Curated category
Companies based in Los Angeles
- Paramount SkydanceOn the 7th of August 2025, David Ellison officially formed Paramount Skydance Corporation. This new entity emerged from a three-way merger between Paramount…
- Luma PicturesLuma Pictures started with a single film credit in 2003, on Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. From that debut, the studio grew into one of Hollywood's most…
- MiramaxHarvey and Bob Weinstein opened their first office in Buffalo, New York, during 1979. They named the company Miramax by combining the names of their parents…
- Capitol RecordsCapitol Records was born on a golf course. Songwriter Johnny Mercer floated the idea of starting a record company while out on the links with Harold Arlen…
- Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures was founded on the 8th of May 1912, making it older than almost every film studio on earth. Only a handful of European companies and one…
- GlobeNewswireGlobeNewswire was built on a specific frustration: a 15-minute delay. When the company was established in 1998, financial news had a structural lag baked…
- StubHubStubHub traces its origin to the late 1990s, when Eric Baker went looking for a secondhand ticket to a Broadway performance of The Lion King.
- Fox Sports (United States)Fox Sports was born on the 12th of August 1994, the day the NFL awarded Fox its broadcast rights to the National Football Conference.
- TubiTubi is an American streaming television service that runs on ads instead of charging a subscription fee. Stylized as tubı, the service reached 100 million…
- New Line CinemaNew 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…
- Capitol Music GroupCapitol Music Group sits at the center of one of the most consequential ownership chains in recorded music. A single merger in February 2007 brought Capitol…
- Sony Pictures ClassicsSony Pictures Classics has released films that have won 38 Academy Awards across more than three decades of operation. That number alone says something…
- WingNut FilmsWingNut Films Productions Ltd is a New Zealand production company with roots in Wellington and a filmography that stretches from low-budget horror to one of…
- Annapurna InteractiveAnnapurna Interactive has published nine games since 2017, and they share almost nothing in common. Its catalog includes What Remains of Edith Finch, Donut…
- TokyopopTokyopop arrived in 1997 with a bold claim: that American teenagers, and especially teenage girls, were hungry for Japanese comics.
- Urban VisionUrban Vision Entertainment Inc. set up shop in Los Angeles in July 1996 with a single, specific ambition: bring Japanese animation into the American…
- Oaktree Capital ManagementOaktree Capital Management was born in 1995 when a tight-knit group of financiers walked away from the TCW Group and took their clients with them.