Film company

The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or...

is a large Japanese film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. In the West, it is best known as the producer of many daikaijũ (monster) and tokusatsu (special effects) movies, the Chouseishin...

Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Approximately 30 miles west of London on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, the studios were created in 1934 by Charles Boot and built within 12 months by the Henry Boot...

Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St. Margarets, London, England, that is used by many motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Dr. Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice-rink. At the time of its original construction, it...

Lime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, in Shepherd's Bush London W12 near Hammersmith, west London and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first...

For the film called Ealing Comedy see Ealing Comedy (film) Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London and claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. The site had been previously occupied...

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers and...

Gaumont is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). It is the oldest running film company in the world. Originally dealing in photographic apparatuses, the company began producing short films in 1897 to...

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was a motion picture studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, IL by George K. Spoor and Broncho Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A"). It is best known today for its series of Charlie...

Merchant Ivory Productions (1961- ) is a film company founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Their films were for the most part directed by the former, produced by the latter and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a noted exception of a few films)...

The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed in 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. Its film division once distributed Universal Pictures releases in the UK. The Rank Organisation was created by J. Arthur Rank in 1937 to consolidate...

A major film studio is a movie production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in a given market. In the North American, Western, and global markets, the major...

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme was a famous film studio in the German Democratic Republic-GDR (the German Democratic Republic is also known as the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-DDR), maybe best known for its fairy tale films. The DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme was part of...

Trigger Street Productions is an entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey in 1997. Its credits include Beyond the Sea, The United States of Leland and The Big Kahuna on screen, as well as stage productions of The Iceman Cometh and Cobb. TriggerStreet...

Focus Features (formerly USA Films) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign film. Focus was formed from the 2002 divisional merger of USA Films,...

Fox Searchlight Pictures is the specialty film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It has a more indie slant than its parent company, and has produced and/or distributed films. In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute...

Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City. It was founded in June, 1988 by co-presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist Films are strongly auteur-driven and offer a very distinct visual style and...

Mosfilm (Russian: Мосфильм; ) is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein (commonly considered the...

Aglet Productions is a "no- and low-budget" movie production company, headed by Karl T. Hirsch and responsible for the 1998 movie Green.

is Japan entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Cinematograph Company". The company has made, and continues to...

Shepperton Studios, located in Shepperton, Surrey, England is a film studio with a long history of film making. Film history began at Shepperton Studios in 1931, when Norman Loudon, a dynamic Scottish businessman, bought Littleton Park with its surrounding 60 acre ...

Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studio and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties. It is wholly owned and controlled by American media conglomerate News Corporation, since the...

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (in Russian, Киностудия Ленфи́льм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes...

Historically, the name "Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studio that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England. Despite being called “Elstree Studios” only one studio was actually located in Elstree itself, the...

Amicus Productions is a British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England. It was founded by American producer and screenwriter Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg. Amicus is perhaps best known for Subotsky's own trademark portmanteau horror...

Leavesden Film Studios is a film and media complex constructed on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome, which was an important centre of aircraft production during World War II. It is situated in west Hertfordshire around south of Welwyn...

October Films was a U.S. independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet. A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures (then a division of...

Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television studio founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn, with Columbia Pictures as a strategic partner. Columbia invested at formation but shortly thereafter had to re...

LUX is the principal centre for the promotion and distribution of experimental film and video works in the UK. It has one of the largest collections of experimental film and video art and houses works of over 1000 artists. It was formed in the 1990s in the merger of...

Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a 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...