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CSS Studios

American entertainment production company

Todd Soundelux is an American creative entertainment services company. The company's main activity is to provide creative and technical post production sound and music services for motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own or distribute content. The company maintains three facilities in California in Hollywood, Burbank, and Santa Monica.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2008Founded1

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Todd Soundelux is an American creative entertainment services company.2

Corporate structure

CSS Studios sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What CSS Studios reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

2008: Ascent Media Group's Creative Sound Services group spun off from Discovery Holding Company to create CSS Studios, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications. This included the assets of Todd-AO, Soundelux, Sound One, POP Sound, Modern Music, Soundelux Design Music Group and The Hollywood Edge.[1]

2012: On September 19, Empire Investment Holdings announced it had acquired CSS Studios, LLC from Discovery Communications, Inc. [2]

2013: In January 2013, CSS Studios announced it would rename the company as Todd-Soundelux.

2014: In May 2014, Todd Soundelux filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and was seeking to reorganize. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, they closed their Hollywood and Santa Monica facilities, leaving only their Burbank location operational.

From Wikipedia’s article on Todd Soundelux, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Todd-AO

Burbank, California

Hollywood, California

Santa Monica, California

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Soundelux

Hollywood, California

Hollywood Edge

Hollywood, California

From Wikipedia’s article on Todd Soundelux, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2008Founded Founded1

Sources

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