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Red Chillies Entertainment
Red Chillies Entertainment is an Indian film production, distribution, and VFX studio founded in 2002 by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan. Known for Main Hoon Na, Om Shanti Om, Jawan, redchillies.vfx, and the Netflix series The Ba*ds of Bollywood.
Red Giant Movies
Red Giant Movies (ரெட் ஜெயன்ட் மூவீசு) is a Chennai-based Tamil film production and distribution company founded in 2008 by Udhayanidhi Stalin, now led by his son Inban as CEO. It distributes most major Tamil releases in Tamil Nadu and produces films including Kuruvi, Maamannan, and the KH x RK Rajinikanth-Kamal Haasan reunion.
Red Letter Media
Red Letter Media (RedLetterMedia) is a Milwaukee film production company founded in 2004 by Mike Stoklasa, with Jay Bauman and Rich Evans, known for the 2009 70-minute Phantom Menace review, Mr. Plinkett, Half in the Bag, Best of the Worst, and re:View.
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., born 1960) is the American co-founder of Netflix, its CEO for about 25 years until January 2023, previously founder of Pure Software, and a major charter-school education philanthropist who left the Netflix board in 2026.
Regency Enterprises
Regency Enterprises (New Regency Productions) is a private American film and TV company founded July 12, 1991 by Arnon Milchan, based in West Hollywood, London, and Luxembourg, with Disney holding 20%, known for Fight Club, Gone Girl, and Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Birdman.
Relativity Media
Relativity Media, the American film company founded by Ryan Kavanaugh (with Lynwood Spinks), began as a Hollywood slate-financing broker, became an independent studio, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015, and now operates as an indie film distributor.
Reliance Entertainment
Reliance Entertainment, also Reliance Entertainment Studios, is the flagship film production and distribution arm of India's Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group. Known for its Amblin partnership (Green Book, 1917), Rohit Shetty and Imtiaz Ali joint ventures, and 300+ film slate.
Robert Evans
Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera, 1930–2019) was an American film producer and Paramount Pictures production head behind The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, and Love Story, later famous for the memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson (born 1946, Hickory, Mississippi) founded Black Entertainment Television (BET), the first Black-owned cable network, took it public in 1991, sold it to Viacom for about $3 billion in 2001, became America's first Black billionaire, and later built The RLJ Companies.
Robert N. Fried
Robert N. Fried (Rob Fried), American film producer and executive; won 1992 Oscar for Session Man, produced Rudy and The Boondock Saints, led Savoy Pictures and Feeln, and is CEO of Niagen Bioscience (ChromaDex), not the forensics expert or physician of the same name.
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye, known as Bob Shaye, is an American film executive and producer who founded New Line Cinema in 1967 and backed The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes (1940–2017), American television executive and Republican media strategist; Nixon 1968 adviser, CNBC president 1993–96, founding chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel 1996–2016, resigned amid harassment allegations.
Ronald Meyer
Ronald (Ron) Meyer, born 1945, American entertainment executive; co-founder and president of Creative Artists Agency (1975-1995), 25-year Universal Studios chief and NBCUniversal vice chairman until his 2020 dismissal over a hush-money settlement.
Ronnie Screwvala
Ronnie Screwvala (Rohinton Screwvala), Indian entrepreneur: founded UTV in 1990, sold it to Disney in 2012 for $454 million, then built upGrad, Unilazer Ventures, RSVP Movies, and the Swades Foundation.
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth was an Austin, Texas-based digital media company founded in 2003, known for Red vs. Blue and RWBY, shut down by Warner Bros. Discovery in 2024.
Roy E. Disney
Roy E. Disney, born Roy Edward Disney, was an American executive and film producer who led the Disney animation revival and the campaign that ousted Michael Eisner.
Roy O. Disney
Roy O. Disney (1893-1971), Walt Disney's older brother and co-founder of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, was the company's financial manager, president 1945-1968, chairman 1964-1971, and builder of Walt Disney World.
Ryan Kavanaugh
Ryan Kavanaugh, American film financier and producer, founder-CEO of Relativity Media, known for Monte Carlo-based slate financing, the studio's 2015 Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and later ventures Proxima Media, Triller, and Proxicoin.
Saban Capital Group
Saban Capital Group is a private investment firm in Los Angeles founded in 2001 by media entrepreneur Haim Saban after he sold Fox Family Worldwide to Disney.
Sam Warner
Sam Warner (Szmuel Wonsal, 1887-1927), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Warner Bros. Pictures; as the studio's technical chief he drove adoption of Vitaphone sound-on-disc, producing Don Juan (1926) and The Jazz Singer (1927), and died the day before the latter's premiere.
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (Szmuel Gelbfisz, 1879–1974), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures (the G in MGM) and famed independent producer of Wuthering Heights and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926–2015), son of Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn, founded the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1979, championed independent film with Mystic Pizza and The Madness of King George, and produced Master and Commander.
Scott Free Productions
Scott Free Productions, film and TV company of Ridley and Tony Scott, formed 1995, based in Los Angeles and London with RSA Films; producer of Gladiator, The Good Wife, Alien: Romulus, and Dope Thief.
Shane Smith (journalist)
Shane Smith (born 1969, Ottawa) is a Canadian journalist who co-founded VICE magazine in Montreal in 1994 as Voice of Montreal, built it into a $5.7 billion digital media company, and returned as Vice News editor-in-chief after its 2023 bankruptcy.
Shari Redstone
Shari Redstone, American media executive, president of National Amusements and former non-executive chair of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS); daughter of Sumner Redstone, merged CBS and Viacom in 2019 and sold Paramount to Skydance in 2024.
Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing, born 1944 in Chicago, is an American film executive who became the first woman to head a major Hollywood studio (20th Century Fox, 1980) and chaired Paramount Pictures 1992-2005 before founding her cancer-research philanthropy.
Shondaland
Shondaland is an American television production company founded by writer and producer Shonda Rhimes in 2004, launched in 2005 with Grey's Anatomy and moved to Netflix in 2017.
Showrunner
Showrunner: unofficial title for the top-level creative and managerial leader of a TV series, usually credited as executive producer; emerged in the 1990s US industry, distinct from creator, now spreading to Europe and Canada.
Shree Venkatesh Films
Shree Venkatesh Films, also known as SVF Entertainment, is an Indian film production and distribution company in Kolkata founded by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni, dominating Bengali cinema and running the streaming platform hoichoi.
Sister (production company)
Sister (SISTER), founded September 30, 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone, and Stacey Snider, is an independent global production company built on Sister Pictures, known for Chernobyl, Black Doves, and Eric; distinct from France's Sister Productions.