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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
TypeDivision
IndustryAnimation
PredecessorMGM Animation/Visual Arts
Founded1993; 32 years ago (1993)[1]
Founder
  • Paul Sabella
  • Jonathan Dern
Defunct2000; 25 years ago (2000)
FateDormancy
ProductsTelevision shows
Feature films
OwnerMGM Holdings
ParentMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation (or MGM Animation for short) was the animation division of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California, that specializes in animated productions for theatrical features and television. It was established in 1993 and primarily involved in producing children's entertainment based upon MGM's ownership of properties, such as The Pink Panther, The Lionhearts, The Secret of NIMH, and All Dogs Go to Heaven.

The founders, Paul Sabella and Jonathan Dern, left the company in 1999 and founded SD Entertainment. The studio has been dormant ever since then.

History[]

MGM launched a dedicated animation division in January of 1994.[2]

Filmography[]

Theatrical[]

Release Date Title Other
March 29, 1996 All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 co-production with MGM/UA Family Entertainment

Direct-to-video[]

Release Date Title
March 4, 1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Searching for Your Dreams
MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends
MGM Sing-Alongs: Having Fun
MGM Sing-Alongs: Being Happy
October 14, 1997 Babes in Toyland
November 17, 1998 An All Dogs Christmas Carol
December 22, 1998 The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
April 4, 2000 Tom Sawyer

TV series[]

Show Year(s) Notes
The Pink Panther 1993–1996
All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series 1996–1998
RoboCop: Alpha Commando 1998–1999 billed as "Produced by MGM Animation for Orion Pictures"
The Lionhearts 1998

Miscellaneous productions[]

  • The Adventures of Hyperman (1995) (video game)

Unproduced projects[]

  • The Betty Boop Movie. In 1993, there were plans for an animated musical feature film of Betty Boop to be MGM Animation's first theatrical animated film, but the plans were later canceled. The musical storyboard scene of the proposed film can be seen online.[3] The finished reel consists of Betty and her estranged father performing a jazz number together called "Where are you?" Jimmy Rowles and Sue Raney provide the vocals for Betty and Benny Boop. Latter All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 became MGM Animation's first theatrical animated film.
  • Noah. Variety reported in May 1998 that MGM had signed a deal for a film based on Cosby's routine on the conversations between God and the ark-builder Noah to be written by himself and Charles Kipps.[4] According to Animation Magazine, MGM Animation had plans to do a theatrical animated film adaption of comedian Bill Cosby's famous stand up sketch of his take of Noah's Ark with Cosby producing, co-writing the script and as the voice of God, while Carl Reiner and Jonathan Winters were in talks to voice Noah. However the project was canceled after Cosby's previous films were both commercial and critically failures and more people were becoming aware of Cosby's sex abuse cases.[5]

See also[]

  • List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical animated feature films
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
  • MGM Animation/Visual Arts
  • SD Entertainment

References[]

External links[]

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