<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Corporation" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Transamerica Corporation">Transamerica Corporation</a> agrees to sell <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Artists">United Artists</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a> for $380<span id="mwAU0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>million after the box office failure of the 1980 film <i id="mwAU4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(film)" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Heaven's Gate (film)">Heaven's Gate</a></i>.<sup about="#mwt65" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_21#cite_note-8" id="mwAVA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVE">[8]</span></a></sup>
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