Why was MGM Studios ever called MGM Studios?

[Ilovthevu']

I can't really figure it out. The Alien movie in the Great Movie ride was a Fox movie. Indiana Jones is a Paramount movie. The Twilight Zone is Paramount - CBS I think. Star Wars is Fox. It just doesn't make sense why they even called MGM Studios - MGM. Was it just because the actual backlot studio was the only thing MGM in the park? It doesn't make sense. You base a park on MGM, and than the movies in the actual park aside from the backlot tour are not MGM. Isn't Wizard of Oz Warner Brothers?

And yes, I thought about this because of MGM going bankrupt, but I can't think of that many MGM good movies I even like, and than I was thinking of MGM Studios in what movies they actually had, and obviously that's not helping because the stuff in there isn't very MGM stuff. By the way, WCIU plays a ton of MGM movies.

[monsterfan99]

^ On the movies in the Great Movie Ride scenes, 3 were MGM made movies. Wizard of Oz, Tarzan and Signin' in the Rain were all made by MGM and then rights were sold in the 1986 company sale to Ted Turner. From there, the entire MGM library that Turner had the rights to merged into the Warner Brothers library in 1999.

After MGM got taken over in 1967, the company was worthless as a film company. Things were awful for the company to the point where they signed a contract with Disney to use the name in 1985. The name worked for Disney, as it made people think of the glory days of MGM (which happened at the same time as the glory days of movies) and worked the the park theme.

[BP317]

In the parks design phases Disney bought the rights to use MGM's name, logo, and library through a liscensing deal in order to help market the new park (the idea was to convey the park was about Hollywood's all time great movies, not just Disney movies). The only ride that was there when the park opened was the Great Movie Ride (and the Studio Backlot tour if you want to consider that a ride). MGM built their own theme park in the early 90s in Nevada which closed sometime in the early 2000s.

By the time the liscense expired the companies hated each other and Disney felt that promoting what became an inferior studio was counter-productive and renamed the park instead of trying negotiate a new agreement.