Hollywood’s Biggest Mergers Shaped the Industry

The history of Hollywood is rife with cutthroat business moves behind the glitz and glamor of what we see on camera. The team at Wyoming LLC Attorney made that clear with this timeline of the film industry’s biggest mergers and acquisitions. Following this timeline, we can see that five major film studios dominate the industry: Universal, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Sony Pictures.

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The team even went so far as to show us how much percent of the market share each company owns. Universal and Disney come out on top respectively. Between them they own almost half the film industry’s market shares. We can see lists of subsidiaries owned by each studio below the timeline.

For example, Universal owns the following:

• 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)
• Peacock
• NBC News/CNBC/MSNBC
• Syfy
• E!
• Bravo
• Telemundo

There’s no doubt that timeline is an enlightening look at the film industry, highlighting the tendency of larger studios to absorb their competition. Some speculate that further mergers might narrow these big five studios down to