The Hollywood Studios

The Hollywood Studios

1. Warner Bros.

   • Founded April 4th 1923
   • Headquarters: Burbank, California- United States
   • 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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