The reason I'm asking is because United Artists was Hollywood's first independent movie studio, started by three actors and one director, and served as a backbone distributor and financer of independent film productions, giving creative freedom to the filmmakers on their projects. Nowadays, United Artists is owned by MGM, but it's long dormant now after two relaunchs: As its old self with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, which was a massive failure; and last time as a TV-only production company with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
For I've been thinking of Rob Lowe and Ridley Scott being in charge of a resurrected UA, or maybe even Tom Cruise and Mrs. Wagner coming back to the UA fold.
The idea for this new studio is to not only finance and release mainstream or outside independent films, but to also serve as MGM's pet distribution company handling in-house projects that are in MGM's development but won't be picked up by studio partners like Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony. (Yes, MGM is purely and virtually a production-only movie studio nowadays, specializing in co-financing, co-producing and/or co-distributing large studio projects.) So, if any of you guys want to know, can you talk to MGM about reviving the old UA studio as a backbone, film finance and film distribution studio for independents and seeking additional financing via crowdfunding websites like IndieGoGo or GoFundMe and/or from investors like Entertainment One, Filmyard Holdings, Reliance, and/or Hearst?
For I've been thinking of Rob Lowe and Ridley Scott being in charge of a resurrected UA, or maybe even Tom Cruise and Mrs. Wagner coming back to the UA fold.
The idea for this new studio is to not only finance and release mainstream or outside independent films, but to also serve as MGM's pet distribution company handling in-house projects that are in MGM's development but won't be picked up by studio partners like Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony. (Yes, MGM is purely and virtually a production-only movie studio nowadays, specializing in co-financing, co-producing and/or co-distributing large studio projects.) So, if any of you guys want to know, can you talk to MGM about reviving the old UA studio as a backbone, film finance and film distribution studio for independents and seeking additional financing via crowdfunding websites like IndieGoGo or GoFundMe and/or from investors like Entertainment One, Filmyard Holdings, Reliance, and/or Hearst?
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