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Gorky Film Studio
Gorky Film Studio (Киностудия им. М. Горького) is a historic Moscow film studio established in 1915. In 1936, it became Soyuzdetfilm, recognized as the first studio dedicated to children's cinema.
HanWay Films
HanWay Films is a British international film sales company founded in 1998 by Jeremy Thomas, acquired by Cohen Media Group in 2022, representing over 500 library films and handling financing, sales, marketing, and distribution.
Helix Studios
Helix Studios: American gay pornographic film studio founded 2002 by Keith Miller in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, now based in Las Vegas; subscription model, twink-focused, narrative films on Amazon Prime Video; distinct from Helix Interactive game studio.
Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城)
Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城), in Hengdian Town, Dongyang, Zhejiang, is the world's largest film and TV shooting base: 30+ historical sets, 100+ studios, 3,200+ crews served, a 5A theme-park attraction drawing ~20 million visitors yearly.
History of Warner Bros. Pictures
History of Warner Bros. Pictures: American film studio incorporated in 1923 by the four Warner brothers, pioneer of Vitaphone sound films (Don Juan, The Jazz Singer), later a Big Five studio, acquired by Paramount Skydance in 2026.
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures was a Walt Disney Company film label for more adult-oriented fare, operating from February 1, 1989; first release Arachnophobia (1990); production ended 1996, label used for distribution; notable for The Sixth Sense.
Iconic Events
Iconic Events Releasing (Iconic Releasing) is a Los Angeles event cinema distributor bringing live sports, anime, music, horror, and faith content to over 5,000 U.S. theaters, known for distributing the Terrifier films with Cineverse. Distinct from unrelated event companies of the same name.
Igor Maslennikov (Игорь Фёдорович Масленников)
Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Игорь Фёдорович Масленников, 1931–2022), Soviet and Russian Lenfilm director of the five-film Sherlock Holmes series with Vasily Livanov, the Winter Cherry trilogy, and The Queen of Spades; People's Artist of the RSFSR.
IM Global
IM Global was an independent film financing, sales, and distribution company founded in Los Angeles in 2007 by Stuart Ford, with a library of more than 300 films.
IMAX Melbourne
IMAX Melbourne is an IMAX cinema at the Melbourne Museum in Carlton, opened 1998, with the world's largest 1.43:1 screen at 32 × 23 m, dual IMAX 15/70mm film and 4K laser projection, and Australia's only IMAX 70mm projector.
Iosif Kheifits (Иосиф Ефимович Хейфиц)
Iosif Kheifits (Иосиф Ефимович Хейфиц, 1905-1995), Soviet film director at Lenfilm; partnered with Aleksandr Zarkhi until 1950; directed Baltic Deputy, The Lady with the Dog (Cannes prize), and Chekhov, Turgenev, and Kuprin adaptations.
ITC Entertainment
ITC Entertainment (Incorporated Television Company), Lew Grade's British TV production and distribution company founded in the mid-1950s; producer of The Saint, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds; later owned by PolyGram, Carlton, and now ITV.
Kazakhfilm (Қазақфильм)
Kazakhfilm (Қазақфильм), the Shaken Aimanov National Film Studio, is Kazakhstan's state film studio in Almaty, founded 1934, renamed 1960, wartime producer of 80% of Soviet fiction films, with an 800-title catalog.
Ketchup Entertainment
Ketchup Entertainment, stylized ketchup.entertainment, is an American independent film financing and distribution company founded in 2011 by Gareth West, Vahan Yepremyan, and Artur Galstian, known for releasing shelved Warner Bros. films Coyote vs. Acme and The Day the Earth Blew Up.
Keystone Studios
Keystone Studios: the Edendale, Los Angeles slapstick comedy studio founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett, Kessel, and Baumann; home of the Keystone Kops and Chaplin's 1914 films; distinct from modern namesake companies.
Lenfilm
Lenfilm (Ленфильм) is a film studio in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1914, which styles itself the country's oldest and has produced over 1,500 feature films.
Leo the Lion (MGM)
Leo the Lion is the roaring-lion mascot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Goldwyn Pictures, shown in a film-ribbon logo with the motto Ars Gratia Artis. Seven lions played the role from 1916; the current Leo dates to 1957, with a CGI lion introduced in 2021.
Lionsgate Films
Lionsgate Films is the film production and distribution arm of Lionsgate Studios Corp. (NYSE: LION), founded 1997 by Frank Giustra, with a 20,000+ title library, John Wick and Hunger Games franchises, and Starz separated in May 2025.
Lionsgate Studios
Lionsgate Studios Corp. is a Vancouver-based Canadian film and television studio, publicly traded on the NYSE as LION, with a library of 18,000 titles and franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick.
List of film distributors by country
List of film distributors by country: directories of theatrical and streaming film distributors, also called film distribution companies, compiled per territory. Key sources include Cineuropa's 2,253-file European database, national associations like the UK FDA with 51 members, and Africa's roughly 20 theatrical distributors.
List of pornographic film studios
List of pornographic film studios covers adult film production companies named in research literature, including Vivid, Manwin/MindGeek, Bang Brothers, Brazzers, Evil Angel, Wicked Pictures, and Aylo, plus studio economics, the post-2007 decline, and consolidation.
Lollywood
Lollywood is the common name for Pakistan's film industry, historically based in Lahore and producing Urdu and regional-language films. Key facts: golden era in the 1960s with about 130 films a year, decline under Zia-era censorship to zero Urdu releases in 2012, and revival since Khuda Kay Liye (2007) and The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022).
Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment is an independent film and television distributor founded in Melbourne in 1996 by Paul Wiegard and Tim Anderson, serving Australia and New Zealand. Once the dominant anime distributor (over 90% share), it sold its anime arm to Aniplex/Sony in 2019 and now focuses on arthouse, documentary, and Australian cinema.
Major film studios
Major film studios are the dominant Hollywood financiers, producers, and distributors of films, historically the Big Five and Little Three of the studio era, now Disney, Universal, Sony, and the Paramount Warner Bros. Skydance combination.
MCA Inc.
MCA Inc. (Music Corporation of America) was an American entertainment conglomerate founded in 1924 as a Chicago talent agency, parent of Universal Studios and MCA Records, owned by Matsushita 1990-1995 and Seagram thereafter, renamed Universal Studios Inc. in 1996.
Mediterranean Broadcasting Company
The Mediterranean Broadcasting Company is a Saudi media and entertainment conglomerate serving the Middle East and North Africa, founded in London in 1991 and majority owned by the Public Investment Fund.
Mehboob Studio
Mehboob Studio, Bandra West, Mumbai: film studio built by Mehboob Khan, land bought 1950, completed 1954 on four acres at 100 Hill Road; home of Mother India (1957), India's first Oscar-nominated film; still a working rental studio.
Men.com
Men.com is a gay adult subscription site and studio owned by Aylo (formerly MindGeek), founded around 2011, with nearly 4,000 scenes in series like Drill My Hole and Str8 to Gay and exclusive contract performers.
MGM Holdings
MGM Holdings was the holding company of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, formed in 2005 by a Sony-led consortium, restructured through Chapter 11 in 2010, and acquired by Amazon in 2022 for $6.1 billion net, later merged into Amazon MGM Studios.
MGM-Pathé Communications
MGM-Pathé Communications was the short-lived 1990-1992 name of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after Giancarlo Parretti's Pathe Communications bought MGM/UA for $1.36 billion; Crédit Lyonnais foreclosed in 1992.