Big Eight (film studios)

During the "golden age" of Hollywood, The Big Eight referred to the eight major Hollywood movie studios.^[1] Since then, the number of major studios has fluctuated; with bankruptcies (RKO Radio Pictures), mergers (United Artists), downsizing (MGM) and the promotion of what was previously a minor studio (The Walt Disney Company), as of 2018, there is currently a Big Six.

Big Eight is sometimes used to refer to the eight corporations that own the Big Ten, the ten major Hollywood movie studios.

20th Century Fox, owned by 21st Century Fox
Columbia Pictures, owned by Sony
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, owned by MGM Holdings.
Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom.
RKO Radio Pictures, defunct c. 1959
United Artists, purchased by MGM, owned by MGM Holdings
Universal Studios - part of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.
Warner Bros., part of the WarnerMedia division of AT&T.

See also

Big Four - the four major music corporations: EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal, and Warner (originally the Big Five, prior to the merger of Sony and BMG)

References

↑ Thomas Schatz (1999). Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. University of California Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-520-22130-7.

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