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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc abbreviated as MGM or M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs Once the largest, most glamorous, and most revered film studio, MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B Mayer Pictures34 Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California It is one of the worlds oldest film studios In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, a plan which never came into fruition5 Over the next thirty-nine years, the studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3, 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy678 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 cometro-goldwyn-mayer, metro-goldwyn-mayer studios, metro-goldwyn-mayer logo, metro-goldwyn-mayer movies, metro-goldwyn-mayer lion, metro-goldwyn-mayer cartoon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |