Big Six (movie studio corporations)
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The Big Six refers to the six corporations which own the major movie studios (along with most other major US based in or around Hollywood, California, the traditional home of American cinema).
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[edit] News Corporation
[edit] The Walt Disney Company
[edit] Viacom
- Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Classics
- DreamWorks SKG
- Distributes DreamWorks Animation films (a separate company, spun-off by DreamWorks in 2004)
- Go Fish Pictures
- United International Pictures (joint venture with Universal Studios)
- MTV Networks
- MTV Films (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
- Nickelodeon Movies (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
[edit] Sony Corporation of America (Sony)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Studios
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
- MGM/UA Entertainment Co. {Providence Equity Partners (29%), Texas Pacific Group (21%), Sony (20%), Comcast (20%), DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (7%), Quadrangle Group (3%)}
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- United Artists
- Orion Pictures (defunct)
- Sony Pictures Digital
[edit] Time Warner
- Warner Bros. Entertainment (Warner Bros. Studios)
- New Line Cinema
- Fine Line Features (defunct; folded into Picturehouse)
- Picturehouse (joint venture of New Line and HBO)
- HBO
[edit] NBC Universal
- Universal Studios (Universal Pictures)
- Universal Animation Studios
- United International Pictures (joint venture with Paramount Pictures)
- Working Title Films
- Focus Features
[edit] See also
- Big Ten (movie studios)
- Big Four record labels - the four major music corporations: Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner (originally the Big Five, narrowed to four after Sony and BMG came together in a 50-50 joint venture)