George Parkin

1. Profile of one small & one large company
Magnolia Pictures(Small Company) –
Magnolia Pictures isan independentAmericanfilmdistributor.Here isabrief overview of the
relevantdetails:
Industry: MotionPictures
Founded:2001
Headquarters: Dallas,TexasandNewYork City
Parent Company: 2929 Entertainment
Subsidiaries:MagnoliaHome Entertainment,MagnoliaReleasing
Website:www.magpictures.com
Owners: ToddWagner andMark Cuban
Todd Wagner:
Todd Wagnerisan Americanbusinessmanandentrepreneurbestknownforco-founding
Boadcast.com in1995; an internetradiocompanyoriginallyfoundedas AudioNet. The companywas
soldto Yahoo! in1999 for$5.7 billion.Wagnernow co-owns 2929 Entertainmentamulti-media
venture alongsideMarkCuban,hislong-time businesspartnerwithwhomhe hasfoundedadozen
or more enterprises.
Mark Cuban:
Mark Cubanisan Americanbusinessman,investor,filmproducer,andmediamogul.Cubanisa
multibillionaire withanetworthcurrentlyestimatedat$3.5 billionas of June 2015. He iswell known
for hisflamboyantcharacteristicsandextravagantlifestyle;he isbestknownforhisrole as “shark”
investoronthe televisionseries SharkTank since 2011, the show isan Americanversionof the
Dragons’Den seriesformat popularinthe UnitedKingdomandindeedworldwide.Since 2000, he
has beenthe ownerof NBA’sDallasMavericks.
2929 Entertainment:
2929 Entertainmentisa mediaholdinggroupfocusingonthe distributionandexhibitionof motion
picturesandtelevision bothdomesticallyinthe UnitedStatesandinternationally,itisaprivately
heldcompany.
Accordingto Magnolia Pictures website theyare avertically-integratedgroupof mediaproperties
for which Magnolia Pictures acts as the distributionarm.Additional assetsinclude the Landmark
Theatres chain,and HDTV cable and satellitetelevisionnetwork AXSTV.
OtherDivisions Include:
 RysherEntertainment
 Truly Indie
 HDNet Films
Magnolia Pictures:

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Magnolia Pictures issimilartoMiramax or The Weinstein Company inthatithas gainedareputation
for producingindependentarthousefeatures,foreign-languagefilms,andcontroversial
documentaries;tacklingsubjectmatterthatisout of the mainstream, coveringterritorywhichthe
majorstudiosrarelytread.
Some of Magnolia Pictures’ famousdocumentaries –
 ControlRoom (2004); aboutAl Jazeera’s coverage of the 2003 Invasionof Iraq
 Bukowski:Born into This (2004); about the life andworkof writerCharlesBukowski
 Enron:The SmartestGuysin the Room (2005); aboutone of the largestbusinessscandals
 CocaineCowboys (2006);about the cocaine epidemicinMiami,Floridaduringthe 1980s
 JesusCamp (2006); aboutChristianevangelical summercampsinthe UnitedStates
 Mr. Untouchable(2007); aboutthe rise andfall of NickyBarnes,a formerdrug kingpin
 Maxed Out(2007); aboutabusive practicesinthe creditcard andfinance industry
 Crazy Love(2007); about the troubledrelationshipbetweenBurtPugachand LindaRiss
 No End in Sight(2007); about the occupationof Iraq by the UnitedStates
 Bigger,Stronger,Faster*(2008); about the use of anabolicsteroidsinthe UnitedStates
 Outrage(2009); about closetedhomosexual politicianswhopromote anti-gaylegislation
 Food,Inc. (2009); aboutthe negative impactsof corporate farmingonthe environment
 Casino Jackand the United Statesof Money (2010); aboutlobbyistJackAbramoff
 Freakonomics (2010); aboutthe work of economistStevenD.Levitt
 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer(2010); aboutGovernorSpitzer’ssex scandal
 PageOne:Inside theNew YorkTimes (2011); about the worldfamouspublication
 MagicTrip (2011); aboutKenKesey,Neal Cassady,andthe MerryPranksters
 Jiro Dreamsof Sushi (2012); about85-year-oldsushi masterJiroOno
 Occupy Unmasked (2012);aboutthe Occupymovementcastingtheminacritical light
 No Place on Earth (2012); aboutcaves whichJewshidinduringthe Holocaust
 A Place at theTable (2013); about hungerandfoodinsecurity inthe UnitedStates
 Blackfish (2013); aboutSeaWorld and the controversyovercaptive killerwhales
 Life Itself (2014); aboutthe life andworkof famedfilmcriticRogerEbert
Some of Magnolia Pictures’ famousfeature films (bothforeign&Englishlanguage) –
 The World’sFastestIndian (2005); starringAnthonyHopkins
 Bubble(2005); directedbyStevenSoderbergh
 Let the Right OneIn (2008); directedbyThomasAlfredson
 I’mStill Here (2010); a mockumentarystarringJoaquinPhoenixanddirectedbyCasey Affleck
 Hobo with a Shotgun (2011);a exploitationmoviestarringRutgerHauer
 Trollhunter(2010); “foundfootage”mockumentarystarringOttoJespersen
 Melancholia (2011); starringKirstenDunstanddirectedbyLars von Trier
 Headhunters (2011); starringAksel Hennie
 Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (shortenedto BD$M) (2012); starringZach Galifianakis
 Compliance(2012); starring AnnDowd,DreamaWalker,and Pat Healy
 Take This Waltz (2012); starringMichelle Williams,SethRogan,andSarahSilverman
 Serena (2013); starringBradleyCooperandJenniferLawrence

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 The Double(2013); starringJesse EisenberganddirectedbyRichardAyoade
 Mr. Nobody (2013);starringJaredLeto
 Nymphomaniac(stylisedas NYPH()MANIAC) (2014);directedbyLars von Trier
 Filth (2014); starringJamesMcAvoy andbasedon the novel byIrvine Welsh
 Frank (2014); starringMichael Fassbender,Domhnall Gleeson,andMaggie Gyllenhaal
 White Bird in a Blizzard (2014); starringShailene WoodleyandEvaGreen
 Life Partners (2014); starringGillianJacobsandLeightonMeester
 StageFright(2014); starring Allie MacDonald
Accordingto Box Office Mojo’sstatisticsonStudioMarketShare, Magnolia Pictures ranksas the 21st
biggestdistributor.Ithasa negligible0.1&of the marketshare and has grossedapproximately$4.2
millioninthe 2015 fiscal year,againaccordingto Box Office Mojo’syearlybreakdown.
Universal Studios(Large Company) –
UniversalStudios (alsoknownas UniversalPictures or UniversalStudios,Inc.) isan Americanfilm
studioandone the enduringcinematicpioneeringthathaspavedthe wayfor overa century.Here is
a brief overview of the relevantdetails:
Type: Subsidiary
Industry/Product: Motion Pictures
Founded:April20,1912 (as UniversalFilm Manufacturing Company)
Founder:Carl Laemmle principally,alsoPatPowers,MarkDintenfass,WilliamSwanson,David
Horsley,CharlesBaumann,AdamKessel,JulesBrulatour,andothers.
Headquarters: Universal City,SanFernandoValley,California
Areas Served:UnitedStates, principally;andworldwide
Key People:RonaldMeyer,President&CEOof UniversalStudios from1995 until 2013; currently
Vice Chairmanof NBCUniversal
Parent: NBCUniversalisthe parentcompanyof UniversalStudios;itself awhollyownedsubsidiaryof
ComcastCorporation –a U.S. basedmultinational conglomeratewithanemphasisonthe mass
media,itisthe largestbroadcastingandcable companyin the worldbyrevenue
Subsidiaries:UniversalAnimation Studios,FocusFeatures,Illumination Entertainment, Working Title
Films, UniversalPicturesHome Entertainment,United InternationalPictures, etc.
Website:www.universalstudios.com
UniversalStudios isone of the “BigSix”major studiosinHollywoodthatdominatethe worldwide
filmindustry.
The market share isas follows –
 Number6: Lionsgate(4.3%)
 Number5: Paramount(5.5%)
 Number4: 20th
Century Fox (11.3%)
 Number3: Warner Bros. (18.5%)
 Number2: Disney (19.9%)
Universalisheadand shouldersabove the rest,itcontrols25.3% of the marketshare. Althoughthis
may seembigenoughthatnumberisactuallycounterintuitive,forexample FocusFeatures isranked
number11th
with1.2% of the marketshare. FocusFeatures isthe arthouse filmdivisionof

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NBCUniversalalthoughmostpeoplewouldn’tknow.The listgoesonandon as otherstudiosranked
are actuallypartof the massivelyintertwinednetworkof transnational conglomerates,if youwere
to take intoaccount all these assetsandpartiallyownedventures Universalprobably monopolises
somethingnearer30%of the marketshare makingitwithoutdoubtthe largest enterpriseinthe
historyof the filmindustry.
Universalhas the distinctionof beingthe fourtholdestfilmstudio inthe worldafter, GaumontFilm
Company (est.1895), Pathé(est.1896), and NordiskFilm (est.1906), and the oldestfilmstudiointhe
UnitedStateswiththe formertwobeingFrenchandthe latterDanish.
UniversalStudios’ highest-grossingfilmstodate inascendingorder–
 Apollo 13 (1995)
 The BourneSupremacy (2004)
 JurassicParkIII (2001)
 Liar Liar (1997)
 Gladiator(2000)
 The Mummy Returns (2001)
 FastFive (2011)
 Back to the Future(1985)
 The Lorax (2012)
 King Kong (2005)
 Ted (2012)
 The BourneUltimatum (2007)
 The Lost World:JurassicPark (1997)
 Fast& Furious6 (2013)
 Twister (1996)
 Bruce Almighty (2003)
 Despicable Me(2010)
 Jaws (1975)
 The Grinch (2000)
 Meet the Fockers (2004)
 Furious7 (2015)
 Despicable Me2 (2013)
 JurassicPark (1993)
 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982)
 JurassicWorld (2015)
Of those 25 moviesthere isat leasttwoimportantobservationstomake.The firstthree highest-
grossingfilms;JurassicPark,E.T.theExtra-Terrestrial, and JurassicWorld all involve StevenSpielberg
inadditiontothat he is featuredonthe lista furtherthree timeswith; TheLostWorld: JurassicPark,
JurassicParkIII, and Jaws. Moreover,both JurassicWorld and Fast7 are still playingintheatres
aroundthe worldmeaningtheirbox office receiptswill certainlyballooninthe upwarddirectionin
the verynear future once the figuresare inand everythingisfullyaccountedfor.