Film is a medium defined by creativity and imagination, so one might imagine there’s a diverse number of film studios and companies adding their unique projects and business decisions to the field. Well, the team at Wyoming LLC Attorney paints a different picture with this infographic. It turns out that Hollywood history is as studded with mergers and acquisitions as it is with stars. This timeline shows us that just 5 studios own the lion’s share of the market after a long history of mergers and acquisitions.
Through the timeline we can see that mergers are as old as Hollywood films itself with Paramount Pictures brokering the first merger with Players-Lasky Corporation in 1916. This fascinating look at Hollywood history through a business perspective can show us which film studios were on top at different points in time.
Today, Universal owns the largest percentage of the market shares at 21.77%, but Walt Disney Studios are close behind them at 21.26%. That’s half industry’s market shares between just two studios.
Here are a few of Universal’s subsidiary properties:
- Focus Features (Brokeback Mountain, London Has Fallen)
- Working Title Films (Les Miserables, Notting Hill, Bridget Jone’s Diary, Bean)
- Illumination (Despicable Me, Super Mario Bros. Movie)
- Dreamworks Animation (Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon)
- Amblin Partners (Jurassic Park, Men in Black, War of the Worlds, Ready Player One)
- Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, Halloween, The Purge, Insidious)
- Carnival Films (Firelight, Downton Abbey, Shadowlands)
Universal and Disney show off their huge wealth of Ips with world-famous theme parks. To learn more about the biggest mergers in film history, look no further than the details on this infographic.
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