Seven sisters (studios)

For other uses, see Seven Sisters (disambiguation).

The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when The Walt Disney Studios emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium including Sony Pictures Entertainment. The seven sisters were:

1. Columbia Pictures/TriStar Pictures — a division of Sony
2. Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures — divisions of The Walt Disney Company
3. 20th Century Fox Film Corporation — a division of 21st Century Fox
4. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists — a subsidiary of MGM Holdings
5. Paramount Pictures — a subsidiary of Viacom
6. Universal Studios — a subsidiary of Comcast
7. Warner Bros. Pictures — a subsidiary of Time Warner

See also

• Major film studios
• Hollywood history and culture