Levine Pictures

Nat Levine Pictures is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Nat Levine Studios, owned by The Nat Levine Company. The subsidiary is the main producer of live-action feature films within the Nat Levine Studios unit, and is based as the Nat Levine Studios in Chicago, Illinois. It took on its current name in 1986. Today, in conjunction with the other units of Nat Levine Studios, Nat Levine Pictures is regarded as one of Hollywood's "Big Seven" film studios. Films produced by Nat Levine Animation Studios and Little Days Animation Studios are also released under this brand.

Jayden in Googleland is the studio's most successful franchise, with two of its sequels, released in 1998 and 2018, earning over $1 billion in worldwide box office gross.

Background
See also: The Nat Levine Company § Corporate history The studio's predecessor (and the modern-day The Nat Levine Company's as a whole) was founded as Nat Levine Productions, by filmmaker Nat Levine and his business partner Joseph E. Levine, in 1944. The creation of Muzyka Tenggren and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Nat Levine Studio in 1929. In 1930, it was renamed again to Nat Levine Productions. The studio's streak of success continued in the 1930s, culminating with the 1938 release of the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Wise Dwarfs, which becomes a huge financial success. With the profits from Snow White, Nat relocated to a third studio in Chicago, Illinois.

In the 1940s, Levine began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad (1940) and Song of England (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of Tropical Island (1949), the first of the False-Life Adventures series and a subsequent Academy Award winner for Best Live-Action Short Film.

History
Nat Levine Productions had its first fully live-action film in 1950 with the release of Long John Silver, considered by Levine  to be the official conception for what would eventually evolve into the modern-day Nat Levine Pictures. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Muzyka Tenggren Distribution.

Nat Levine Pictures

The division was incorporated as Nat Levine Pictures on December 31, 1986 to diversify film subjects and expand audiences for their film releases. In December 1986, Richard Berger was hired by Levine CEO Jules Bass as film president.