United Artists

United Artists Corporation (UA), currently doing business as United Artists Digital Studios, is an American film and television entertainment studio.Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.UA was repeatedly bought, sold, and restructured over the ensuing century.The current United Artists company exists as a successor to the original as a provider of digital content, in addition to handling most of its post-1952 in-house library and other content it has since acquired.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the studio in 1981 for a reported $350 million. On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's entertainment companies One Three Media and Lightworkers Media, then merged them to revive United Artists' TV production unit as United Artists Media Group (UAMG).However, on December 14 of the following year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG and folded it into MGM Television.UA was revived yet again in 2018.