Movie studio

A movie studio is a business organization which produces, sells and promotes movies.

Major movie studios in 2002 include: (any mergers here?)

• Walt Disney Pictures
• Columbia Pictures
• Universal Studios
• Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century-Fox since 1935)
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Paramount Pictures
• DreamWorks SKG
• Metro Goldwin Mayer[?] (MGM, also owner of United Artists)

The Early American Motion Picture Studios

• American Mutoscope and Biograph Company[?]
• The Edison Manufacturing Co.[?]
• Essanay Film Manufacturing Co
• Kalem Company[?]
• Lubin Film Company[?]
• Selig Polyscope Company[?]
• Thanhouser Film Corporation[?]
• TheVitagraph Company[?]

The Early European Motion Picture Studios

• Gaumont Pictures, France
• Méliès Films, France
• Pathé Frères[?], France

The movie industry[?] is rather big. In 1998, there were 1.5 billion movie attendances in the United States. Worldwide gross revenues generated by motion pictures in all territories and media (including music and ancillaries) amounted to over $40 billion.