J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
DC Studios Entertainment. Following its release, however, the game severely underperformed in sales, due to which DC Studios announced on 4 June 2006 that it had ceased all operations in the United Kingdom, laying off all staff, including 29 from its Edinburgh offices. Only their Montreal office remained open, holding 55 staff. That Montreal office was finally shut down in favour of opening a Merritt Island, Florida office for Greenshields' newer venture, Firebrand Games, on 25 September 2007. DC Studios DC Studios Inc. was a British-Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. Originally founded in Glasgow, Scotland in December 1999, the