Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - The MGM Library - Material Owned By MGM

Material Owned By MGM

• Nearly all of its own film and television library from May 23, 1986 onward starting with the film Poltergeist II: The Other Side;
• Most of the post-November 1952 United Artists catalog (although it also includes a tiny fraction of pre-December 1952 UA material);
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was produced by The Saul Zaentz Company, who currently own the copyright and license all it's library to Warner Bros.
  • The copyright and some U.S./territorial distribution rights to the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was originally released by Warner Bros.
  • Interestingly, MGM still owns some control to a film the studio made before May 23, 1986. MGM co-financed Network (1976) with UA, with both companies sharing the copyright. As a result of the transactions mentioned above, the film is now copyrighted by both MGM and Turner.
• Nearly all of the Orion Pictures film and television library from September 24, 1982 onward starting with the film Amityville II: The Possession (the company's films distributed by Warner Bros. are owned by this last, with the exceptions of Woody Allen's films A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and Zelig)
  • Amadeus was produced by The Saul Zaentz Company, who currently own the copyright and license all it's library to Warner Bros., like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  • The Filmways library (except distribution of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, currently handled by CBS Television Distribution);
    • The American International Pictures library (except early films and Godzilla films);
    • The Heatter-Quigley Productions library;
  • The pre-1997 The Samuel Goldwyn Company library, including the theatrical rights to the films of Compass International Pictures, with the major exception of films originally produced by Samuel Goldwyn himself—these films, owned under the Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Family Trust, are now handled in North America by Warner Bros., and internationally by Miramax Films.
  • The pre-1996 Motion Picture Corporation of America library (excluding co-productions with other studios such as Dumb and Dumber with New Line Cinema);
  • In regards to the 1991 film version of The Addams Family, Orion sold the film to Paramount Pictures to free the studio from debt. Thus, Paramount owns the copyright and U.S. distribution rights to the film.
• The distribution rights (via Park Circus) to the ITC/ITV Studios library, which includes most of the ITC films and those features now managed by ITV and its Granada International predecessor, with the exceptions of The African Queen (originally a UA release), which is now handled primarily by Paramount Pictures, and select ITC features originally released by Associated Film Distribution still handled today by Universal Pictures.
• The Return of the Pink Panther, produced by ITC Entertainment. MGM owns the copyright by virtue of their ownership in The Pink Panther franchise. All distribution rights - except U.S. television, theatrical, and digital - belongs to ITV Studios Global Entertainment, successor to ITC. ITV's U.S. home video rights are currently licensed to the Focus Features division of NBCUniversal.
• Most of the Cannon Films library (King Solomon's Mines, That Championship Season, etc., with a few exceptions, including films distributed by/co-produced with Warner Bros., the television rights to Lifeforce—those stand with Sony Pictures Television, and most territorial rights to Surrender and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace);
• Most of the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library
  • The international rights to most of the Interscope Communications co-productions with The Walt Disney Company, who handles U.S. rights;
  • The Island Pictures/Atlantic Releasing Corporation catalog; (such as: Heathcliff: The Movie and Teen Wolf)
  • The Crédit Lyonnais library, which includes selected Nelson Entertainment properties, including distribution of the pre-Turner-merger Castle Rock Entertainment library with the exception of co-productions with Columbia Pictures; also the Epic Productions, Trans World Entertainment, Hemdale Film Corporation, and Vision P.D.G. International catalogs.
• The Intercontinental Releasing Corporation library and catalogs.
• Those of other smaller defunct studios, including Empire Pictures and Scotti Bros. Pictures (those films are now incorporated into the Orion Pictures library).