MGM in tandem with SGF would be great acquisitions for WarnerMedia.
MGM currently owns some lesser-known a.a.p. properties, namely a package of Monogram Pictures films sold to them in 1954 and the 1956 movie Moby Dick (the pre-1950 WB films and the Popeye cartoons are under Turner/Warner ownership). MGM merging with WB would put the entire former a.a.p. catalog under common ownership.
I also had an idea for reorganizing WB's US TV production operations after a prospective acquisition of MGM.
The Warner Bros. Network Television Group would consist of WBTV, MGM TV, and a relaunched New Line TV.
The specialty TV group would consist of Warner Horizon's scripted division, Orion TV (relaunched as a "boutique" label similar to Sony's TriStar TV and Disney's Searchlight TV), Telepictures (which inherits Orion's current syndicated output), and a relaunched Associated Artists Productions, spun off from the reality division of Warner Horizon, which would inherit WH's current reality programs.
MGM currently owns some lesser-known a.a.p. properties, namely a package of Monogram Pictures films sold to them in 1954 and the 1956 movie Moby Dick (the pre-1950 WB films and the Popeye cartoons are under Turner/Warner ownership). MGM merging with WB would put the entire former a.a.p. catalog under common ownership.
I also had an idea for reorganizing WB's US TV production operations after a prospective acquisition of MGM.
The Warner Bros. Network Television Group would consist of WBTV, MGM TV, and a relaunched New Line TV.
The specialty TV group would consist of Warner Horizon's scripted division, Orion TV (relaunched as a "boutique" label similar to Sony's TriStar TV and Disney's Searchlight TV), Telepictures (which inherits Orion's current syndicated output), and a relaunched Associated Artists Productions, spun off from the reality division of Warner Horizon, which would inherit WH's current reality programs.