Universal Television becomes Studios USA Television Seagram acquires PolyGram Filmed Entertainment General Electric buys NBC for $6.4 billion PolyGram renames Casablanca Record & Filmworks to PolyGram Pictures NBC begins first compatible color broadcasts, preceding other networks by nine yearsĪmerican Cable Systems rebrands to ComcastĬomcast began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and was one of the "Little Three" majors during Hollywood's golden age. the Extra-Terrestrial, both of which became the highest-grossing films of all time during their initial releases. Additionally, the studio's library includes many individual films such as Jaws and E.T. ![]() The most commercially successful film series from Universal include Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park, and Despicable Me. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States the world's second oldest with Paramount pictures, the fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film and the oldest major film studio in scope of the cinema of the United States, best known as "Hollywood", in terms of the overall film market. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal), is an American film production and distribution company owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.įounded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O.
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