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Skybound Entertainment
Skybound Entertainment, founded in 2010 by Robert Kirkman and David Alpert, is a Los Angeles multi-platform entertainment company and Image Comics imprint behind The Walking Dead and Invincible, spanning comics, TV, film, games, and audio, with in-house animation and game studios and public crowdfunding.
Skydance Media
Skydance Media, the production company founded by David Ellison, merged with Paramount in 2025 and acquired Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026, becoming the combined Skydance Corporation (SKYD).
Spooky Pictures
Spooky Pictures is the American horror production company founded March 2, 2020 by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider under Vertigo Entertainment, backed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, known for Watcher, Late Night with the Devil, Strange Darling, and Hokum. Distinct from Jason Stutter's New Zealand company of the same name.
Spyglass Media Group
Spyglass Media Group, LLC (formerly Lantern Entertainment LLC) is an American independent film and TV company founded March 13, 2019 by Gary Barber and Lantern co-presidents, holding the Weinstein Company library, Scream and Hellraiser franchises, and Project Runway, with Warner Bros., Eagle Pictures, and Cineworld as investors.
Square Peg (production company)
Square Peg (stylized all caps) is the Los Angeles independent film production company founded in 2019 by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen, producing auteur films such as Midsommar, Eddington, and Bugonia for A24 and Focus Features, distinct from unrelated San Diego, UK, and circus namesakes.
Sri Venkateswara Creations (శ్రీ వెంకటేశ్వర క్రియేషన్స్)
Sri Venkateswara Creations, also written శ్రీ వెంకటేశ్వర క్రియేషన్స్, is an Indian film production company in Hyderabad founded by producer Dil Raju in 2003, known for Telugu family films like Dil and Bommarillu.
Star Magic
Star Magic, formerly the ABS-CBN Talent Center, is the talent management arm of ABS-CBN, a Philippine media company, founded in 1992 to train and manage stars.
Starto Entertainment (スタートエンターテインメント)
STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (スタートエンターテインメント) is the Tokyo talent management company, founded October 2023, that took over Johnny & Associates' entertainment business after the Johnny Kitagawa abuse scandal, with compensation handled separately by SMILE-UP.
Steve Tisch
Steve Tisch, American film producer and Executive Vice President and Chairman of the New York Giants. Won a Best Picture Oscar for Forrest Gump (1994); described as the only person with both an Oscar and a Super Bowl ring.
Strike 3
Strike 3 Holdings, LLC: Delaware-based American adult film studio (Black, Tushy, Vixen, Tushy Raw, Deeper brands) founded 2015 by Greg Lansky; known as the most prolific US federal copyright lawsuit filer, with 20,000+ BitTorrent infringement suits since 2017.
Studio Dragon
Studio Dragon (스튜디오드래곤) is South Korea's leading drama studio, founded May 2016 as a CJ ENM subsidiary and listed on KOSDAQ (253450). It has produced over 300 K-drama IPs and 4,575 episodes, including Signal, Crash Landing on You, and The Glory, distributing to 250+ countries via Netflix and other platforms.
STX Entertainment
STX Entertainment, a Burbank, California independent film and TV studio founded in 2014 by Robert Simonds, made mid-budget star-driven films like Hustlers, Bad Moms, and Greenland; merged with Eros International in 2020, was sold to Najafi in 2022, and relaunched under A-CAP's Crown Productions in January 2026.
Subhash Chandra (सुभाष चंद्र गोयनका)
Subhash Chandra Goenka (सुभाष चंद्र गोयनका), born 1950 in Adampur, Haryana, is the Indian media entrepreneur who founded Zee TV, India's first private satellite channel, built Essel Group, served in the Rajya Sabha 2016-2022, and later faced SEBI bars and a ₹22,006-crore insolvency case.
Sumner Redstone
Sumner Redstone (Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), American media mogul who built National Amusements' drive-in theaters into control of Viacom, Paramount Pictures, and CBS; coined 'content is king'; succeeded by daughter Shari Redstone.
Suroosh Alvi
Suroosh Alvi (born 1969) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who co-founded Vice Media in 1994 in Montreal with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes, hosted documentaries such as Gun Markets of Pakistan and Heavy Metal in Baghdad, and stayed through Vice's 2023 Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Syncopy Inc.
Syncopy Inc. (Syncopy Films) is the British-American production company founded in 2001 by Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, named after syncopation; it produced the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer, and The Odyssey (2026).
T. Subbarami Reddy
T. Subbarami Reddy (Tikkavarapu Subbarami Reddy, టి.సుబ్బరామిరెడ్డి), born 1943 in Nellore, is an Indian Congress industrialist, film producer, and parliamentarian: Lok Sabha 1996/1998 from Visakhapatnam, three Rajya Sabha terms 2002–2020, Minister of State for Mines 2006–2008, and producer of the National Award-winning Sanskrit film Bhagavad Gita.
Tea Shop Productions
Tea Shop Productions, founded 2010 by James Harris and Mark Lane, is a London and Los Angeles-based independent genre film company behind 47 Meters Down, Fall, The Surfer, and the 2026 hit Obsession, plus a $100m Flawless partnership.
Ted Leonsis
Ted Leonsis (Theodore Leonsis, born 1957) is an American AOL executive turned owner of Washington's Capitals, Wizards, and Mystics via Monumental Sports & Entertainment, cofounder of Revolution Growth, and documentary producer.
Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos (Theodore Sarandos) is co-CEO of Netflix since July 2020 and Chief Content Officer from 2000 to 2023; former video-store and VHS distribution executive who led Netflix's shift into original series like House of Cards.
TGIF (TV programming block)
TGIF, officially "Thank Goodness It's Funny," was ABC's Friday-night family sitcom block created in 1989, anchored by Full House and Family Matters, defined by the Miller-Boyett two-rule formula, and revived by ABC in 2018.
The Asylum
The Asylum is a Burbank, California film studio founded in 1997 by David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, and Sherri Strain, known for low-budget mockbusters like Transmorphers and the Sharknado franchise, plus Z Nation and Black Summer TV series.
The Horror Section
The Horror Section is Eli Roth's independent horror media company, founded in 2025 with Media Capital Technologies, fan-owned via a $5 million Republic crowdfunding raise, releasing Jimmy and Stiggs, Ice Cream Man, and Don't Go In That House, Bitch! with Snoop Dogg.
The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company, founded as Muppets Inc. in 1958 by Jim and Jane Henson, is a family-owned American producer of puppet-based film and television (Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal), operator of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, and distinct from Disney's Muppets and Sesame Workshop.
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC), independent film and TV studio launched October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein after leaving Disney's Miramax; produced The King's Speech and Silver Linings Playbook; filed Chapter 11 in March 2018 and sold its library to Lantern Entertainment/Spyglass for $287 million.
The Zanuck Company
The Zanuck Company, also the Zanuck Co., is a Beverly Hills film production company formed in 1988 by Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, and Jerry Perenchio after the Zanuck/Brown partnership ended; its debut was Driving Miss Daisy, Best Picture winner.
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince (Thomas Harper Ince, 1882 or 1880–1924) was an American silent-film producer and director, builder of Inceville and originator of the Hollywood producer system with continuity scripts; died aboard Hearst's yacht.
Thomas Tull
Thomas Tull (born 1970, Endwell, New York) is an American film producer and billionaire investor, founder and former CEO of Legendary Pictures, seller of the studio to Wanda for $3.5 billion, and later investor via Tulco.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan (Timothy John Bevan, born 1957, Queenstown, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-British film producer, co-founder and co-chairman of Working Title Films with Eric Fellner; over 130 films, $9 billion grossed, CBE 2005.
Tim Davie
Timothy Douglas Davie, known as Tim Davie, is a British media executive who served as the 17th Director-General of the BBC from 2020 to 2026.