Production Companies

A production company provides the physical basis for

works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art,

film, television, radio, and video.

Production Companies• DreamWorks Animation – USA – (Shrek, Madegascar, Kung Fu Panda)• 20th Century Fox – USA – (Star Wars, X-Men, Avatar)• Blue Sky Studios – USA – (Ice Age, Rio)• Fox Searchlight Pictures – USA – (Black Swan, Little Miss Sunshine, Bridman)• United Artists Entertainment, LLC – USA – (Mad World, Apocalypse Now, Showgirls)• Orion Pictures Corporation – USA – (RoboCop, Train, Hoosiers)• American International Pictures – USA – (C.H.O.M.P.S., Beach Party, Frogs)• Universal Studios – USA – (Oblivion, Jaws, E.T.)• Eon Productions – UK – (James Bond Series)• Rogue Pictures – USA – (Seed Of Chucky, Cry Wolf, Doomsday)• Paramount Pictures – USA – (Transformers, Friday the 13th, Indiana Jones)• Columbia Pictures – USA – (Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Karate Kid)• TriStar Pictures – USA – (Total Recall, District 9, Tall)• Warner Bros. Pictures – USA - (Batman, Gravity, Harry Potter)• Castle Rock Entertainment – USA – (Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, City Slickers)• New Line Cinema – USA – (The Mask, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Annabelle)• Walt Disney Pictures – USA – (Tron, The Black Hole, Blackbeard’s Ghost)• Pixar Animation Studios – USA – (Cars, Monsters Inc., Toy Story)• Marvel Studios – USA – (Iron Man, Thor, The Avengers)• Lions Gate Entertainment – USA – (The Hunger Games, Saw, American Psycho)• Dimension – USA – (Scream, Scary Movie, Halloween)

New Line Cinema• Founded in 1967• New York, USA• Owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment

• Although New Line Cinema is known as an all-round production company that is non-genre specific, it has a successful archive of renowned horror/thriller films such as Annabelle, The Nightmare On Elm Street and The Conjuring. All of these films were hugely successful as they generated the following worldwide gross intakes.

• Annabelle - $37,134,255 (USA) - Budget $6,500,000 (estimated)• A Nightmare On Elm Street - $115,664,037 (Worldwide) - Budget $27,000,000• The Conjuring - $318,000,141 (Worldwide) - Budget $20,000,000 (estimated)

Dimension Films• Founded in 1922• New York, USA• Formerly owned by The Walt Disney Studios and now owned by The Weinstein

Company

• As of 1992, the company usually releases horror films, comedy films and action films. The horror categorized films all very successful, movies such as Scream, Children of The Corn and Halloween: Resurrection. Dimension Films has also have involvement with One Ball Pictures who owns "Funny Or Die" online series, they released their first episode “A Lesson with John McEnroe” with Dimension Films.

• Scream• Children Of The Corn• Halloween: Resurrection

Distribution Companies

The company responsible for the marketing of the film

Distribution Companies

● 20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd.

● Hammer Films

● Icon Film Distribution

● J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors

● Paramount Pictures UK

● Sony Pictures Releasing

● United International Pictures

● Universal Pictures UK

● Cinema 16

● Eternal Pictures

● Lions Gate Entertainment

● Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)

● United Artists

● Universal Pictures.

● Zeitgeist Films

Hammer Films

• Founded in 1934• United Kingdom

• Hammer Films also produces films as well as distributing them. The company is renowned for its traditional gothic horror films. They are synonymous with horror films after defining the genre in Britain with classics such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy. However, only ⅓ of Hammer films were horror as they tackled other genres such a sci-fi. Recent output includes the worldwide box office smash The Woman in Black, critically acclaimed Let Me In, and 2014 paranormal thriller The Quiet Ones.

Lions Gate Entertainment

● Founded in 1997● California, America

● Lions Gate are a company that produce films as well as distribute them. The genre that feature in their work most often is horror. They have distributed films such as The cabin in The Woods and The Last Exorcism. By November 2013 they were named the most commercially successful mini major film and television distribution company in North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio

Exhibition Companies

Film exhibition companies tend to feature in the public screening of the films. These companies sell the experience of the film as a whole rather than the actual film by itself. The have no direct input into creating and producing the film, they

just literally exhibit the film.