Distribution & Production Companies
DreamWorksThis production company was founded in 1994
in Glendale by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. In 2009,
DreamWorks entered a long-term contract with Walt Disney studio pictures. This
company has made many high-grossing films such as Madagascar, Shrek etc. DreamWorks
usually makes a lot of animated movies.
20th Century Fox
The company was founded in 1904 in New York City by William Fox, a 25 year old Jewish-Hungarian
immigrant. who sold his cloth processing business. with the profits he brought a 'lowly common show'. A common show is the legal phrase for the exhibition of motion pictures in a store remodelled for that purpose and containing less than 299 seats. 20th century fox's highest grossing film is 'Avatar' which had a worldwide gross of $1,858,562,198. Some of their other popular films include 'Ice age', 'Home alone' and 'Star Wars'
Working titleWorking Title Films is a British film production
company, based in London. They only produce films, they do not distribute them. The company was
founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television
productions. The cause for success was the popular film called ‘Four weddings and a funeral’ which
generated an excess of $244 worldwide and was an unexpected success. It was released in 1994. Some of
their other popular films include ‘Mr Bean’, ‘Love actually’ and ‘Bridget Jones’
Warp FilmsWarp Films is an independent UK film production
company. It is based in Sheffield & London, UK with a further office in Melbourne, Australia. It was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell & Steve Beckett. The company produces films as well as distributing them. One of their biggest success to date is the movie ‘This is England’ directed by Shane Meadows which was released in 2007 and has received many awards.
Universal StudiosUniversal studios was found in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles Baumann,
Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour. It is the oldest movie
studio in the USA and fourth oldest worldwide. The highest grossing film produced by Universal
was ‘ET: The Extra- Terrestrial’ which grossed $359,197,037. other popular films by universal include ‘ Jurassic Park’, ‘Meet the Fockers’ and
‘Jaws’.
LionsgateLionsgate was founded in 1997 and is headquartered
in California. It is a north American entertainment company. As of 2012, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio. The highest grossing film produced by Lionsgate was ‘The hunger games’ followed up by ‘Twilight: Breaking dawn part 2’. Other popular films include ‘why did I get married?’ and ‘Saw II and III’