Big Eight (film studios)
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Template:Other uses2 During the "golden age" of Hollywood, The Big Eight referred to the eight major Hollywood movie studios.[1] Since then, the number of major studios has fluctuated; with bankruptcies (RKO Radio Pictures), mergers (United Artists), downsizing (MGM) and the promotion of what was previously a minor studio (The Walt Disney Company), as of 2018, there is currently a Big Six.
Big Eight is sometimes used to refer to the eight corporations that own the Big Ten, the ten major Hollywood movie studios.[citation needed]
- 20th Century Fox, owned by 21st Century Fox
- Columbia Pictures, owned by Sony
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, owned by MGM Holdings.
- Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom.
- RKO Radio Pictures, defunct c. 1959
- United Artists, purchased by MGM, owned by MGM Holdings
- Universal Studios - part of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.
- Warner Bros., part of the WarnerMedia division of AT&T.
See also
- Big Four - the four major music corporations: EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal, and Warner (originally the Big Five, prior to the merger of Sony and BMG)
References
- ^ Thomas Schatz (1999). Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. University of California Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-520-22130-7.
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