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Warner Bros. Pictures' origins trace back to 1918, when brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack
Warner established a studio on Sunset Boulevard. Sam and Jack would handle the production of the films, while Harry and Albert were in charge of distribution. The studio was incorporated as "Warner Bros' Pictures Incorporated" on April 4, 1923, making it the third oldest American movie studio in continuous operation, after
Paramount Pictures (founded on May 8, 1912 as Famous Players Film Corporation) and
Universal Pictures (founded on June 8, 1912).
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Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by
Walt Disney Animation Studios and
Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Originally reorganized from Walt Disney Productions (now "The Walt Disney Company") as the live-action division of Disney, today it is one of Hollywood's major film studios.
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Paramount Pictures traces its history back to May 8, 1912, when it was originally founded as Famous Players Film Company by Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor. In 1914, it was renamed Paramount Pictures Corporation, as the second oldest-running movie studio in Hollywood, with
Universal Pictures being founded only eight days earlier. Today, it is one of Hollywood's major film studios.
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as
Columbia Pictures) is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's
Sony Pictures Entertainment, itself a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony and one of the major American film studios. Columbia Pictures was originally founded as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales in 1918 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Jack's friend Joe Brandt.
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Universal Pictures was originally formed on April 30, 1912 by Carl Laemmle, a German-Jewish immigrant who settled in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he managed a clothing store. It is the oldest studio in Hollywood. The word "Universal" means "Omnipresent". In 1915, he opened Universal Studios. In 1946, Universal merged with International Pictures, headed by Leo Spitz and William Goetz.
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New Line Cinema (also known as "New Line Productions, Inc." and formerly known as "New Line Cinema Corporation") originally started in 1967 by Robert Shaye, as an indie/low-budget film studio. They did not use a logo until the early 1970s. New Line was acquired by Turner Broadcasting on January 28, 1994; both merged with Time Warner (now "WarnerMedia") on October 10, 1996. In 2008, New Line became a genre and low-to-mid-budget unit of
Warner Bros. Pictures, shutting down as an independent studio.
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20th Century Studios' history goes back to 1935, when Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" (the hyphen between "Century" and "Fox" was dropped in 1985), or simply "20th Century Fox". During the Golden Age of Hollywood, it was one of the "Big Five" studios (the other were
MGM,
Paramount Pictures,
RKO Radio Pictures and
Warner Bros. Pictures).
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Metro Pictures Corporation was founded in late 1915 by Richard A. Rowland (1880-1947) and Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957). Dissatisfied with Metro's output following his purchase of the studio, Loew later purchased Goldwyn Pictures in 1924 and combined the two studios in the hope of creating higher quality content for his theaters. The same year, Louis B. Mayer sold his company, Louis B. Mayer Productions, to Loew. The merger between the three studios was completed on April 17, 1924, with the three studios becoming
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., or simply MGM.
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The
Gaumont Film Company is a major French film studio established in 1895 by engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946). It is the world's first and oldest film studio, established before Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (founded in 1912).
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Toho Co., Ltd. (東宝株式会社) is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. It was formed as Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. from the merger of P.C.L., Jenkins Osawa Studio , and Toho Eiga Haikyu of the Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Company which itself was formed in 1932. In 1937, the documentary film department, Toho Bunka Eiga, was established. In 1943, it was merged with the Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Company, forming Toho Co., Ltd. and renaming their production facilities as Toho Studios.
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Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment (橙天嘉禾娛樂集團有限公司) is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. Founded in 1970 by Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho (both former executives of Shaw Brothers) as well as Leung Fung, it dominated Hong Kong box office sales from the 1970s to the 1980s, supplanting Shaw Brothers as Hong Kong's dominant film studio at the time and played a major role in introducing Hong Kong films to the Western market, especially those by Bruce Lee (Concord Productions), Jackie Chan (Golden Way Films), and Sammo Hung.
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CJ Entertainment (CJ 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean film and television company that acquires, produces and distributes over 3,000 titles for the Korean market and the world, and a branch of Korean food company CJ Corporation. Being South Korea's largest entertainment company, it played an important role in the rise of the South Korean film industry. The success of their own films after the 2000 film
Chunhyang, most notably Joint Security Area that broke the Korean box office records previously set by
Shiri, helped the company in becoming one of the two largest film companies in the country along with Kang Woo-suk's Cinema Service.
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Samuel Goldwyn Films is the current independent film company of
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. formed in 1999, two years after his
former production company was folded into
MGM and transferred most of the library into it, even though he started producing and distributing independent movies later on. After Goldwyn's death on January 9, 2015, his son Peter has been co-running the company.
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Named after a Vancouver landmark, the
Lions' Gate Bridge (officially known as the "First Narrows Bridge"),
Lions Gate Films (trading as
Lionsgate since 2005) is a North American film production/distribution studio based in Vancouver, Canada, with headquarters in Santa Monica, California. It was originally formed in 1989 as C/FP Distribution, a joint venture between Famous Players Entertainment and Cinépix, Inc. In 1994, Cinépix acquired Famous Players' share of C/FP, which was renamed to "Cinépix Inc. Distribution" two years later, then again to Cinépix Film Properties that same year. At the time, its assets included a 56% stake in animation company CinéGroupe. In 1997, Cinépix was purchased by Canadian financier Frank Giustra and CFP was renamed to "Lions Gate Films" on January 12, 1998.
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TriStar Pictures, Inc. (originally spelled Tri-Star) was formed on March 2, 1982 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures (then owned by The Coca-Cola Company), HBO and CBS, hence the name of the studio. It was originally known as Nova Pictures until May 16, 1983, when its name was changed in order to avoid confusion with the PBS series Nova. CBS was the first joint-owner who dropped out of the venture on November 15, 1985, and sold its interest to Columbia for $48 million. In 1986, HBO sold its shares in Tri-Star to Columbia as well, and formed HBO Pictures.
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Sony Pictures Classics was formed in 1992 by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom (the same founders who started
United Artists Classics in 1981 and
Orion Classics in 1983) by
Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce and distribute independent, artistic, foreign and alternative film releases.
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On March 24, 2023,
Paramount Global announced that it would revive the Republic Pictures brand (which has gone through two
different incarnations) as the company's acquisitions label. Its library would include titles acquired by
Paramount Global Content Distribution.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures was formed in 1994 under News Corporation (now owned by
The Walt Disney Company) as a division of 20th Century Fox (now
20th Century Studios) mainly to release independent, arthouse, horror, and foreign films, as well as some comedy, action, romance, and family films. On January 17, 2020, parent company Disney announced that it would remove "Fox" from the company's name, presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it
Searchlight Pictures.
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Focus Features is the current indie/arthouse film subsidiary of
Universal Studios, which was formed in 2002 by the merging of
USA Films,
Universal Focus,
Good Machine, and its folded endeavors (
Rogue,
October Films,
Gramercy Pictures, and
Interscope Communications). The label specializes in independent and foreign films as well as other genre titles. The Interscope Communications name continued to be used under films planned for the label, but instead used for Focus Features until 2003. In 2004, Focus revived Rogue as a genre-specific subsidiary of horror, thriller, African-American, high suspense and action. Ten years later, the label acquired
FilmDistrict and absorbed it shortly after. A year following, Focus revived
Gramercy Pictures as a full on film label, but dissolved it again in 2016 following the box office failure of
Ratchet & Clank. As of 2013, Focus Features is a subsidiary of the
Universal Pictures section of NBCUniversal, which in turn, is a division of Comcast.
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Disneynature (also spelled "Disney Nature" in some Disney press releases) is a production banner of
Walt Disney Pictures established in 2008 to produce nature documentary films. Its first release was
Earth which premiered in cinemas on Earth Day, April 22, 2009, but their logo was first seen in 2008, on their website. As of October 1, 2023, Disneynature content is now distributed via home video under exclusive license by Elevation Sales (a British home video joint venture between StudioCanal and Lionsgate) in the UK. Starting in 2024, future physical media releases will be distributed by
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in North America.
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The "
Screen Gems" name was resurrected by
Sony Pictures Entertainment on December 8, 1998, as a film division to distribute specific genre and mid-budget film releases, such as horror, thriller, science fiction, as well as films geared towards African-American and youth audiences. The studio also distributed some independent films earlier on. The studio was founded in 1998, but didn't have an on-screen logo until the following year.
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Amblin Entertainment is a production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall (the latter two of whom went on to form their own company,
The Kennedy/Marshall Company, in 1991) in 1981. Named after a short film titled
Amblin' (1968; which Spielberg also directed), its logo features the silhouette of the titular character E.T. riding in the basket of Elliott's bicycle flying in front of the moon, from
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which they are the company's official mascots.
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In 2015, TVB Group, a former subsidiary of
Shaw Brothers Ltd., resurrected the Shaw Brothers name to the big screen. This new company,
Shaw Brothers Pictures Ltd., was launched on March 24, 2015.
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USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 as an arthouse film division of his USA Networks/
Studios USA Television LLC by merging
October Films, the original
Rogue Pictures and
Gramercy Pictures. In 2001, Diller sold Studios USA to Vivendi S.A., and then in 2002,
Universal Studios merged USA Films with
Interscope Communications,
Good Machine and
Universal Focus to create
Focus Features.
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Castle Rock Entertainment is an American film production company founded in 1987 by actor and director Rob Reiner, Martin Shafer, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick, and Alan Horn, with
Columbia Pictures as their original strategic partner. Early in the studio's history,
Nelson Entertainment co-financed their films until 1991, when
New Line Cinema took over their duties (after Nelson was sold to New Line). On December 22, 1993, Castle Rock was acquired by
Turner Broadcasting System and would become a part of Time Warner when the two along with New Line Cinema merged with them on October 10, 1996. In 1999,
Warner Bros. Pictures gained distribution rights from Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures. Castle Rock's first release was
Winter People in 1989, but no logo was used until
When Harry Met Sally.
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Orion Pictures (legally
Orion Releasing LLC) was formed as the
Orion Pictures Company in March 1978 as a joint venture between
Warner Bros. and former
United Artists executives Arthur B. Krim, Eric Pleskow and Robert S. Benjamin. When the studio was formed, they produced films that would be released through Warner Bros. In 1982, Orion bought Filmways, Inc. after Orion was unhappy with distribution agreements with Warner Bros. In June 1982,
Filmways Pictures was reincorporated as
Orion Pictures Corporation.
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