Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood’s fabled and once most powerful studio, has filed for bankruptcy protection after it could no longer pay down its crippling debt or make and release new movies.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. continued his father’s legacy and also entered the industry as a film producer, founding the independent film company Samuel Goldwyn Films in 1990. He died on Jan. 9, 2015 of ...

The sudden ouster of Gary Barber as chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who helped rebuild the once iconic studio, took the entertainment industry by surprise when the management change was ...

Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion 00:27. Amazon said Wednesday it is buying Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a deal valued at $8.45 billion, giving the e-commerce giant access to the famed studio ...

It took until January 1926 to add the de facto studio boss Louis B. Mayer’s handle, and thus was born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, almost immediately nicknamed MGM. But one name was still missing.

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studio’s head of production Irving Thalberg, left, joins studio chief Louis B. Mayer, center, and a producer Harry Rapf, right, in a meeting in the early 1930s.

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie company for $8.45 billion, a bet that a nearly century-old Hollywood icon can feed an insatiable demand for streaming content.