Here's a footnote to last year's movie news. The name United Artists Releasing, which had been a joint venture between MGM and Annapurna, quietly disappeared in March 2023.
The joint venture was started in 2017 as a way for the two small studios to distribute their movies in the U.S. and Canada. Then, in 2019, the joint venture took the United Artists Releasing name.
The rebranding took place on the 100th anniversary of the founding of United Artists. That studio was founded by, among others, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. Years later, UA financed and distributed the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions.
UA was acquired by MGM in 1981. The UA name persisted under MGM ownership into the 1990s. The UA brand mostly disappeared after that.
United Artists Releasing ended up releasing Eon's 25th Bond film, No Time to Die, in the U.S. and Canada while Universal conducted distribution internationally.
Things changed after Amazon bought MGM in 2021. By the time of Creed III in 2023, Amazon had folded United Artists Releasing into MGM, according to a March 5, 2023 Hollywood Reporter story about Creed III's box office opening.
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