Studio
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| In one sentence | One of the small handful of major companies in the United States that produce and distribute most big budget movies, like Disney, Warner Brothers, or Universal. |
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| Category | Film and Television |
| Related | Distributor, PFD Agreement, Negative Pickup |
Imagine one giant company that both makes toys and owns the biggest toy stores in the country, controlling almost the entire process from invention to sale. A movie studio holds a similar kind of combined power over movies.
A studio generally means one of the major American film companies that both produce and distribute movies, such as Warner Brothers, Sony, Disney, MGM, Fox, Universal, and Paramount. Studios typically have enough money and resources to finance their own movies directly, often through a PFD Agreement, rather than needing to piece financing together the way many independent films do.
Fun facts
- The major studios have existed in something like their current form for close to a century, and several trace their names back to the earliest days of Hollywood.
- Studios can also act as the distributor for movies made by other, smaller production companies, not just their own.
- Being backed by a studio usually makes a movie's financing much simpler, since one company is covering the whole budget instead of many separate financiers.