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This is a list of film production companies.

The "Big Six" major film studios

• Fox Entertainment Group (owned by News Corporation )
  • 20th Century Fox Animation
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
    • Fox Atomic
  • Blue Sky Studios

• 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)
  • DreamWorks SKG
    • DreamWorks Animation SKG (a separate company, distributes animated films, spun off by DreamWorks in 2004) (formerly part of DreamWorks, films currently distributed by Paramount Pictures)
    • Go Fish Pictures
  • 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)

• 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. (20%, in partnership with Comcast (20%), Providence Equity Partners (29%), DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (7%), TPG Capital, L.P. (21%) 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
    • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
    • 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-1948 library, which are now owned by Turner Entertainment, which is also owned by Time Warner)
    • Warner Independent Pictures
    • Castle Rock Entertainment (excluding the pre-1994 library, which are now owned by MGM)
    • Warner Bros. Animation
    • Cartoon Network Films
  • New Line Cinema
    • Picturehouse (co-owned by HBO Films)
  • HBO
    • HBO Films

• Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (The Walt Disney Company)
  • Walt Disney Pictures
    • Walt Disney Feature Animation
    • DisneyToon Studios
    • Pixar Animation Studios
  • Touchstone Pictures
  • Miramax Films
  • Hollywood Pictures
  • The Jim Henson Company
    • Jim Henson Pictures

Also not mentioned:

RKO Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures

The Independent-Majors

• Lionsgate Entertainment
  • Lions Gate
    • Artisan Entertainment

• The Weinstein Company
  • Dimension Films (originally the Miramax Films division)

• Marvel Studios (associated with Marvel Entertainment)

• The American Film Company (Los Angeles)
• Caravan Pictures (owned by Disney, defunct)
• 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)
• Gary Sanchez Productions
• Gaumont (in France)
• Golden Harvest (based in Hong Kong)
• Gold Circle Films
• Gravity Entertainment
• Gullane Entertainment (owned by HIT Entertainment)
• 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 Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox)
• 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)
• Producers Releasing Corporation
• Rankin-Bass
• Renaissance Pictures
• Revolution Studios (associated with Columbia TriStar)
• RKO Pictures
• Salter Street Films
• Scott Free
• Shaw Brothers
• Salty Earth Pictures (US)
• Silver Pictures
• Spyglass Entertainment (associated with The Walt Disney Company)
• Strand Releasing
• StudioCanal (owned by Vivendi Universal) (based in France)
• Tartan Films
• Trimark Pictures
• Troma Entertainment
• UGC (in France)
• UFA (in Germany)
• Village Roadshow Pictures (associated with Warner Bros. Entertainment)
• Walden Media
• Williams Street
• WingNut Films
• Yari Film Group

Early American motion picture studios

See Movie studio and Cinema of the United States

See also

• Major film studio
• Lists of films
• List of actors
• List of film directors by name
• List of documentaries
• Film producer