Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Type: Owned by
Providence Equity Partners (29%)
TPG Capital, L.P. (formerly Texas Pacific Group) (21%)
Sony Corp. of America (20%)
Comcast Corporation (20%)
Credit Suisse (7%)
Quadrangle Group (3%)
Founded: April 16, 1924
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, USA
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.: Santa Monica, California, USA)
Key people: Harry E. Sloan (Chairman and CEO)
Industry: Motion pictures
Products: Motion pictures
Television programs
Employees: 1,440 (as of 2004) [1]
Website: http://www.mgm.com/,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., or MGM, is an American media company. They mainly make movies and television programs. On April 8, 2005, the company was bought by a group led by Sony and Comcast along with Texas Pacific Group and Providence Equity Partners.


From the 1920s through World War II, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest movie studio in Hollywood. They made more movies than any other studio. At its best, it released an average of one movie a week as well as many short films and other projects.

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