Notable Production Companies
| Not a Subsidiary |
| Subsidiary |
| Defunct |
| Company | Headquarters | Est. | Notable Films | Notes |
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| Anchor Bay | USA, MichiganTroy, Michigan, USA | 1985 | (Founded as Video Treasures, owned by Liberty Media, films currently distributed by 20th Century Fox) | |
| Capitol Films | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1992 | ||
| DreamWorks SKG | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 1994 | American Beauty Galaxy Quest Catch Me If You Can The Ring |
(Currently in a long term deal with Touchstone Pictures) |
| DreamWorks Animation | USA, CaliforniaGlendale, California, USA | 2004 | Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda |
(Currently distributed by Paramount Pictures) |
| 20th Century Fox | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1935 | The Sound of Music Fantastic Voyage Star Wars X-Men Die Hard Alien Planet of the Apes Home Alone Night at the Museum Predator Speed Independence Day Avatar The Simpsons |
(Owned by NewsCorp) |
| 20th Century Fox Animation | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1997 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest Anastasia |
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| Blue Sky Studios | USA, CaliforniaGreenwich, Connecticut, USA | 1987 | Ice Age | (Acquired by 20th Century Fox) |
| Fox Searchlight Pictures | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1994 | Boys Don't Cry Sideways 'One Hour Photo Whip It Little Miss Sunshine Black Swan Shame The Sessions |
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| Fox Atomic | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 2006 | ||
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1924 | The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind Ben-Hur Flipper The Dirty Dozen 2001: A Space Odyssey Poltergeist Moonstruck Thelma & Louise Hannibal |
(owned by Sony, in partnership with Providence Equity Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, TPG Capital and Quadrangle Group (3%)) |
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1993 | ||
| United Artists Entertainment, LLC | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1919 | Inherit the Wind It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World A Hard Day's Night Help! Rocky Apocalypse Now The Pink Panther Raging Bull Leaving Las Vegas Showgirls Dark Blue |
Principally a distributor, eg James Bond Series. (Acquired by MGM) (Run by Cruise/Wagner Productions) |
| Orion Pictures Corporation | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1978 | Throw Momma from the Train Hoosiers RoboCop Mississippi Burning Dances with Wolves The Silence of the Lambs |
(Acquired by MGM) |
| American International Pictures | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, USA | 1956 | The Pit and the Pendulum Foxy Brown |
(Acquired by Filmways) |
| Filmways | USA, CaliforniaSonoma County, California, USA | 1958 | (Acquired by Orion Pictures) | |
| Streamline Pictures | 1988 | (Partnership with Orion Pictures) | ||
| Universal Studios | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 1912 | The Wolf Man The Mummy Spartacus Airport Jaws The Blues Brothers The Deer Hunter Rollercoaster Back to the Future Field of Dreams Backdraft Beethoven Dr. Giggles Jurassic Park The Flintstones Meet the Parents The Bourne Identity The Sting E.T. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Land of the Lost Battleship Dracula |
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| Eon Productions | UK, LondonLondon, England, UK | 1961 | James Bond series | |
| Focus Features | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 1992 | Being John Malkovich Traffic Lost in Translation Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Brokeback Mountain Milk |
(Started as Grammercy Pictures and acquired by Universal Studios, then renamed USA Films) |
| Working Title Films | UK, LondonLondon, England, UK | Four Weddings and a Funeral Love, Actually Shaun of the Dead United 93 Hot Fuzz Atonement Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
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| Rogue Pictures | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 1992 | A Perfect Getaway The Strangers Doomsday Fearless Cry Wolf Assault on Precinct 13 Seed of Chucky |
(Acquired by Relativity Media) |
| Paramount Pictures | USA, CaliforniaHollywood, California, USA | 1912 | The Ten Commandments Vertigo Rosemary's Baby The Odd Couple The Godfather The Bad News Bears Saturday Night Fever Beverly Hills Cop Star Trek Ghost Braveheart Mission: Impossible Indiana Jones Forrest Gump Saving Private Ryan Transformers |
(The fourth oldest film studio in the world.) |
| Paramount Vantage | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1996 | No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood Babel |
(originally known as Paramount Classics) |
| Republic Pictures | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1935 | (mainly a film library company, formerly a leading B movie studio) | |
| Columbia Pictures | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 1926 | Michael Jackson's This Is It All the King's Men To Sir, with Love Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Taxi Driver Close Encounters of the Third Kind Ghostbusters The Karate Kid Spider-Man Men in Black Bad Boys |
(Acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment) |
| TriStar Pictures | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 1982 | Short Circuit Labyrinth Peggy Sue Got Married Look Who's Talking Total Recall Terminator 2: Judgment Day Basic Instinct Philadelphia Cliffhanger Sleepless in Seattle Bugsy Jerry Maguire District 9 Soul Surfer |
(Founded as Nova Pictures) |
| Sony Pictures Classics | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 1991 | Bad Education Capote Junebug Winged Migration Chloe Midnight in Paris Carnage Darling Companion To Rome with Love |
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| Screen Gems | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 1940 | Limbo Arlington Road Resident Evil Underworld Two Can Play That Game Timecode Girlfight In the Cut Vacancy Dear John Easy A Burlesque Country Strong The Roommate Friends with Benefits The Vow |
(founded as an animation studio) |
| Triumph Films | 1982 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | ||
| Destination Films | USA, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California, USA | 1993 | ||
| Sony Pictures Animation | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 2002 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Surf's Up |
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| Warner Bros. Pictures | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1918 | The Maltese Falcon Casablanca A Streetcar Named Desire Rebel Without a Cause Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bonnie and Clyde The Wild Bunch A Clockwork Orange Dirty Harry What's Up, Doc? Blazing Saddles All the President's Men Batman The Shining Police Academy Lethal Weapon Goodfellas Gremlins Free Willy Demolition Man The Fugitive Interview with the Vampire Under Siege The Matrix Harry Potter Eyes Wide Shut Million Dollar Baby Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Life as We Know It Yogi Bear Dolphin Tale |
(Owned by Time Warner) |
| Warner Independent Pictures | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 2003 | We Don't Live Here Anymore A Scanner Darkly Everything Is Illuminated March of the Penguins |
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| Castle Rock Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaBeverly Hills, California, USA | 1987 | When Harry Met Sally... Misery City Slickers A Few Good Men The Shawshank Redemption Miss Congeniality |
(Acquired by Time Warner) |
| Warner Bros. Animation | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1980 | Space Jam The Iron Giant |
(Acquired by Time Warner) |
| New Line Cinema | USA, CaliforniaNew York, New York, USA | 1967 | A Nightmare on Elm Street The Mask Friday Mortal Kombat Se7en Austin Powers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Deep Cover The Wedding Singer American History X Final Destination Rush Hour Blow The Lord of the Rings The Nativity Story Wedding Crashers Sex and the City Friday The 13th Blade House Party Spawn Journey to the Center of the Earth Hairspray Elf Horrible Bosses |
(Acquired by Time Warner, currently a label of Warner Bros. Pictures) |
| Fine Line Features | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | My Own Private Idaho Short Cuts The Sweet Hereafter American Splendor Shine |
(Originally a division of New Line Cinema) | |
| Picturehouse | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 2005 | Pan's Labyrinth | |
| Walt Disney Pictures | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1983 | Aladdin Blackbeard's Ghost The Black Hole The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes The Happiest Millionaire The Little Mermaid The Lion King The Love Bug Mary Poppins Beauty and the Beast Old Yeller Swiss Family Robinson Tron |
(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions) |
| Walt Disney Feature Animation | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1934 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio Peter Pan Cinderella Bambi |
(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions) |
| Pixar Animation Studios | USA, CaliforniaEmeryville, California, USA | 1986 | Toy Story The Incredibles Finding Nemo Monsters Inc. Cars WALL-E Up Brave |
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| Touchstone Pictures | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1984 | Splash The Color of Money Adventures in Babysitting Three Men and a Baby Good Morning, Vietnam Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Nightmare Before Christmas Cocktail Dead Poets Society Betsy's Wedding Pretty Woman Sister Act Armageddon The Royal Tenenbaums 25th Hour When in Rome |
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| Hollywood Pictures | USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA | 1989 | Arachnophobia Encino Man The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Tombstone Color of Night Quiz Show Crimson Tide Nixon Spy Hard Judge Dredd Mr. Holland's Opus The Rock |
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| Disneynature | FranceParis, France | 2008 | Earth Oceans African Cats Chimpanzee |
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| Miramax Films | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1979 | Pulp Fiction The English Patient Good Will Hunting The Cider House Rules Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Kill Bill |
(Acquired by Walt Disney) |
| Lions Gate Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California, USA | 1995 | Amores Perros American Psycho Saw Crash Monster's Ball Kick-Ass Daybreakers The Punisher The Hunger Games |
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| Artisan Entertainment | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1982 | Suicide Kings The Blair Witch Project Requiem for a Dream Van Wilder |
(Started as LIVE Entertainment and acquired by Lions Gate) |
| The Weinstein Company | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 2005 | The Reader A Single Man Hoodwinked! Nine |
Also a distributor, eg The King's Speech |
| Dimension Films | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1992 | Scream Spy Kids Scary Movie Sin City Halloween Piranha |
(originally the Miramax Films division) |
| CBS Films | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 2007 | The Back-Up Plan Extraordinary Measures Faster The Mechanic Beastly The Woman in Black |
(CBS made a brief move into film production in the late 1960s and CBS Theatrical Films in 1979) |
| Yari Film Group | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 2006 | The Illusionist | |
| Troma Entertainment | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1974 | The Toxic Avenger Terror Firmer Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. Tromeo and Juliet Cannibal! The Musical Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead Class of Nuke 'Em High |
(Trash and exploitation films) |
| Summit Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 1996 | The Twilight Saga The Hurt Locker Red The Beaver 50/50 Source Code |
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| Strand Releasing | USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA | 1989 | ||
| Newmarket Films | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1989 | Donnie Darko Memento Monster The Passion of the Christ |
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| Elevating Entertainment | USANashville, TN | 2007 | Family-friendly, uplifting and life-inspiring films | |
| Five & Two Pictures | USAUSA | 2002 | Time Changer Unidentified Me & You, Us, Forever The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry |
(Christian Films) |
| Gener8Xion Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaHollywood, California, USA | 1995 | The Omega Code Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 One Night With the King Noelle The Cross Preacher's Kid |
(Christian Films) |
| World Wide Pictures | USA, MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA | 1951 | Two a Penny The Hiding Place Joni The Climb |
(Christian Films) |
| Promenade Pictures | USA, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California, USA | 2003 | The Ten Commandments Noah's Ark: The New Beginning |
(Christian Films) |
| Sherwood Pictures | USA, GeorgiaAlbany, Georgia, USA | 2002 | Flywheel Facing the Giants Fireproof Courageous |
(Christian Films) |
| PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | UK, EnglandLondon, England, UK | 1979 | The Big Lebowski Dead Man Walking Fargo Four Weddings and a Funeral Trainspotting The Usual Suspects What Dreams May Come |
(Acquired by Universal Studios) |
| Possibility Pictures | USA, FloridaOrlando, Florida, USA | 2002 | Letters to God | (Christian Films) |
| Producers Releasing Corporation | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1939 | ||
| RKO Pictures | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1929 | King Kong Bringing Up Baby Citizen Kane |
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| Trimark Pictures | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1985 | Beautiful People Warlock |
(Started as Vidmark Entertainment, acquired by Lions Gate) |
| Samuel Goldwyn Films | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1979 | The Squid and the Whale | (Founded as Samuel Goldwyn Company, acquired by Orion Films then formed Independently in 1999) |
| Palm Pictures | USAUSA | |||
| Magnolia Pictures | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 2001 | The World's Fastest Indian | |
| Overture Films | USA, CaliforniaBeverly Hills, California, USA | 2006 | Brooklyn's Finest | (Owned by Liberty Media) |
| First Look Studios | USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA | 1993 | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | |
| Roadside Attractions | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, USA | The Joneses I Love You Phillip Morris |
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| Screen Media Films | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 2001 | ||
| Image Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA | 1981 | My Name Is Bruce | |
| Pacific International Enterprises | USA, OregonMedford, Oregon, USA | The Adventures of the Wilderness Family The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family Mountain Family Robinson Challenge to Be Free Across the Great Divide Windwalker The Late, Great Planet Earth |
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| IFC Films | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 1999 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | (Owned by Rainbow Media) |
| Hannover House | USA, ArizonaSpringdale, Arkansas, USA | 1993 | ||
| E1 Entertainment | USA, New YorkPort Washington, New York, USA | 1987 | (Founded as Koch Entertainment) | |
| THINKFilm | USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA | 2001 | Half Nelson Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Down in the Valley |
(Capitol Films (50% equity), Lionsgate Films (50% equity)) |
| Spiderwood Productions | USA, TexasAustin, Texas, USA | 2002 | The Inner Circle National Lampoon's Teed Off National Lampoon's Teed Off Too Flight of Magic (Spiderwood Animation) Something's Gonna Live Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah The Red Corner Mafiosa |
(Affiliated with Spiderwood Studios and Spiderwood Animation) |
| Vivendi Entertainment | USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California, USA | 2000 | New York, I Love You Grindhouse Hurricane Season Opie Gets Laid New York Doll Fanboys The Moon and the Stars |
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| Tyler Perry Studios | USA, Atlanta,Atlanta, Georgia, USA | 2006 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman Madea's Family Reunion Daddy's Little Girls Why Did I Get Married? Meet The Browns The Family That Preys Madea Goes to Jail |
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