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Companies based in Burbank, California

  • The Walt Disney Company12 minThe Walt Disney Company began not as an empire but as a $1,500 contract. In 1923, a young animator named Walt Disney signed a deal with New York film distributor Margaret J. Winkler to produce six series of short films called Alice…
  • Marvel Studios14 minMarvel Studios has released 37 films and 17 television series, with eleven of those films ranking among the fifty highest-grossing of all time. Avengers: Endgame alone sat at the top of the global box office from July 2019 until March…
  • DC Comics12 minDC Comics traces its origins to a tabloid-sized publication called New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine, which first appeared with a February 1935 cover date. That debut was unlike nearly everything else on the newsstands: instead of reprinting…
  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment9 minWalt Disney Studios Home Entertainment spent 37 years quietly shaping how millions of families watched their favorite films at home. On the 14th of April 2026, Disney laid off its entire staff, effectively closing the division that had…
  • Walt Disney Studios (division)12 minWalt Disney Studios was founded on October the 16th, 1923, and today it stands as the largest film studio in Hollywood, a place whose history stretches back over a century. In 2019, this single division posted a global box office record of…
  • Touchstone Pictures12 minTouchstone Pictures was the secret weapon Walt Disney Company never quite admitted to having. On the 15th of February 1984, Disney CEO Ron W. Miller quietly signed a label into existence, chosen from over 1,200 candidate names, and the…
  • Walt Disney Pictures12 minWalt Disney Pictures was born on the 16th of October 1923, founded not by a corporation but by two brothers. Walt Disney and his brother Roy started the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with modest ambitions and no guarantee of survival. A…
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures12 minWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began not with a grand headquarters or a signed contract, but with a disagreement over a nature film. In 1953, when RKO Pictures refused to distribute The Living Desert, Walt Disney and his older brother…
  • Warner Bros. Pictures12 minWarner Bros. Pictures was founded on the 4th of April, 1923, by four brothers: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack L. Warner. What began as a family operation in New Castle, Pennsylvania, grew into one of the most durable institutions in American…
  • New Line Cinema9 minNew Line Cinema has a nickname that tells you almost everything: "The House that Freddy Built." In 1984, a low-budget horror film about a razor-fingered dream killer cost $1.8 million to make and returned over $57 million at the box…

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