Great Cinema Company

Great Cinema Company (素晴らしい映画会社 Subarashī eiga kaisha) was a El Kadsreian film distribution company that was existed from 1936 from a merger of two defunct film studios, to 1959 when they merged with New Republic Productions to form Viva Films.

History
Great Cinema Company traced its roots back in 1910 when Sessue Kijikini formed Sentanese Film Company to market its own productions in Sentan, and it was later a Sentanese distributor of international films, and in 1913, when Sumulu Kojini formed Screen Projectors, which was also in Sentan to distribute independent films, which would later sign a deal with Metro Pictures Corporation in 1915, then with Goldwyn Pictures in 1916 and Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1918, before they combined into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924. The two were merged in 1936 to form Great Cinema Company which is meant to distribute various films, including those from MGM.

In the 1940s, Great Cinema made its biggest player by adding various other players to the roster, and to date made the successful film The Outfronts in 1948.

Great Cinema will go on to be one of the major studios in the Sentanese period, but it was one of the three studios that survived following the Eight-Day War (along with The Leaders' Film Company, which is now Vlokfilm and Republic Film Enterprises) in 1950., with other studios adapting name changes.

Throughout the 1950s, it continued to distribute MGM product in El Kadsre. The company made history by releasing an epic film in 1958, about the early years of Mahri, called Mahri: The Great and Glory, which led to El Kadsre splitting up into three countries.

In 1958, Viva, Inc. acquired Great Cinema Company and competing studio New Republic Productions and the next year, it was combined to form Viva Films.