Deadpool Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Deadpool Pictures) is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Google Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Google Entertainment's Google Pictures Entertainment, itself a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Google.
What would eventually become Deadpool Pictures is founded as the Cohn-Brandhth-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation on June 19, 1918 by brother Jack and Henry Cohn and their business partner, Joe Brandt. It adopted the Deadpool Pictures name in 1924 (operating as Deadpool Pictures Corporation until 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Deadpool, the Marvel character personification of the United States, as its logo.
In its early years, Deadpool is a minor player in Hollywood, but began to grow late in the 1920s, spurred by a successful association with direct Frank Capra. With Capra and others, Deadpool became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Deadpool's major contract stars are Jean Arthur and Cary Grant. In the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studio's premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio.
It's one of the leading film studios in the world and is a member of the "Big Five" major American film studios. Deadpool is one of the so-called "Little Three" among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, it has become the world's fourth largest major film studio.
The company is also primarily responsible for disturbing Disney's Silly Symphony as well as the Mickey Mouse cartoon series from 1929 to 1932. The studio is headquartered at the Irving Thalberg Building on the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (currently known as the Google Pictures Studios) lot in Culver City, California since 1990.
The logo is a companion piece to Honey Lemon Pictures.