"The Old Man of the Mountain (film) The Old Man of the Mountain (untitled only in the 1972 redrawn color edition with live-action footage and credits cut) is a 1933 animated short in the ""Betty Boop"" series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring music recorded by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, like in ""Minnie The Moocher"", the short was originally released to theaters on August 4, 1933 by Paramount Productions. Calloway voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself (talking voice provided by Bonnie Poe and singing voice provided by Mae Questel). Calloway and his orchestra also"
"Reliance-Majestic Studios Reliance-Majestic Studios was an early American movie studio in Hollywood, California, originally built around 1914 at 4516 Sunset Boulevard. Within a few years, it became the home of D. W. Griffith and Mutual Film Corporation. Later the studio's name was changed to Fine Arts Studios, and was sometimes known as the Griffith Studio and as the Griffith Artcraft Studio. The studio was formed by Mutual as a partnership between D. W. Griffith and Majestic Studio owner Harry Aitken. ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), ""Hearts of the World"" (1918) and ""Broken Blossoms"" (1919) were partially or fully lensed"
"Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the ""Big Six"" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood"
"consultant not involved in the process, said ""It's a prudent move for them. Downsizing and relocating to a space that is still prominent but not overly ostentatious and burdened by expenses is fundamental for their survival."" MGM vacated its namesake tower on August 19, 2011. The studio's official motto, """"Ars Gratia Artis"""", is a Latin phrase meaning ""Art for art's sake"". It was chosen by Howard Dietz, the studio's chief publicist. The studio's logo is a roaring lion surrounded by a ring of film inscribed with the studio's motto. The logo, which features Leo the Lion, was created by Dietz"
"(2009), ""Sharknado"" (2013), ""San Andreas"" (2015), and countless other films. Other movies came up with fictional explanations for the elimination of the original LAND part of the sign. Hollywood Sign The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is situated on Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains. ""HOLLYWOOD"" is spelled out in -tall white capital letters and is 352 feet (107.3 m) long. The sign was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but due to"
"walls of the ""Marvel"" logotype."" A new logo was introduced at the 2017 D23 Expo to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the MCU. Marvel Studios Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American motion picture studio based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, itself a wholly owned division of The Walt Disney Company, with film producer Kevin Feige serving as president. Previously, the studio was a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment until Disney reorganized the companies in August 2015. Dedicated to producing films based"
"Mann's 1924 novel ""The Magic Mountain"". The film was released on February 17, 2017 by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing $26 million against its $40 million production budget. At a large financial services firm in New York City, an executive named Lockhart is sent by the company board of directors to retrieve Roland Pembroke, the company's CEO who had abruptly decided to stay at a ""wellness center"" in the Swiss Alps. The board needs Pembroke to sign off on an upcoming merger. The company is being investigated for criminal misconduct,"
"Illumination (animation company) Illumination, known until 2017 as Illumination Entertainment, is an American film and animation studio founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007 and owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. Meledandri produces the movies while Universal finances and distributes all the films. The studio is best known for the ""Despicable Me"" franchise, and has also produced the films ""The Secret Life of Pets"" and ""Sing"". The Minions, characters from the ""Despicable Me"" films, are the studio's official mascots. Illumination's highest-grossing films are ""Minions"" (2015), which has grossed $1.159 billion worldwide, ""Despicable"
"at the studio. The sets for ""Intolerance"" (1916) were erected across the street where the Vista Theatre stands. In 1915, Thomas Ince's Kay-Bee Pictures, Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, and D. W. Griffith's Reliance-Majestic studio were combined to form the Triangle Film Corporation, which was headed by Harry and Roy Aitken. In 1927, Tiffany Pictures acquired the lot. Upon Tiffany's bankruptcy in 1932, the stages were renamed Talisman studios used as a rental studio by a variety of studios such as Monogram Pictures. The lot (now with the address 4520 Sunset Boulevard) is currently the location of a Vons supermarket. Reliance-Majestic"
"Leo the Lion (MGM) Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss. Since 1916 (and when the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn's studio with Marcus Loew's Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer's company in 1924), there have been seven different lions used for the MGM logo. Although MGM has referred to all of the lions used in their trademark as ""Leo the Lion"", only the current lion,"
"Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Santa Anita Park's large parking lot and blue-tinged fascia served as the exterior of Walley World, while all park interior scenes were shot at Magic Mountain. The two roller coasters seen in the film are The New Revolution, which can be recognized by the vertical loop, and Colossus, the double-track wooden roller coaster. The movie's popularity gave rise to an ongoing cultural running gag of using the name ""Wally World"" (spelled as ""Wally"" without an ""e"") as a nickname for real-life retailer Walmart. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster station wagon was created specifically for the"
"Imprint Entertainment Imprint Entertainment, formerly Maverick Picture Company and Maverick Films, is a production and talent management company owned by Michael Becker and Mark Morgan and formerly a part of the entertainment company, Maverick. The company is located on the Universal Studios lot in Burbank, California. Maverick Picture Company was the film division of Maverick founded in 1992. The first film it produced was ""Dangerous Game"" in 1993, directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel and James Russo. In 2001, the company was rebranded as simply Maverick Films and was solely managed by Madonna and Guy Oseary, CEO"
"Oz Kids"". The studio has been dormant since 2007. The company's mascot was Leslie McGroarty from ""Itsy Bitsy Spider"", who appears in its production logo. (TV) - Television film<br>(DTV) - Direct-to-video Hyperion Pictures Hyperion Pictures (a.k.a. Hyperion Films or Hyperion Studios) is an American film production company founded by Thomas L. Wilhite, who had previously been the head of motion picture and television produced for and owned by Walt Disney Productions, and writer/director Willard Carroll. The company produces both live-action and animated productions such as ""The Brave Little Toaster"" and ""The Runestone"". A subsidiary of the company is its animation"
"Company (as it was by Miramax) for genre films. After the success of ""1408"", released in June 2007, the studio went two years without a hit. It experienced several high-level executive defections in 2008, and announced major layoffs that November. The Weinsteins have a long-standing relationship with Quentin Tarantino—all of the feature films he has directed through 2009 have been distributed either by Miramax, when it was led by the brothers, or The Weinstein Company. The successful release of his ""Inglourious Basterds"" in August 2009 was seen as a ""turnaround"" for the studio. MGM, after decades as a major studio,"
"Sennett, went bankrupt because of the Great Depression. This made the company a true film studio. That studio lot is now CBS Studio Center. Mascot was responsible for the popularity of the concept of the ""singing cowboy"" and the ""musical western"". In 1935 the studio produced ""The Phantom Empire"" with the then untried Gene Autry as the lead. Mascot's film laboratory was Consolidated Film Industries, known today as CFI Industries. In 1935, under pressure from that company's owner, Herbert Yates, Mascot was merged by CFI with Monogram Pictures, Liberty Pictures, Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures to form Republic Pictures, a"
"film studio. Recent co-productions of Studio Babelsberg include Quentin Tarantino's ""Inglourious Basterds"" (released 2009), Roman Polanski's ""The Ghost Writer"" (2010), Brian De Palma's ""Passion"" (2012), and George Clooney's ""The Monuments Men"" (2014). Babelsberg Studio Babelsberg Film Studio (, ), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. Today it covers an area of about and thus is Europe's second largest film studio after Cinecittà in Rome, Italy. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ""Metropolis"" and Josef von Sternberg's ""The Blue Angel"" were filmed there. More recent productions include ""V"
"fold. The studio made only five features and five short films, of which four features (in part) and no shorts survive. Founded in 1914, it was absorbed by Metro Pictures, which evolved into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company is best known for three of its films that survive, albeit with missing footage, today: ""The Patchwork Girl of Oz"", ""The Magic Cloak of Oz"", and ""His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz"". The studio was located on Santa Monica Boulevard between Gower Street and Lodi Street. The facility would later be used by Famous Players-Lasky (now called Paramount Pictures) and National Film Corporation of"
"be included!"". NHMC president and CEO Alex Nogales vowed to continue the boycott until the studio signed a memorandum of understanding. On October 17, the NHMC protested at the Paramount film lot for the second time in two months, with 75 protesters attending. The leaders delivered a petition signed by 12,307 people and addressed it to Jim Gianopulos. Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the"
"Marvel Studios Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American motion picture studio based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, itself a wholly owned division of The Walt Disney Company, with film producer Kevin Feige serving as president. Previously, the studio was a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment until Disney reorganized the companies in August 2015. Dedicated to producing films based on Marvel Comics characters, the studio has been involved in three Marvel-character film franchises to have exceeded $1 billion in North American revenue:"
"Los Angeles, the hub of the American film and television industry, has resulted in its appearance in several productions, usually representing a park other than itself. The debut of ""Revolution"" was the focal point of the 1977 release ""Rollercoaster"". In 1983, Magic Mountain became the fictional ""Walley World"" for ""National Lampoon's Vacation"", with scenes featuring ""Revolution"" and ""Colossus"" (each using fictional names). On television, Magic Mountain doubled as the theme park in the opening credits of the television series ""Step by Step"". Other TV productions featuring Magic Mountain have included: NCIS, ""Entourage"", ""The Bionic Woman"", ""The A-Team"", ""CHiPs"", ""Wonder Woman"","
"Mavericks Studio in 2010. In 2017, the festival was rebranded as the Cinequest Film & VR Festival, to reflect the major role of Silicon Valley in developing virtual reality. Cinequest offers several awards during the festival season. The Maverick Spirit Awards, the Maverick Innovator Awards, and the Media Legacy Awards highlight notable individuals in film and technology. The Maverick Individual awards are given to films at the conclusion of the festival via jury and audience voting. The Maverick Spirit Award is given to influential individuals who embody the independent and innovative mindset. It is the most prestigious award given at"
"changes for almost a century. Hodkinson first designed the Paramount logo in 1914. Legend has it that he doodled an image of a star-crested mountain on a napkin, clouds, and 27 stars. During a meeting with Adolph Zukor. It was an image of Utah's Ben Lomond Mountain in Ogden, Utah. According to a plaque in the Paramount Studios Lobby, Hollywood, CA this mountain, Ben Lomond, was inspired from his childhood memories, combined with the scripted word Paramount became the beginnings of the logo we know today. </ref> In 1916, Famous Players-Lasky formed from the merger of Famous Players Film Company"
"for other media, production logos can take advantage of motion and synchronized sound, and almost always do. In the early days of Hollywood, production logos and brands were simple and very much like their print counterparts, usually appearing on title cards and in the opening credits. The Paramount Pictures mountain logo hails from this era and originally featured no special effects. As the studios grew, more effort was put into their identities, and motion and sound began to be used. MGM and Universal were the first studios to take advantage of the new medium's possibilities, MGM first using Leo the"
"Paramount. They worked on the 2008 release The Bucket List directed by Rob Reiner and on ""Gigantic"", an independent feature directed by Matt Aselton, one of the top comedy commercial directors in advertising, and the movie stars Paul Dano, John Goodman, and Zooey Deschanel. Ring of Fire partners and owners, Creative Director Jerry Spivack and Executive Producer John Myers, lead the company, overseeing a staff of visual effects artists, animators, supervisors and producers. Ring of Fire Studios Ring of Fire Studios is an award winning digital effects and design company located in Venice, California. Launched in 1996, the company focuses"
"20th Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (colloquial: Twentieth Century Fox; Fox; 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio currently owned by Fox Entertainment Group, itself owned by 21st Century Fox. One of the ""Big Six"" major American film studios, it was formed from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles. The studio was owned by News Corporation from 1984 to 2013. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced its intention to acquire the studio along with the majority"
"Paramount Hotels and Dubai-based DAMAC Properties announced the building of the first resort: ""DAMAC Towers by Paramount."" The distinctively pyramidal Paramount mountain has been the company's logo since its inception and is the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo. In the sound era, the logo was accompanied by a fanfare called ""Paramount on Parade"" after the film of the same name, released in 1930. The words to the fanfare, originally sung in the 1930 film, were ""Proud of the crowd that will never be loud, it's Paramount on Parade."" Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made"
"on Los Angeles and its car culture. His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; ""Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights"" (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting ""The End"" (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black-and-white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged celluloid. Also, the proportions of the ""Hollywood"" print seems to mimic the Cinemascope screen (however, to make"
"The Magic Mountain (2015 film) The Magic Mountain is a 2015 Romanian animated drama film directed by Anca Damian. It tells the story of Adam Jacek Winkler, a Polish anti-communist who in the 1980s fought against the Soviet Union in the Soviet–Afghan War, alongside Ahmad Shah Massoud. The film was co-produced with French and Polish companies. It was made using a mix of animation techniques and Winkler's personal photographs, sketches and film footage. The English-language version of the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as the voice of Winkler. The film received a Special Jury Mention at the 2015 Karlovy Vary International"
"Babelsberg Studio Babelsberg Film Studio (, ), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. Today it covers an area of about and thus is Europe's second largest film studio after Cinecittà in Rome, Italy. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ""Metropolis"" and Josef von Sternberg's ""The Blue Angel"" were filmed there. More recent productions include ""V for Vendetta"", """", ""Æon Flux"", ""The Bourne Ultimatum"", ""Valkyrie"", ""Inglourious Basterds"", ""Cloud Atlas"", ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"", """", and ""Isle of Dogs"". Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions."
"Majestic Pictures Majestic Pictures was an American film production and distribition company active during the 1930s. Under the control of Larry Darmour the company specialized in low-budget production, and was one of the more stable Poverty Row outfits during the period. It also gained a reputation for producing higher quality films than was common amongst similar firms, possibly due to a business arrangement the company had with the major studio MGM. The first film released by Majestic was the 1930 drama ""Today"". In 1935, along with other studios such as Monogram and Chesterfield, Majestic was absorbed into Republic Pictures. The"
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM; common metonym: the Lion or Leo) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. One of the world's oldest film studios, MGM's headquarters are located at 245 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, a plan which never came into fruition. Over the next 39 years, the"
"Beacon Pictures Beacon Pictures is an American film production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein, who is also its chairman. The company produces motion pictures for studios such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Beacon was acquired in 1996 for $29 million by COMSAT, who one year later put the company under its Ascent Entertainment Group division. By early 1999, Ascent was about to be broken up due to financial problems, mostly steming from building the Pepsi Center in Denver. Bernstein and venture capitalists Kevin O’Donnell and convicted criminal Reed"
"venture with existing Sony Pictures executives. The new TriStar will develop, finance and produce up to four films per year, as well as television programming and acquisitions, starting on September 1. Sony's TriStar ""Pictures"" unit will be retained for ""other product, including titles from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions"", and will distribute product from the new TriStar. TriStar's logo of Pegasus (either stationary or flying across the screen), introduced in 1984, has become something of a cultural icon. The idea came about because of executive Victor Kaufman and his family's interest in riding horses. The original logo was created with the"