This document discusses 5 major film institutions (20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Warner Bros.) and provides some key details about each:
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- Paramount Pictures is over 100 years old and had major success in 1986. It has distributed the Paranormal Activity and Friday the 13th horror franchises.
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2. 20TH CENTURY FOX
20th Century Fox began in a theatre in New York In
1904, 25-year-old Hungarian William Fox amazed
audiences with his magical hand-cranked films. By
1915 Fox’s five-cent movie shows were wildly
popular and he progressed to having a chain of 25
theatres and then into a movie making business.
In 1915 fox went to LA. Merging with rising movie
powerhouse Twentieth Century Pictures, the
renamed 20th Century Fox began a run of
successful movies that continue to this day.
3. 20th Century fox have produced
many popular and successful
horror motion pictures including
Poltergeist (2015) and Mirrors
(2008).
20TH CENTURY FOX
4. UNIVERSAL
STUDIOS
Universal was founded in 1912. Its production
studios are in California and its distribution and
other corporate offices are based in New York.
Universal has produced many revolutionary films
such as these which achieved box office records &
became the highest-grossing film at the time of
their release:
Jaws (1975), E.T. (1982), Jurassic Park(1993), Furious
7 (2015) Jurassic World (2015). The first three were
directed by Steven Spielberg
5. In relation to horror, some revolutionary
horror movies (for their time) have come
from Universal: Dracula (1931) that was the
first horror motion picture, Jaws (1975)which
was a nominee of the Academy Award: Best
Picture and nominee of the Golden Globe
Award: Best Motion Picture. Other horrors
include Psycho, The Purge & Unfriended.
UNIVERSAL
STUDIOS
6. PARAMOUNT
PICTURES
Paramount pictures is 104 years old making it one
of America's oldest motion picture companies. The
visionary Zukor laid the foundation for the company
by acquiring the U.S. distribution rights to the silent
French film Queen Elizabeth, a ground-breaking
four-reel feature in a time when two reels was the
norm. Its success propelled Zukor's Famous Players
Film Company to great heights, and in the process,
transformed the entertainment business.
The year 1986 was particularly notable as
Paramount captured a 22 percent share of total
domestic box office revenue, twice that of its closest
competitor, and boasted five of the year's top 10
highest grossing films, including Top Gun and
Crocodile Dundee.
7. In relation to my horror project,
Paramount has released a chain of
popular horror films such as:
Paranormal Activity 1,2,3,4,5 & 6,
Friday the 13th, The Haunting and
The Ring.
PARAMOUNT
PICTURES
8. METRO GOLDWYN MAYER
Once the largest, most glamorous, and most revered
film studio, MGM was founded in 1924 when the
entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained
control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis
B. Mayer Pictures Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills,
California. It is one of the world's oldest film studios.
On November 3, 2010, MGM filed for bankruptcy.
MGM emerged from bankruptcy on December 20,
2010, at which time the executives of Spyglass
Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum,
became co-Chairmen and co-CEOs of the holding
company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
9. Metro Goldwyn Mayer has created
numerous horror films for
example: Poltergeist, The
Amityville Horror, The Cabin in the
Woods, Hannibal and Halloween.
METRO GOLDWYN MAYER
10. WARNER BROS.One of the most respected and successful
motion picture and television studios in the
world, Warner Bros. Studios began when
the brothers Warner (Albert, Sam, Harry
and Jack L.) incorporated their fledgling
movie company on April 4, 1923.
In 1927, the release of the world’s first
synchronized-sound feature film, The Jazz
Singer, set a character and tone of
innovation and influence that would
become synonymous with the name
Warner Bros.
11. Warner Bros have released many
historic market-changing movies
including: Nightmare on Elm
Street, The Shining, The Conjuring,
The Exorcist and Annabelle.
WARNER BROS.
