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Mosfilm (Мосфильм)
Mosfilm (Мосфильм) is a Russian state-owned film studio in Moscow, founded in 1924, which has produced more than 2,000 feature films, including Andrei Rublev and War and Peace.
Motion Picture Patents Company
Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), the Edison "Trust": patent pool incorporated in New Jersey, September 9, 1908, by Edison and Biograph; licensed ten firms, defeated by 1915-1916 antitrust rulings, dissolved 1918-1928.
Naughty America
Naughty America: San Diego-based American adult entertainment studio, owned by La Touraine Inc., founded 2000-2003 (sources differ), known for fantasy vignette sites like My Friend's Hot Mom and pioneering VR/AR adult content under CEO Andreas Hronopoulos.
Neon (company)
Neon (NEON) is an American independent film distributor and production company founded in 2017 by Tom Quinn, known for the Best Picture winners Parasite and Anora, seven straight Cannes Palme d'Or winners, and the 2024 horror hit Longlegs.
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema is an American film studio founded by Robert Shaye in 1967 in New York, known for Pink Flamingos, Nightmare on Elm Street, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Friday, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy; since 2008 a Warner Bros. division, now under Skydance after the 2026 Paramount-Warner merger.
Nickelodeon Studios
Nickelodeon Studios, at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, was Nickelodeon's hybrid production facility and park attraction, open June 1990 to 2005, where Double Dare, Clarissa Explains It All, and Legends of the Hidden Temple were taped before park guests.
Odesa Film Studio (Одеська кіностудія)
Odesa Film Studio (Одеська кіностудія), founded 23 May 1919 in Odesa, Ukraine, is one of Europe's oldest film studios, with over 300 films, Dovzhenko's early works, and national-film-producer status since 2011.
Open Road Films
Open Road Films is an American independent film distributor founded in 2011 by AMC and Regal, sold to Tang Media Partners in 2017, bankrupt in 2018, and owned since 2019 by Raven Capital Management; it released Spotlight, the 2016 Best Picture Oscar winner.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, the oldest surviving major Hollywood studio, founded via Adolph Zukor's 1912 Famous Players and the 1914 Hodkinson distribution company; now under Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, after the 2024 National Amusements deal.
Pathé
Pathé, French film company founded in Paris in 1896 by Charles and Émile Pathé; pioneer of phonographs, silent film production, and film rental; today France's leading film studio and cinema operator.
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios: British film and TV studio at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, opened 30 September 1936 by Charles Boot and J Arthur Rank. Home of the James Bond and Carry On franchises; 30 stages including the 007 Stage and Underwater Stage; part of Pinewood Group with Shepperton and Toronto studios.
Post-Soviet film studio restructuring
Post-Soviet film studio restructuring: the 1987–2012 transformation of Soviet-era film studios (Mosfilm, Lenfilm, Gorky, Barrandov, Kazakhfilm) from centralized state funding to self-financing, corporatization, and partial privatization, including the 1989 decree No. 1003 and Russia's 2001 Decree No. 389.
Ramoji Film City
Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, Telangana: the world's largest film studio complex per Guinness World Records (674 ha/1,666 acres), opened 1996 by Ramoji Rao; 47-50+ sound stages, 300+ sets, about 1.5 million annual visitors.
Revolution Studios
Revolution Studios, also Revolution Studios Distribution Company: American film and TV company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth; produced xXx, Anger Management, Black Hawk Down; now a Content Partners-owned 126-film library and rights-licensing company.
Riga Film Studio
Riga Film Studio, also known as Rīgas Kinostudija, is a Latvian film production company founded in 1948. After privatization in 2004, it provides services for foreign productions.
Row K Entertainment
Row K Entertainment is a US theatrical film distributor launched August 26, 2025 by Media Capital Technologies, led by Megan Colligan, known for its roughly $80 million TIFF 2025 acquisitions and its troubled 2026 releases.
S1 No. 1 Style (エスワン ナンバーワンスタイル)
S1 No. 1 Style (エスワン ナンバーワンスタイル) is a Japanese adult video label, an in-house brand of WILL launched after MOODYZ around 2004, known for SSIS/SNIS prefixes, the 新人NO.1 STYLE debut series, and an actress-centered tantai catalog.
Screen Gems
Screen Gems, also known as Screen Gems Inc., is the name of several Columbia Pictures businesses: an animation studio, a television subsidiary, and a Sony film label.
Sean Cody
Sean Cody (SeanCody.com) is a San Diego-based gay porn studio and subscription site founded in fall 2001 by its namesake, later listed among MindGeek's production companies; known for first-name-only muscular models, weekly bareback releases, and a 1,100+ scene archive.
Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures, formerly Fox Searchlight, is a specialty film studio founded in 1994 and owned by The Walt Disney Studios, whose films have won 52 Academy Awards.
Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂)
Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂, 上美影, SAFS), founded April 1957 in Shanghai from the 1949 Northeast Film Studio art-film group, is China's oldest state-owned animation studio, maker of Havoc in Heaven, Black Cat Detective, and Calabash Brothers, and origin of the "Chinese School" of animation.
Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Brothers Studio (邵氏兄弟), Hong Kong film company founded 1958 by Run Run Shaw; built Clearwater Bay's Movietown, largest private studio worldwide, produced over 800 films and martial-arts classics like King Boxer (1972) before declining against Golden Harvest by 1985.
Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios is a British film and high-end TV studio in Shepperton, Surrey, founded in 1931 and owned by the Pinewood Group since 2001. After a 2019-approved expansion it has 31 stages, 12 acres of backlot, and hosts Netflix productions.
Showbox (쇼박스)
Showbox (쇼박스, SHOWBOX Corp.) is a Seoul-based Korean film investment and distribution company founded in 2002 under Orion Holdings; KOSDAQ-listed, no theater chain, and Korea's top distributor with a 52.3% audience share in 2026.
Skywalker Ranch
Skywalker Ranch is George Lucas's private Marin County, California estate and working ranch, home to Skywalker Sound's 153,000-square-foot Technical Building; built after 1980's Empire Strikes Back, it remains Lucas-owned after Disney's 2012 Lucasfilm purchase.
Skywalker Sound
Skywalker Sound (Sprocket Systems) is Lucasfilm's sound design, editing, mixing, and music recording division at Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, California, founded via Ben Burtt's 1975 Star Wars hire; creator of R2-D2, THX, and Coda mastering.
Sony Entertainment
Sony Entertainment: the entertainment arm of Sony Group, chiefly Sony Pictures Entertainment (formerly Columbia Pictures, acquired 1989, renamed 1991), plus Sony Music, PlayStation, and Crunchyroll.
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures, operating as Sony Pictures Entertainment and formerly Columbia Pictures Entertainment, is the film and television division of Sony Group Corporation, renamed in 1991.
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is the independent and international film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded January 1992 by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom; its films have earned 192 Oscar nominations, 10 Best Picture nods, and 16 Best International Feature wins.
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group: SPE's film production and distribution division under Sony Group, led by Tom Rothman, with labels Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony Pictures Classics, a 3,500-title library, and franchises like Spider-Man and Jumanji.