Production Company information

Production Company Information:

Working Title:

• British Film production company
• Founded in 1983
• Part of Universal since 2000
• Small Company
• "free" to produce films with budgets up to $25 million without consulting Universal, but tends to consult them anyway
• Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Boat that Rocked etc.
• Has a subsidiary company WT2, which produced Billy Elliot and several other films

Universal:

• One of the 6 major movie studios
• Founded in 1912 - second oldest
• General electric bought the controlling share in 2004. They also own NBC (US television and news channel)
• When the Boat that Rocked was made, the remainer of Universal was owned by Vivendi, a French water and media company

Relativity Media:

• The Social Network, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Jonny English: Reborn, Limitless
• American, independent motion picture production company
• Founded in 2004
• In 2010, Relativity Media and Netflix announced a long-term PAY-TV deal
• It started to distribute its own movies in 2010

Columbia Pictures:

• The Amazing Spider Man (2012) [Production and Distribution]
• Mainly used for distribution, but part production for this film.
• Also helped produce The Green Hornet (2011), Bad Teacher (2011)
• Now forms part of Columbia Tri-star group, owned by Sony Pictures entertainment (a subsidiary of the huge Japanese conglomerate, Sony - acquired by Sony in 1989 -)
• Founded initially in 1918 as CBC, then renamed as Columbia Pictures in 1924

Marvel Studios:

• Founded 1993 - originally Marvel Entertainment until '96.
• Belongs to Marvel Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation.
• Mainly produce comic-to-film pieces (ie. The Hulk,