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Even before MGM's centennial, when I bought and set up a Roku 3 last year, I installed MGM+ among other apps, but when I first checked it out, I saw that An American in Paris was on the service, apparently.

What about Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy? They both moved in to Warner Bros. from MGM after the Amazon acquisition and the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger to repair the movie studio, and they're both producers and movie buffs who care about art, unlike people like Jason Kilar and Ann Sarnoff and the...

WB is just trying to recover from the AT&T years and move back to theatrical distribution and physical media. And what about that international distribution deal they made with MGM last year?

To be more accurate, MGM's distribution partnership in general is with Warners. SDS is just the US and Canadian joint venture distributing Warners' (including MGM) and Universal's physical media products.

It's been exactly three years since he was fired by AT&T in 2020 along with most of the other home entertainment staff at Warner Bros., but for all the wrong reasons. Will he rejoin Warner Bros. and lead or consult on their home entertainment efforts again, or at least join Studio Distribution...

Next year is 2024, which marks MGM's 100th anniversary, but MGM shouldn't celebrate it by themselves with just their hodge-podge library including United Artists and a bunch of low budget and independent film libraries like Orion, PolyGram and Cannon that Kirk Kerkorian and Giancarlo Parretti...

Why did Amazon think they're smart enough to finally kill off United Artists Releasing by merging it into Amazon Original Movies or whatever after buying out MGM? Was it all because of COVID-19 leaving UA a faltering distribution company ever since all movie theaters closed in 2020 and that No...

Really. If it wasn't for the telephone people and these other Hollywood outsiders including Kilar and Sarnoff, then Sanders and his team would have stayed at Warners, plus he would have started collaborating with Eddie Cunningham at SDS (which he was in the middle of negotiations on by the time...

You don't know who those people are, even after they were all fired wrongfully?

They didn't ruin the DC films, and that's not the reason they were fired. The AT&T heads and their cronies Kilar and Sarnoff only fired them all because of COVID-19, and they made this disastrous decision for Warner Bros. to go streaming-only. What's even worse is that Ron Sanders' firing was...

I know George Feltenstein was only rehired last year, but since AT&T gave up WarnerMedia and merged it with Discovery, whose management took over the new company, will the new heads of Warner Bros. Discovery and whoever becomes the new head of Warner Bros. itself rehire any of the other...

The other UA Releasing titles were by other companies too, and they're not just from MGM, but also Orion and Annapurna (the other partner in the joint venture). The Orion titles went through Warner and Fox and Annapurna's titles were originally handled by Fox. Wrath of Man went through Warner...

Don't listen to Wikipedia's false claims. Not all UA Releasing-distributed movies including the MGM titles are handled by Universal, the only ones handled by that studio are the movies they handle international theatrical distribution of (including the ones you mentioned), just like how certain...

I'm sorry if this is unrelated to Warner Archive, but will Ron Sanders (WB's former physical media/theatrical distribution president who was fired last year) and any members of his former team ever return to WB, or does he need to join the board of directors at Studio Distribution Services...

Well, George is back at WB now, but does that mean he, the rest of WB's home entertainment team and the people at MGM can finally confirm the physical media deal? An official announcement was unfortunately stalled by the mass WarnerMedia firings affecting the jobs of him, Ron Sanders and many...

Wikipedia is wrong. UA Digital Studios was just a short-lived use of the UA name for MGM's former short-form digital unit, plus "Mirror" isn't the original name of the joint venture with Annapurna, just a banner for third-party movies. The venture itself wasn't even its own company until 2019...

Ron Sanders was the former president of WB Home Entertainment and Jason Kilar is the current CEO of WarnerMedia who doesn't know how to run a mass media company with a movie studio by making dumb decisions for them to go streaming-only. Sanders and many other employees at WB and other...

Sorry about that. But what about Ron Sanders and the others now that George F. just came back?

Will Ron Sanders and any other Warners distribution and marketing executives who were fired because of Jason Kilar return as well?

Well, this deal is in place now, but ever since it was first announced, I can't help but picture an Adam Sandler box set distributed by Sony, with titles from the Sony, Revolution and Lionsgate libraries. I'm bringing this up because Adam Sandler's first movie, Going Overboard, is owned by...

And how will it affect the current MGM's distribution deal with Warners? I'm just worried.

And how will it affect MGM's film partnerships with other movie studios on a case-by-case basis?

That's what I meant, I just said "outside the US".

Yeah, but that's because they theatrically distributed that movie outside the US too.

Seriously, Universal isn't MGM's new home entertainment partner, they only handle international theatrical distribution for MGM's select new film releases because of the deal they made for No Time to Die. What's wrong with you people?

Turns out the Universal/Warner joint venture isn't hurt by the pandemic after all and actually did finalize on Q1, under the trade name "Studio Distribution Services". https://www.mediaplaynews.com/deg-panel-transactional-business-still-hardy-and-poised-for-takeoff/

I don't know how this would affect Lionsgate's distribution deal with Entertainment One in Canada, unless they decided to restart their own Canadian operations a few years back and then shift physical media distribution to Sony in that country. Besides, this is a very fitting deal for both...

Well, didn't this joint venture begin operations and releasing titles this quarter, or was it stalled by retailers (temporarily) closing down last year?

I know, but didn't the announcement say that the venture was pending approval from the Justice Department? I think you need to double check the article.

Has this joint venture been finalized this quarter as promised in last year's announcement? I hope it's been approved by the Justice Department.