Studio's current logo since 2012.
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio founded in 1912. It was owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.
Universal was the film (outside of America) and video distributor for DreamWorks live-action titles and DWA titles (Back when DreamWorks Animation was a division of DW before it was spun off in 2004.) until DreamWorks was sold to Paramount Pictures in 2006, at which point Paramount took over distribution.
After Viacom spun off DreamWorks Studios in 2008, Universal was planned to resume distributing DreamWorks' movies, but this deal fell through as Disney took over the distribution for DreamWorks movies under the Touchstone Pictures banner starting in 2011 until 2016. In April 2016, Comcast (which owns Universal) purchased DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion. It is therefore likely that when the current distribution deal with 20th Century Fox finishes, DreamWorks Animation's films will be distributed by Universal. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) was the first DWA film distributed by Universal and as a Universal subsidiary.
Ever since DreamWorks Pictures started, the studio had rented space from Universal Studios on their backlot. This continued through the Paramount and Touchstone eras.
In 2018, the show, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway was aired on 7 April with Declan Donnelly hosting the show without Anthony McPartlin.
Units
Divisions
- Universal Television
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- Focus Features
- Gramercy Pictures
- NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
- Working Title Films
- DreamWorks Animation
- Illumination Entertainment
- Universal Animation Studios
- Universal Cartoon Studios
Filmography
- The Peacemaker (1997)
- Amistad (1997)
- MouseHunt (1997)
- Paulie (1998)
- Deep Impact (1998)
- Small Soldiers (1998)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Antz (1998)
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)
- In Dreams (1999)
- Forces of Nature (1999)
- The Love Letter (1999)
- The Haunting (1999)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Road Trip (2000)
- Small Time Crooks (2000)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- What Lies Beneath (2000)
- Almost Famous (2000)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
- The Contender (2000)
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
- Cast Away (2000)
- An Everlasting Piece (2000)
- The Mexican (2001)
- Shrek (2001)
- Evolution (2001)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
- The Last Castle (2001)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- The Time Machine (2002)
- Hollywood Ending (2002)
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Road to Perdition (2002)
- The Tuxedo (2002)
- The Ring (2002)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- Biker Boyz (2003)
- Old School (2003)
- Head of State (2003)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- Anything Else (2003)
- The Cat in the Hat (2003)
- The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
- Paycheck (2003)
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Eurotrip (2004)
- Envy (2004)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- The Stepford Wives (2004)
- The Terminal (2004)
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
- Collateral (2004)
- Shark Tale (2004)
- Surviving Christmas (2004)
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
- Meet the Fockers (2004)
- The Ring Two (2005)
- Madagascar (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- The Island (2005)
- Red Eye (2005)
- Just Like Heaven (2005)
- Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
- Dreamer (2005)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- Munich (2005)
- Match Point (2005)
- The Soloist (2009)
- Little Fockers (2010)
- Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
- The Girl on the Train (2016)
- Thank You for Your Service (2017)
- First Man (2018)
- Green Book (2018)
- Welcome to Marwen (2018)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
- Abominable (2019)
- 1917 (2019)
- The Turning (2020)
- Trolls World Tour (2020)
- The Croods: A New Age (2020)
- The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
- Spirit Untamed (2021)
- The Bad Guys (2022)