Overview of the US Week End Box Office May 28+

Amazon-MGM Deal Comes Days Before Irving Thalberg’s Birthday

Amazon's $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM is driven by the same need for content that drove the April 1924 merger of Marcus Lowe's Metro Pictures with the Goldwyn Company.

Lowe, based in New York, owned 111 theatres and needed a steady stream of pictures to play. In 1920 he paid $3 million for Hollywood-based Metro, hoping to get the necessary content. By 1924, that still hadn't happened. Metro was a small studio without strong management.  Read More...