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During the "golden age" of Hollywood, The Big Eight referred to the eight major Hollywood movie studios. 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
- MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom.
- RKO Radio Pictures, defunct c. 1957
- United Artists, purchased by MGM
- Universal Studios - part of Comcast's NBCUniversal
- Warner Bros., part of AT&T's WarnerMedia
Video Big Eight (film studios)
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)
Maps Big Eight (film studios)
References
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