Warner Bros yyyy
Entertainment Film Distributors yyy
Momentum yyyyy
Artificial Eye yyy
Optimum Releasing yyyyy
Buena Vista yyy
Pathe yyy
C20th Fox yyy
United International Pictures yyy
Focus yyy
Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.
Warner Bros yyyy
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.) is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.
It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City
New Line Cinema yy
New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. Though it initially began as an independent film studio, it became a subsidiary of Time Warner and is now a division of Warner Bros. Despite that, it continues to market, produce and distribute its films, however, it does so now as a part of Warner Bros.
Fine Line Features yy
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 of which Fine Line was folded into.
BBC Films
BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Stage Beauty, A Cock and Bull Story and Match Point. It currently produces approximately eight films per year.
Up until 2007, BBC Films was run and funded as a private company, with its own offices (in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House), while still under the full control of the BBC. A recent re-structure of the division has seen it re-integrated into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision, under the ultimate control of Jane Tranter. As a result, it has moved out of its independent offices into Television Centre and its head, David M. Thompson, has left to start his own film production company.
UK Film Council
Studio Canal yyyy / Canal + yyyy
StudioCanal Image S.A. (aka Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal + Distribution, and Canal+ Image), is a French-based production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world.
The company was founded in 1996 by Pierre Lescure. The original function was to focus on French and European productions. Over the next four years, StudioCanal began to acquire film libraries from studios that either went defunct or had merged with StudioCanal.
It was not very long before StudioCanal began co-producing films such as U-571 (2000), Bully (2001), and Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). StudioCanal also funded the last third of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive. [1] StudioCanal also financed French-language films, such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (which became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades) and Intimate Strangers (which is being remade by Hollywood-based Paramount Pictures [2]).
Today, StudioCanal is a division of Vivendi SA, and has a catalogue that includes the film libraries of Carolco Pictures (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Basic Instinct, etc.), DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group (King Kong Lives, Tai-Pan, etc.), Embassy Pictures (The Graduate, The Producers, etc.), the Alexander Salkind pictures not owned by Warner Bros. (including Santa Claus: The Movie), the EMI Films library (Highlander, Death on the Nile, etc., but not including US rights to certain co-productions -- US rights to such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind [whose worldwide rights are with Sony Pictures] and The Deer Hunter are owned by other major studios, usually the original releasing studio) and the Lumiere Pictures and Television output (including The Third Man and The Avengers).
Outside France, StudioCanal does not have a formal distribution unit per se, relying on other studios and video companies to handle their product, in the US for example, studios such as Anchor Bay Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, Image Entertainment ,Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Pictures,distribute StudioCanal's back catalogue on Video and DVD.
StudioCanal recently acquired UK-based distributor Optimum Releasing.
Film4
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4.
Miramax yyy
Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Miramax was considered an important quasi-independent studio for many years after the Disney purchase. After the Weinsteins left in late 2005, Miramax Films is operated by Daniel Battsek under Disney.
Matador Pictures
In 2009, Matador Pictures celebrates 10 years as one of the UK’s leading independent feature film production and financing companies with a distinguished track record of distinctive and high quality feature films earning both commercial and critical success. Films it has produced, co-produced or co-financed have achieved over 100 awards, nominations and festival selections and all have found international distribution.
Pathe Productions yy
British production arm of Pathé Entertainment.
Fox Searchlight yyy
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 films.
C20th Fox
is one of the six major American film studios.
Universal yyy
Paramount yy
Paramount Vantage
Working Title Films yy
Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1984. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now.
The company gained mainstream traction after the unexpected global box-office success of Hugh Grant-starrer, Four Weddings and a Funeral. Among the company's films are Richard Curtis-scripted romantic comedies, which usually star Grant, and Coen Brothers' films, but has in recent times moved into many other types of film, such as United 93.
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Conglomerate |
Parent Division |
Major Studio Subsidiary |
Other Mainstream Subsidiaries |
Arthouse/"Indie" Subsidiaries |
Genre/B movie Subsidiaries |
U.S./Can. Market Share (2007)[1] |
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New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation |
19.7%1 |
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15.5%2 |
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Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures (unified business with separate brands) |
15.3%3 |
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Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, Destination Films, Triumph Films, Stage 6 Films |
12.9%4 |
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Rogue Pictures (under Focus Features) |
12.2%5 |
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Fox Faith, Fox Atomic, New Regency (20% equity) |
11.9%6 |