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Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios.
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Company type | Subsidiary of Comcast and NBCUniversal (a division of Comcast and General Electric) |
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Industry | Film |
Founded | New York City, New York April 30, 1912 (as Universal Film Manufacturing Company) June 8, 1912 (as Universal Pictures) (112 years ago) |
Headquarters | Universal City, California |
Number of locations | Universal Studios Orlando, Florida Universal Studios Hollywood, California Universal Studios Japan Universal Studios Singapore |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Carl Laemmle, Founder Ronald Meyer, President / Chief Operating Officer |
Products | Motion pictures |
Owner | Independent (1912-1962, 1997-2004) MCA (1962-1997) NBCUniversal (2004-present) Comcast (2011-present) |
Website | universalstudios.com |
Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle,[1] it is the oldest American movie studio that is still in continuous production; the next oldest is Paramount Pictures[2]. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC.[3] The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBCUniversal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.
Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the longest-lived Hollywood studio[4].
Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).