Curated category
Entertainment companies based in California
- The Walt Disney CompanyThe 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…
- Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentSony Pictures Home Entertainment released its first twenty titles in November 1979, not under the Sony name but under the banner of Columbia Pictures Home…
- Universal PicturesUniversal Pictures was founded on the 30th of April 1912, making it the oldest surviving film studio in the United States.
- 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…
- Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group holds a catalogue of over three million recordings and four million compositions, making it the largest music company on the planet.
- DirecTVOn the 17th of June 1994, the first direct broadcast satellite service went live in the United States. Hughes Electronics had spent years developing the…
- Walt Disney Studios (division)Walt 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…
- Touchstone PicturesRon W. Miller signed the papers to establish Touchstone Films on the 15th of February 1984. The new label emerged from a desperate need to separate adult…
- Warner Bros. PicturesWarner 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…
- Skydance MediaSkydance Media took its name from a flying technique. David Ellison, a licensed pilot, drew inspiration from aerobatics called "skydancing" when he founded…
- Twitch (service)Twitch is an American live-streaming platform that began its life in June 2011 not as a standalone product, but as a calculated spin-off carved out of a…
- Sony Pictures TelevisionSony Pictures Television traces its roots not to Sony at all, but to a small outfit called Pioneer Telefilms, founded in 1947 by Ralph Cohn, whose father…
- Viz MediaViz Media commands nearly a quarter of the graphic novel market in the United States, yet the company traces back to a single man from Tokushima Prefecture…
- United ArtistsUnited Artists was born from an act of rebellion. On the 5th of February 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W.
- LucasfilmGeorge Lucas established Lucasfilm on the 10th of December 1971 in San Rafael, California. The company began with just five employees working out of a small…
- Critical Role ProductionsThe year 2015 marked the beginning of a new era for tabletop role-playing games when eight actors formed Critical Role Productions.
- Anonymous ContentIn 1999, Steve Golin left Propaganda Films to establish a new company with partners Dave Morrison and Gore Verbinski. They named the entity Anonymous Content…
- Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts began with a meeting in February 1982, when Trip Hawkins walked into the offices of Sequoia Capital and pitched a company he was calling…
- 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…