Existing film production companies

1. Existing film production
companies
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2. DreamWorks Animation
• is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California, that creates animated feature
films, television programs, and online virtual worlds. They have released a total of 30 feature
films,. As of November 2014, its feature films have made $12 billion worldwide, all of their
films now use computer animation.
• The studio has so far received three Academy Awards along with numerous Annie & Emmy
Awards; as well as multiple Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations. In recent years the
animation studio has acquired and created new divisions in an effort to diversify beyond the
high-risk movie business.
• The studio was formed by the merger of the feature animation division of DreamWorks and
Pacific Data Images(PDI). Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks in 1997
DreamWorks Animation currently maintains two campuses: the original DreamWorks feature
animation studio in Glendale and the PDI studio in Redwood City.

3. List of films they have produced:
• Shrek
• Madagascar
• Kung Fu Panda
• Monsters vs. Aliens
• and How to Train Your Dragon

4. Twentieth Century Fox
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1935 to 1985)—also known as 20th Century Fox, 20th
Century Fox Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six major American film studios. Located in Los
Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It's the
world's second largest major film studio, after Warner Bros.
• The company as we know today, was formed on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger between
Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded
in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck.
• Among the most famous actresses to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th
Century Fox's first film star, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne
Mansfield. The studio also contracted the first African-American cinema star, Dorothy Dandridge.
20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

5. List of films they have produced:
• Avatar
• the first two Star Wars trilogies
• Ice Age
• X-Men
• Die Hard
• Planet of the Apes
• Night at the Museum
• Fantastic Four
• Alien
• Predator
Television series produced by Fox include
• The Simpsons
• The X-Files
• Family Guy
• Futurama
• How I Met Your Mother
• Glee
• Modern Family

6. Universal studios
• Universal Studios Inc. (also known as 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, Mark Dintenfass,
Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley,
and Jules Brulatour.

7. List of films they have produced:
• Three of Universal Studios' films
• Jaws (1975)
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• (all of these were directed by Steven Spielberg)–achieved box office
records; each became the highest-grossing film ever at the time of its initial
release.

8. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
• Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly called Warner Bros. or
WB) is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment.
As one of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its
headquarters in Burbank, California and another in New York, New York.
• Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros.
Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television,
Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle
Rock Entertainment, DC Entertainment, and the former The WB Television
Network. Warner Bros. owns half of The CW Television Network.

9. List of films they have produced:
• Casablanca
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Bonnie and Clyde
• The hangover
• Batman
• The Fugitive
• The Matrix
• Harry Potter
• Million Dollar Baby
• Gravity