Curated category
Film distributors of the United States
- Bleecker Street (company)Andrew Karpen stood at 65 Bleecker Street in New York City when he launched his new company in August 2014. He had just stepped down as co-CEO of Focus…
- 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 CinemaOn the 18th of June 1967, a twenty-seven-year-old Robert Shaye established New Line Cinema in New York City. He operated the company from his apartment at…
- GKIDSEric Beckman established GKIDS in 2008 within New York City. The company name stands for Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate, a phrase that…
- Sony Pictures ClassicsIn January 1992, three former Orion Classics executives launched a new division inside Sony Pictures. Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom…
- 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.