Talk:United Artists/Archives/2014

1975 Movie: SALO
I can't figure out why "Salo" is not on mentioned or even on the list of films? User:anonymous 05:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Pickford
The PBS (American Experience) bio for Pickford states that (whatever more global issues were at stake) UA's creation was triggered specifically by the studio backlash against her hard bargaining, specifically in the form of a plan by her former employer to buy the studio she had gone to rather than contract again with the one he headed. It also left me with the impression that her paychecks might well have been more than half of the combined economic stakes of the performers involved.

American Experience | Mary Pickford | Transcript | PBS says "The complete Mary Pickford program transcript will be available after the television broadcast." Well, but not ten minutes after. --Jerzy (t) 02:33, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers
The Mary Pickford article mentions the following: "1941: Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, Alexander Korda, and Walter Wanger founded the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers." The "Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers" is a link to the this United Artists article, but this article itself makes no mention of what this entity is or how it relates to United Artists. -- GIR 04:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

CATV
This article has no mention of UA's Cable TV interests - now, these seem to have died out before the 'net became majorly popular; and they never had any over here, but I know that some or all of the Telewest network in the UK was United Artists.

Anybody have any info on it for the article?

Public domain?
"while still other classic 1930s and 1940s UA films are now in the public domain."

If this is true, I'm guessing that it happened when UA forgot to renew its 1909 Act copyrights. Is this the case? --Damian Yerrick 23:54, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Essay/Original Research
Much of this article lacks citations, expresses the author's opinion, and uses language that does not reflect a NPOV. Much of this article lacks citations, expresses the author's opinion, and uses language that does not reflect a NPOV. I'd love to add specific examples, but frankly, that would involve me reposting the entire article in the talk section. It's a nice piece for a paper or newsletter, perhaps, but does it belong here without heavy modification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.91.112 (talk) 23:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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Source to add to article re Cruise/Wagner era

 * Some good background info to add to article. Cirt (talk) 07:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Some good background info to add to article. Cirt (talk) 07:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

WHV released UA's films internationally until 1990
In the 1970s and 1980s, United Artists had a home video distribution deal with Warner Home Video instead of American distributor Fox in many countries outside of the USA. Not only did Warner release the UA films made until the sale to MGM in 1981, such as the ones from the Transamerica era, but they also released the post-Transamerica films as well. Why isn't this mentioned on the main article? 24.251.40.238 (talk) 20:32, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Film archives
I agree with one user's claims that this section is explicitly detailed. So now I wonder what could be removed?

The majority of the "exceptions" are for distribution deals that expired. MGM would never have owned the movies anyway, because these films were owned by the producers and UA had the license for a limited period of time. Anyone agree that these are good targets? Freshh (talk) 13:30, 18 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I mainly object to things like "Most of the a.a.p. library (The Popeye cartoons and most of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library) are owned by WB/Turner (The only exceptions are Rope and the 1936-1946 Monogram Pictures film library.)," where it's going into details about exceptions to library acquisitions, all without references. The part about Chaplin, Fairbanks, Griffin, and Pickford should absolutely stay, though, because that would actually be of general interest. Trivialist (talk) 13:49, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Library and Historical List of films

 * I created the Library and the Historical List of films for useful purposes. I thought it would interesting to learn.  If anyone considers that it looks too detailed, please feel free to edit.  For example, I have listed all the Lorimar, Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn films UA has released and I think now it may be best to show some of these movies in these lists rather than all of them, but I leave that up to other Wiki-editors.  Also, I am currently working on a similar section with the TriStar Pictures page and would like to hear any feedback. Hitcher vs. Candyman (talk) 11:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

"Emphasized more heavily"?
I removed the following sentence:


 * Despite the financial ruin, UA's blockbuster franchise films (James Bond, The Pink Panther and eventually Rocky) were emphasized more heavily than the financially unsuccessful films.

This sentence is so vague as to be nearly meaningless. Who "emphasized" these films more heavily despite the financial ruin? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 08:21, 20 October 2014 (UTC)