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Digital Playground
Digital Playground: American adult film studio founded 1993 by Joone (Ali Davoudian) in California; known for big-budget features like Pirates (2005), contract stars, and Aylo (ex-MindGeek) ownership since 2012.
Dimension Films
Dimension Films: genre film label founded 1992 under Miramax, run by Bob Weinstein, known for Scream, Scary Movie, and Spy Kids; taken by the Weinsteins to The Weinstein Company in 2005.
Disneynature
Disneynature is Disney's nature-documentary film label, launched April 21, 2008 after March of the Penguins, headed by Jean-Francois Camilleri from France, reviving the True-Life Adventures tradition with films like Earth, Chimpanzee, and Tiger.
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка)
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка), also called the Kyiv Film Studio, is Ukraine's state feature-film studio in Kyiv, founded 1928 under VUFKU, named after Oleksandr Dovzhenko in 1957, producer of Zemlya and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures (DreamWorks SKG), founded October 12, 1994 by Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen, is the live-action film label of Amblin Partners, distributed by Universal since 2016 and distinct from DreamWorks Animation.
Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios, West London film and TV studio founded in 1902 by Will Barker; rebuilt for sound by Basil Dean, golden age under Michael Balcon, BBC-owned 1955-1995, home of the classic Ealing comedies.
Egyptian Media Production City (مدينة الإنتاج الإعلامي)
Egyptian Media Production City (مدينة الإنتاج الإعلامي, EMPC), a media and production complex in 6th of October City, Giza, opened 1997, listed as MPRC on EGX, with over 100 studios, backlots, Nilesat broadcasting, and Egypt Film Commission services.
Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel (Elegant Angel Productions) is an American gonzo adult film studio founded in 1990 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, by Patrick Collins; once an Evil Angel subsidiary, operated by Exquisite Multimedia since 2015, known for the Buttwoman showcase series.
Elstree Studios
Elstree Studios is a film and television studio in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, founded in 1925, home to Blackmail, Star Wars, The Shining, and The Crown, council-owned since the 1990s, operated by MBS Group since 2025.
Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)
Elstree Studios on Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire: council-owned British film and TV studio founded 1926, home of Star Wars, The King's Speech, The Crown, and Strictly Come Dancing; distinct from BBC Elstree and Sky Studios Elstree.
Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures was the American independent film studio founded by Joseph E. Levine in 1942, known for re-cut imports Godzilla and Hercules, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, and This Is Spinal Tap; later Avco Embassy, sold to Lear/Perenchio, then De Laurentiis.
Entertainment One UK
Entertainment One UK Limited (formerly Contender Entertainment Group, Contender Limited) is a British film distributor and TV producer, once eOne's UK arm, now under Lionsgate after the 2023 sale, with Peppa Pig retained by Hasbro.
Event cinema
Event cinema, or alternative content, is the screening of live or recorded non-film events such as opera, theater, concerts, sports, and exhibitions in movie theaters, pioneered by the Met's Live in HD (2006) and NT Live (2009).
Evil Angel (studio)
Evil Angel is an American adult film studio and distributor founded in 1989 by John "Buttman" Stagliano, pioneer of gonzo pornography, known for its director-owned distribution model, 19,000-plus-video catalog, 2008 federal obscenity indictment, and XBIZ Studio of the Year awards.
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Опыты по оживлению организма)
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Опыты по оживлению организма) is a 1940 Soviet popular-science documentary directed by David Yashin, scripted by physiologist Sergei Bryukhonenko, showing dog organs, a severed head, and a whole dog revived with his autojector artificial-circulation apparatus.
Fake Taxi
Fake Taxi: British-Czech adult entertainment brand and paysite founded by Jonathan 'JT' Todd, staged taxi-fare scenario, filmed in Prague, produced by Really Useful Limited/Yellow Production, now under Aylo (ex-MindGeek).
Fifth Season (company)
Fifth Season, formerly Endeavor Content, is a Los Angeles film and TV studio founded in 2017, majority-owned by CJ ENM since 2022, with Toho holding 25%; known for Severance, Killing Eve, and The Lost Daughter.
Film distribution
Film distribution, also called movie distribution, is the business of carrying a finished film from its producer to paying audiences through cinemas, streaming, and television.
Film distribution in Nigeria
Film distribution in Nigeria covers NFVCB licensing of distributors, exhibitors, and streaming platforms, the marketer-dominated VHS/VCD/DVD era, theatrical release via FilmOne and rivals, and streaming by Netflix, Prime Video, and Showmax.
Film distributor
Film distributor: a company holding rights to release a film in a territory, also called a distribution company. It sets release dates and windows, funds P&A, runs the theatrical-to-streaming waterfall, and accounts revenue to producers.
Film industry
Film industry (also motion picture or movie industry; French industrie cinématographique): the businesses developing, producing, distributing, and exhibiting films. Key facts: $39 billion US-film global box office in 2016, 71% international, US third in tickets sold behind China and India.
Film studio
Film studio: a company or facility that develops, produces, and distributes movies; the classical Hollywood studio system (Big Five: Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Fox, RKO) was vertically integrated until the 1948 Paramount Decree, and modern majors are consolidating conglomerates.
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmNation Entertainment, founded 2008 by Glen Basner in New York, is an independent film sales, financing, and production company behind Anora, Conclave, Arrival, and The King's Speech, with over $3.4 billion in worldwide grosses and TV, theater, and podcast divisions.
First National Pictures
First National Pictures, also called Associated First National, was an American film production and distribution company founded in 1917 and absorbed by Warner Bros. in 1929.
Focus Features
Focus Features, also known as Universal Focus, is Universal Pictures' specialty-film production and distribution label, formed in 2002 and known for Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation.
Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group: the pre-2019 News Corp registrant (CIK 1068002) and, today, the entertainment arm of Fox Corporation spanning FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, FOX News Media, FOX Sports, and Tubi.
Fox Film
Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, was an American film production and distribution studio; it pioneered the Movietone sound-on-film system and newsreel, and merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935 to form Twentieth Century-Fox.
Gainsborough Pictures
Gainsborough Pictures: British film company founded 1924 by Michael Balcon and Victor Saville, based at the converted Islington power station studio where Hitchcock made The Lodger and The Lady Vanishes; famed for 1940s costume melodramas like The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady; closed 1949.
Georgian Film Studio (ქართული ფილმი)
Georgian Film Studio (Kartuli Pilmi) was the main state film studio of Soviet Georgia, based in Tbilisi. It produced most of the country's films from the 1920s onward.
Goldmines Telefilms
Goldmines Telefilms Pvt. Ltd., also Goldmines, is a Mumbai film rights company founded by Manish Shah that dubs South Indian films into Hindi, runs the Goldmines YouTube channel (over 100 million subscribers) and Goldmines TV channels, and released Pushpa's Hindi version theatrically.