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Tom Werner
Tom Werner (Thomas Charles Werner, born 1950), American TV producer and sports executive; co-founded Carsey-Werner (The Cosby Show, Roseanne), chairman of Fenway Sports Group, Boston Red Sox, and Liverpool F.C.
Travis Knight
Travis Knight (born 1973, Hillsboro, Oregon), also known as Chilly Tee, is an American stop-motion animator, director of Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee, Masters of the Universe, and Wildwood, and President and CEO of LAIKA; son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
TriStar Television
TriStar Television: Sony Pictures Television production label, first run 1986–2002 (Mad About You, The Nanny), relaunched 2015 under Suzanne Patmore Gibbs as a boutique unit, produced six series including The Afterparty, closed May 2024.
Troma Entertainment
Troma Entertainment, also called Troma Studios, is a New York independent film company founded in 1974 by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, known for The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and the free TromaDance festival.
Universal International Studios
Universal International Studios (UIS) is NBCUniversal's London-based international television production arm under Universal Studio Group, led by Beatrice Springborn, with labels Carnival Films, Monkey, Matchbox Pictures, Working Title Television, and Heyday Television, and merged into Universal Global Television in June 2026.
Universal Television
Universal Television (UTV), NBCUniversal's flagship scripted television production studio under Universal Studio Group, traces to MCA Revue Studios and produces Law & Order, One Chicago, Hacks, and The Office.
View Askew Productions
View Askew Productions is the independent film company Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier founded in 1994 in Red Bank, New Jersey, producing Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and the shared View Askewniverse films under a Miramax first-look deal.
Vyjayanthi Movies
Vyjayanthi Movies (వైజయంతీ మూవీస్), Telugu production house founded by C. Ashwini Dutt in 1974, named by NTR; now led by Swapna and Priyanka Dutt; known for JVAS, Indra, Mahanati, Sita Ramam, and Kalki 2898 AD.
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and Labour life peer, co-founder of Planet 24 (The Big Breakfast, The Word), ennobled by Tony Blair in 1998 as the youngest and first openly gay member of the Lords, and a major Labour donor central to the 2024 'passes for glasses' controversy.
Walden Media
Walden Media (Walden Media, LLC) is an American independent film studio founded in 2000 by Micheal Flaherty and Cary Granat, owned by Philip Anschutz via Anschutz Film Group, known for The Chronicles of Narnia films, Holes, Bridge to Terabithia, The Baby-Sitters Club, and the Walden Pond Press imprint.
William Fox (producer)
William Fox (Wilhelm Fried, 1879–1952), Hungarian-born American film mogul; founded Fox Film Corporation 1915, broke Edison's Trust, pioneered Movietone sound newsreels, lost his empire in 1930, imprisoned for bribing a judge.
William S. Paley
William S. Paley (1901–1990), American broadcasting executive, bought United Independent Broadcasters in 1928 and built it into CBS, creating CBS News and leading television ratings for two decades.
WingNut Films
WingNut Films Productions Ltd is a New Zealand production company founded by Peter Jackson and Michael Stephens in 1987, based in Miramar, Wellington. It produced Bad Taste, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, King Kong, District 9, and The Beatles: Get Back.
Wonder Project
Wonder Project (The WONDER Project) is a Santa Monica-based American independent studio and Prime Video subscription channel for faith-based, values-driven films and series, founded in 2023 by Jon Erwin and Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten, known for House of David.
Wong Fu Productions
Wong Fu Productions, founded 2003 by Philip Wang, Wesley Chan, and Ted Fu, is an independent digital studio and YouTube channel (3M+ subscribers) known for Asian American shorts like "Strangers, Again," the Netflix film "Everything Before Us," and the 2026 self-financed feature "Sung."
Working Title Films
Working Title Films: British film and TV production company founded 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, led with Eric Fellner; maker of Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot; Universal subsidiary since 1998.
WWE Studios
WWE Studios is WWE's film and TV production subsidiary, founded in 2002 as WWE Films and renamed in 2008. Known for The Marine, The Call, and Oculus, it now focuses on unscripted content after its last narrative film, Rumble (2021).