The document provides information on the film distribution companies and budgets for various movies. Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema are identified as the main distributors for Grease and Hairspray. Paramount Pictures typically distributes big budget films while New Line Cinema supports comedic films. The budgets for movies like High School Musical 2, Grease, Pitch Perfect and Hairspray are provided.

1. Film Distribution Companies:
Grease & Hairspray

2. •Paramount Pictures (1978) (USA) (theatrical) (as Paramount A Viacom Company)
•Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (Finland) (theatrical)
•Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (France) (theatrical)
•Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
•Cinéma International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (Argentina) (theatrical)
•American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1981) (USA) (TV)
•United International Pictures (UIP) (1998) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (re-release)
•TV3 (1988) (Finland) (TV)
•Esselte Video (1989) (Finland) (VHS)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) (as Paramount A Viacom Company)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS) (rental)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (20th Anniversary Gift Edition)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (20th Anniversary Spanish Edition)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (Widescreen)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (full screen)
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (included in 2Pack with "Grease 2")
•Paramount Pictures (1998) (USA) (VHS) (included with "Gease 2" in "We Go Together")
•Paramount Home Entertainment (1999) (Netherlands) (VHS) (retail)
•Argentina Video Home (2001) (Argentina) (DVD)
•Argentina Video Home (2001) (Argentina) (VHS) (re-release)
•Paramount Home Entertainment Finland (2002) (Finland) (DVD) (1 disc edition)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
•Paramount Home Video (2002) (Canada) (DVD)

3. •Paramount Pictures (2002) (USA) (DVD) (Full screen)
•Paramount Pictures (2002) (USA) (DVD) (included in the "John Travolta collection" with "Urban cowboy"
and "Saturday Night Fever")
•Paramount Pictures (2002) (USA) (DVD) (widescreen)
•Nelonen (2004) (Finland) (TV)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)
•Paramount Pictures (2005) (USA) (DVD) ("Rockin' Rydell Edition")
•Paramount Home Entertainment Finland (2006) (Finland) (DVD) (2 disc edition)
•Paramount Pictures (2006) (USA) (DVD) (included in "Dance Pack")
•Park Circus (2008) (UK) (theatrical) (re-issue)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD) (Rockin' Rydell edition)
•Paramount Pictures (2009) (USA) (DVD) (included in "3-Pack Musicals" with "Footloose" and
"Dreamgirls")
•Insurge Pictures (2010) (USA) (theatrical) (Sing-A-Long re-release)
•Paramount Pictures (2010) (USA) (theatrical) (Sing-A-Long re-release)
•Fathom Events (2015) (USA) (theatrical) (Sing-a-Long version)
•Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (West Germany) (theatrical)
•Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1978) (Norway) (theatrical)
•Park Circus (2015) (UK) (theatrical) (sing-along version)
•United International Pictures (UIP) (1998) (Norway) (theatrical) (re-release)
•American Movie Classics (AMC) (1992) (USA) (TV)
•Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (VHS)
•CIC Video (West Germany) (video)
•CIC-Taft Home Video (Australia) (VHS)

4. •Esselte Video (1986) (Norway) (VHS)
•Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) (1986) (Norway) (TV)
•Paramount Home Entertainment Norway (2002-2006) (Norway) (DVD)
•Paramount Home Entertainment Norway (2009) (Norway) (Blu-ray) (video)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2002) (Germany) (DVD)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2002) (Germany) (VHS) (digital
remastered)
•Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
•Paramount Home Video (USA) (VHS) (pan and scan)
•RTL Entertainment (2016) (Netherlands) (TV) (as RTL8)
•Warner Home Video (USA) (DVD)
Main distributor companies for Grease: Paramount Pictures and
Paramount Home Media Distribution

5. •New Line Cinema (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
•Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (2007) (Canada) (theatrical)
•Continental Film (2007) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
•Distribution Company (2007) (Argentina) (theatrical)
•Entertainment Film Distributors (2007) (UK) (theatrical)
•FS Film Oy (2007) (Finland) (theatrical)
•Fox-Warner (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
•Garsu Pasaulio Irasai (2007) (Lithuania) (theatrical)
•Group Power (2007) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
•KD Media (2007) (South Korea) (theatrical)
•Karo Premiere (2007) (Russia) (theatrical)
•RCV Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
•Roadshow Films (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)
•Warner Bros. (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
•Warner Bros. (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
•Alliance Atlantis Home Video (2007) (Canada) (DVD)
•American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2011) (USA) (TV)
•Film1 (2008) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
•Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2007) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East)
•Medyavizyon (2007) (Turkey) (all media)
•Moviemax (2007) (Italy) (all media)
•Net5 (2009) (Netherlands) (TV)
•New Line Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)
•New Line Home Video (2007) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
•RCV Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD) (rental)

6. •RCV Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (retail)
•RCV Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
•TriPictures (2007) (Spain) (all media)
•Warner Home Video (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
Special Effects
•Alterian (makeup effects crew) (as Alterian, Inc.)
•Intelligent Creatures (visual effects)
•Riot (visual effects)
•Pacific Title and Art Studio (visual effects) (as Pacific Title)
Main distributor company for Hairspray: New Line Cinema

7. Paramount Pictures Films
• Mission imposible ii
• Bless The Child
• What Women Want
• Lara Croft: tomb Raider
• Pootie Tang
• The Score
• Rat Race
• Vanilla Sky

8. New Line Cinema Films
• The Conjuring 2
• The Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the Ring
• Me Before You
• The Notebook
• the Mask
• If I Stay
• All The Hobbit Films
• All The Lord of the Rings films

9. Budget For High School Musical 2
•Budget: $7 million

10. Budget For Grease
•Budget: $6 million

11. Budget for Pitch Perfect
•Budget: $17 million

12. Budget for Walking On Sunshine
•Budget: N/A

13. Budget for Hairspray
•Budget: $75 million

14. What kinds of films do Paramount Pictures
support?
• Paramount Pictures support big budget films such as Interstellar,
Star Trek Beyond, Jack Reacher, Transformers 4, The SpongeBob
Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Allied, World War Z, Rango,
Zoolander 2 and Forrest Gump.
• These are all huge budget films that have been extremely popular
with their audiences. The studio is consistently ranked as one of
the “Big Six” film studios of Hollywood. They don’t seem to have
selected any new talent recently. They have gone with styles of
films that people know and love.

15. What kinds of films do New Line Cinema
support?
• New Line Cinema support big budget films such as Austin Powers: The
Spy Who Shagged Me, Wedding Crashers, Elf, Journey to the Center of
the Earth, Sex and the City, Horrible Bosses and Tammy.
• These are all huge budget films that have again, been very popular with
their audiences. They haven’t appeared to have supported any new
talent or independent films.
• This film distributor company is better for our genre, as they have
distributed more fun-loving, comedic and easy going films than
Paramount Pictures.