Motion Picture Laboratories

Motion Picture Laboratories

http://www.movielabs.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/movielabs/

Motion Picture Laboratories, also known as MovieLabs, is a US-headquartered non-profit organization, founded in 2006, operating with an estimated 20 employees. Functioning as a technology joint venture of major Hollywood studios including Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, and Warner Bros., the organization specializes in the research, experimentation, and development of new technologies, specifications, and tools for the film and television industry. Key initiatives, such as the "2030 Vision for Media Creation," are designed to improve and standardize media creation and distribution workflows.

Revenue

Founded

2006

Headcount

17

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Entertainment Providers

Ownership

Non-profit

News Summary:

On July 30, 2026, Sohonet joined the Leadership Council of the MovieLabs Industry Forum, aiming to help guide its direction, strategy, and governance alongside other industry players in tackling challenges such as cloud workflows and security. Earlier on July 8, 2026, MovieLabs announced the MovieLabs Creative Vocabulary, an initiative to standardize the shared language used in film and television production. Also on July 8, 2026, the organization elaborated on building foundations for trusted and reliable AI in media creation workflows, stressing its commitment to tools and technologies that empower creative choice and support artists in a secure, efficient, and interoperable manner. This followed a May 22, 2026 update from MovieLabs, which identified distributed production workflows as the new industry standard, marking a shift from location-based production to global workflows where proximity is no longer essential for collaboration. Previously, on March 30, 2026, MovieLabs discussed key trends in video DRM protection for online video, highlighting the industry's move to shared encryption standards that enable a single packaged file to function across various platforms, thereby resolving the need for multiple content packages for different devices.

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Jul

30th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag, Regulations and Policies

Sohonet Joins the Leadership Council of the MovieLabs Industry Forum

We're pleased to share that Sohonet has moved up to the Leadership Council of the MovieLabs Industry Forum, helping guide its direction, strategy, and governance alongside the industry's other leading players. None of the industry's biggest challenges, from cloud workflows to security, get solved by one company working alone.

Jul

8th

2026

14:19

Emerging Tech, New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence, New Offerings

MovieLabs Announces the MovieLabs Creative Vocabulary

For as long as film and television shows have been created, the people who make them have shared a language. When a director asks for a push in on a character’s face, when a cinematographer reaches for a wide angle lens to take in a landscape, when an editor calls for a whip pan to jump between scenes, everyone knows what is meant and, just as importantly, why it’s being asked for.

Jul

8th

2026

13:42

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Building Foundations for Trusted and Reliable AI in Media Creation Workflows

MovieLabs supports tools and technologies that enable creativity and advance the craft of professional media creation, including AI. We work to empower freedom of creative choice and support for artists, creators and production teams throughout filmmaking and the media creation process, in a secure, efficient, and interoperable way.

May

22nd

2026

01:00

Distributed Production Workflows: The New Industry Standard

From location-based production to global workflows For decades, production was defined by location. Teams worked in the same building, often in the same room, moving content through a pipeline that was physically contained and predictable. Collaboration was immediate because proximity enabled it.

Mar

30th

2026

00:25

Key Trends Shaping Video DRM Protection In Online Video

A few years ago, streaming teams had to package the same content multiple times just to reach different devices and browsers. That’s largely solved now. The industry settled on shared encryption standards that let a single packaged file work across platforms, without each platform needing its own version.

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Feb

3rd

2026

02:30

Year Anniversary by Surpassing 50 Members

One year after its launch, the MovieLabs Industry Forum has reached a major milestone, welcoming over 50 members. The Forum’s growth over its first-year highlights strong and sustained alignment across the media, technology, and creative sectors around the MovieLabs 2030 Vision, the industry’s shared blueprint for connected cloud-native, secure, and interoperable media creation.

Jan

20th

2026

18:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

FutureTech 2026: “Align on innovation, and it accelerates”

Creator economy comes to enterprise: What does broadcast AV really mean today? As video becomes a core enterprise capability, broadcast AV is being redefined. It’s less about better hardware and more about network-native, production-grade media systems that can scale, are interoperable and operate reliably inside modern IT environments.

Jan

20th

2026

11:02

How studio joint venture technology research lab MovieLabs builds on two decades of achievement in film and television to become the guiding voice and vision for the future of media creation

At a time when media and entertainment faces changes from everywhere all at once, MovieLabs offers a clearer vision and path for the future. For two decades it has built practical solutions to real world problems by working closely together with industry stakeholders.

Jan

19th

2026

18:30

Events, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Creator economy comes to enterprise: What does broadcast AV really mean today?

FutureTech 2026: “Align on innovation, and it accelerates” From imaginative politics and shifting approaches to innovation to adaptable governance of technology, no topic was off the table at this year’s DTG’s FutureTech. George Jarrett reports.

Jan

6th

2026

16:22

5 Ways to Increase Creative Velocity

A New Year Reset for Creative Operations As we enter 2026, one thing is clear; creative operations are no longer a back-office function. They are now a strategic capability. Content demand continues to rise across brands, broadcasters, agencies, and digital-first studios.

Jan

3rd

2026

10:33

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

MovieLabs Releases Ontology for Media Creation v2.8

Collections We’ve added a new concept of collections which allows implementors to define custom groups of data that do not fit into existing OMC entities. There are many use cases for Collections which is why we brought the release forward so people can start using it now before the next full release.

Dec

9th

2025

16:54

Hollywood’s Ecosystem for Combating Piracy

Throughout its century-plus existence, the motion picture industry has had to fight battles on multiple fronts to protect its content from piracy. From protecting film reels from duplication by unscrupulous parties (often theater owners themselves), to the age of VCRs, DVDs, IP-based peer-to-peer networks and today’s streaming services, Hollywood has a long history of working to keep ahead of what has often been termed as a “whack-a-mole” strategy.

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