The big six film companies.

1. THE BIG SIX.

2. WARNER BROS.
Warner Bros. Studios began when the brothers
Warner (Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack L.) established
their movie company on April 4, 1923. Their current
CEO and chairman is, Kevin Tsujihara. Warner Bros.
is responsible for the Harry Potter film series, the
highest grossing film series of all time, It is also
responsible for Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows – Part 2 as Warner Bros.' highest grossing
movie in the companies history.

3. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS.
On October 16, 1923. Walt Disney. signed a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies
— this date is considered the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio. Then
in 1928 the first ever Mickey Mouse cartoon was made (Steamboat Willie). Disney is responsible for the
highest grossing animated film ever ‘Frozen’. Below is a table of all the production that Disney do over a
number of different studios.
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Pictures Group
Disney Music Group Disney Theatrical Group Disney Studio Service Special Events Group
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation
Studios(Disney Toon
Studios)
Pixar Animation Studios
Disneynature
Lucasfilm
Walt Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Disney Music Publishing
Disney Theatrical
Productions
Disney on Broadway
Disney on Ice
Disney Live!
Studio Production
Services
Walt Disney Studios
(Burbank)
Golden Oak Ranch
The Prospect Studios
Disney Digital Studio
Services
The Muppets Studio

4. 20TH CENTURY FOX
• Formed on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger between Fox
Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth
Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M.
Schenck. It's the world's second largest major film studio,
after Warner Bros. Fox is responsible for Avatar, the highest grossing
film in the companies history and is also the highest grossing film of
all time. The current CEO and chairman is, Jim Gianopulos. 20TH
century is well known for the fanfare that plays during the opening of
a fox film.

5. COLUMBIA PICTURES
• The studio, founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers
Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in
August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went
public two years later. The name is derived from "Columbia", a national
personification of the United States, which is used as the company's logo.
The highest grossing Columbia Pictures film is ‘Spiderman 3’, the films
grossing was $891 million. Columbia pictures is currently owned by Sony
after being bought for $3.4 billion in 1989. It also had spells of being run by
Coca Cola.

6. PARAMOUNT PICTURES.
Paramount Pictures Corporation is a film studio, television production company and motion picture
distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. It has distributed
several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic
Universe(2008–11), Indiana Jones (1981–2008), The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, The
Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, "Crocodile" Dundee, Paranormal Activity, Friday the
13th and G.I. Joe. It is the world's fourth oldest continuously-operating major film studio, the third
being Universal Studios.
Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having three films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in
worldwide box office sales:
Titanic (1997; $2,186,772,306)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011; $1,123,794,079)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014; $1,065,153,989)

7. NBC UNIVERSAL.
• NBC Universal was formed in August 2004 by the merger of General
Electric's NBC with Vivendi.
• Universal’s (Who own NBCuniversal) worldwide total to date is $2.6 billion— $1.6
billion coming from international markets and $1 billion in North America.
• The top earners of the year, Fast & Furious 6 and Illumination Entertainment’s
Despicable Me 2, are the second and third highest-grossing films of 2013 worldwide,
trailing only Iron Man 3.