Major movie studios

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 Seven are the group of major companies who own them. Their main offices are mostly far from Hollywood.

The Big Seven will become the Big Six group since Disney-Fox Deal are done in Summer 2019.

In December 14, 2017,; Disney announced to buy Fox for $52.4 billion.

The American major studios

Current

Majors

• Universal Pictures - NBCUniversal / Comcast
• Paramount Pictures - Viacom
• Warner Bros. Pictures - AT&T
• Walt Disney Pictures - The Walt Disney Company
• 20th Century Fox - 21st Century Fox (Sale to The Walt Disney Company pending)
• Columbia Pictures/TriStar Pictures - Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Lionsgate Pictures - Lions Gate Entertainment

Mini-Majors

• Amblin Partners
  • Amblin Entertainment
  • DreamWorks Pictures
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Discovery Inc.
• StudioCanal - Canal+ Group

Former

• United Artists - acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - downsized in 2011.
• RKO Radio Pictures - Closed in 1957.
• Embassy Pictures - sold to Coca-Cola in 1985.
• New Line Cinema - acquired in 1993 by Turner Broadcasting System; TBS merged with Time Warner in 1996.
• Miramax Films- acquired in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company and became sold to beIN in 2016.
• Artisan Entertainment - folded into Lions Gate Entertainment
• Vestron Pictures - folded into Live Entertainment
• DreamWorks Pictures - now became a label of Amblin Partners.
• The Weinstein Company - became Lantern Entertainment

The European major studios

Current

• Gaumont Film Company - France
• Pinewood Studios - England
• Nordisk Film -Denmark
• BBC Films - England
• Pathé Frères - France
• Constantin Film - Germany
• SF Studios - Sweden

Former

• Titanus - Closed
• Sheperton Studios - merged with Pinewood
• Rank Organisation - Acquired by the new parent company.
• Optimum Releasing - acquired by StudioCanal in 2011.