Metro-Goldywn-Mayer, the FOURTH Major Movie Studio to be founded (1924), after Paramount Pictures (1912), Universal Studios (1912) and Warner Bros (1923) and before RKO Radio Pictures (1928) and 20th Century Fox (1935).
At one time between 1926-1959, the largest and most dominant Movie Studio.
M-G-M was producing 50-100 films a year including their first big hit in 1925: Ben-Hur.
A film that earned M-G-M $10 million in ticket sales in 1925!
A film that M-G-M would remake in 1959 which will go on to earn $146 million ($1,656,738,762.89 [1.6+ billion] in 2026 money) during its initial release run and be nominated for an unprecedented 12 Academy Awards while winning an unprecedented 11 of those nominations.
A feat that would be not be repeated again until Titanic in 1997 (15 Academy Awards nominations, 11 wins)
M-G-M also produced and released Gone With The Wind in 1939.
Adjusted for inflation and putting it against all the movies recently that had billion dollar box office takes, Gone With The Wind is still the highest grossing movie in history, putting its box office at over $4 billion.
Now M-G-M it's owned by FUCKING Amazon.
It's like seeing all those historical buildings with beautifully crafted architecture demolished to be replaced by a parking lot with a Starbucks on itl
Nothing Is Sacred Anymore
