Film production companies

Major 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 (excluding the pre-1950^[1][2] library, which are now owned by Turner Entertainment^[3], which is also owned by Time Warner)
    • Warner Independent Pictures
    • Castle Rock Entertainment (excluding the pre-1994 library, which are now owned by MGM via Nelson 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

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)
• C2 Pictures
• 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
• Five & Two Pictures
• Four by Two Films (Operated by British Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen & Dan Mazer)
• 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.)
• O Entertainment
• 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)
• Possibility Pictures
• Producers Releasing Corporation
• Rankin-Bass
• Renaissance Pictures
• Revolution Studios (defunct)
• RKO Pictures
• Salter Street Films
• Scott Free
• Shaw Brothers Studio
• Sherwood Pictures
• Silver Pictures
• Smart Monkey Studios
• Strand Releasing
• StudioCanal (owned by Vivendi Universal) (based in France)
• Summit Entertainment
• Tartan Films
• The Halcyon Company
• 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