Universal Studios

Universal Studios
General information
Type	Subsidiary
Founded	April 30, 1912 (as Universal Film Manufacturing Company)
Founder	Carl Laemmle Pat Powers Mark Dintenfass William Swanson David Horsley Charles Baumann Adam Kessel Jules Brulatour
Headquarters	Universal City, California, US
Key People	Donna Langley (Chairman) Jeff Shell (Chairman, Filmed Entertainment)
Industry	Film
Served area	Worldwide
Products	Motion pictures
Owner	Comcast
Parent	Universal Animation Studios Focus Features DreamWorks Animation Illumination Entertainment Working Title Films Universal Pictures Home Entertainment NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan United International Pictures (50%) Rede Telecine

Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures, or simply Universal, stylized as UNIVERSAL since 1963) is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. 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 Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. Universal was founded in 1912 by the German Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour. Universal is the world's fourth oldest major film studio, after the renowned French studios Gaumont and Pathé, and the Danish Nordisk Film company.

Logo

In 1997, the iconic logo features a space atmosphere, several light rays form where it reveals the planet earth with its continents "glowing", they disappear when the company name "UNIVERSAL" arches around in front of the globe.

For its 100th anniversary in 2012, the current iconic logo is introduced. The camera pans over the earth with the sun goes behind, causing the lights on the continents to glow. The company name arches in front of the globe and the owner company byline appears below.

Films

• Show Boat (1936, originally distributed and produced by Universal Pictures; US distribution rights now owned by Warner Bros.)
• Dracula (1958, produced by Hammer Film Productions; US distribution rights now owned by Warner Bros.)
• The Mummy (1959; co-production with Hammer Film Productions; US distribution rights now owned by Warner Bros.)
• Stroker Ace (1983; co-production with Warner Bros.)
• The Last Starfighter (1984; co-production with Lorimar; Warner Bros. currently has rights.)
• Tank (1984; co-production with Lorimar; Warner Bros. currently has rights.)
• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988; co-production with Warner Bros.)
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990; co-production with Hanna-Barbera; Rights now belong to Warner Bros.)
• The Flintstones (1994; co-production with Amblin Entertainment and Hanna-Barbera; Rights now belong to Warner Bros.)
• Twister (1996; co-production with Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment)
• The Story of Us (1999; co-production by Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment)
• Mickey Blue Eyes (1999; distributed in the U.S. by Warner Bros. Pictures; co-production with Castle Rock Entertainment)
• The Green Mile (1999; co-production by Warner Bros.)
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000; co-production with Amblin Entertainment and Hanna-Barbera; Rights now belong to Warner Bros.)
• Possession (2002; co-production by Warner Bros.)
• The Invention of Lying (2009; co-production by Warner Bros.)
• Dream House (2011; co-production by Warner Bros.)
• Dumb and Dumber To (2014; co-production with New Line Cinema, Red Granite Pictures and Conundrum Entertainment)
• Straight Outta Compton (2015, co-production with Legendary Pictures, New Line Cinema, Cube Vision, Crucial Films, and Broken Chair Flickz)
• Central Intelligence (2016; co-production by Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema)