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TYPE                       Public

INDUSTRY                Film

FOUNDED                October 12, 1994

FOUNDER(S)           Steven Spielber, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen

HEADQUATERS      Universal City, California, United States

PRODUCTS              Motion Pictures, television programs

OWNER(S)                Independent (1994-2000), Viacom (2006-2008), Reliance ADA Group (50%)

EMPLOYEES            1,200 (2008)

DreamWorks Pictures is an American film studio which develops, produces and distributes films, video games and TV programming. It is also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios. It has produced more than ten films with box-effice grosses totalling more than $100 million each.

DreamWorks had began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to create a new Hollywood studio of which they own 72%. In December 2005, the founders have agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was compeleted in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intentions to end it's partnership with Paramount and signed a US $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's Dream Works studios as an independent entity. Clark Hallren, former Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries group of J.P Morgan Securities and Alan J. Levine of J.P Morgan Entertainment Advisors led the Reliance team in structuring the capitaland business plan for the company. The movie studio's distribution is 50% owned by Reliance which is led by Anil Ambani.

DreamWorks' animation arm was spun off in 2004 into DreamWorks Animation SKG. It's films were distributed worldwide by Paramount, but the animation studio remained independent of Paramount/Viacom.

FILMS WHICH DREAMWORKS WERE A PART OF

- Small Soldiers
- Gladiator
- Road Trip
- What Lies Beneath
- Meet the Parents
- Cast Away
- The Ring
- Catch me if you can
- The Ring two
- Meet the Fockers
- Just like Heaven
- The Island
.. and many more.

TYPE                         Subsidiary of News Corporation

INDUSTRY               Film

FOUNDED               May 31,1935 by merger of Fox Films ( Founded in 1915) and 20t Century Pictures,  

                                   Inc. (Founded in 1933)

HEADQUATERS   Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States

PRODUCTS            Motion pictures, TV films

OWNER(S)              News Corporation

PARENT                  Fox Entertainment Group, News Corporation

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the six huge American film studios as of 2010. It is also known as 20th Century Fox, 20th or Fox. It is located in the Century City area os Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.

The 20th Century Fox was founded on may 31st, 1935 as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, William Goetz and Raymond Griffith.

FILMS WHICH 20th Century Fox WERE A PART OF

- Star Wars

- Die Hard

- Home Alone

- Night at the Museum

- Ice Age

- Garfield

- Alvin and the Chipmunks

- X-men

- The Simpsons

- Family Guy

- American Dad

.. and many more.

TYPE                           Public

INDUSTRY                 Conglomerate, Motion pictures, television programming, home video, family

                                    entertainment, Video on demand, digital distribution.

FOUNDED                 1995 (Vancouver, British Columbia)

FOUNDERS               Frank Giustra

HEADQUARTERS     Santa Monica, California, United States


Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a Canadian-American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, but is head quartered in Santa Monica, California. As of 2007, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America.


FILMS WHICH Lionsgate WERE A PART OF


- Saw
- The Cooler
- Open Water
- Undead
- Saw 2
- Hard Candy
- PRide
- Bug
- Good Luck Chuck
- Disaster Movie
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Drag Me to Hell
- Kick-Ass
- The Expendables
.. and many more.

TYPE                              Subsidiary of NBC Universal

INDUSTRY                    Film

FOUNDED                    June 8, 1912 (Los Angeles, California, U.S)    

HEADQUARTERS       Universal City, California, U.S. Florida

OWNER(S)                    General Electric (87.66%) Vivendi (12.34%) 

PARENT                        NBC Universal

Universal Pictures is once of the six major movie studios. It was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle and is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBX. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through it's subsidiary over the years.

FILMS WHICH Lionsgate WERE A PART OF

- Leap Year

- The Unborn

- Coraline

- Funny People

- Drag Me to Hell

- Hot Fuzz

- Alpha Dog

- Nanny McPhee

- Stay Alive

- Two Brothers

- Dawn of the Dead

.. and many more.