The Big Six

The big six film companies.

1. The Big Six.

2. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studios began when the brothers Warner (Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack L.) established their movie company on April 4, 1923 . Their current CEO and chairman is, Kevin Tsujihara. Warner Bros. is responsible for the Harry Potter film series, the highest grossing film series of all time, It is also responsible for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 as Warner Bros.' highest grossing movie in the companies history.

3. Walt Disney studios. On October 16, 1923. Walt Disney. signed a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies — this date is considered the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio . Then in 1928 the first ever Mickey Mouse cartoon was made (Steamboat Willie). Disney is responsible for the highest grossing animated film ever ‘Frozen ’. Below is a table of all the production that Disney do over a number of different studios. Studio Structure. Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group Disney Music Group Disney Theatrical Group Disney Studio Service Special Events Group Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Animation Studios ( Disney Toon Studios ) Pixar Animation Studios Disneynature Lucasfilm Walt Disney Records Hollywood Records Disney Music Publishing Disney Theatrical Productions Disney on Broadway Disney on Ice Disney Live! Studio Production Services Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) Golden Oak Ranch The Prospect Studios Disney Digital Studio Services The Muppets Studio

4. 20 th Century Fox F ormed on May 31, 1935 ,  as the result of the merger between Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck . It's the world's second largest major film studio, after Warner Bros . Fox is responsible for Avatar, the highest grossing film in the companies history and is also the highest grossing film of all time. The current CEO and chairman is, Jim Gianopulos . 20 TH century is well known for the fanfare that plays during the opening of a fox film.

5. Columbia Pictures The studio, founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years later. The name is derived from "Columbia", a national personification of the United States, which is used as the company's logo . The highest grossing Columbia Pictures film is ‘Spiderman 3’, t he films grossing was $891 million. Columbia pictures is currently owned by Sony after being bought for $3.4 billion in 1989. It also had spells of being run by Coca Cola.

6. Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation  is a film studio, television production company  and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood .  It has distributed several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic Universe(2008–11), Indiana Jones (1981–2008), The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, The Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, "Crocodile" Dundee, Paranormal Activity, Friday the 13th and G.I. Joe. It is the world's fourth oldest continuously-operating major film studio, the third being Universal Studios. Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having three films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in worldwide box office sales: Titanic  (1997; $2,186,772,306) Transformers: Dark of the Moon  (2011; $1,123,794,079) Transformers: Age of Extinction  (2014; $1,065,153,989)

7. NBC UNIVERSAL. NBC Universal was formed in August 2004 by the merger of General Electric's NBC with  Vivendi. Universal’s (Who own NBCuniversal ) worldwide total to date is $2.6 billion— $1.6 billion coming from international markets and $1 billion in North America.  The top earners of the year,  Fast & Furious 6  and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me 2 , are the second and third highest-grossing films of 2013 worldwide, trailing only Iron Man 3.