Summer Tasks

The big 6 are the six biggest companies that own almost of the media we see today. These big sixes are: Disney, 20th century Fox, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros and Universal. This is now being considered as the big 5 because Disney have just bought 20th century Fox.

Within the big six they all own their own companies; Disney won Lucasfilm, Waltdisney and ESPN, Sony own Columbia Pictures, Warnerbros owns Turner, HBO and Notable Equity Investments and universal own NBC, Illumination and Focus.

•Disney produced a live action remake of Lion King this year which so far has a gross profit of $1.599 billion (£1,300,826,475). It also had a budget of $250-260 million (£203,381,250-£211,516,500) which was used to hire the likes of Beyoncé, Seth Rogan and Donald Glover. It was released on July 9th 2019 in Hollywood but July 19th worldwide.

•20th Century Fox released Dark Phoenix on June 4th in Chinese Theatres but June 7th worldwide. They had a $200 million (£162,647,000) budget and made $252.4 million (£205,260,514) from the movie. The movie also starred James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence.

•Paramount will be releasing a new Terminator this year on November 1st 2019. The budget for this movie is $160million-$200million (£130,120,800-£162,647,000). It is based on characters made by James Cameron and is very famous for starring Arnold Schwarzenegger who also has made some very famous lines while filming previous Terminators.

•Sony released the Angry Birds 2 movie this year on August 16th which had a lower budget of $65million (£52,884,975) and made $104.3 million (£84,818,846). It starred the likes of famous actor Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and Leslie Jones.

•Warnerbros released Godzilla: King of Monsters on May 31st which had a grossing profit of $385.9million (£313,636,366) and had a running time of 132 minutes. It also included the likes of Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown and Thomas Middleditch.

•Universal released Happy Death Day 2U on February 13th with a low budget of $9million (£7,307,325) and made $65million (£52,775,125). It had a running time of 100 minutes and starred Jessica Rothe and Steve Zissis.