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Encyclopedia > Big Ten (movie studios)

The Big Ten refers to the ten major film production studios. These ten movie studios are contrasted with other smaller movie studios, which are known as independent (indie) studios. Typically Hollywood-based, the Big Ten studios are in fact owned by six umbrella corporations, known as the Big Six. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... The following studios are considered to be the most prevalent of the independent studios (as of 11/2004): Lions Gate, MGM/UA, Fox Searchlight, Focus, Sony Classics, IDP, Warner Independent, Magnolia, Fine Line, Dimension, ThinkFilm, 4Kids Productions, and Saban Entertainment. ... ... The Big Six refers to the six corporations which own the major movie studios based in or around Hollywood, California, the traditional home of American cinema: // News Corp. ...

The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... Time Warner Inc. ... The New Line Cinema Production logo. ... Time Warner Inc. ... Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Walt Disney Pictures is a United States-based movie studio, the biggest studio in Hollywood, with studios in Japan and the United States. ... The Touchstone lightning logo (1986). ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Miramax Films is a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) NYSE: NWS is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... DreamWorks, L.L.C., doing business as DreamWorks SKG, is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. ... Viacom is a high-growth media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable / satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... Viacom is a high-growth media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable / satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ... The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles and Burbank. ... NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...

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Lions Gate Films (NYSE: LGF) is a Canadian production-distributor company, a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment, that is currently the largest and most successful independent film distributor-studio in North America. ... The Weinstein Company is a in independent film studio founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 2005 after the pair left the Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979. ...

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