The document discusses several major production and distribution companies in the film industry. New Line Cinema started as a distribution company and later became an independent studio, merging with Warner Brothers in 2008. Dimension Films is owned by The Weinstein Company and specializes in horror and thriller films. Warner Bros is a major film, TV and music studio owned by Time Warner. Paramount Pictures is one of the big six Hollywood studios and was the first to distribute films digitally only. 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures are also major studios focused on film distribution. Lions Gate Entertainment is a successful mini major studio formed in Canada in 1997. CBS was founded by William Paley in 1927 as a commercial broadcast network.

1. Production and
Distribution Companies

2. New Line Film Productions Inc., often simply referred to as New Line Cinema,
is an American film studio founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as a film
distribution company, later becoming an independent film studio. New Line
then merged with the Warner Brothers in 2008.

3. Founded In: 1992
Dimension Films is a production company which is currently part of the
Weinstein Company, founded by Bob Weinstein. Dimension has released films
such as Halloween, Scream and The Amityville. This film production has a
high profile repertoire of horror and thriller movies.

4. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Studios, Inc.,
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. commonly called Warner Bros., Warner's, or simply
WB) is an American entertainment company that produces film, television and
music entertainment. As one of the major film studios, it is a division of Time
Warner, with its head quarters in Burbank, California.

5. Founded In: 1914
Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Studios is a film
studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently
ranked as one of the big six film studios of Hollywood. In 2014, Paramount
Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in
digital-form only.

6. Distribution Companies

7. Founded In: 1935
20TH Century Fox is an American film studio, distributor and one of the six major
American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles. 20th
Century Fox was found by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zannuck.

8. Founded In: 1924
Columbia Pictures is an American film distribution studio of the Sony Pictures
Motion Picture Group. It is one of the leading film studios in the world, a member
of the big six. The studio, originally founded in 1918 as "Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film
Sales" by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt.

9. Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a Canadian–American entertainment
company. The company was formed in British Columbia, in1997, and is
headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation
was formed in 1997 by Frank Giustra and Avi Federgreen. It is the most
commercially successful mini major film and television distribution company in
North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio.

10. CBS is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network
that is the flagship property of CBS Corporation. The founder of
Columbia Broadcasting System is William Paley in 1927.