Research Task

2. The company as we know today, was
formed in 1935, as a result of the
merger between Fox Film Corporation,
founded by William Fox in 1915,
andTwentieth Century Pictures,
founded in 1933 by Darryl F
Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck.
20th Century Fox has produced many
popular films such as StarWars, X-Men,
Alien, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone
and Avatar.

3. Once the largest and most glamorous of film
studios, MGM was founded in 1924 when the
entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew
gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn
Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer
Pictures.
It produced many of the classics
such as;TheWizard of Oz, Gone
with the Wind, 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Poltergeist.

4. Universal was 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 world's third oldest major
film studio, after the French
studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé.
Universal has produced many
films amongst Jaws, Back to
the Future, Jurassic Park,The
Bourne Identity, E.T.,
Schindler's List.

5. Paramount Pictures was
founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor.
In 2014, Paramount Pictures was
the first major Hollywood studio
to distribute all its films in digital
form only.
Some of Paramount Picture’s
works includeThe Godfather,
Saturday Night Fever, StarTrek,
Mission: Impossible, Indiana
Jones, Forrest Gump, Saving
Private Ryan,Transformers.

6. Columbia Pictures was founded in
1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales
by brothers Jack and Harry
Cohn and Joe Brandt. It released its
first feature film inAugust 1922. It
adopted the Columbia Pictures name
in 1924 and went public two years
later.
Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of
theThird Kind, Ghostbusters,
The Karate Kid, Spider-Man and
Men in Black are only a few
produced by Columbia Pictures.

7. Warner Bros. was founded in 1923 by the
Warner brothers: Albert, Harry, Sam and
Jack
Some famous titles byWarner Bros.: A
Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork
Orange, Batman,The Shining,The
Matrix, Harry Potter, Million Dollar
Baby, Gravity.

8. Lions Gate was formed in 1997. As of November 2013, it is the
most commercially successful mini major film and television
distribution company in North America and the seventh most
profitable movie studio.
Some of its popular films include;
American Psycho, Saw,Kick-Ass,The
Punisher,The Hunger Games.

9. Summit Entertainment was
originally founded in 1991 by film
producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon
Milchan, and Andrew G.Vajna.
TheTwilight Saga,The
Hurt Locker, 50/50, Source
Code, Sinister and Ender's
Game were produced by
Summit Entertainment.