Universal Pictures is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Universal was founded in 1912 by the German Carl Laemmle (pronounced "LEM-lee"), Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is a major American film and television studio headquartered in Burbank, California. Founded in 1923, Warner Bros. is known for its extensive library of movies, TV shows, and animated content. The studio produces and distributes a wide range of popular and iconic films and series, including franchises like <em>Harry Potter</em>, <em>DC Universe</em>, <em>The Dark Knight</em>, and <em>Looney Tunes</em>.
1-2 Special is a new North American film distribution company based in New York, launched by Jason Hellerstein, a co-founding executive of Sideshow. The company acquires and releases festival films from the U.S. and internationally, aiming for a mix of commercial and critical success.
Founded in 2018, 101 Studios was a global entertainment company dedicated to the acquisition, financing, development, production, and distribution of high-caliber, creator-driven storytelling.
1091 Pictures was an American production company based in New York City and Los Angeles. The company was founded as the film and television division subsidiary of <a title="The Orchard (company)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchard_(company)">The Orchard</a> in 2015. The company is best known for the Oscar-nominated films <i>Life, Animated</i> and <i>Cartel Land</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"></sup> Sony divested the company and its catalogue of over 4,000 in 2019, with the company adopting the name 1091 Media.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"></sup> In 2020, the company rebranded as 1091 Pictures and announced that its parent company rebranded as Streamwise, the name of its new technology platform in development.
1844 Entertainment is an independent distribution and production company specialising in film and television. Based in Los Angeles, 1844 has a team of highly motivated and experienced professionals with expertise in project development, production, structured finance, distribution, sales and marketing. 1844 has the ability to create and add value to the contents it produces and distributes. 1844 is committed to bring the best international critically-acclaimed films to audience across the country, such as Berlinale’s awarded Las Herederas (Marcelo Martinesi, 2018), Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat, 2018), Sambà (Israel Cardenas – Laura Amelia Guzmàn, 2017), No Date No Signature (Vahid Jalilvand, 2017).
<strong>INACTIVE</strong> For over 80 years, 20th Century was one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation by the merger of Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Golden Age. 20th Century Fox played a significant role in shaping the entertainment industry, responsible for many iconic movies and groundbreaking achievements. The studio is now owned by The Walt Disney Studios, operating as the Twentieth Century Studios division of Disney Entertainment, which is in turn a division within The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets. The studio has produced many commercially successful film series such as the first six Star Wars films, X-Men, Ice Age, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes as well as numerous television shows such as The Simpsons. The studio’s archive includes many movies which have won the Academy Award for Best Picture including "Avatar" - which held the title as the highest grossing movie of all time from 2009-2019 - and "The Sound of Music" - which received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
20th Century Studios is an American film studio that was formed in 1935 by the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and the Fox Film Corporation. It is currently owned by The Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets.
3388 Films is a production and distribution company with proven experience in more than 20 different markets & languages and specialized in Asian and Southeast Asian media and film content. We are champions of underrepresented and underserved independent and international content creators. Our mission is to create with intention and to connect diverse media & film content to global audiences.
4TH ROW FILMS begins with a love for movies and a passion for storytelling. Our philosophy is to approach everything we do as if it were a movie. This finds its way into every aspect of our process and is reflected in what we make and how we make it. We have produced 14 award winning feature length films and over 10,000 pieces of content for our clients. Our films have premiered at the most prestigious festivals (Berlin, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca) played in art house theaters around the world and been distributed by HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Magnolia to name a few.
7TH EMPIRE MEDIA is a production company with a mission to create a culture of human rights through imaginative film and television.
8 Above specializes in custom audience-building strategies, theatrical experiences and digital release campaigns for independent feature and documentary films. Every film and filmmaker is different. Your distribution goals are as unique as the film you made. This is what gets us excited – finding the precise methods that will work best for you and your film. Jon and the team are not just distribution specialists – we are also filmmakers ourselves. We understand firsthand the challenges you face in today’s increasingly cutthroat, ever-changing distribution landscape. We bring a filmmaker’s mindset to our collaborative approach working alongside our filmmakers throughout all stages of a release, fostering an ethic of resourcefulness, empathy and care, adding clarity and lightness to what can otherwise be a daunting and stressful process. Our emphasis on building and harnessing impactful relationships is central to our work. We work closely with you to get to know your film, your unique goals, and your artistic vision inside and out. We collaborate with you on an actionable plan that will position your film to stand out, resonate deeply with audiences, and create real-world impact – all while remaining faithful to your ethos, aesthetic, and values. Importantly: 8 Above helps you to distribute your film, but you will always retain all rights to your film.
A CONTRACORRIENTE FILMS is a film distributor and production company created in 2009 to become one of the leading film companies in the Spanish market. Based in Barcelona, its main shareholders and management team have many years of experience in the profession, having developed their careers in companies such as Grupo Planeta, Filmax or Notro Films/Vértice 360, from where they launched in our market such diverse titles as Solas (Benito Zambrano), El Pianista (Polanski), No sos vos, soy yo (Taratuto) or La niebla (Frank Darabont). Precisely the majority of the shareholders of Notro Films and almost all of its professional team constitute the operating core of A CONTRACORRIENTE. Specialising in European and independent films with the potential to reach a wide audience, A CONTRACORRIENTE FILMS is currently the leading Spanish distributor in the theatrical market, with over 20 million viewers and a box office take of over 21 million euros in 2018. Its most popular titles include Intocable, Dios mío ¿qué te hizo?, Handia, Los Seductores, Pequeñas mentiras sin importante, Profesor Lazhar, Bienvenidos al Sur, El hombre de al lado and Jane Eyre. Its catalogue of over 1,500 titles, which it manages in theatres, platforms, on television and in the Blu-Ray domestic format, also includes some of the most outstanding classics of all time, by masters such as Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Jean Renoir (Boudou Saved from the Waters), Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander), Jacques Tati (My Uncle) and Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Stories). Films that marked an era such as Children of Paradise, Rififi, Don Camillo, The Ninth Gate, Taxi Express, The Piano, Cinema Paradiso or Babette's Feast, titles that A CONTRACORRIENTE successfully re-released in theatres, have been recovered by the company for distribution on DVD and television. The company has also specialised in segments as diverse as family films, with hits such as Ballerina, Mia and the White Lion or the Spanish film The Best Summer of My Life, or art documentaries. In this genre, it has strategic agreements with the most important production companies in the world, with highly successful films about figures such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Goya, Van Gogh or Picasso, as well as galleries and museums such as El Prado, whose film on the occasion of its Second Centenary (Painters and Kings of the Prado) starred Jeremy Irons. A CONTRACORRIENTEA CONTRACORRIENTE also distributes its own films, such as Ciudadano Ilustre, winner of the Goya and the big winner of the Platino Awards in 2017; La librería, by Isabel Coixet, which was seen by more than half a million spectators and for which it won the Goya for Best Film, among other awards; and Litus, by Dani de la Orden. Since 2014, A CONTRACORRIENTE also owns and programmes movie theatres, becoming the main shareholder of the Cines Conde Duque and Verdi chains, with a strong presence in Barcelona and Madrid. The emblematic Cine Verdi in Barcelona hosts the Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival (BCN Film Fest) every year, whose exponential growth has made it the main festival in the country specialising in the Cinema-History-Literature triangle.
A24 is an American independent entertainment company founded on August 20, 2012, by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges and based in New York City. It specializes in film distribution and film and television production. Katz, Fenkel, and Hodges, prior to A24, worked in film and production before leaving to eventually co-found the company, originally A24 Films, which specialized in film distribution.
<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs"> <p dir="auto">Abramorama is the preeminent distributor of independent cinema in the US today, with sustained independent cinema theatrical success in the specialty box office nationwide. An innovator in the focused, personalized form of film distribution that provides invaluable alternatives to filmmakers and content owners, Abramorama pioneers audience engagement with dynamic cinema via multiple release platforms. An industry leader in marketing and promotion, Abramorama continues to trail-blaze exciting new pathways for filmmakers to find their audience.</p> <p dir="auto"><!--more--></p> <p dir="auto">Over the course of more than 20 years, Abramorama has successfully distributed and marketed hundreds of films, including Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week-The Touring Years; Dawn Porter's Trapped; Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown; Charles Ferguson’s Time To Choose; Asif Kapadia’s Senna; Neil Young’s Greendale; Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty; Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story Of Anvil; Banksy’s Academy Award®-nominated, Exit Through The Gift Shop, the surprise indie hit Awake: The Life of Yogananda, Laurie Anderson’s astonishing New York Times critics’ pick, Heart of a Dog, Showtime’s Listen To Me Marlon (National Board of Review Winner) and Drafthouse’s The Look of Silence (2016 Documentary Academy Award®-Nominee and 2015 IDA Best Documentary Winner).</p> </div>
AD1 Film is an independent international production and distribution company supporting artistic cinema with a strong creative voice. Founded by filmmaker Bahman Radan, the company works closely with creators who have a clear personal voice, delivering comprehensive distribution strategies across festival circuits, theatrical releases, and global digital platforms. Based in Antalya, Turkey, the company bridges the gap between Middle Eastern stories and the global audience, actively discovering and promoting emerging regional voices.
AFFIRM Films is a division of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Sony Pictures launched AFFIRM Films in 2007 to meet the increasing demands from audiences looking for quality, mainstream films that reflect their spiritual beliefs and values. AFFIRM Films acquires faith-based and inspirational content across a wide range of genres and budgets for the various global distribution platforms at SPE, including theatrical, television, and home entertainment.
ALLEN MEDIA GROUP, is A Global Media, Content & Technology Company, that delivers a 360 degree experience to our consumers and business partners. Our goal is to entertain, inform and connect with audiences through our multiple platforms, especially our free mobile/OTT streaming APP, LOCAL NOW. On LOCAL NOW consumers enjoy over 8,000 hours of movies, TV shows and LOCAL weather, traffic and points of interest along with over 400 fast channels. In addition, our suite of HD cable lifestyle channels and multi-platform programming reach more than 200 million consumers everyday.<!--more--> <em>Allen Media Group Motion Pictures</em> is a full-service, theatrical motion picture distribution company that specializes in representing independent companies, major studios, and mini-major studios for the purpose of exhibiting their films as first-class theatrical releases. AMGMP released 2017’s highest-grossing independent movie, 47 METERS DOWN, which has grossed over $44.2 million to date.
Founded in 2015, Altered Innocence is a U.S. film distributor specializing in edgy and artistic foreign, queer, and coming-of-age films. Altered Innocence was founded in 2015 by former Strand Releasing employee, Frank Jaffe, to give queer cult films proper Blu-ray and digital releases. The company also distributes films for theatrical release. In May 2021, Altered Innocence released a short film anthology, described as a "cinematic mixtape", titled <i>Altered Innocence Volume 1</i>. In 2024, Altered Innocence partnered with film distribution company MVD Entertainment Group; the former had previously been affiliated with OCN Distribution, a sister company of Vinegar Syndrome.
Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon. It was launched in 2010. It took its current name in May 2023 following its merger with MGM Holdings, which Amazon had acquired the year prior. Productions from this studio, as of September 2023, are primarily distributed through movie theaters under the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) label and Amazon's own streaming media service, Amazon Prime Video. The company joined as the seventh member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) starting October 2024.