Watching movies in your free time is a wonderful hobby to have. Sitting in a theater with a big tub of popcorn and your favorite drink is a great fun. Isn’t it?
There are immense benefits of watching movies. Movies help us release our sorrow when we have a bad day. They allow us to imagine a new life that we may never experience in our real life. Also, they educate us by presenting science, technology, history, culture, politics and lot more.
The experience of watching a movie is always incredible but nothing can beat the giant screen, amazing sound effects and high-level quality viewing that an advance film studio offers.
The five major film companies discussed below are the most popular film studios, which share almost 90 % of the US and Canadian box office revenue.
- Sony
Sony is the firm behind Sony Pictures Entertainment. Today, Sony is considered as the biggest studio with 17% share of the entire US and Canadian markets. All the Sony movies have proved to be entertaining and moral.
Columbia Pictures, a major studio subsidiary of Sony, is also a very big player in the business. Sony owns some of the prominent brands like Sony Pictures Animation, Triumph Films, Affirm Films, Tri Star Pictures, Stage 6 Films and Destination Films etc.
- Time Warner
Time Warner is an esteemed film studio that holds the second biggest share of the combined markets of the US and Canada at 15.4 %. This incredible and exceptional film studio makes quality movies and releases movies for everyone.
They take tremendous risks with naive people and encourage film-makers to expand their scale & vision. Its parent division is called Warner Bros. Entertainment, whereas Warner’s foremost studio subsidiary is known as Warner Bros. They are also the owners of other divisions such as Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Animation, New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment.
- Walt Disney
‘Nothing could be better and bigger than Disney in the world of film-making’. The Walt Disney Company is one of the most renowned film production firms in the history of the movie industry that owns about 14.3% share of the US and Canadian markets.
Movie production of Disney is done under its major studio division called Walt Disney Pictures. Disney also owns other legendary names like Lucasfilms, Marvel Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Nature.
- News Corporation
News Corporation is the corporation behind the Fox Entertainment Group. Their major film production is done by a highly successful movie production company called 20th Century Fox.
This giant company owns 10.6 % share of the US and Canadian markets. Other companies under News Corporation include Fox Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Animation, Fox Faith, Blue Sky Studios and Fox Animation Studios.
- Comcast/General Electric
Comcast/General Electric is the company behind Universal Pictures. This well-known film studio owns NBCUniversal and Focus Features. 13.6 % of the US and Canadian markets share belongs to Comcast/General Electric. This giant is the owner of other big brands such as Illumination Entertainment, Universal Animation Studios and Working Title Films.
In addition to the five companies enlisted above, some other popular movie studios are Viacom, Lions Gate Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, MGM, Dreamworks, and so on. These studios have also secured reputable positions by making millions of dollars for the film industry.
We are lucky enough to live in a time where technology has provided more and more options for watching movies. Today, we can watch high quality movies on our televisions, laptops, and even smartphones.
The experience of watching your favorite movie in the comfort of sitting at home will is always amazing.
About The Author
Ronald is a professional writer, blogger and a huge fan of films and music. He is a blogger at Loudbeats.org and loves to write what he’s experienced over the years in the area of films and music.
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