TAT Communications Company (fictional)

American-British-Canadian Pictures (ABC) is an American film production and distribution company subsidiary of ArgosyMTM Group. Its original incarnation was founded in 1910 as American Film Manufacturing Company, 1911 as British film studio British Film Studio, 1912 as Canadian film distribution company Canadian Film Distribution Company, 1921 as American-British studio American-British Pictures, and 1924 as its current name.

American-British-Canadian was originally one of the largest “mini-major” film studios in the world until 1981, when the studio went bankrupt after a series of poor business decisions, such as selling off the British unit, Britannia Pictures, to Thorn/EMI in 1979. The Canadian unit was sold to local investors as E1 Entertainment in 1984, but this did not stop the decline of ABC, which went bankrupt under Chapter 7 in 1987. The remaining assets were acquired by Judy Garland Pictures in 1989.

In 2009, Argosy Communications revived the American-British-Canadian name as a specialty film company, similar to Sony Pictures Classics. Sometime in 2023, ABC Pictures will be rebranded as the revived TAT Communications Company.