United Artists Corporation (UA), currently doing business as United Artists Digital Studios, is an American digital production company. Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. UA was repeatedly bought, sold, and restructured over the ensuing century. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the studio in 1981 for a reported $350 million ($1 billion today).
On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a
controlling interest in entertainment companies One Three Media and Lightworkers
Media, then merged them to revive United Artists' television production unit as
United Artists Media Group (UAMG). However, on December 14 of the following
year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG and folded it into MGM Television.
United Artists was again revived in 2018
as United Artists Digital Studios. Mirror, the joint distribution venture
between MGM and Annapurna Pictures, was subsequently rebranded as United
Artists Releasing in early February 2019, in honor of its 100th anniversary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists
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