers & Shakers	May 3, 1985
Gymkata	May 3, 1985
A View to a Kill	May 24, 1985	Distribution only
Great Riot! Justice Superman	June 12, 1985	Distribution only
The Kabocha Wine: Nita no Aijou Monogatari	July 24, 1985	Distribution only
Year of the Dragon	August 16, 1985
Code Name: Emerald	September 27, 1985
Marie	October 23, 1985
Kinnikuman: Justice Supermen vs. Ancient Supermen	September 27, 1985
Fever Pitch	November 22, 1985
Rocky IV	November 27, 1985	Distribution only
Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! Dream Capital Mechapolis	January 16, 1986
Kinnikuman: Counterattack! The Underground Space Choujins	February 14, 1986
9½ Weeks	February 21, 1986	(US distibution Only)
Dream Lover	February 28, 1986
Hour of Triumph! Justice Superman	March 12, 1986,
Ginger and Fred	March 28, 1986
Wise Guys	April 18, 1986
Killer Party	May 9, 1986	last film before the Turner split
Poltergeist II: The Other Side	May 23, 1986	first film after the Turner split. All films from this time are still owned by MGM
My Little Pony: The Movie	June 6, 1986	Co-production with Hasbro, Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Running Scared	June 27, 1986
Gu Gu Ganmo: The Movie	July 17, 1986	co-production with United Artists
The Transformers: The Movie	August 8, 1986	Co-production with Hasbro, Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Shanghai Surprise	August 29, 1986
Where the River Runs Black	September 19, 1986
Solarbabies	November 26, 1986
Crisis in New York!	January 23, 1987
Dead of Winter	February 6, 1987
Walk Like a Man	April 17, 1987
G.I. Joe: The Movie	April 20, 1987
Spaceballs	June 24, 1987
O.C. and Stiggs	July 10, 1987
Hour of Triumph! Justice Superman	July 24, 1987
The Living Daylights	July 31, 1987	Distribution only
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies	August 18, 1987	co-production with United Artists
Fist of the North Star: The Movie	September 20, 1987	co-production with United Artists
Fatal Beauty	October 30, 1987
My Little Pony: The Movie	November 12, 1987	Re-mastered co-production with United Artists
Moonstruck	December 16, 1987	Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Overboard	December 16, 1987
Whoops Apocalypse	February 1988	distributor only, produced by ITC Entertainment
Knights of Zodiac: Evil Goddess Eris	February 20, 1988
Taffin	February 26, 1988
Masquerade	March 11, 1988
Willow	May 20, 1988	co-production with Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment
Poltergeist III	June 10, 1988
It Takes Two	July 13, 1988
A Fish Called Wanda	July 15, 1988	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle	August 22, 1988	co-production with United Artists
Some Girls	September 9, 1988
Spellbinder	September 23, 1988
Memories of Me	September 28, 1988
Knights of Zodiac: The Heated Battle of the Gods	Ocotber 28, 1988	co-production with United Artists
Last Rites	November 18, 1988
Rain Man	December 16, 1988	Distribution only
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure	January 7, 1989	co-production with United Artists
The January Man	January 13, 1989
Wicked Stepmother	February 3, 1989
The Mighty Quinn	February 16, 1989
Mind Games	March 3, 1989
Leviathan	March 17, 1989
Licence to Kill	July 14, 1989	Distribution only
Knights of Zodiac: Legend of Crimson Youth	August 22, 1989	co-production with United Artists
A Dry White Season	September 20, 1989
Kill Me Again	October 27, 1989
After Midnight	November 3, 1989
Survival Quest	November 10, 1989	Distribution only
City Rhythms	December 1, 1989

1990sEdit

(company known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)

Title	Release Date	Notes
Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone	January 15, 1990	co-production with United Artists
Mortal Passions	January 26, 1990
Stanley & Iris	February 9, 1990
Blue Steel	March 16, 1990
Instant Karma	April 27, 1990
Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?	May 4, 1990
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection	August 24, 1990
Death Warrant	September 14, 1990
Desperate Hours	October 5, 1990
Quigley Down Under	October 19, 1990
Rocky V	November 16, 1990	Distribution only
The Russia House	December 19, 1990
Not Without My Daughter	January 11, 1991
Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest	February 12, 1991	co-production with United Artists
Thelma & Louise	May 24, 1991	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might	February 12, 1991	co-production with United Artists
Fires Within	June 28, 1991
Life Stinks	July 26, 1991
Delirious	August 9, 1991
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man	August 23, 1991
Crooked Hearts	September 6, 1991
Company Business	September 6, 1991
Liebestraum	September 13, 1991
The Indian Runner	September 20, 1991
Timebomb	September 27, 1991
The Man in the Moon	October 4, 1991
Shattered	October 11, 1991
Rush	December 22, 1991
Once Upon a Crime	March 6, 1992
The Cutting Edge	March 27, 1992
CrissCross	May 8, 1992
The Vagrant	May 15, 1992
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug	June 12, 1992	co-production with United Artists
Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge	July 24, 1992	co-production with United Artists
Diggstown	August 14, 1992
Of Mice and Men	October 2, 1992
The Lover	October 30, 1992
Body of Evidence	January 15, 1993
Untamed Heart	February 12, 1993
Rich in Love	March 5, 1993
Benny & Joon	April 16, 1993
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler	May 22, 1993	co-production with United Artists
Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!	June 28, 1993	co-production with United Artists
The Meteor Man	August 6, 1993
Son of the Pink Panther	August 27, 1993
Undercover Blues	September 10, 1993
The Flight of the Innocent	October 22, 1993
Fatal Instinct	October 29, 1993
Dangerous Game	November 19, 1993
Six Degrees of Separation	December 8, 1993
Radio Inside	1994
Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan	April 6, 1994	co-production with United Artists
That's Entertainment! III	May 6, 1994	only post-1986 MGM film to be distributed by Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. on video and DVD, due to extensive use of pre-1986 MGM clips; additionally, Turner was the film's primary financer
Clean Slate	May 6, 1994
Getting Even with Dad	June 17, 1994
Blown Away	July 1, 1994
Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound	April 6, 1994	co-production with United Artists
My Summer Story	September 23, 1994
Stargate	October 28, 1994	theatrical distributor only; produced by Carolco Pictures
Speechless	December 16, 1994
Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming	March 11, 1995	co-production with United Artists
The Pebble and the Penguin	April 11, 1995	US Distribution Only; produced by Don Bluth Entertainment
Fluke	June 2, 1995
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie	June 30, 1995	theatrical distributor only; produced by United Artists
Species	July 7, 1995
Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly	August 13, 1995	co-production with United Artists
Hackers	September 13, 1995	Distribution only
Showgirls	September 22, 1995	Distribution only
Get Shorty	October 20, 1995	Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Leaving Las Vegas	October 27, 1995	Distribution only
GoldenEye	November 13, 1995	Distribution only
Cutthroat Island	December 22, 1995	US theatrical distribution only; produced by Carolco Pictures
Bio-Dome	January 12, 1996
Unforgettable	February 23, 1996
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2	March 29, 1996	co-production with MGM Animation
Mulholland Falls	April 26, 1996
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn	May 11, 1996	co-production with United Artists
Moll Flanders	June 14, 1996
Fled	July 19, 1996
Kingpin	July 26, 1996	co-production with Rysher Entertainment
House Arrest	August 14, 1996	co-production with Rysher Entertainment
2 Days in the Valley	September 27, 1996	co-production with Rysher Entertainment
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon	October 11, 1996	co-production with United Artists
Turbulence	January 10, 1997	co-production with Rysher Entertainment
Zeus and Roxanne	January 24, 1997	co-production with Rysher Entertainment
Hard Eight	February 28, 1997
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power	March 12, 1997	co-production with United Artists
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie	March 28, 1997	theatrical distributor only; produced by United Artists
Warriors of Virtue	May 2, 1997
Fall	June 20, 1997
12 Angry Men	August 17, 1997
The End of Violence	September 12, 1997
Red Corner	October 31, 1997
Tomorrow Never Dies	December 19, 1997	Distribution only
Deceiver	January 30, 1998
The Man in the Iron Mask	March 13, 1998	Distribution only
Species II	April 10, 1998
Princess Mononoke	April 12, 1997	co-production with United Artists
Dirty Work	June 12, 1998
Disturbing Behavior	July 24, 1998
Ronin	September 25, 1998	Distribution only
At First Sight	January 15, 1999
The Mod Squad	March 26, 1999
The Thomas Crown Affair	August 6, 1999
Stigmata	September 10, 1999
Kiss the Sky	October 9, 1999
Molly	October 22, 1999
The World Is Not Enough	November 19, 1999
Flawless	November 24, 1999

2000s Edit

Title	Release Date	Notes
Supernova	January 14, 2000
3 Strikes	March 1, 2000
Return to Me	April 7, 2000
Autumn in New York	August 11, 2000
Digimon: The Movie	October 6, 2000	theatrical distributor only; produced by United Artists
Antitrust	January 12, 2001
Hannibal	February 9, 2001	USA distributor, co-production with Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions and Dino De Laurentiis Company - DDLC
Heartbreakers	March 23, 2001
Josie and the Pussycats	April 11, 2001	international distributor, co-production with Universal Pictures
What's the Worst That Could Happen?	June 1, 2001	co-production with Hyde Park Entertainment and Turman/Morrisey Productions
Greenfingers	July 13, 2001
Legally Blonde	July 13, 2001
Original Sin	August 3, 2001
Bandits	October 12, 2001	co-production with Hyde Park Entertainment
Rollerball	February 8, 2002	co-production with Mosaic Media Group
Hart's War	February 15, 2002
Windtalkers	June 14, 2002	co-production with Lion Rock
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course	July 12, 2002	co-production with Animal Planet and Cheyenne Enterprises
Barbershop	September 13, 2002	co-production with Cube Vision and State Street Pictures
Bowling for Columbine	October 11, 2002	Distribution only
Red Dragon	October 14, 2002	select international distribution only, co-production with Universal Pictures and Scott Free Productions
Die Another Day	November 22, 2002	co-production with Danjaq
A Guy Thing	January 17, 2003	co-production with David Ladd Films
Agent Cody Banks	March 14, 2003	co-production with Maverick Films, Dylan Sellers Productions and Splendid Pictures
Bulletproof Monk	April 16, 2003	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment, Lion Rock and Mosaic Media Group
It Runs in the Family	April 25, 2003	USA distributor, co-production with Buena Vista International and Furthur Films
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	July 2, 2003
Uptown Girls	August 15, 2003
Out of Time	October 3, 2003
Good Boy!	October 10, 2003	co-production with Jim Henson Pictures
Swimming Upstream	February 4, 2005
Barbershop 2: Back in Business	February 6, 2004	co-production with Cube Vision and State Street Pictures
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London	March 12, 2004	co-production with Maverick Films, Dylan Sellers Productions and Splendid Pictures
Walking Tall	April 2, 2004	co-production with Lion Rock
Soul Plane	May 28, 2004
De-Lovely	July 2, 2004
Sleepover	July 9, 2004	co-production with Landscape Entertainment and Woodstock Productions
Wicker Park	September 3, 2004
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	May 6, 2005
Bigger Than the Sky	February 18, 2005
Be Cool	March 4, 2005
Beauty Shop	March 30, 2005
The Amityville Horror	April 15, 2005	co-production with Dimension Films
The Brothers Grimm	August 26, 2005	co-production with Dimension Films
Into the Blue	September 30, 2005	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Mandalay Pictures
Yours, Mine and Ours	November 23, 2005	co-production with Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, and Robert Simonds Productions; remake of the 1968 United Artists film of the same name
Nanny McPhee [139] || January 27, 2006 || international distribution only, co-production with Working Title Films, Universal Studios, Three Strange Angels, and StudioCanal
The Pink Panther	February 10, 2006	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Robert Simonds Productions
Basic Instinct 2	March 31, 2006	co-production with Intermedia Films and C2 Pictures
Lucky Number Slevin	April 7, 2006	USA distribution only) (produced by The Weinstein Company
Clerks II	July 21, 2006	USA theatrical distribution only, produced by The Weinstein Company
Material Girls	August 18, 2006
Flyboys	September 22, 2006	distributor
School for Scoundrels	September 22, 2006	with Dimension Films; produced by The Weinstein Company
Stormbreaker	October 6, 2006	USA distribution only; produced by The Weinstein Company and Isle of Man Film
Copying Beethoven	November 10, 2006
Harsh Times	November 10, 2006
Casino Royale	November 17, 2006	co-production with Columbia Pictures, United Artists and EON Productions
Bobby	November 23, 2006
Rocky Balboa	December 20, 2006	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios
Arthur and the Invisibles	January 12, 2007	USA theatrical distributor only
Blood and Chocolate	January 26, 2007	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment
Breaking and Entering	February 9, 2007
Hannibal Rising	February 9, 2007
Two Weeks	March 2, 2007
Premonition	March 16, 2007	co-production with TriStar Pictures, Hyde Park Entertainment and Offspring Entertainment
The Poughkeepsie Tapes	April 27, 2007
The Flying Scotsman	May 4, 2007
Home of the Brave	May 11, 2007
The Ex	May 11, 2007	USA distribution only; produced by The Weinstein Company
Mr. Brooks	June 1, 2007	co-production with Element Films and Relativity Media
1408	June 22, 2007	USA distribution only; produced by Dimension Films, DiBonaventura Productions and The Weinstein Company
Rescue Dawn	July 4, 2007
Who's Your Caddy?	July 27, 2007	USA distribution only; produced by Our Stories Films and Dimension Films
Death at a Funeral	August 17, 2007
The Nanny Diaries	August 24, 2007
Halloween	August 31, 2007	USA distribution only; produced by Dimension Films
The Hunting Party	September 14, 2007
Feast of Love	September 28, 2007
Lars and the Real Girl	October 12, 2007	co-production with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Music Within	October 26, 2007
Lions for Lambs	November 9, 2007	co-production with United Artists
The Mist	November 21, 2007
Awake	November 30, 2007
The Great Debaters	December 25, 2007
Charlie Bartlett	February 22, 2008
Superhero Movie	March 28, 2008	USA distribution only; produced by Dimension Films
Pathology	April 18, 2008	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment
Deal	April 25, 2008	co-production with Tag Entertainment
Vicky Cristina Barcelona	August 15, 2008	US distribution Only; produced by The Weinstein Company
The Longshots	August 22, 2008	US distribution only; produced by Dimension Films
College	August 29, 2008
Igor	September 19, 2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	October 3, 2008
The Other End of the Line	October 31, 2008
Soul Men	November 7, 2008	distribution only; produced by Dimension Films
Quantum of Solace	November 14, 2008	co-produced with Columbia Pictures, United Artists and Eon Productions
Valkyrie	December 25, 2008	co-production with United Artists
The Pink Panther 2	February 6, 2009	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Robert Simonds Productions
The Taking of Pelham 123	June 12, 2009	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Escape Artists and Scott Free Productions
Fame	September 25, 2009	co-production with United Artists and Lakeshore Entertainment

2010s Edit

Title	Release Date	Notes
Hot Tub Time Machine	March 26, 2010	co-production with United Artists
Zookeeper	July 8, 2011	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions, Broken Road and Hey Eddie
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	December 20, 2011	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions and Yellow Bird Films
21 Jump Street	March 16, 2012	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios
Hope Springs	August 8, 2012	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Escape Artists and Film 360
Skyfall	November 9, 2012	co-production with Columbia Pictures, United Artists and Eon Productions
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	December 14, 2012	co-production with Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and WingNut Films
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters	January 25, 2013	co-production with Paramount Pictures, Gary Sanchez and MTV Films

Upcoming filmsEdit

• G.I. Joe: Retaliation (co-production with Paramount Pictures, di Bonaventura Pictures, Hasbro and Skydance Productions) (2013)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (co-production with Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and WingNut Films) (2013)
• Carrie (co-production with Screen Gems) (2013)
• Robocop (co-production with Columbia Pictures) (2014)
• Hercules (co-production with Paramount Pictures) (2014)
• The Hobbit: There and Back Again (co-production with Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and WingNut Films) (2014)

TBA Edit

• Mary Mother of Christ (TBA)
• Ben-Hur reboot (TBA)^[140]
• Bunyan and Babe (TBA)
• Southpaw (TBA)
• Punk Farm (TBA)^[141]
• Where's Waldo? (TBA)^[142]
• Killer Pizza (TBA)
• The Magnificent Seven (TBA)
• From the Dust Returned (TBA)
• The Pink Panther 3 (TBA)
• On the Island (TBA)
• Metro 2033 (TBA)
• Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral (TBA)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown (TBA)

See alsoEdit

• Leo the Lion, the MGM mascot
• Toei Animation an MGM Parent

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

• Official site
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the Internet Movie Database
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation at the Internet Movie Database

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