2.15 Proposed sale to Amazon (2021–present).2.14.1 Bidding war and corporate reorganization.Its major film productions include the popular Rocky and James Bond franchises, and among its recent television productions is the very successful series, The Handmaid's Tale. In the present day, MGM is still producing and distributing feature films and television series. On May 26, 2021, Amazon announced that it intended to buy MGM for $8.45 billion, but no date was set for closing the sale.
In 2020, with Barber having left MGM, it began looking to be acquired by another company in order to pay its creditors. Two former executives at Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-chairmen and co-CEOs of MGM's new holding company. Later that year, after reorganization, MGM emerged from bankruptcy under the ownership of its creditors. In 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reorganization. Finally, in 2004, Kerkorian sold the company to a consortium that included Sony Pictures. After that he expanded MGM by purchasing Orion Pictures and the Samuel Goldwyn Company, including both of their film libraries. Turner soon sold most of it back to Kerkorian who then sold it again in 1992, only to buy it again a third time in 1996. In 1986, Kerkorian sold the entire company to Ted Turner. In 1969, Kirk Kerkorian bought 40% of MGM, hired new management, reduced its output to about five movies per year, and diversified its products, creating MGM Resorts International and, in 1973, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company (which it divested in the 1980s). After that, it divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain, and, in the 1960s, it diversified into television production. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of Ben Hur. The company also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. It hired a number of well known actors as contract players-its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"-and soon became one of Hollywood's "big five" film studios, producing popular movie musicals and winning many Oscars. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. It is based in Beverly Hills, California. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures or MGM) is an American media company, founded in 1924, that produces and distributes feature films and television programs.
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