MEDIA INSTITUTION RESEARCH

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer

What films that institution has made – do they specialise in genre?

·         Co-production all of the most recent James Bond films with EON productions including ‘Skyfall’  ‘Casino Royal’ ‘Quantum of Solace’

·         ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ co-production with United Artist

·         ‘Zookeeper’ co-production Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions

·         ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ co-production with Columbia Pictures

·         ‘21 Jump Street’ co-production with Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios

Most of the films made by MGM are co-produced films because they don’t have enough money to be able to produce the film alone but have lots of arms and connections to help them out. They use there subsidiaries to promote the products which will lower the budget of the films. They do no specialise in any type of genre as they have a very wide variety of films

What the conglomerate for the institution is?

MGM Holdings, Inc since 2005

What other subsidiaries the conglomerate own?

MGM Holdings Inc own:

Film Production/Distribution and Home Entertainment

1.        United Artists Corporation

2.        Orion Pictures Corporation

3.        MGM Home Entertainment Distribution Corporation

Television

4.        MGM Television Entertainment Inc

5.        MGM International Television Distribution

6.        MGM Networks Inc

7.        MGM channel (MGM HD)

8.        THIS Network LLC (Joint venture with Weigel Broadcasting)

9.        EPIX (Joint venture with Viacom and Lions Gate Entertainment)

Other assets

10.     Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Animation Inc

11.     Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Music Inc

12.     MGM On Stage

13.     MGM Consumer Products

14.     MGM Interactive

What distribution company is owned by the conglomerate (vertical integration)?

1.        United Artists Corporation

2.        Orion Pictures Corporation

3.        MGM Home Entertainment Distribution Corporation

Studio Canal

What films that institution has made – do they specialise in genre?

·         ‘About a boy’

·         ‘Hot fuzz’

·         ‘Jonny English’ ‘Jonny English Reborn’

·         ‘Ali G Indahouse’

·         ‘Terminator 2: Judgement day’

Studio canal have a wide range of films all different in Genre.

What links they have with other media types?

They also own one of the most important catalogues in the world, containing more than 5,000 French, British, Italian, German and American titles.  Also they have the majority stake in TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, which is one of the leading European companies for international primetime Event TV productions and worldwide distribution of quality television programs

Who owns the institution?

Studio Canal is owned Canal+ group

Where they get their money from to make films?

Studio Canal is owned by Canel+ which is owned by Universal Studios and Vivendi. Universal Studios and Vivendi will both give money to Studio Canal to help with the making of their films. Although studio canal are an independent company, they aren’t a British company.