Big Eight (film studios)

During the "golden age" of Hollywood, The Big Eight referred to the eight major Hollywood movie studios. Since then, the number of major studios has fluctuated; with bankruptcies (RKO Radio Pictures), mergers (United Artists), downsizing (MGM) and the promotion of what was previously a minor studio (The Walt Disney Company), as of 2018, there is currently a Big Six.

Big Eight is sometimes used to refer to the eight corporations that own the Big Ten, the ten major Hollywood movie studios.


 * 20th Century Fox, owned by 21st Century Fox
 * Columbia Pictures, owned by Sony
 * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, owned by MGM Holdings.
 * Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom.
 * RKO Radio Pictures, defunct c. 1959
 * United Artists, purchased by MGM, owned by MGM Holdings
 * Universal Studios - part of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.
 * Warner Bros., part of the WarnerMedia division of AT&T.