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In addition, actors still operate on a 'free agent' basis instead of being contractually tied to a studio, and the New Hollywood mentality of directors having just as much say in the final product as studio executives- if not more so- remained (mostly) intact for much of the era. The studios have become part of larger conglomerates instead of being independent companies like in the Golden Age. But fundamentally, this is a studio-system In Name Only. This time however, there are only five major studios: Sony (releasing films under the Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and Screen Gems imprints), Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (formerly known as Buena Vista Pictures)- 20th Century Fox and MGM still exist, but the former was acquired by Disney in 2019, renamed '20th Century Studios' to remove connections to Fox Corporation (the shell of Fox's former self) and the latter is a shadow of its former self, owned by its creditors for years until Amazon bought it in 2021, and a major studio only by virtue of its glamorous past on the other hand, mini-major Lionsgate, founded in 1997, has proven itself able to compete with the major players. It has also created a new 'studio-system', built upon the ashes of the old. The current Blockbuster Age of Hollywood is an era where marketing and spectacle have dominated, in contrast to the creative freedom (and excesses) that marked the New Hollywood era of the 1970s.

'A long time ago, in a studio boardroom far, far away.'

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