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CBS Films Inc. was an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of CBS Corporation [3] and was considered a mini-major studio up until 2019. [ 4 ] CBS Films originally was planned to distribute, develop and produce four to six $50 million budget films a year. [ 2 ]
Viacom Inc. [a] (derived from "Video & Audio Communications") was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City.It began as CBS Television Film Sales, the broadcast syndication division of the CBS television network in 1952; it was renamed CBS Films in 1958, renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, renamed Viacom in 1970, and spun off into its own company in 1971.
This division was renamed CBS Films in 1958, again renamed CBS Enterprises in January 1968, and finally renamed Viacom (an acronym of Video and Audio Communications) in 1970. In 1971, this syndication division was spun off amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies (these rules were eventually abolished ...
Founded in 1929 as an independent studio by Paul Terry, Frank Moser, and Joseph Coffman, 20th Century Fox (and its precursor Fox Films) distributed its films, even when the studio sold to CBS Films in circa 1956. CBS Films became the original Viacom which evolved into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) in 2019. As a result, Terrytoons was folded ...
CBS Corporation (this is the second incarnation of the company, with the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company. [11] CBS was founded in 1927, which Paramount Pictures held a 49 percent ownership stake in from 1929 to 1932. [12] [13] In 1952, CBS
CBS Consumer Products [34] — founded in 2009; ... CBS EYE Productions; CBS Films – Dormant and absorbed into CBS Studios with the theatrical distribution moved to ...
With films distributed by a major studio, ABC's films were slotted in less desirable release dates. On October 28, 1985, ABC shut down ABC Motion Pictures theatrical motion picture operation after the release of only 6 theatrical films [96] which was within weeks of CBS shutting down CBS Theatrical Films. [95]