Hollywood Famous Film Companies

Major Hollywood Film Companies

Fox Entertainment Group (owned by News Corporation )

• 20th Century Fox
  • 20th Century Fox Animation (defunct)
    • Blue Sky Studios
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
    • Fox Atomic (pooling)

Paramount Motion Pictures Group (owned by Viacom)

• Paramount Pictures (excluding the pre-1950 library, which are now owned by Universal Studios)
  • Paramount Vantage (originally known as Paramount Classics)
• United International Pictures (joint venture with Universal Studios, distributes Paramount and Universal films worldwide)
• MTV Networks branded labels
  • MTV Films
  • Nickelodeon Movies
  • Comedy Central Films
• Republic Pictures (mainly a film library company, formerly a leading B movie studio)

DreamWorks SKG

• DreamWorks Animation

Sony Pictures Entertainment (owned by Sony)

• Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
  • Columbia Pictures
  • TriStar Pictures
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • Screen Gems
  • Triumph Films
  • Destination Films
  • Sony Pictures Animation

MGM Holdings, Inc. (owned by Sony, in partnership with Providence Equity Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, TPG Capital, L.P. and Quadrangle Group (3%))

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc. (excluding the pre-1986 library, which are now owned by Turner Entertainment)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
• United Artists Entertainment, LLC
  • Cruise/Wagner Productions
  • Highway 61 Films, LLC (Michael Nozik, Paul Haggis)
• Orion Pictures Corporation (defunct, an in-name-only unit)
  • American International Pictures (defunct)
  • Filmways (defunct)
  • Streamline Pictures (defunct)

NBC Universal (owned by General Electric & Vivendi)

• Universal Studios
  • Focus Features
    • Rogue Pictures
  • Working Title Films (based in London)
• United International Pictures (joint venture with Paramount Pictures, distributes Paramount and Universal films worldwide)

Time Warner (Time Warner Inc.)

• Warner Bros. Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Warner Independent Pictures
  • Castle Rock Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Animation
  • Cartoon Network Films
• New Line Cinema
  • Fine Line Features (defunct)
  • Picturehouse (co-owned by HBO Films, defunct)
• HBO
  • HBO Films

Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (The Walt Disney Company)

• Walt Disney Pictures
  • Walt Disney Feature Animation
  • DisneyToon Studios
  • Disneynature
  • Pixar Animation Studios
• Touchstone Pictures
• Hollywood Pictures
• Miramax Films
• Spyglass Entertainment
• Caravan Pictures (defunct in 1999 because, absorbed into Spyglass Entertainment)
• Marvel Studios (associated with Marvel Entertainment)
• The Muppets Studio, LLC

Hollywood Film Independent Companies

Lions Gate Entertainment

• Artisan Entertainment
• Mandate Pictures

The Weinstein Company

• Dimension Films (originally the Miramax Films division)
• Amblin Entertainment (associated with Universal Studios and DreamWorks)
• Channel Four Films (based in London)
• Constantin Film (based in Germany)
• Dark Castle Entertainment (associated with Warner Bros.)
• Davis Entertainment
• EMI Films (based in London)
• EON Productions (based in London), (producers of the official James Bond film series) (associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists)
• Evolution Entertainment
• Gary Sanchez Productions
• Gaumont (in France)
• Gener8Xion Entertainment
• Golden Harvest (based in Hong Kong)
• Gold Circle Films
• Gravity Entertainment
• Gullane Entertainment (owned by HIT Entertainment)
• Hard Eight Pictures
• Icon Productions
• ImageMovers
• Imagine Entertainment (associated with Universal Studios)
• Interscope Pictures
• ITC Entertainment (based in London)
• The Kennedy/Marshall Company
• Lakeshore Entertainment
• Lawson Productions
• Legendary Pictures (associated with Warner Bros.)
• Liberty Media
• Lightstorm Entertainment
• Lucasfilm, Ltd.
  • Lucasfilm Animation
• Malpaso Productions
• Mandalay Pictures (associated with Universal Studios, formerly associated with Paramount Pictures and Columbia TriStar)
• Mirabai Films
• Media 8 Entertainment
• Morgan Creek Productions (associated with Universal Studios, formerly associated with 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.)
• New Regency (associated with 20th Century Fox, formerly associated with Warner Bros.)
• Pathe (in France)
• Plan B Entertainment, founded by Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
• PorchLight Entertainment (based in Canada)
• Producers Releasing Corporation
• Rankin-Bass
• Renaissance Pictures
• Revolution Studios (defunct)
• RKO Pictures
• Salter Street Films
• Scott Free
• Shaw Brothers Studio
• Sherwood Pictures
• Silver Pictures
• Strand Releasing
• StudioCanal (owned by Vivendi Universal) (based in France)
• Summit Entertainment
• Tartan Films
• Trimark Pictures
• Troma Entertainment
• UGC (in France)
• UFA (in Germany)
• Village Roadshow Pictures (associated with Warner Bros. Entertainment)
• Walden Media (associated with 20th Century Fox; formerly associated with Walt Disney, Columbia TriStar, and New Line Cinema)
• Williams Street
• WingNut Films
• Yari Film Group
• Zide/Perry Productions