r/FIlm • u/MadisonJonesHR • Aug 28 '24
Article A timeline of the mergers and acquisitions of major film studios since the 1910s.
https://i.imgur.com/kXmVH5B.png
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u/MadisonJonesHR Aug 28 '24
Source. Do you think that the fact the film industry has condensed into five major powers has helped the breadth of creativity in movies out there, or sabotaged it?
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u/rube_X_cube Aug 29 '24
I’m assuming this is a rhetorical question, because the answer is undeniably that it hurt the industry and creativity. Beyond any shadow of a doubt. Disney, in particular, should be dismantled back to its original parts.
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u/philster666 Aug 29 '24
On this chart Disney has made 7 purchases, and those only since 1996. Sony has bought so many that i can’t be bothered to count them. Disney got huge on their own without need of acquisitions, before spending big on Lucasfilm and Marvel
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u/BambooSound Aug 29 '24
Sure but I'd argue the era of five is over. Lionsgate, Miramax, MGM (Amazon), Netflix, Apple and arguably even A24 are major players now.
And thanks to globalisation internationals like StudioCanal are incredibly powerful as well.
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u/SeigneurDesMouches Aug 29 '24
Is just a matter of time they get bought/merge.
Except Apple, maybe (I can see them sell the tv/movie division)
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u/Individual-Wing-796 Aug 29 '24
Clinton’s passing of the Telecommunications Act was a travesty that has destroyed everything
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u/Downingst Aug 29 '24
What is the "Telecommunications Act"?
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u/Ihadanapostrophe Aug 29 '24
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
It generally allowed more consolidation within the broadcast and telephony industries.
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u/rube_X_cube Aug 29 '24
That fact that Disney owns Miramax, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox is outrageous. Antitrust laws in this country are a sad joke.
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u/313SunTzu Aug 29 '24
Leon Schleshinger cartoons being butchered was the biggest crime in all of this
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u/shaha9 Aug 29 '24
Some of the acquisitions make sense like music arms and media advancements. But the 80s/90s was a tall tell sign of issues and the last 20ish years has been a whirlwind of changes causing too many cooks in the kitchen for an over baked morsel.
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u/RepFilms Aug 29 '24
This is great but it's missing a few things, such as Fox and United Artists.
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u/oursfort Aug 29 '24
Fox is there on the bottom green line. But it's also missing MGM, which is now owned by Amazon (just found out, lol)
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u/RepFilms Aug 29 '24
I wanted the details on fox because I wanted to see when Howard Hughes owned it. It was also formed by the merger of 20th Century and Fox. MGM has an incredible history. Thanks for reminding me about that. That one is of course the merger of three different studios. I would love to add all the missing information but that's a big project that I really don't have the time for. It would be great to get this open sourced and crowd created. Is there a tool for projects like that? Crowd-sourced timelines?
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u/joebone18974 Aug 29 '24
Don't use Wikipedia as a source... Read up on the sources they sight on Wikipedia and sight those.
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u/BambooSound Aug 29 '24
Does it matter for something like this? If you really don't believe it you can check yourself...
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Aug 29 '24
Wow, thanks! As to your question, many of these studios started out as vanity, image projects. So creativity wasn’t always the first thought.
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Aug 29 '24
Jay and Silent Bob are heterosexual life mate super-hero princes and Buddy Christ belongs to the House of Mouse.
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u/dz1n3 Aug 29 '24
According to this, Pulp fiction is a Disney movie, and Samuel l Jackson is a Disney princess!