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

Yachts and big boats are flashy and so is this colorful chart from the team at SI Yachts ranking boat and yacht manufacturers by how much revenue they earn per second. Yachts are undoubtedly a status symbol, so this ranking of manufacturers only adds to the prestige of the boats they sell.

The graphic is plenty colorful, showing us images of the type of boat each manufacturer is known for along with their logo. The team ranked each brand by how much revenue they earn per second and also broke down how much they earn in a year, as well as listing the company’s country of origin. The result is an illustrated parade of top boating and yachting brands.

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Boat enthusiasts have a lot of brand loyalty, but they’re also on the lookout for rising brands or the latest or most exciting boat models and features. This infographic displays all the brands that yachters should be paying attention to. Do you see any brands you don’t recognize on the list?

Their results show us that the top selling brand was Italian mega yacht manufacturer, Fincantieri, earning an incredible $266.99 per second or 8.42 billion a year. The brand is closely followed by American manufacturer, Brunswick Boats who earn $202.94 per second or 6.4 billion a year. These are the only brands that slotted into the graphics over $100 a second revenue category. Explore the details of all these great brands and maybe even research their bestselling models.

The work from home movement is here to stay. It’s projected that in 2024, one in five American workers will call the workplace home. Many people say that working from home saves them time and money, but just how much money will vary depending on the state. That’s why the team at Ooma decided to create an index ranking each state by how desirable of work from home location it is.

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They used their rankings to map out each state and highlight the best places to work from home. After all, working from home means the freedom to live anywhere. The factors that the Ooma team used to create their index were:

• Average work from home salary
• Median monthly rent
• Salary to rent ratio
• Utility prices
• Internet speeds
• Taxes on wireless service

The states with the highest scores offered high salaries and low cost of living with good Internet access. These are the ten states that scored highest:

1. North Dakota
2. South Dakota
3. Oklahoma
4. Vermont
5. Kentucky
6. Missouri
7. Delaware
8. South Carolina
9. Oregon
10. Idaho

In the lowest scoring states, people will not save as much money working from home because the cost of living doesn’t keep pace with average salaries. Here are the ten states with the lowest scores:

1. California
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Connecticut
5. New Hampshire
6. New Jersey
7. Utah
8. New York
9. Maryland
10. Alaska