It's rather like the old Hollywood system, where the studios owned theater chains in which to show the movies they produced.

"It doesn't matter that the studios own the movies," says Mr. Gilder.

Various studios have owned the script, and then dropped it.

He added: "And the studios really owned people then.

Before 1948, studios owned 70 percent of first-run urban theaters, which meant that they were in charge of production, distribution, and exhibition.

The movie industry, for its part, has resisted paying to replace projectors because studios do not own the theaters.

Due to rights issues, the studios own the new print.

The fact remained that the major studios owned most of the successful theaters in the country.

The former studio owned by Universal Studios before being sold to Vivendi.

When the studios found out they didn't own the rights to the comic book, they were turned down and the studio's interest turned to Marvel.