Curated category
Film distributors of the United States
- Bleecker Street (company)Bleecker Street Media LLC took its name from a street address, not a street. The company's founder, Andrew Karpen, chose it as a nod to 65 Bleecker Street in…
- MiramaxHarvey and Bob Weinstein opened their first office in Buffalo, New York, during 1979. They named the company Miramax by combining the names of their parents…
- Universal PicturesUniversal Pictures was founded on the 30th of April 1912, making it the oldest surviving film studio in the United States.
- Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures was founded on the 8th of May 1912, making it older than almost every film studio on earth. Only a handful of European companies and one…
- Manson InternationalEdmund Goldman and Sam Nathanson established Manson Distributing Corporation in 1953. Both men came from Columbia Pictures before launching their own venture.
- Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began not with a grand headquarters or a signed contract, but with a disagreement over a nature film.
- Warner Bros. PicturesWarner Bros. Pictures was founded on the 4th of April, 1923, by four brothers: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack L. Warner. What began as a family operation in…
- New Line CinemaNew Line Cinema has a nickname that tells you almost everything: "The House that Freddy Built." In 1984, a low-budget horror film about a razor-fingered…
- GKIDSGKIDS, Inc. walked into the Academy Awards in 2010 with a French film about two princes on a quest, and the animation world has never quite looked at New…
- Sony Pictures ClassicsSony Pictures Classics has released films that have won 38 Academy Awards across more than three decades of operation. That number alone says something…
- Troma EntertainmentTroma Entertainment was founded in 1974 by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, and it has never stopped making movies that polite society would rather not talk…
- United ArtistsUnited Artists was born from an act of rebellion. On the 5th of February 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W.