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US: 65 years on – looking back at landmark Hollywood antitrust case

By  |  May 1, 2013

This week marks the 65th anniversary of a landmark antitrust case that forever changed the movie industry in the US. The case, United States v. Paramount Pictures, shook up a market that, in the 1950s, was full of theatres dominated by give major film studios which often squeezed smaller, independent movie theatres out of the market by forcing them to “block book” the studios’ films, forced to bundle various products from a studio if it wanted to show a certain film. It was an abuse of dominance recognized by the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1948 that Paramount Pictures must divest ownership of its theatres.

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