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    The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, and later developed an additional...
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    production companies and filmmakers. Essanay Studios founded by George K. Spoor was one of the earliest successful studios to produce movies in Chicago, employing...
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    Tourist to good reviews. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios. His first movie was likely a comedy short, His Athletic Wife (1913)...
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    20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The...
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    Angel Studios, Inc. is an American independent media company and film distribution studio based in Provo, Utah. It operates the over-the-top video on-demand...
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    base. Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio. The 15-year-old Swanson...
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    Broncho Billy Anderson (category American film studio executives)
    first star of the Western film genre. He was a founder and star for Essanay studios. In 1958, he received a special Academy Award for being a pioneer of...
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    and international markets, the major film studios, often known simply as the majors or the Big Five studios, are commonly regarded as the five diversified...
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  • animation production of its films to other studios. Most of its films are animated by Illumination Studios Paris, a subsidiary formed through the purchase...
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  • Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010. It...
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    the new home of Tyler Perry Studios. Tyler Perry Studios is one of the largest film production studios in the United States, and established Perry as the...
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  • Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC, operating as Revolution Studios, is an American independent motion picture and television studio headed by...
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  • DreamWorks SKG and formerly DreamWorks Studios, commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film studio and distribution label of Amblin Partners...
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  • Company banner, a precursor to today's company. WWE Studios released the film on DVD in 2012. WWE Studios was formed in 2002 as WWE Films, and was seen as...
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    film era of the early 20th century. She appeared in numerous films by Essanay Studios, including eleven Western films starring Broncho Billy Anderson. She...
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  • the film loans." In September 2017, Bron Studios was reorganized with Bron Media Corp. becoming Bron Studios' parent company. Genre label the Realm, Bron...
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    Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film...
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    Pixar Animation Studios (/ˈpɪksɑːr/) is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful...
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    Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short...
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  • of these programs. In December 2003, CF became Entertainment Studios. Entertainment Studios green-lit its first film and stage projects in December 2011...
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    Shout! Factory, LLC, trading as Shout! Studios (formerly known as Shout! Factory) is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis...
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    Biograph, Essanay Studios, Kalem Company, George Kleine Productions, Lubin Studios, Georges Méliès, Pathé, Selig Studios, and Vitagraph Studios, and dominated...
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    stake in the television production company RHI Entertainment (now Halcyon Studios), which would later be sold to Hallmark Cards in 1994. In early 1991, Fine...
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    General Service Studios in Hollywood, California, and became Zoetrope Studios, to produce and distribute films, as did later DreamWorks studio. In 1999, it...
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    content studio AGC Studios. Fleming, Mike Jr. (February 21, 2018). "Ex-IM Global Founder Stuart Ford Launches New Content Creator AGC Studios". Deadline...
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  • Troublemaker Studios is an American production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is...
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    into the moving picture business via the stage. He rose to fame at Essanay Studios in Chicago, where he was first noticed for his muscular, sculpted frame...
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    Western movie. The Essanay Studios, based in Niles, was creating one of their famous Broncho Billy westerns. These early Essanay Westerns showcased the...
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    animated feature films. The studio was a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios, with both being part of The Walt Disney Studios, itself a division of The...
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    distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios. The company's first major success came when the Weinsteins teamed up with...
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