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Paramount Pictures is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top grossing movie studios. Paramount Pictures can trace its beginning to the creation in May 1912 of the Famous Players

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so called Big Six. It was one of the so called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn Brandt

Touchstone Pictures, established in 1984, is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner. Touchstone Pictures is merely a label and does not exist as a separate company: the two companies behind it are the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and Walt Disney Pictures and Television. Their most commercially successful production partners in later years has been

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films brands, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures. The company logo is the Sphinx; its logo music was composed by Danny Elfman. Its first release was Arachnophobia (1990). While then Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its

Republic Pictures was (and still is, in name only) an independent film production distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1934 through 1959 and best known for its specialization in westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action. They were also responsible for financing one Shakespeare film, Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948), and several of the films of John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s, and for developing the careers and star status of John Wayne

Orion Pictures Corporation was an American independent production company that produced movies from 1978 until 1998. It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former top level executives of United Artists. Never a large motion picture producer, Orion achieved a comparatively high reputation for Hollywood quality. Woody Allen and several other Oscar winning directors worked with Orion during its most successful years in 1978–1992. It still operates today, but it is

RKO (Radio Keith Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As Radio Pictures Inc. and then RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith Albee Orpheum (KAO) theater chains and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) studio were brought together under the control of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in October 1928. RCA chief David Sarnoff engineered the merger

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled Tri Star until 1991) is a film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures. It was founded in 1982 as Nova Pictures. The concept for TriStar came about in 1982 when Columbia Pictures (then a subsidiary of Coca Cola), HBO, and CBS (who, despite their former full name Columbia Broadcasting System was unrelated to Columbia Pictures, although the film studio did produce some

Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. Gainsborough Studios were active between 1924 and 1951. Built as a power station for the Great Northern & City Railway it was later converted to studios. The former studios were demolished in 2002 and apartments built on the site in 2004. A London Borough of Hackney historical plaque is attached to the building .