27-05-2021, 06:44 PM
James2001 post_id=15118 time=1622134543 user_id=956 Wrote:I'm re-watching my blu-ray of the original Twilight Zones, and on the episode commentaries it's talked about how they filmed at MGM studios, and how the backlot we see in many episodes was sold off for houses in the early 70s because of financial troubles they were having back then, so their money issues go back a long time.
The MGM studios in Culver City now belongs to Sony Pictures.
United Artists was almost sunk by the failure of Heaven's Gate and ended being sold and merged with MGM in 1981. A similar thing happened to New Line Cinema where The Golden Compass made nearly $372m WW but because New Line sold the overseas distribution rights, they didn't see a penny from overseas box office receipts and only had the US revenue which was $70m.