Studio began when brothers Warner (Albert, Sam,
Harry and Jack) incorporated their fledging movie
company
The Warner brothers started to produce their
own films by 1910
By 1918, they had built their first
Studio in Los Angeles, in Culver City
They released the first "talkie" movie- The Jazz Singer-
1927
The studio then went on quickly to produce the first
"all-talking" movie and their first "talking" gangster film
Warner Bros. biggest grossing hit ever: 2011's "Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows:Part 2"
worldwide gross of $1.3 billion
Its biggest domestic hit: 2008's "The Dark Knight"
which earned $533 million in North America
Virtually every movie Clint Eastwood has directed or starred in
for the past 45 years has been for Warner Bros... a partenership
that has include about 40 films
Paramount
Founded by Adolph Zukor 1912
In 2005 it brought Dreamworks
for $1.6 billion
2008- Dreamworks left
Paramount
logo is the longest existing
in Hollywood
Originally called Famous Players Film
Company but changed in 1916
1927- Won the very first academy award for best
picture
20th Century
Fox
Formed by film chain pioneer William G Fox, as a
merger of his two companies Greater New York Film
Rental and Fox Office Attractions Company
1915
2001- Fox became the international
distributor for MGM/UA releases
The company became 20th Century Fox in 1935
1956- Elvis Presley had his first
movie for Fox "Love Me Tender"
Headquarters: Fox Plaza, Century
City, Los Angeles, California, United
States
The fanfare theme tune was originally composed in
1933 by Alfred Newman
It was re-recorded in 1935
when 20th Century Fox was
fully established
Columbia Pictures
Founded by Harry Cohn on January 1924, Los
Angeles
The logo is a women standing against a green
screen holding a light bulb
The company started to grow in 1920 with
the director Frank Capra
One of the three in Hollywood's
Golden Age
From 1982-1987 the company was owned by
coca-cola
Worked with Sony
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Founded April 19th, 1924
It has a 90 year legacy
Headquarters: Beverly Hills, California
The last studio to convert to sound
pictures
Mayer only allowed Loew to buy his company if he could
become studio head
United Artists
Founded in 1919 by D. Griffith, Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks
with the intention of controlling their own interests
rather than depending on the big commercial studios
MGM combined with United Artists in 1981
RKO Pictures
Founded October 23rd,
1928
has long been celebrated for its series of
musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers in the mid-to-late 1930s
Maverick industrialist
Howard Hughes took
over RKO in 1948
After years of decline under his control, the studio was acquired by the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955