The Big Eight refers to the eight corporations which own the Big Ten, the ten major Hollywood movie studios:
- News Corporation - owns 20th Century Fox
- The Walt Disney Company - owns Buena Vista, Walt Disney Studios and Miramax/Dimension Films
- Viacom - owns Paramount Pictures
- Sony - owns both Sony Pictures and MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
- Time Warner - owns both Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.
- NBC Universal - owns Universal Studios
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“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)