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Pinewood Studios (since at least 1934) is a British film company that has spent over 70 years producing popular films and television shows. It began as a country club in Buckinghamshire inside a building built like a Victorian house before being bought by a businessman named Charles Boot and turned it into a film studio with the help of J. Arthur Rank (the man behind The Rank Organisation), renaming the place Pinewood because of the forest nearby.

The first films that were made there were mostly war movies because of World War II that was happening at the time but the films that managed to be very successful at the time were Oliver Twist and The Red Shoes (1948). Because of the Rank Organisation's budget restrictions, promotional material became hard to develop but the company earned back their budget from the box-office smashes in the late 1940s.

The studios continued with its success throughout the rest of the 20th century. It had become the home of many James Bond movies, the Doctor In The House film series, the Carry On... film series, the Superman films and some of the Batman movies.

In the mid-1990s, the Rank Organisation defuncted but still continued to own them until 2001. In the meantime, Pinewood formed their own studio group called The Pinewood Studios Group and created 2 other studio bases in England (in Shepperton and Teddington) as well as worldwide (in Atlanta in the US, in Toronto, in Berlin, in Malaysia, in Dominican Republic and a home-base in Los Angeles). To this day, Pinewood Studios continues to be successful, being the home of many movies and TV shows that are very well-known, many of which they are very proud of.

If you take part in one of their studio tours, you'll find that the studios have paid tribute to many of their films. Most notably, there is a 007 stage where they film scenes for the James Bond films and certain streets in the studios are named after many of their popular movies (and a street named after Stanley Kubrick).

Notable films and TV shows that were filmed with Pinewood include:

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