Curated category
Film production companies based in California
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Walt Disney PicturesWalt 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…
- Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began not with a grand headquarters or a signed contract, but with a disagreement over a nature film.
- 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…
- New Line CinemaOn the 18th of June 1967, a twenty-seven-year-old Robert Shaye established New Line Cinema in New York City. He operated the company from his apartment at…
- 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.
- 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…