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Following MGM's acquisition by the Sony-led consortium in 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment began distributing the MGM library on home video until May 31, 2006, when MGM shifted most of its home entertainment output to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for worldwide release.
MGM Home Entertainment (formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home video arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1986, MGM's pre-May 1986 library (also including the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, most US rights to the RKO Pictures library, and Gilligan's ...
As of 2005, with the formation of MGM's parent company, MGM Holdings, the post-May 1986 library was distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment until 2006 when 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment took over the distribution rights. The rights for that library was transferred to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on June 30, 2020. Further video releases of the pre-May 1986 library are ...
MGM/UA Communications Co. was founded in 1986, five years after the formation of MGM/UA Entertainment Co. when M etro- G oldwyn- M ayer Studios acquired U nited A rtists from Transamerica Corporation in 1981. Before the name existed, from March 25 to August 26, 1986, Ted Turner owned MGM, and both companies were reincorporated as "MGM ...
Trivia: The design of the filmstrip was first introduced in 1982 as the corporate logo for its then-parent MGM/UA Entertainment Co., and was used for the 1982-1993 MGM/UA Home Video logo.
However, early MGM/UA releases with the MGM/CBS Polaroid seal or tape labels would still use the MGM/UA Home Video logo, and some later MGM/CBS releases, such as some prints of Viva Las Vegas and Westworld, go straight to the MGM logo used by the film.
