The Rise and Fall of MGM
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I explain how the legendary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, home of beloved classics like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Singin' in the Rain", became a troubled studio in its later years.
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I find it pretty ironic that MGM did movies like Creed and The Hobbit movies with Warner Bros, the company that owns the rights to all their old stuff.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives can warner bros just buy mgm
@@Melvinshermen I would like that to happen
Nice to see the Lion still roaring after all those years
Sketch Bud amen
May I suggest you do a similar video on the history of DreamWorks? Like MGM, they started out incredibly strong, before dealing with debts, restructuring, and having their catalog divided between larger studios. It’s an uncanny resemblance.
This doesn't count DreamWorks Animation, as that's a COMPLETE different story
You're right, DreamWorks & MGM have a very similar history.
That United Artists merger only helped so much.
Do you know if The Mayer family are still involved with MGM?
FozzieatDetour BillNye I don’t think most not if all major studios family actually don’t have any say with them. I think it’s only in name only like Walt Disney, or Warner, etc family don’t actually own those studios anymore. I could be wrong.
@@tasheenajohnson602 you're right, they are just brands now, with execitives that even may think the opposite of what the creator believed.
You forget to mention that Turner tried a second chance to buy MGM, including the United Artists library, in late November 1989 and Time Warner tried to buy MGM multiple times when they were up for sale in 2004 and when they were on verge of bankruptcy in 2010.
MGM died because they didn’t adapt to change fast enough; when every studio was adapting and turning to television even though they didn’t like it; that’s what made them stay afloat when mgm refused to embrace television which knocked them out of the big studio five and basically become a production company. I think it’s happening again with streaming 🤔.
MGM DID go into television. They produced shows like Flipper, In The Heat Of The Night, A TV adaptation of National Velvet, and CHiPS among others.
Louis B, Mayer saw television as a competitor and MGM didn’t go onto television until 1956 a year before Louis B Mayer died
Another unfortunate thing with MGM is that since 2005 they haven't been able to distribute their home media anymore & have had to have other companies do it for them now.
Also, reports are saying that MGM is going to use the Bond rights for a possible sale of the studio, and that Annapurna aging the rights isn’t really true at all sadly from what I heard.
MGM also used to king of cartoons (Behind Disney and possibly Warner) with characters like Tom and Jerry and Droopy. After the Turner purchases of 1986 and 1994, MGM lost the rights to Warner Brothers. They still own Pink Panther, though...
MGM's Cartoon Division was my number two as far as best cartoons, second only to Warner Brothers.
@Henrystrikesback ok
@Henrystrikesback for what?
@Henrystrikesback Yeah, uhh, this is public on RUclips
@Henrystrikesback WTF
MGM: The Sears of Hollywood
Agreed!
Pretty much, with United Artists being the K-Mart in this scenario
@@fromthehaven94 Indeed!
But that doesn't mean they're going away, if anything they're putting up a good fight to stay alive
They have so many franchise.. sadly at 2010 thy filled for bankrupcy..nd became a producing studio not a distributor..ex Hobbit is MGMs but distributed by WB..same with tomb raider nd bond... distributed by Sony...now they got sold to Amazon
I don't think them under Amazon will be their end, if anything, it's a new beginning
Thank you for making this!
MGM didn't need to acquire the pre-96 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library.
If DIsney was to have ever released an MGM movie, how would they have done it most likely? They use Touchstone? Maybe Touchstone with Dreamworks as a partner? Perhaps have Spyglass or Annapurna (with their deal) be represented instead of MGM?
The ship has sailed on that possibility. The last Touchstone movie was two years ago, a DreamWorks production. MGM releasing their own movies again was mentioned in the end.
@@fromthehaven94 There's no more Touchstone? Never knew that.
But a course the MGM Studios has had some Dark History with firing their employees, having production problems, abuses on its Hollywood stars, and the studio had a 1965 Fire Accident on the Film Library Vault where the early MGM movies got made from 1917 to 1930 were destroyed by the fire and only 68% of the films are lost. But also by 1959 the American government forced both MGM and it's theater company Loew's Theater Cooperation to split off and never work again since 1924. So MGM will someday be extinct in the near future.
Just because there was bad things in a studio decades ago doesn't mean they'll go extinct now
What happened back then does not reflect who they are today, you're argument is invalid
In 1976 MGM only released 2 movies during the year that’s pathetic compared to studios like 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. And paramount. Still had a consistent slate of films compared to MGM.
Ever read Lion of Hollywood book about LB Mayer?
Is it just me, but is this the same guy that did the Logo Corner videos a while ago? He sounds similar.
Nope, I'm a different person. :-) Wasn't even aware of Logo Corner until this comment.
I want those movies. . What it has to do with Tex Avery I don't know🤔
130world Tex avery do some cartoon at mgm
He was talking about the cartoons produced by MGM Cartoons by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (Tom and Jerry) and Tex Avery(Droopy
this is some good shit
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