Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. It was one of the world's very first major movie studios, as well as the very first major all-American movie studio. Woody Woodpecker serves as the company's official mascot.

Universal Pictures
Experience the whole wide world of the biggest globe, the biggest movie memories and the wonderful little woodpecker. Welcome to America's very first name in entertainment.
Formerly: Universal Film Manufacturing Company (1912–1923) Universal Pictures Corporation (1923–1936) Universal Productions, Inc. (1936–1937) Universal Pictures Company, Inc. (1937–1963) Universal Pictures, Inc. (1963–1964) Universal City Studios, Inc. (1964–1996) Universal Studios Inc. (1996–2014) Type: Division Country: United States Predecessor: Independent Moving Pictures Founded: April 30, 1912 Industry: Film Founder(s): Carl Laemmle Pat Powers David Horsley William Swanson Mark Dintenfass Charles Baumann Robert H. Cochrane Adam Kessel Jules Brulatour Headquarters: 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, U.S. Key people: Donna Langley (chairwoman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group) Peter Cramer (president) Parent: Universal Studios, Inc. Divisions: Focus Features Illumination Universal Animation Studios Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Subsidiaries: Amblin Partners (minority) DreamWorks Animation NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan Rede Telecine (12.5%) United International Pictures (50%) Working Title Films Website: https://universalpictures.com/ https://universalstudios.com/

Why The Globe Spins For America's Very First Name In Entertainment

1. It was the very first major American movie company in history. It was also the very first major Hollywood studio.
   • On the top of the very first major, it marked the birth of Hollywood.
2. The all-American filmmaking in its purest form.
3. They have made many amazing or good films, examples areː
   • An American Tail
   • Back to the Future Franchise
   • BlacKkKlansman
   • 'Despicable Me and its sequels
   • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
   • the Fast & Furious franchise
   • Frankenstein
   • Get Out
   • Good Boys
   • Gladiator
   • Halloween (2018)
   • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
   • Jaws
   • Jurassic Park and its two sequels, including Jurassic World
   • Kindergarten Cop
   • The Land Before Time
   • National Lampoon's Animal House
   • Pitch Perfect
   • Schindler's List
   • The Secret Life of Pets and its sequel
   • Sing and its Sequel
   • Ted
   • Us
4. Its official mascot, Woody Woodpecker.
5. The most iconic globe logo is great.
6. By 2004, it perfectly merged with America's very first broadcasting TV network, NBC, becoming its flagship TV network.
   • Speaking of which, even before the two entities merged, NBC (America's first name in broadcasting) and Universal (America's first name in entertainment) has had a great relationship back then as well.
7. Great acting in a lot of films made by them.
8. They managed to create franchises like Woody Woodpecker (its flagship franchise), Despicable Me, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, The Land Before Time, Jaws, Fast & Furious, The Purge, etc.
9. Awesome soundtrack for the majority of the films.
10. Most of their characters are likeable and iconic like Woody Woodpecker (its most iconic character), Norman Bates, Quint, The Bandit, Bluto, E.T., Doc and Marty, John Bender, Littlefoot, Dominic Toretto, Jason Bourne, Gru, the Minions, Chris Washington, Max the Terrier, and Buster Moon, among others. Plus, two iconic characters from DreamWorks Animation, Shrek and Little Audrey.
11. It was the second major film studio to successfully set up its own theme park chain, after Disney.
12. It is one of the most successful studios along with Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Paramount.
13. The current theme music (Played by Jerry Goldsmith from the 1997-2012 logo and currently by Brian Tyler since 2012) that comes from the logo are well played and can be recognized, while the theme from the 1990-1997 logo (played by James Horner), while not that recognizable to the 1997 theme but other than that, it is beautifully played.

Bad Qualities

1. They have made some bad or mediocre movies like
   • Blues Brothers 2000,
   • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,
   • Skyscraper,
   • Hop,
   • the 2012 version of The Lorax,
   • The 355,
   • Dolittle,
   • Halloween Kills,
   • Mortal Engines,
   • Hulk,
   • Problem Child,
   • Smokey and the Bandit Part 3,
   • Ted 2,
   • Street Fighter,
   • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,
   • Minions,
   • Jem and the Holograms,
   • Dumb & Dumber To,
   • the live-action Cat in the Hat movie,
   • the Fifty Shades trilogy,
   • Black Christmas (2019),
   • Jaws: The Revenge,
   • Jaws 3-D,
   • Howard the Duck,
   • Cats, (the most infamous)
   • The Boss Babyː Family Business,
   • Spirit Untamed.
2. Some of their films, even if some of them received a positive or negative reception, were box office flops.
3. They are often VERY aggressive with their marketing campaigns for their bigger movies, the most important being Despicable Me and Jurassic World.
4. They have completely destroyed the Jaws franchise. Due to the first Jaws movie being very successful, Universal themselves milked it into oblivion to the point where the last two movies (the ones mentioned above on BQ#1) are considered to be some of the worst movies of all time.
5. Just like 20th Century Fox, they have a bad habit of keeping franchises around longer than they should. And only expand them more just fot the sake of making money. Like Jurassic Park/World, Despicable Me, Fast and Furious, Jaws, and some DreamWorks franchises like Trolls and The Boss Baby.

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