Thursday, 13 October 2016

conglomerates in the film industry

Disney

Walter Elias Disney, the founder of the Walt Disney company, and was the pioneer in the development of animation industry. Disney is one of the most famous names in the animation industry, it’s known for providing entertainment direct to adults and children alike;with international theme parks and a world-class animation studio and business franchise, the company nearly dominates the industry. 


Famous names such as Mickey Mouse began with Disney, and were the foundation of a company that has now branched out into several entertainment studios, theme parks, products, and other media productions.

Most of Disney’s films and television shows are aimed for young children or teens, but at the cruises, parks and on the tours there are things aimed to entertain adults.

Paramount
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio,television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film of Hollywood.

Paramount Pictures targets an older age group being ages 12-15 which is a n older target audience compared to other production and distribution companies. Paramount Pictures has created movies such as Indiana Jones, G.I.Joe and Star Trek which are all around the 12 age rating movies and movies such as World War Z, Anchorman and Hansel and Gretel which are based around the 15 age rating movies.

Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital-form only.Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world and the second oldest surviving film studio in the United States.


20th Century Fox

The parent company of 20th Century Fox was Fox entertainment group, 20th Century Fox was owned by Rupert Murdoch and other Nasdaq investors, Rupert was the chairman and chief executive, and the co-chairman was Lachlan Murdoch. The company was based in New York. 

The revenue of the company was $27bn, and the stock market value was $50bn, therefor the profit was $7.3bn. 




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