List of film production companies

This is a list of film filmmaking, film distribution companies. A production company may specialize in producing their in-house films or own subsidiary development companies. Major production companies often distribute films from independent production companies. This list includes both active and no longer active (defunct) companies. Active production companies are either run by themselves or as a subsidiary.

Film studios also create television programs for broadcast syndication.

Notable production companies

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Not a Subsidiary

Subsidiary

Defunct

Company	Headquarters	Est.	Notable Films	Notes
Beijing Enlight Pictures	ChinaChina		Mural
Capitol Films	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California, USA	1992
DreamWorks Animation	USA, CaliforniaGlendale, California, USA	2004	Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda How to Train Your Dragon	(Currently distributed by 20th Century Fox)
20th Century Fox	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA	1935	Bright Eyes Son of Fury Home in Indiana Journey to the Center of the Earth The Sound of Music Fantastic Voyage Star Wars X-Men Die Hard Alien Planet of the Apes Home Alone Predator Speed Independence Day Avatar The Simpsons Movie	(Owned by 21st Century Fox)
20th Century Fox Animation	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California, USA	1997	FernGully: The Last Rainforest Anastasia
Blue Sky Studios	USA, CaliforniaGreenwich, Connecticut, USA	1987	Ice Age Rio	(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 Kinsey The Sessions The Way, Way Back 12 Years a Slave The Drop Birdman
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	Tom and Jerry
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, e.g. 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, Calif rniaLos Angeles, USA	1956	The Pit and the Pendulum Foxy Brown I Was a Teenage Werewolf Beach Party The Raven Frogs The Land That Time Forgot At the Earth's Core A Small Town in Texas The Island of Dr. Moreau Jennifer C.H.O.M.P.S.	(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 Meet the Parents The Bourne Identity The Sting E.T. Schindler's List Dracula Oblivion Rush
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 The Constant Gardener "Eastern Promises	(Started as Gramercy Pictures and acquired by Universal Studios, then renamed USA Films)
Working Title Films	UK, LondonLondon, England, UK	1983	Four Weddings and a Funeral Love, Actually Shaun of the Dead United 93 Hot Fuzz Atonement Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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 Top Gun Ghost Braveheart Mission: Impossible Indiana Jones Forrest Gump Saving Private Ryan Transformers Friday The 13th Noah	(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 Sparkle Moms' Night Out Heaven Is for Real When the Game Stands Tall	(Founded as Nova Pictures)
Sony Pictures Classics	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California, USA	1991	Bad Education Capote Junebug Auto Focus Winged Migration Chloe Midnight in Paris Neil Young Journeys Carnage Darling Companion To Rome with Love At Any Price West of Memphis The Company You Keep Love Is All You Need I'm So Excited Before Midnight Blue Jasmine Kill Your Darlings The Lunchbox Third Person
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 Think Like a Man Carrie Think Like a Man Too	(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
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 The Fugitive The Matrix Harry Potter Eyes Wide Shut Million Dollar Baby Dolphin Tale Gravity	(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
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 Blade House Party Spawn Journey to the Center of the Earth Hairspray Elf Horrible Bosses The Hobbit	(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	1928	Blackbeard's Ghost The Black Hole The Happiest Millionaire The Love Bug Mary Poppins The Muppets Old Yeller Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The Princess Diaries Swiss Family Robinson Tron Saving Mr. Banks	(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions)
Walt Disney Animation Studios	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA	1923	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio Peter Pan Cinderella Bambi The Little Mermaid Aladdin Beauty and the Beast The Lion King	(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions)
Pixar Animation Studios	USA, CaliforniaEmeryville, California, USA	1986	Toy Story A Bug's Life The Incredibles Finding Nemo Monsters, Inc. Cars WALL-E Up Brave
Disneynature	FranceParis, France	2008	Earth Oceans African Cats Chimpanzee Wings of Life Bears
Marvel Studios	USA, CaliforniaManhattan Beach, California, USA	2007	Iron Man The Incredible Hulk Iron Man 2 Thor Captain America: The First Avenger The Avengers
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 Pearl Harbor
Hollywood Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California, USA	1989	Arachnophobia Encino Man The Hand That Rocks the Cradle "Super Mario Brothers" Tombstone Color of Night Quiz Show Crimson Tide Gun Shy G.I. Jane Judge Dredd Mr. Holland's Opus The Rock The Invisible
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	(Division of The Walt Disney Studios from 1993-2010; owned by Filmyard Holdings from 2010–present)
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 The Big Wedding
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 Nine "Coriolanus	Also a distributor, e.g. The King's Speech, Hoodwinked!
Dimension Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA	1992	Scream Spy Kids Scary Movie Sin City Halloween Piranha Equilibrium Bad Santa	(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 The Kings of Summer Last Vegas Inside Llewyn Davis	(CBS made a brief move into film production in the late 1960s and CBS Theatrical Films in 1979) (Founded as Cinema Center Films)
Hodgee Films	Canada, British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia, Canada	2011	A Brony Tale Winning America What Happens Next?
Mercury Radio Arts	USA, TexasLas Colinas, Texas, USA	2002	Man in the Moon	Owned by Glenn Beck, and owns TheBlaze
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 Sinister Ender's Game
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 "Spun"
Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures	USANashville, TN	2007	Praise Band: The Movie No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School Season of Miracles	(Family-friendly, uplifting and life-inspiring films)
Five & Two Pictures	USAUSA	2002	Time Changer Unidentified Me & You, Us, Forever The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry A Matter of Faith	(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 Road to Redemption 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		(Assets acquired by Eagle-Lion Films in 1950, which in turn was acquired by United Artists in 1955)
RKO Pictures	USA, New YorkNew York, New York, USA	1929	King Kong Bringing Up Baby Citizen Kane
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 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Bubble One Last Thing... Jesus Camp Mister Foe Chocolate Humpday The ABCs of Death Compliance Serena Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Drinking Buddies
Uncommon Productions	USA, BostonBoston, MA, USA	2000	The Last Mountain American Violet The Price of Sugar
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
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
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
Velvet Film	France, Haiti, USA	1986	Lumumba, la mort d'un prophète The Man by the Shore Moloch Tropical Murder in Pacot	(Founded by Raoul Peck in Germany as Velvet Film GmbH. Now based in France, Haiti and USA)
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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See also

• Major film studio
• Lists of films
• Lists of actors
• List of film and television directors
• List of documentary films
• Film producer
• List of television production companies
• List of film production companies by country