BBC films is a british company, and is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It produces and co-Produces some of the most successful british films, It makes strong British Films with range and ambition, bringing the best of the British talent to audiences. BBC Films is at the forefront of British Independent Filmmaking, and co-produces around eight films a year, the BBC film works in partnership with major international and UK distributors. The head of BBC films is Christine Langan, She is responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations. Many of these Successful British films include; Street dance 3D (the first ever 3D movie britain had ever made), Fish tank, An education, Stage beauty, Nativity, Match point, A Cock and bull Story and many others.
Film4 is a free digital television channel available in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, It is owned and operated by Channel 4. It has been involved in making many films in the UK. Film4 didn't originally focus on broadcasting blockbusters on its channel. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which a number of films centred around one genre, director or actor. Channel 4 owns a film production company, 'Film4 productions', It shows many of its in-house productions. Productions include: Four weddings and a funeral which is a British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell starring Hugh Grant, Awarding winning Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle.
WorkingTitle Is a British film production company based in london. The company was founded by Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions, This includes film star comic actor Rowan Atkinson. Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-owners of the company. This company is the one behind the box office hits including films like shaun of the Dead, although the working title was contractually allowed to produce any film with a budget of up to $25 million. WorkingTitle is located in London, and is known for having a limited number of employees. The company also has other offices located in Los Angeles, and Ireland.
Aardman Animations, Ltd. is a british animation studio which is based in Bristol, UK. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring plasticine characters 'Wallace and Gromit'. However this studio successfully entered the computer animation market with 'Flushed Away'. this Studio was founded in 1976 as a low budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children, With Aardman Animations their hit animation 'Wallace and Gromit' a comical pair, with the character Wallace being a naive english green-knitted-tank top wearing inventor and good old Gromit being his intelligent best friend but silent dog Became a huge hit for the studios.
Columbia Pictures is an american film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia Tristar motion picture group, is an American filmproduction and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age
Warner Bro's is an American Studio producer of film and television entertainment. Warner Bro's is situated in various places with its headquaters in Burbank, California and New York. It is one of the major film studios, It has serval companies that make up Warner Bro's including Warner Bros studios, Warner Bros Pictures, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros Television, Warner Bros Animation, Warner home video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com and DC Comics. Basically Warner osn half of the CW television network. The company is made up of the Founders who are of course all brothers 'the Warners' who are; Jack Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner. A very Successful company.
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) Is an American Media Company which is just involved in the production and distribution of films and television programes. it was founded in 1924, when an entertainment entreprenueur Gained control of the Metro Pictures his name was; Marcus Loew. He also gained control of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. The company is an independent, privately-held motion picture, television home video, and theatrical production and distribution company. It does infact own the world's largest library of modern films, Which comes to approximately 4,000 titles, and it has over 10,500 episodes of television programming. The film library has infact received over 200 Academy Awards. This means that it is one of the largest award-winning collections in thw world. The films this company has been involved in is very famous films like; James Bond, Pink Panther and Rocky. Recently however on the date of; November the 3rd 2010. MGM unfortunatly filed for a chapter 11 bankruptcy. The headquaters for this company is in the the Century City in Los Angeles.
Universal Studios is again one of the Six Majoy Movie Studios. It is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. It is one of the oldest American film studios which is still in production today. It was founded by Carl Laemmle in 1912. The production stuiods are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. However this distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal is the second longest lived hollywood studio today, The company Viacom is only oldest by a month which is owned my paramount Pictures. The company Universal creates and distributes theatrical and non-theatrical filmed entertainment. Its high quality and diverse product mix is delivered to the growing global marketplace through a variety of internally developed titles, co productions etc. It has achieved many successful films with' Atonement, The Bourne Ultimatum, King Kong, Brokeback Mountain and many more. Universal has some key relationships with some of the worlds finest filmmakers and production companies. In 2008 Universal Pictures had the most successful year in the studios history with the box office hitting films like; The Incredibles, Hulk, Wanted, Mamma Mia. and The Mummy:Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor which all exseeded the $100 million mark in the ticket sales.
Dreamworks Pictures is an American Film studio which develops, Produces and distributes films it also does video games and television programming. It has produced some of the most successful films within the Box-Office some totalling to more than $100 million each. It was founded and began in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. Dreamworks animation arm was spun off in 2004 into 'Dreamworks Animation SKG. Its films were distributed worldwide by paramount however the animation studio remained independant of paramount/Viacom. This studio has had finanicial success with its movies, mostly specifically animated movies. It has produced some of the highest grossing animated hits of all time such as; Shrek, Antz, Shrek the third, shrek Forever after, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and many more. So based on this films success. DreamWorks Animation has spun off as its own publicily traded company.
Paramount Pictures is Again an American Film production and Distribution Company. It is located at '5555 Merlrose Avenue' In Hollywood. It was founded and currently owned by the Media Conglomerate Viacom which founded it in 1912. It is infact America's oldest exsisting film studio and is the last major film studio still headquatered in the Hollywood District of Los Angeles. In all areas it has robust and multi-faced divisions including digital, home entertainment, network and cable television distribution, Studio operations and consumer products and recreation. The company has a global business which has operations including paramount pictures international, Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Licensing, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Studio Group and WorldWide Television Distribution. Paramount has inface established a distribution deal with iconic comic book creator, Marvel Entertainment and reowned animated film producer, DreamWorks animation.
The Walt Disney Studios is a very well known company it is been said it is the 'happiest place on earth' It is full of every childs dreams with its cartoons and characters and its bright coloured image. The company started in 1923 which began in the rear of a small office occupied by 'Holly-Vermont Realty' In Los Angeles. It was infact at this place where walt disney and his brother Roy produced a series of short live-action/animated films which were called the Alice Comedies. The rent for this small office was only $10 a month. But however within about four months the growing staff for this company had moved next door the larger facilities. Moving onto a year later in 1925 the Disney team put on a deposit for the Hyperion Avenue lot which is situated in the Silver Lake District of Low Angeles. Disney is home to the most iconic characters and cartoons of our history and the most famous charcter 'Mickey Mouse' was made in 1928, which then followed by our other great well known characters; Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck, and the rest of the Disney Gang.
20th Century Fox (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) Is infact one of the six Major American film studios as of 2011. The company is located in the century city area of Los Angeles. The company and studios is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It was origally founded by William Fox in just 1915 but then was founded in 1933 by a few men by the names; Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffth and William Goetz. But the recent founder was in may the 31st in 1935. It has many popular films we all know and love; Star wars, Planet of the apes, Avatar, X-men, Dolittle and many other films it also has many very successful tv shows including; Family guy and american dad. Im sure you regonise the name Shirely Temple as she was one of the most famous actors to come out of this studio. It also has other big names like; Marilyn Monrow, Jayne Mansfield and Betty Grable etc. Fox have had various successful production partners which include names like; SpyGlass Entertainment, Lightstorm Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, lucasfilm, Village Roadshow Pictures, Dunne Entertainment and many more. This company piloted now by Rupert Himself has become a very successful film corporation.
Youtube is a video sharing site, which anyone can make a free account and upload videos of their choices. It was created by Three Former PayPal Employees in February 2005.It is situated and based in San Bruno, California. It uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of an user generated video content which includes movie clips, tv clips, music videos and amateur viedos. Most of youtube is uploaded and used by individuals however media corporations like; CBS, BBC, VEVO, Hulu which all offer some of their material via the site as a part of the youtube partnership programe. People who are unregistered to youtube can still watch the videos. Some videos are for users 18 years and older and to be sure your that age you would have to create a site for that video if you wanted to watch it. In novemeber 2006 youtube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion and now operates as a subsidiary of google.
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