Institution Research

20^th Century Fox

20^th Century Fox is an American film Corporation which was first founded on May 31^st in 1935. 20^th Century Fox is one of six major American film studios and headquartered in Century City in Los Angeles, California. 20^th Century fox was created by a merger. This means that two companied got together to create a larger company. The two founders Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a dispute and created the company ‘Twentieth Century Pictures’. They then merged with ‘Fox Films’ to create what we all know now – 20^th Century Fox.

Films that 20^th Century Fox are known for are Ice Age, Titanic, Avatar, Die Hard, Home Alone, Night in the Museum, the first two Star Wars trilogies and Fantastic Four. Genres that 20^th Century Fox are well known for producing are normally family films such as The Simpsons Movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Ice Age.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures is a film studio company and a motion picture distributor - first founded in 1912 by the ‘Famous Players Film Company’. It was not until 1914 when ‘Paramount Pictures Corporation’ opened up by Jesse Lasky, William Wadsworth Hodkinson and Adolph Zukor. Paramount Pictures is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world and is the last major film studio with their headquarters still situated in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is Americas the oldest running film studio, first founded in 1912.

Some of Paramount Pictures well known films are the Transformers, Start Trek, Titanic, Forest Gump, Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda. Many of Paramount’s films are action, adventure films.

Lions Gate Entertainment

Lions Gate Entertainment is a Canadian/American entertainment corporation, famous for its films such as The Hunger Games and Divergent. Lions Gate headquarters is located in Santa Monica, California and was founded in 1997 on the 3^rd of July. The main founder is Frank Giustra however Avi Federgreen was also an important person as they helped fund the start up of Lions Gate Entertainment.

Lions Gate Entertainment is famous it films such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Day After Tomorrow, Saw, Kick-Ass and Rambo. Much of their films are action, thriller and adventure genres.

Universal Studios

Universal Studios is a well known American film studio with is headquarters located in Universal City, Los Angeles, California. Universal Studies is not only well known for its movies but also its Universal Orlando theme park. Universal studio was founded by eight people - Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour. It was founded on June 10^th 1912, and is the second oldest American film studio still running – just beaten by Paramount Pictures by several months.

The movies that Universal Studios are well known for distributing is Jurassic World, Ted, Jaws, The Mummy, The Grinch, Dumb and Dumber, Hulk, ET and Lone Survivor. The genres related to Universal Studios are similar to 20^th Century Fox. These include comedy, action, thriller and family films.

Pixar Animation Studios

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation film studio, well known for mainly creating c.g.i, Computer Generated Images, animated kids films – created by Pixar’s RenderMan. It was founded in 1986, February 3^rd, by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.

Pixar are well known for creating many popular kids’ films such as Cars, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up, Monsters Inc, The incredible and WALL-E. Nearly, if not, all Pixar films are created using computer generated images and the genre they tend to go for is animated, adventure, family and comedy films.

 Warner Bros. Picture

Warner Bros. Picture was founded by four brothers Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner and Jack Warner, hence where the company name originates from. These four brothers founded the company on April 4^th, 1923. Today, Warner Bros is located in Burbank, California and is a division of Time Warner Inc.

Films that Warner Bors. Pictures are known for distributing is Inception, The Dark Knight, Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Interstellar, Gravity, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Happy Feet. The main genre of films that Warner Bros. Distribute are Adventure, thrillers and actions, as well as a few family films.

Our Film Institute

For our film institute, we decided upon the name ‘Whitehorn Productions’. We wanted to create a logo that was similar to Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment and 20^th Century Fox as their films may have similar genres to our film – which maybe an action, thriller and war film.