By Bill Higgins MGM LEO THE LION - H 2015 This story first appeared in the Aug. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. While Zimbabwe’s ...

Leo the lion, the MGM mascot who roared in the credits of countless ... (The gilded cage, trimmed in red and gold, could easily be mistaken for a relic from an eccentric king's menagerie.) ...

This latest foray begins with one showbiz icon with a reconignizable roar. The MGM lion, properly known as Leo, has gone the way of the pixel. MGM has unveiled an all-digital replacement of the ...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s resurrection is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest success stories, though the company that gave the world Leo the Lion has ... that helps MGM avoid producing ...

when starting an MGM film? Do you still do it now? Please. You do. Now Leo, or, urm, Mr. The Lion, is getting his Tinseltown due, courtesy of a set of handprints in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre.

[See also: Did the MGM Lion Kill Its Trainer?] However, the above-displayed image does not capture either MGM's Leo or the filming of a company logo. This is a manipulated version of a photograph ...

every MGM movie. Of course, I’m talking about Leo the Lion. Originally Goldwyn’s logo, Leo took over as MGM’s onscreen representative (while Louis B. Mayer ran the shop in Culver City ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. We live in a town where people actually sit through the movie ...

by Time Inc. Levin’s point in his proxy battles was that the management of MGM under President Robert H. O’Brien had been lax. As he saw it, the company that has Leo the Lion as its emblem too ...

would cast Leo as a private eye hired by MGM (home of Leo the Lion) to look into whether a starlet murdered her husband. John Logan’s script, which Variety in its scoop on the project is ...

Some of the lions at the sanctuary even share a direct lineage to “Leo the Lion” who was the lion that roared before every MGM film. “Dan Marino behind me, Swifty our big lion at the Jeep ...