Illustrious

Illustrious Industries (simply known as Illustrious) is a Canadian-American holding firm founded by OWL Ventures founder Oliver Watson to personally hold and control assets that Watson has a personal investment in, it also serves as a firm for companies that him and his team at OWL believe would be better under his control, and not OWL's. Watson described it as "his own attempt at running a Vuori like company".

Assets
Illustrious was originally formed to be the holding company for Watson's production company, Studio Watson, Watson's controlling stake in OWL Ventures, and a 50% stake in Salovaara Watson, but has also come to be the holding company for assets such as:
 * Illustrious Entertainment - owns and operates Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Music Group, and Sony Entertainment Japan (a merger of Sony Pictures Japan and Sony Music Japan respectively)
 * The Times-Tribune Company - owners of the LA and NY Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Dow Jones Company, Tribune Publishing, Gannett, and other associated assets
 * Illustrious Interactive - includes OWL's Digital Media assets, including G/O Media, Bustle Digital Group, Mansueto Ventures, Cycle Media/Laundry Service, Some Spider Studios, Complexly, First Media, Minute Media, Valnet, Vice Media, Verizon Media, Monitor (formerly Cheddar, Whistle, Barcroft Media, Local Now and Newsy), Slate Group, Cnet, a stake in Tentpole and IAC
 * Moviepass - including the Moviepass trademark, the flagship Moviepass (formerly Redbox) rental service, and the sister Showpass, Gamepass, Musicpass, Bookpass, and GamePass services
 * Illustrious Publishing - including Conde Nast, Future plc, Hubert Burda Media, Editis, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Lagardere Publishing International (assets outside UK, USA and France) and Polarity (JV with The Eclipse Group)
 * Illustrious Sports and Experiences - formerly Watson Sports and Experiences, includes holdings such as Loews Hotels, Cedar Fair, Illustrious Venues, and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment
 * Illustrious Media - formerly OWL Media's US and Canadian operations, including Fox, Univision and City, Bloomberg, The Weather Company, Bandlab Technologies, AccuWeather, Pelmorex Group, Stingray Group, the majority of the Pinewood Group, Tee Media, Matador and Ripley's-Guinness World Records
 * Illustrious Theaters - including Styhon Battersea Cinemas and AMC Theaters
 * Illustrious Capital

Corporate affairs
Illustrious is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto. The company has several US offices, including:
 * 1211 Avenue of the Americas
 * 51 West 52nd Street
 * 435 North Michigan Avenue
 * 620 Eighth Avenue
 * 1 CNN Center
 * 3400 West Olive Avenue