This Is What Top Movie Studios Make
A deep dive into movies and money.
Which companies have produced the best films? Top years, top companies, top box office. Who keeps turning out great movies and great profits? Which still touch our hearts, change our minds and inform our view? How long have these icons cultivated value in our lives? Once you know who is doing it…and what they’ve been doing…perhaps you can figure out how and if need be…why.
Major film studio
A major film studio is a production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market. — Wiki
The Big Six Classic American Studios are Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, Columbia, Universal, and Twentieth Century Fox.
Fun Fact: Disney was NOT part of the original Big Eight coming from a specialization in animation…now they toast well earned success among creative peers.
The top ten active studios based on general box office gross are [1]:
- Warner Bros. est. 1923–12 Titles in Top 100, 1 in Top 10, $5 Billion profit in 2017 [4]
- Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group est. 1987–11 Titles in Top 100 (Venom is looking good but it’s too early to record a solid…