Sunday, 27 April 2014

Universal pictures

Universal Studios Inc.  is an American motion picture studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBC Universal,  and is one of the six major movie studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City.
Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour, it is the second oldest movie studio in the United States of America (beaten one month by Paramount Pictures, which was founded on May 8, 1912). In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.

Three of Universal Studios' films—Jaws (1975), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial(1982), and Jurassic Park (1993), all of which were directed by Steven Spielberg—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film at the time.

This information obtained from Wikipedia has allowed me to consider which distributor i am going to use. 

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