The document discusses several major film production and distribution companies. DreamWorks is an American film studio founded by Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen that has produced many successful films. Paramount Pictures is a subsidiary of Viacom that has distributed popular franchises like Transformers and Star Trek. Comcast owns NBCUniversal, a major media company that owns the production studio Universal. The Walt Disney Company controls a large market share and deals with film production and distribution globally. Sony Pictures supports independent films and has various divisions like Sony Pictures Classics. The document concludes by recommending Paramount Pictures as a suitable production and distribution partner due to its financial success and experience distributing a variety of genres worldwide.

1. By Megan Stephens

3. A production company provides the physical basis for works in the
realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and
video. Production companies are often either owned or under contract
with a media conglomerate, film studio, entertainment company, or
Motion Picture Company, who act as the production company's partner
or parent company.

4. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available
for use or consumption by a consumer or business user, using direct
means, or using indirect means.

5. Dreamworks is an American Film Production Studio which
develops, produces and distributes films, video games and
television programmes. It has produced more than ten box-
offices of more than $100 Million each. DreamWorks began in
1994 and was formed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberg
and David Geffen. DreamWorks was part of the Viacom group,
but it then became independent after two years.
However, the Reliance ADA Group of India currently supports
DreamWorks. Since then Katzenberg has removed himself from
company and now runs his separate studio called DreamWorks
Animation.

6. Paramount Pictures is a film studio, television production
company and motion picture distributor. It is a subsidiary of
US media conglomerate Viacom. It has distributed serveral
successful films such as Transformers, Mission Impossible,
Indiana Jones, Star Trek and so on.
In 2014 Paramount earnt $3.7 billion in relation to their
production and distribution process.Also in 2014,
Paramount Pictures became the first Hollywood studio to
distribute it's films in digital,

7. Comcast Corporation is a US based multinational mass
media company and is the largest broadcasting and cable
company in the world in terms of revenue. The logo is since
2012 with the NBC peacock of when Comcast bought
NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal is a the worlds largest media
and entertainment company who owns the production and
distribution company, Universal.

8. The Walt Disney Company is an American diversified mass media
and largest media conglomerate which is headquartered in Burbank,
California. The Walt Disney Company controls approximately 14.3%
of the entire North American market and deals with the production
and distributing process.
Furthermore, It's parent division is called The Walt Disney
Company. It is the world's second largest broadcasting and cable
company in terms of revenue after Comcast being first. The area
served is worldwide which suggests the success of it's films.

9. Sony is the media conglomerate behind Sony Pictures
Entertainment. It's major studio subsidiary is Columbia Pictures.
The company supports independent producers by having it's own
arthouse division that’s called Sony Pictures Classics.
Throughout it's years Sony has boosted profits in each of it's
It's group sale in March 31, 2014 was reported to be of $8 billion.

10. After thorough research we have decided on a very suitable production and distribution company. We
have chosen Paramount Pictures. Paramount is a subsidiary of Viacom as I have already mentioned.
The company itself is known for the production of films such as Titanic, Paranormal Activity, The
Lovely Bones, Shrek and many more. They produce films of all types of genre which is very useful for
the creation of our short feature. This should ensure that by using paramount as our institution they
would have the tools to metaphorically be produced to a high standard that follows the codes and
conventions of our genre.
Paramount boosted a revenue of $1.2 billion in the year 2011 not only proving they are financially
but very popular in the sense of investing a lot of their finances in other parts of their company.
is a worldwide company that is known by many and not just American citizens which we continue to
would help our short film receive it's full potential.