Hollywood the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios. Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film "In Old California" (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot
Pokémon: The First Movie United States. Combined, the film's global box office and US home video earnings added up to . The film was included in the Blu-ray compilation titled "Pikachu Movie Premium 1998-2010" in Japan on November 28, 2012. On February 9, 2016, Viz Media released a limited edition Blu-ray Steelbook containing the first three "Pokémon" films ("Pokémon: The First Movie", "" and ""), along with single releases on DVD. In accommodation with the 20th anniversary of the "Pokémon" franchise, a digitally remastered version of the film was released on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play on February 27, 2016. On October 2, 2018,