User:Lolcatistan/Major studios

Walt Disney Pictures

 * Owned by The Walt Disney Company, itself owned by Alphabet (which was formed in 2015 when Disney and Google merged).
 * Since Sony bought ABC (as Japan is a US protectorate ITTL), Disney instead starts its own broadcast network: TDN, The Disney Network: in 1989. (Idea from TimzUneeverse)
 * Since Disney never got its hands on TCF, that means Touchstone still has a reason to exist.

20th Century Fox

 * Owned by TwenCen Media, which was formed in 2022 when FOX Entertainment (the company in charge of the FOX TV network) merged with New 20th Century Fox (the company in charge of the TCF film studio); both of these were formed after the self-regulatory body of the media industry, the ILMME (Intercompany League of Mass Media and Entertainment), blocked Google/Disney from buying much of 21st Century Fox's assets in 2017 (in the end, all Disney got was the FX cable networks).

Warner Bros. Pictures

 * Owned by Kapuso Group, which was formed in late 2022 when Filipino media company GMA took control of the struggling Warner Bros Discovery.
 * Went into broadcasting much earlier with WBN (which exists instead of The WB/The CW ITTL).

Universal Pictures

 * Still owned by Comcast.
 * When the NBC-Universal merger happened, that also brought along an alternate version of DreamWorks (which was founded MUCH earlier, never separated its animation and live-action sides, and used to be owned by General Electric).

Paramount Pictures

 * Owned by Verizon, which bought out CBS-Paramount in 2012, around the same time Comcast bought NBCU.
 * CBS-Paramount itself was formed in 2002 when National Amusements (a movie theatre chain that had acquired Westinghouse Electric's media assets, including CBS, in 1999) and Gulf+Western (which survived MUCH longer ITTL, and acquired Warner-Amex Cable instead of Viacom, which is VERY different ITTL) merged.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

 * Still owned by Amazon.
 * Is still a major studio, never having fell from grace.
 * Still owns United Artists.
 * Often called Goldwyn for short.
 * Has its own TV network, GBN (Goldwyn Broadcasting Network), launched in 1995.

Columbia Pictures

 * Still owned by Sony.
 * Since Sony outbid Disney for ABC ITTL, this means that there is no need for any kind of "SPN" as seen in nearly every other media alt-history timeline.

Argosy Pictures/MTM Films

 * Owned by ArgosyMTM Group, a company with an... interesting history of mergers and acquisitions.
 * Argosy Media Group and MTM Enterprises are actually two separate subsidiaries under the same parent company. They are only counted as one company because they share a parent.
 * AMTM (on the Argosy side) also owns the UWN television network (an idea I stole from Cubenrocks); on the MTM side, they own ABS, a Japanese-language network (since ITTL, Japan is part of the USA).

Lionsgate Films

 * Owned by LionsgateMBS, itself owned by T-Media, a media arm of T-Mobile.
 * Founded MUCH earlier, in 1932 when Lions Film Corporation and Gate Pictures Corporation merged.
 * The "MBS" part is an alternate version of OTL's Mutual Radio network which got into TV production.

Johnson Studios

 * Owned by Johnson Industries, a bunch of rail barons, who also own McDonalds, Kenny Rogers Roasters, and Coke, among other things.
 * Johnson outbid Disney for Lucasfilm.
 * Has a TV network known as JTV (Johnson Television), which has always been owned by Johnson, unlike other networks whose studio associations came much later.
 * Outbid Turner for Hanna-Barbera, meaning Cartoon Network is theirs as well.
 * Dialed down a LOT from Johnsonverse; for example, they don't buy Disney OR Fox, and are instead a mini-major.

RKO Pictures

 * Owned by RKO Holdings, which also dabbles in fast-food (RKO Restaurants) and grocery stores (RKO Food Stores); RKO Holdings was spun out from RCA in 1992. (By the way, RCA was never bought out by GE, and GE founded NBC instead of RCA doing so.)
 * Never fell from grace as badly as it did IOTL.
 * RKO General was instead MCA General, and faced the same fate as OTL's RKO General.
 * Has its own TV network, known as the RKO Network.

Viacom Films

 * Owned by Viacom itself, a shady-as-all-heck company that claims its studios as an independent country, the "Viacomese Empire". (No one really recognizes that claim.)
 * Essentially a descendant of OTL's Viacom, which never sold itself to National Amusements ITTL, and instead became a literal terrorist group.
 * In 1991, its original version was shut down by a special operation of the El Kadsreian government, as it had ties to EK-based terrorist group Team Crimson. Much of its assets were sold off to BritCan, which later merged with EcruFox, which itself later merged with Argosy to form the modern ArgosyMTM Group. However, the founders of the Viacom company, the Parker clan, immediately went into hiding in the Japanese States, and formed a company known as "DOOPAON" (meaning unknown), which in 1993, moved back to Seattle and became the current Viacom.

FiddleGriff Pictures

 * Owned by Mattel, the toy company (as a consolation for HiT being part of AMTM ITTL).
 * A massively toned-down version of AHCL Wiki's complex lore.
 * Has an animation-focused cable channel, The Bloo, which is mainly known for "The Bloo DeTour", its nighttime block featuring reruns of old Fox adult animation and Nickelodeon "Dead End" shows. (BTW, The Dead End was formed in 1995 when Nick-at-Nite was spun off into its own channel, TV Land, and is essentially CBSParamount's version of Adult Swim.)

Sunking Pictures

 * What Tiger Lee Clarke did after putting Ellen Peck in charge of the Argosy assets she owned; buy out the Hasbro-Nintendo group, which was pretty much fucked financially at the time. She then acquired Canadian film studio E1 Entertainment and mini-major AllSpark Pictures (formerly All-Sparkle Pictures), merging them into Sunking Pictures in 2019.
 * Has close links to Argosy (not surprising, as Tiger was an Argosy person for much of her career).

Ardenne-Lorraine Pictures

 * Once owned by Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company, which is now part of Pfizer, an even bigger pharmaceutical company.
 * Based in Minneapolis, MN.

STX Films

 * Owned by STXPorchlight, itself owned by Boston's PBS station, WGBH.
 * Based in Boston, MA.

Netflix Originals

 * ITTL, unlike Johnsonverse, Johnson's offer to buy Netflix was turned down, and Johnson instead made its own streaming service, Sunroll.
 * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, instead of Los Gatos like IOTL.
 * Responsible for bringing "Cuties" to the USA, which lead to the mini-majors of the FAB getting pissed, which in turn led to a bipartisan investigation and the film getting banned in the US and much of the British Commonwealth.

StudioCanal

 * Owned by Canal+, itself owned by French conglomerate DuFontRoy Group.
 * US operations are based in Orlando, FL.

A24

 * The weird kid of the minor studios.
 * Formed in 2018 when the remnants of the Weinstein Company were bought out by some Italian cinema-bros, who merged them with their existing independent producer, the original A24.
 * Based in New York City, NY.