With the acquisition of MGM, Amazon entered the theatrical game with force. Their strategy is often called "prestige plus IP"—buying established franchises (James Bond, Rocky) while funding expensive, auteur-driven passion projects.

These traditional studios operate as part of massive conglomerates, leveraging decades of intellectual property (IP) and global theme park ecosystems.

: Consistently high-performing, it rounded out the top three in 2025 with $3.89 billion . It owns major IPs like Jurassic Park Fast & Furious Sony Pictures : Its success is heavily tied to the Spider-Man universe; the 2023 hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse became its highest-grossing animated film at $691 million Paramount Pictures : Now operating as Paramount Skydance