3. DreamWorks
An American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes
films, video games and television programming. It has produced or
distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more
than $100 million each.
DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (forming the
SKG present on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo) to create a new
Hollywood studio of which they own 72%.
DreamWorks' animation was spun off in 2004 into DreamWorks
Animation SKG. Its films were distributed worldwide by Paramount, but
the animation studio remained independent of Paramount/Viacom.
Films
The Peacemaker (first ever film)
MouseHunt
Gladiator
The Ring, The Ring 2
Collateral
Red Eye
5. 20th Century Fox
Is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011. Located in the
Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills.
The company was founded on May 31, 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,
Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.
Famous people to come out of Century Fox, Shirley Temple and Marilyn
Monroe etc. They also had the first African-American cinema star Dorothy
Dandridge.
Films
Avatar
Star Wars
Ice Age
Garfield
Alvin and the Chipmunks
X-Men
Die Hard
Planet of the Apes
Home Alone
Predator
7. MGM
Is an American media company, involved primarily in the production
and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in
1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control
of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer
Pictures.
On November 3, 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM
emerged from bankruptcy on December 20, 2010, at which time the
executives of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger
Birnbaum, became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the company.
Films
Poltergeist
All dogs go to heaven
Hannibal
Legally Blonde
Jeepers Creepers
Walking Tall
Into the blue
Nanny McPhee
Hot tub time Machine
9. Universal
Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the oldest American
movie studios still in continuous production.
It also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary
NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several
prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios
through its subsidiaries over the years.
Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio.
Films
By the Sun’s Rays (First Film made by Universal)
The Phantom of the Opera
Dracula
House of Frankenstein
To Kill a Mockingbird
K-9
Happy Gilmore
American Pie Series
Fast and Furious Series
Skyline
11. Paramount Pictures
Is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555
Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by
media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is
also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district
of Los Angeles.
Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie
studios.
Films
The Ten Commandments
The Italian Job
The Godfather
Saturday Night Fever
Beverly Hills Cop
Star Trek
Ghost
Braveheart
Mission: Impossible
Indiana Jones
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Transformers
13. Columbia Pictures
Is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia
Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group,
owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese
conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a
member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three
among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers
Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in
August 1922.
Films
Michael Jackson's This Is It
All The King's Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Taxi Driver
Ghostbusters
The Karate Kid
Spider-Man
Men in Black
Bad Boys
2012
15. Dimension Films
Currently part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob
Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre
films. The Weinstein Brothers took this label with them when they
departed the Disney-owned Miramax in October 2005.
Founded, November 25, 1992.
All films released by Dimension Films prior to October 1, 2005, remain
the property of Miramax Films. Miramax also retains a license to use the
Dimension label for distribution of the film library it controls.
Films
The Amityville Horror
Scary Movie Series
Halloween (Remake)
Scream Series
Apollo 18
Hellraiser
Starsky & Hutch
Bad Santa
Black Christmas