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AErdology
Entertainment Venues Every piece of entertainment
or presentation is done from a specific location. A podium, stage, chair,
soap box, rock, platform, Each of those
things has its own unique set of numbers/letters. Each can be used
once and only once, or can be used enumerable times over the course of centuries
to millennia. Example the
soundstage were say I Love Lucy was shot, that building still exists. That
building not only exists but the year after that show ended the sets were changed
to be used for the next show. TV Shows shoot on
sound stages which sometimes have seen 100s of shows. Quick shows which shot a
pilot and that was that; the pilot was not picked up. Or the pilot was picked
up but they only shot x number of episodes and was cancelled before its
intended number of episodes was filmed. All those shows,
locations, actors, etc. crew all have numbers/letters associated. Majors[edit] Present[edit] Past[edit] Past majors
include:
Mini-majors[edit] Mini-major studios (or
"mini-majors") are the larger film production companies that are
smaller than the major studios and attempt to compete directly with them.[15] Present[edit]
Past[edit] Past mini-majors
include:
The studios[edit] Lions Gate
Entertainment, which moved in 2006 from Vancouver, British
Columbia, to Santa Monica, California, was the most
successful North American movie studio based outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area before
its relocation. Now known as Lionsgate, it was founded in 1997 by
financier Frank Giustra.[46] (The
company is unrelated to Lion's Gate Films, the Los Angeles–based production
company run by filmmaker Robert
Altman in the 1970s.)[47] In
2003, the company doubled in size with the acquisition of Artisan Entertainment.[48] In
January 2012, Lionsgate acquired Summit Entertainment, which was the
highest-grossing mini-major the previous three years.[49] Summit
was founded as an independent overseas sales company in 1991, moved into
production in the mid-1990s, and was reconstituted as a full-fledged studio
in 2006.[50] Lionsgate
also owns a minority stake in the independent distribution company Roadside Attractions.[51] Lionsgate is
apparently on the cusp of becoming a major studio with the parent's purchase of Summit Entertainment as well as its
controlling share of Roadside Attractions (43%)[52] and Pantelion
Films (as specialty units). With its top five box office showing it
was declared a new major studio by Variety;[51] however, The
Hollywood Reporter does not yet recognize the company as a major.[53] MGM, after decades as a major studio, continues
to distribute motion pictures and television content as a minor, privately
held media company. In April 2005, it was purchased from Kirk
Kerkorian's Tracinda Corporation by a consortium
including Sony, cable company Comcast (who
now owns Universal Pictures), Providence Equity Partners, and three
other private investment firms. MGM has a deal with 20th Century Fox for the
distribution of home video and overseas theatrical product.[54] MGM
is also once again the sole owner of United
Artists, after Tom Cruise and Paula
Wagner sold back their minority stakes. Via its original 1981 merger
with UA, MGM controls the rights to the James Bond franchise. Columbia co-distributed
the first two Bond films starring Daniel
Craig after the 2005 purchase.[55] After
a third Bond film with Craig was put on hold when MGM slipped into deep
financial trouble, Sony reached an agreement with MGM in April 2011 to
distribute Skyfall.[56] Sony's
distribution rights to the franchise expired in late 2015 with the release
of Spectre.[57] In
2017, MGM and Eon offered a one-film contract to co-finance and distribute
the upcoming 25th film worldwide,[58] which
was reported on 25 May 2018 to have been won by Universal Pictures.[59] DreamWorks was
founded in 1994 by Steven
Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David
Geffen. Once again independent with the founding of a new company after
two-and-a-half years under the Viacom/Paramount corporate umbrella, it is
backed by India's Reliance ADA Group.[60] DreamWorks
is not a full-service studio—it produces and finances films, but as it did
for most of its first era as an independent, it arranges distribution through
the majors. In February 2009, after dropping out of a deal with Universal,
DreamWorks struck such a deal with Disney, though Paramount was releasing the
DreamWorks pictures developed there through mid-2011.[61] The
first independent DreamWorks film to be released under the new deal, via
Touchstone, was I Am Number Four in February
2011. Katzenberg, who was completely divested from the new DreamWorks,
ran DreamWorks Animation as a totally
separate business. The company maintained distribution deals with DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures and 20th
Century Fox.[62] On
August 22, 2016, Universal Studios' parent company NBCUniversal acquired
DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion, thereby granting Universal ownership
access to every DreamWorks Animation product and distribution rights for
future movies. As part of the agreement, Katzenberg relinquished control of
DreamWorks Animation to Illumination's CEO Chris
Meledandri while heading as new chairman of DreamWorks New Media.[63][64] How to Train Your Dragon:
The Hidden World, released on February 22, 2019, was the first
DreamWorks Animation movie to be distributed by Universal Studios. Instant major
studios[edit] "'Instant
major' is a newly coined term for a film company that seemingly overnight has
approached the status of major"[65] In
1967, three "instant majors" studios popped up, two of which were
partnered with a Television network theatrical film unit
with most lasting until 1973:
Other significant,
past independent entities[edit]
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