The Rank Organisation Davis cut staff, reduced budgets and concentrated film production at Pinewood. Other studio facilities (in Islington) were closed, sold (Lime Grove Studios) or leased (Denham). The Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. The policies of Davis alienated many in the industry, in particular they led film director David Lean, responsible for some of Rank's most critically and financially successful films, to look elsewhere for backing. In 1949, the company bought the Bush Radio manufacturing facility and began to diversify its interests. In the early 1960s Rank took over Murphy Radio to form the Rank Bush Murphy Group (which was eventually
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