Hollywood movie studios

Twentieth (20th) Century Fox, shorthand for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is one of the major movie studios, located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. ...more on Wikipedia about "20th Century Fox"

Amblin Entertainment is a United States-based film and television production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1982. Amblin is only a production studio, and has never distributed its own movies. Its logo features the silhouette of E.T. riding in the basket on Elliot's bicycle flying in front of the moon from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the first movie produced by Amblin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amblin Entertainment"

American Zoetrope is the name of the studios founded by Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas, named after a collection of zoetropes Coppola was given in the late 1960s by filmmaker and collector of early motion picture making equipment, Mogens Skot-Hansen. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Zoetrope"

Artisan Entertainment was a privately-held independent movie studio that has been owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, since 2003. At the time of its acquisition Artisan had a library of thousands of films developed through acquisition, original production, and production and distribution agreements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artisan Entertainment"

Blue Sky Studios is an Academy Award winning computer animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation. In addition to their feature-length animated films, Robots ( 2005) and Ice Age ( 2002), they have worked on many high-profile movies, primarily in the integration of live-action with computer-generated animation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blue Sky Studios"

Cartoon Network Studios is the name of an animation studio that was created as a spin-off of Warner Brothers Animation. Hanna-Barbera Productions, one of the first animation studios to produce original series for television, was closed in 2001 after the the death of co-founder William Hanna. When Hanna Barbera Productions got closed in 2001, Warner Bros acquired all of the rights of Hanna Barbera Productions. Soon after that, there was a split in Warner Bros. This gave birth to Cartoon Network Studios. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cartoon Network Studios"

Castle Rock Entertainment is an independent film and television studio founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, composer Marc Shaiman and entertainment mogul Alan Horn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Castle Rock Entertainment"

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film and television production company that is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which in turn is part of Japanese electronics giant Sony. ...more on Wikipedia about "Columbia Pictures"

Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group is the result of a merger of two previously successful motion picture groups; TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures. The company is a division of Sony Pictures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group"

Dimension Films is a motion picture label, formerly used as an alternative for Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films. The Weinstein Brothers took this label with them when they departed the Disney-owned Miramax in October 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dimension Films"

DreamWorks, L.L.C., doing business as DreamWorks SKG, is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. It began as an ambitious attempt by media moguls David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg to create a new Hollywood studio, but in December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, Paramount Pictures's parent. Its animation subsidiary, DreamWorks Animation SKG, will remain independent, but its films will be distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures. ...more on Wikipedia about "DreamWorks"

Fine Line Features was the speciality films division of New Line Cinema. It produced, purchased, distributed and marketed films of a more " indie" flavor than its parent company. In 2005, New Line teamed up with fellow Time Warner subsidiary HBO to form Picturehouse, a new speciality film label, thus rendering Fine Line redunant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fine Line Features"

Focus Features is the art house films division of Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distrubutor for foreign films. Focus also serves as a producer and distributor of low-budget action/ horror films through its Rogue Pictures division. ...more on Wikipedia about "Focus Features"

Fox Searchlight Pictures is the specialty film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It has a more indie slant than its parent company, and has produced and/or distributed such films as: ...more on Wikipedia about "Fox Searchlight Pictures"

Gold Circle Films is an independent film production company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gold Circle Films"

HBO Films is a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries. While much of HBO Films' output is created directly for the television market, such as the mini-series Band of Brothers and Angels in America, it has also branched into theatrical distribution with such critically acclaimed films as Elephant and American Splendor. These theatrical releases are usually handled by Picturehouse, a joint venture between HBO Films and New Line Cinema; both are owned by Time Warner. ...more on Wikipedia about "HBO Films"

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's subsidiary movie studios. Like Touchstone Pictures, another Disney studio, it produces films for a primarily adult audience. Its first release was Arachnophobia (1990). While Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hollywood Pictures"

Imagine Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1986 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imagine Entertainment"

Jim Henson Pictures is a United States-based movie studio, specializing in family films. It was founded by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company in 1997. Prior to that Henson films were released under the production banners of Henson Associates or Jim Henson Productions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Henson Pictures"

The Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Liberty Media"

This is a list of Hollywood movie studios. Not all of them are necessarily based at Hollywood, California, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Hollywood movie studios"

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Mandalay Pictures is a film studio which teams up with Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Their current CEO is Peter Gruber. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mandalay Pictures"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, was, until 2005, a media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. The company was acquired by a partnership led by Sony and Comcast Corporation for $US 4.8 billion. The sale was completed on April 8, 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"

Miramax Films is a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City. ...more on Wikipedia about "Miramax Films"

Monogram Pictures Corporation was a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists. Monogram is considered a leader among the smaller studios sometimes referred to collectively as Poverty Row. The idea behind the studio was that when the Monogram logo appeared on the screen, everyone knew they were in for action and adventure. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monogram Pictures"

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