List of theatrical film distributors

This is a list of film distributing companies. A Film company may specialize in producing their in-house films or own subsidiary development companies. Major Production companies often distribute films from Independent Production Companies. This list includes both active and no longer active (defunct) companies. Active Production Companies are either run by themselves or as a subsidiary.

Production companies

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Company	Headquarters	Est.	Notable Films	Notes
DreamWorks SKG	USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California , USA	1994	American Beauty Galaxy Quest Catch Me If You Can The Ring	(Currently in a long term deal with Touchstone Pictures)
DreamWorks Animation	USA, CaliforniaGlendale, California , USA	2004	Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda	(Currently distributed by Paramount Pictures)
20th Century Fox	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1935	Star Wars X-Men Die Hard Alien Revenge of the Nerds Planet of the Apes Home Alone Night at the Museum Predator Speed Independence Day	(Owned by NewsCorp)
20th Century Fox Animation	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1997	FernGully: The Last Rainforest Anastasia
Fox Searchlight Pictures	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1994	Boys Don't Cry 28 Days Later Sideways Little Miss Sunshine
Fox Atomic	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	2006
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1924	The Wizard of Oz Ben-Hur The Dirty Dozen 2001: A Space Odyssey Poltergeist Moonstruck Thelma & Louise	(owned by Sony, in partnership with Providence Equity Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, TPG Capital, L.P. and Quadrangle Group (3%))
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1993
United Artists Entertainment, LLC	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1919	Rocky Apocalypse Now The Pink Panther Raging Bull James Bond Series	(Acquired by MGM) (Run by Cruise/Wagner Productions)
Orion Pictures Corporation	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1978	Throw Momma from the Train Hoosiers Mississippi Burning Dances with Wolves The Silence of the Lambs	(Acquired by MGM)
American International Pictures	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1956	Force 10 from Navarone Foxy Brown	(Acquired by Filmways)
Filmways	USA, CaliforniaSonoma County, California , USA	1958		(Acquired by Orion Pictures)
Streamline Pictures		1988		(Partnership with Orion Pictures)
Universal Studios	USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California , USA	1912	The Wolf Man The Mummy Spartacus Airport Jaws The Deer Hunter Halloween Back to the Future Field of Dreams Jurassic Park Meet the Parents The Bourne Identity The Sting E.T.
Focus Features	USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California , USA	1992	Being John Malkovich Billy Elliot Traffic Lost in Translation Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Brokeback Mountain Milk	(Started as Grammercy Pictures and acquired by Universal Studios, then renamed USA Films)
Rogue Pictures	USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California , USA	1992		(Acquired by Relativity Media)
United International Pictures	UK, EnglandLondon, United Kingdom	1981		(joint venture with Paramount Pictures, distributes Paramount and Universal films worldwide)
Paramount Pictures	USA, CaliforniaHollywood, California , USA	1912	The Ten Commandments Vertigo The Italian Job Rosemary's Baby The Godfather The Bad News Bears Saturday Night Fever Beverly Hills Cop Star Trek Ghost Braveheart Mission: Impossible Indiana Jones
Paramount Vantage	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1996	No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood Babel	(originally known as Paramount Classics)
Republic Pictures	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1935		(mainly a film library company, formerly a leading B movie studio)
Columbia Pictures	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	1926	All The King's Men Lawrence of Arabia To Sir, with Love Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Taxi Driver Close Encounters of the Third Kind Ghostbusters The Karate Kid Spider-Man Men in Black Bad Boys	(Acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment)
TriStar Pictures	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	1982	Short Circuit Labyrinth Peggy Sue Got Married Look Who's Talking Total Recall Terminator 2 Basic Instinct Philadelphia Cliffhanger Sleepless in Seattle Bugsy Jerry Maguire District 9	(Founded as Nova Pictures)
Sony Pictures Classics	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	1991	Bad Education Capote Run Lola Run An Education Junebug Volver Talk to Her
Screen Gems	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	1940	Arlington Road Resident Evil Underworld	(founded as an animation studio)
Triumph Films		1982	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Destination Films	USA, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California , USA	1993
Sony Pictures Animation	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	2002	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Surf's Up
Warner Bros. Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1918	The Maltese Falcon Casablanca A Streetcar Named Desire Rebel Without a Cause Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bonnie and Clyde The Wild Bunch A Clockwork Orange Dirty Harry Blazing Saddles All the President's Men Superman Batman The Shining Police Academy The NeverEnding Story Lethal Weapon Goodfellas Gremlins Free Willy Demolition Man The Fugitive Interview with the Vampire Under Siege The Matrix Harry Potter Million Dollar Baby	(Owned by Time Warner)
Warner Independent Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	2003	We Don't Live Here Anymore A Scanner Darkly Everything Is Illuminated
Castle Rock Entertainment	USA, CaliforniaBeverly Hills, California , USA	1987	When Harry Met Sally Misery City Slickers A Few Good Men The Shawshank Redemption Miss Congeniality	(Acquired by Time Warner)
Warner Bros. Animation	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1980	Space Jam	(Acquired by Time Warner)
New Line Cinema	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1967	A Nightmare on Elm Street The Mask Friday Mortal Kombat Se7en Austin Powers The Wedding Singer American History X Final Destination Rush Hour Blow The Lord of the Rings Wedding Crashers	(Acquired by Time Warner, currently a label of Warner Bros. Pictures)
Fine Line Features	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA		My Own Private Idaho Short Cuts The Sweet Hereafter American Splendor Shine	(Originally a division of New Line Cinema)
Picturehouse	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	2005	Pan's Labyrinth
Walt Disney Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1983	Aladdin The Little Mermaid The Lion King Beauty and the Beat	(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions)
Walt Disney Feature Animation	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1934	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio Peter Pan Cinderella Bambi	(Prior to 1983 their films were released under Walt Disney Productions)
Touchstone Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1984	Splash The Color of Money Adventures in Babysitting Three Men and a Baby Good Morning, Vietnam Who Framed Roger Rabbit Dead Poets Society Pretty Woman Sister Act Armageddon The Royal Tenenbaums 25th Hour
Hollywood Pictures	USA, CaliforniaBurbank, California , USA	1989	Arachnophobia Encino Man Quiz Show Crimson Tide Judge Dredd Mr. Holland's Opus The Rock
Miramax Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1979	The Crying Game The Piano Pulp Fiction The English Patient Good Will Hunting The Cider House Rules Amélie Kill Bill	(Acquired by Walt Disney)
Lions Gate Entertainment	USA, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California , USA	1995	Amores Perros American Psycho Saw Crash Monster's ball
Artisan Entertainment	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1982	Suicide Kings The Blair Witch Project Requiem for a Dream Van Wilder	(Started as LIVE Entertainment and acquired by Lions Gate)
The Weinstein Company	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	2005	The Reader A Single Man Hoodwinked!
Dimension Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1992	Scream Sin City	(originally the Miramax Films division)
CBS Films	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	2007	The Back-Up Plan	(CBS made a brief move into film production in the late 1960s and CBS Theatrical Films in 1979)
Yari Film Group	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	2006	The Illusionist
Troma Entertainment	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1974	The Toxic Avenger
Summit Entertainment	USA, CaliforniaUniversal City, California , USA	1996	The Twilight Saga The Hurt Locker
Strand Releasing	USA, CaliforniaCulver City, California , USA	1989
Newmarket Films	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1989	Donnie Darko Memento Monster The Passion of the Christ
Five & Two Pictures	USA USA	2002		(Christian Films)
Gener8Xion Entertainment	USA, CaliforniaHollywood, California , USA	2002		(Christian Films)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment	UK, EnglandLondon, England , UK	1979	What Dreams May Come	(Acquired by Universal Studios)
Possibility Pictures	USA, FloridaOrlando, Florida , USA	2002
Producers Releasing Corporation	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1939
RKO Pictures	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1929	King Kong Bringing Up Baby Citizen Kane
Trimark Pictures	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1985	Beautiful People Warlock Citizen Kane	(Started as Vidmark Entertainment, acquired by Lions Gate)
Samuel Goldwyn Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1979	The Squid and the Whale	(Founded as Samuel Goldwyn Company, acquired by Orion Films then formed Independently in 1999)
Palm Pictures	USA USA
Magnolia Pictures	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	2001	The World's Fastest Indian
Overture Films	USA, CaliforniaBeverly Hills, California , USA	2006	The World's Fastest Indian	(Owned by Liberty Media)
Anchor Bay	USA, MichiganTroy, Michigan , USA	1985		(Founded as Video Treasures, owned by Liberty Media, films currently distributed by 20th Century Fox)
Consolidated Pictures Group	USA, CaliforniaWest Hollywood, California , USA	2008
First Look Studios	USA, CaliforniaCentury City, California , USA	1993	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Paladin Pictures	USA, New YorkPoughquag, New York , USA
Roadside Attractions	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA		The Joneses
Slowhand Releasing	USA USA
Screen Media Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	2001
Image Entertainment	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA	1981	My Name is Bruce
IFC Films	USA, New YorkNew York, New York , USA	1999	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	(Owned by Rainbow Media)
First Independent Pictures	USA, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California , USA
Multiple Avenue Releasing	USA USA
New Films International	USA, CaliforniaSherman Oaks, California , USA	1996
Hannover House	USA, ArizonaSpringdale, Arizona , USA	1993
MPI Media Group	USA, IllinoisOrland Park, IL , USA	1976
CFI Releasing	USA, CaliforniaCalifornia , USA	2010
E1 Entertainment	USA, New YorkPort Washington, New York , USA	1987		(Founded as Koch Entertainment)
Apparition Films	USA, CaliforniaSan Diego, California , USA		The Runaways

See also

• Major film studio
• Lists of films
• List of actors
• List of film directors by name
• List of documentaries
• Film producer
• List of film production companies by country
• List of Christian film production companies