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- Unlike the other major motion picture companies, United Artists (UA) never owned a studio or had actors and directors under contract. It functioned throughout its life solely as a distribution company for independent producers.
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MGM briefly revived the United Artists brand as United Artists Digital Studios for the Stargate Origins web series as part of its Stargate franchise, but retired the name after 2019 and instead used its eponymous brand for subsequent releases.
Feb 5, 2021 · A production studio called “United Artists” (UA) was established in 1919 by actual artists rather than businessmen. Filmmakers and actors like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks banded together in order to ensure that artists had control over their own interests and the financial security to do what they ...
Nov 13, 2009 · On February 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith join forces to create their own film studio, which they called the United...
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Oct 4, 2019 · While Pickford and Fairbanks built their own studio on Santa Monica Boulevard and Chaplin had his on La Brea, United Artists didn’t own a studio.
If theaters wanted Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks films, they had to agree to purchase all of the 100 plus Famous Players films each year, no matter the quality. In response, 26 smaller theater owners banded together in 1917 to buy and distribute films at competitive rates, vowing not to compete against each other.
By the late 1940s, United Artists had virtually ceased to exist as either a producer or distributor. In 1951, two lawyers-turned-producers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin approached Pickford and Chaplin with the wild idea to let them take over United Artists for five years.
In the early 1920s, the lot was renamed the United Artists Studio, though it was operated as a separate entity from United Artists the distribution company. Goldwyn and Schecnk financed the expansion of the studio, creating an awkward ownership structure.
