Universal Studios is one of the oldest and largest film studios in the world. Founded in 1912 in California by Carl Laemmle and seven other pioneers of the film industry, it is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States. Over the decades, Universal has produced and distributed thousands of films and television shows and now owns an extensive library. It has gone through several ownership changes and is now a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast.

1. Conglomerate

2. Some of The Movies

3. History
• Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American motion
picture studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned
subsidiary NBCUniversal and is one of the six major movie studios. Its production
studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California.
Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City.
• Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam
Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour, it is the
oldest movie studio in the United States of America. It is also the fourth oldest in
the world that is still in continuous production; the first being Gaumont Pictures,
the second oldest is Pathé, the third is Nordisk Film, and the fifth oldest
is Paramount Pictures, On August 2, 2004, the controlling stake in the company
was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting
media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios
Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a
sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary
works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its
subsidiary NBCUniversal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several
prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its
subsidiaries over the years.

4. Founders
• Universal was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark
Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam
Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David
Horsley, and Jules Brulatour.

5. Carl Laemmle
• Carl Laemmle (born as Karl
Lämmle, January 17, 1867
– September 24, 1939)
was a pioneer in American
film making and a founder
of one of the original
major Hollywood movie
studios –
Universal. Laemmle
produced or was
otherwise involved in over
four hundred films.

6. Charles O.Baumann
• Charles O.
Baumann (January 20,
1874 – July 18, 1931)
was an American film
producer, film studio
executive, and a pioneer
in the motion picture
industry.

7. David Horsley
• David Horsley (March
11, 1873 – February
23, 1933) was an
English-born pioneer
of the film industry
who built the first film
studio in Hollywood.

8. Films maths
• Films + American stars =
Appeal to international market

9. Going international
• Universal Studios wants to make films for a
worldwide audience.
• They want to imbue them with foreign ideas
and influences and they couldn’t do these
things without the backing of a major
hollywood studios i.e Vivendi

10. The Hierarchy

11. Moviews Made Budget Box Office Returns
Battleship
$209,000,000
$304,142,720
Johnny English $45,000,000 $163,126,676
Fast and the furious $160,000,000 $789,917,881