Major movie studios
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The Big Eight are the United States's major movie production studios who also distribute their product. Most of them have their offices in Hollywood.
The Big Six are the group of major companies who own them. Their main offices are mostly far from Hollywood.
The major studios[change | change source]
- Warner Bros. - Time Warner
- TriStar Pictures - Entertainment One
- Lions Gate films - Lions Gate Entertainment
- Walt Disney Pictures/MGM Pictures - Disney
- 20th Century Fox/The Weinstein Company - 21st Century Fox
- Universal Studios/Paramount Pictures - Hartnett Holdings
- Morgan Creek Productions - Styhon Partners
- DHX Media/United Artists - DHX/UA Holdings
The other major studios[change | change source]
Past major studios[change | change source]
- RKO Pictures - renamed United Artists in 1955
- United Artists - acquired by MGM in 1981 and DHX Media in 2017.
- New Line Cinema - acquired in 1993 by Turner Broadcasting System; TBS merged with Time Warner in 1996
- Artisan Entertainment - folded into Lions Gate Entertainment
- Miramax Films - sold in 1992 to Disney *New York
- DreamWorks - Viacom purchased it in 2005
- Columbia Pictures - renamed as TriStar Pictures Entertainment
- Rank Organisation - acquired by TriStar Pictures
