Horizon-Ultra wasn’t a studio. It was a planet. They owned twelve streaming platforms, three theme parks, a metaverse fashion line, and the CGI assets for every major fantasy franchise of the last decade. Their logo—a golden H melting into a U—played before 70% of the world’s popular entertainment.

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