Sprixie Studios
Formerly | Sprixie Studios Corporation (1905–1923/1936-1955) Sprixie Studios Pictures Inc. (1923–1936) |
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| Founded | April 23, 1905 (118 years ago) |
| Founder |
The seven Sprixie princessess |
| Owner | Sprixie Inc. |
| Parent | Independent (1905–2022) Kirby Studios (February 9-June 3, 2022) Sprixie Incorporated (2022–present) |
| Subsidiaries | See the Sprixie Studios Inc. category. |
Sprixie Studios, Inc., formerly Sprixie Studios Corporation, Sprixie Studios Pictures Inc., and Sprixie Studios Corp., is an American film studio formed in 1905 by the Seven Sprixie Princesses. The studio was incorporated as "Sprixie Studios Corporation Incorporated" on April 23rd, 1905, making it one of the oldest American movie studios in continuous operation, alongside "Gaumont and Pathé, (which were founded 10 years earlier,) Titanus, (which was founded a year eariler,) Nordisk, (founded a year after Sprixie Studios.) and Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Nikkatsu. (Which were all formed in 1912.)" Sprixie Studios is one of the most popular film studios, alongside "Gaumont. Pathé, Titanus, Nordisk, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Nikkatsu, 20th Century Studios, MGM, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Disney, and Lionsgate." among others. The company later celebrated 100 years in 2005.
Sprixie Studios is one of the 4th oldest movie studios that was founded. With the first being Gaumont, established in 1895, Pathé (founded in 1896), and Titanus, founded in 1904. The company was originally supposed to be founded in 1903, but it was founded in 1905, the Sprixie Princesses had a goal to release Italy films from "Titanus", and French films from "Gaumont and Pathé" to the United States, which worked out very well. The company also has distributed other films from other major movie companies such as "Gaumont. Pathé, Titanus, Nordisk, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Nikkatsu, 20th Century Studios, MGM, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Disney, and Lionsgate." The company's Television division, "Sprixie Television", established in 1949, is one of the oldest Television divisions of the company, competing against "Revue Studios", and "Paramount Television Productions Inc.". The company also had an independent division known as Sprixie Independent Pictures formed in 1993 for Independent, Arthouse, Foreign, Horror, Comedy, Action, Romance, and Family-Friendly films. However, Sprixie Independent Pictures is defunct as of 2022 and all Independent, Arthouse, Foreign, Horror, Comedy, Action, Romance, and Family-Friendly films are now released from just Sprixie Studios. On August 17th, 2022, the Sprixie Princesses made a goal to start releasing films in 16K, as an upgrade to 8K and 4K films. This goal took place in October of 2022 when "Sprixies; The Animated Feature", was released.
Sprixie Studios has had some successful films throughout the years. Sprixie Battles I, (released in 1908, also marking the debut of the first logo.), "The Inverted Zone (2005)", "Flight to Hollywood (1939)", "Sprixies; The Animated Feature (2022)", Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, (1926, also released by Paramount Pictures in some locales.) The Road to Singapore (1931, also released by Warner Bros. Pictures. in some locales.) The Call Of The Wild (1935, also released by 20th Century Pictures Inc.) Avatar (released in 2009) Titanic (under international rights), (released in 1997) and the remastered Sprixie Battles I film. (Released in 2021.) The only failed film from this company was Sprixie Battles VI, (released in 1961.)
Sprixie Studios is extremely popular for making movies for families and kids. With the most common film genre for the company being Family Entertainment movies. Alongside that, their second most popular film genre the Sprixies do are Animation films, which with that case, the Sprixie Princesses have an animation division called Sprixie Animation to help release these animated movies for families and kids. Besides that, the Sprixie Princesses have also released other types of film genres from other companies such as Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, (horror films are not commonly released by Sprixie Studios anymore.), Noir, (without horror noir films), Science Fiction, and Western films. From 1905 to 1929, the Sprixie Princesses also released Slient films, much like "Paramount Pictures", "Universal Pictures", "Fox Film", "Goldwyn Pictures", "Columbia Pictures Corporation", and "Warner Bros. Pictures", the Sprixie Princesses discontinued their Slient films genre line in 1930 due to silent films being mostly discontinued around that time.
"Sprixie Studios's" logos also appear commonly on Television networks, like Freeform, Wikipedia:Starz, Wikipedia:Cinemax, Wikipedia:HBO, and many other Television networks. Which also includes their On-Demand services as well. The logos, (very commonly the 2022 logo since it plastered previous logos including other companies logos), also appear on streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Crave, Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Star+, Peacock, Hayu, BET+, Voot, Discovery+, SonyLIV, ZEE5 and many other streaming services as well. The biggest streaming service and network it appears on are both the Sprixie Network channel, formed in 1981, and Sprixie+. Formed in September 2022. Sprixie+ appears to be the top #1 streaming service since it contains so many films from Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, Nordisk, Paramount Pictures Universal Pictures, Nikkatsu, 20th Century Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sony Pictures Realising, Warner Bros. Pictures, Disney, STX Entertainment, Lionsgate, Entertainment One, VVS Films, Elevation Pictures, A24, Miramax, Lantern Entertainment, and Relativity Media. But with all their logos plastered with the 2022 logo on Sprixie+. On Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Crave, Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Star+, Peacock, Hayu, BET+, Voot, Discovery+, SonyLIV, ZEE5, and the other streaming services, the Sprixie Studios logo appears on some of the films listed on the streaming services above.
The logo itself didn't debut until 1908, with the release of Sprixie Battles I. Only seen on some films up until 1911. Starting from Sprixie Battles I to (Pinocchio, 1911) where the logo would be updated with an upgraded monument. Which also debuted Two Sprixies outside the monument. The logo would be introduced to the searchlights structure in 1923. With the release of the film, Zaza (1923). With the iconic fanfare being introduced in The Bowery (1933). The seven Sprixies fully debuted in 1955 with the release of the film Untamed. The logo later received CGI in 1995 when the film, A Walk in the Clouds (1995, released by 20th Century Fox too.) Their last film with the main TCF/TCS logo base would be Love and Monsters, (2020.) Where the logo later on changed to the "Disney Fox Media Entertainment" logo base. This did not last long because in July of 2022, the company rebranded with a new logo. A goal was to made to plaster all the previous logos on all previous films from the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, and 2021 with their current 2022 logo. Which will sadly meant that all previous logos before the 2022 logo would all go extinct by the end of the year. All films with the 1908, 1911, 1923, 1936, 1955, 1981, 1995, 2010, 2020, and 2021 later went extinct between August and September of 2022, completing the goal of plastering all films released from other companies with the current Sprixie Studios 2022 logo. Including Sprixie Studios's own films as well.
Throughout the years, the company was never really owned by a parent company. But on May 13th, 2021, Kirby Studios announced to purchase the company's assets. With their last Pre-Kirby Studios film being West Side Story (2021). On Febuary 5th, 2022, the byline was inserted into the company's logo. However this deal did not last long and only lasted until May of 2022. But the byline version of the 2021 logo remained in use until the final day of June of 2022. When the current logo debuted with the rebrand of Sprixie Studios, the byline was dropped from the logo. In July of 2022, the seven Sprixie Princesses started up their parent company, "Sprixie Incorporated", starting on the film DC League of Super-Pets, the company is now owned by the Sprixie Princesses own parent company, "Sprixie Incorporated."
