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COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS • WARNER BROS. • UNIVERSAL PICTURES • LIONSGATE • 20 TH CENTURY FOX • MOMENTUM PICTURES • SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT • RED WAGON ENTERTAINMENT

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COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS

• WARNER BROS.• UNIVERSAL PICTURES• LIONSGATE• 20TH CENTURY FOX• MOMENTUM PICTURES• SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT• RED WAGON ENTERTAINMENT

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS: WARNER BROS.

WARNER BROS. Warner BROS. is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York.

POST-APOCALYPTIC

WARNER BROS. POST-APOCALYPTIC FILMS:• I AM LEGAND• THE MATRIX• GODZILLA

WARNER BROS. PICTURESOne of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its

headquarters in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros.

Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment.

1903–25: FoundingWarner Bros. was a pioneer of films with synchronized sound (then known as "talking pictures" or "talkies"). In 1925, at the urging of

Sam, the Warners agreed to expand their operations by adding this feature to their productions. By February 1926, the studio suffered a

reported net loss of $333,413.

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

POST APOCALYPTIC :•TWELVE MONKEYS•E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and

other corporate offices are in New York City.

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS:LIONSGATE

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a Canadian-American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 3, 1997, and is headquartered in Santa

Monica, California.

POST- APOCALYPTIC:•THE HUNGER GAMESRevenue

US$2.078 billion (FY 2013)Operating incomeUS$273.1 million (FY 2013)Net incomeUS$232.1 million (FY 2013)Total assetsUS$2.761 billion (FY 2013)Total equityUS$53.559 million

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS: 20TH CENTURY FOX

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985)—also known as 20th Century Fox,

20th Century Fox Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio used to be a subsidiary of News Corporation, but now it is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It's the world's second largest major film studio,

after Warner Bros.

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS:SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

Summit Entertainment LLC (formerly Summit Entertainment LP) is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment headquartered in Universal City, California with international offices in London.

COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTERS:MOMENTUM PICTURES

Momentum Pictures (also known as Momentum) was one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and released

approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several dtv releases.Momentum's most successful theatrical releases include the Oscar BAFTA and BIFA-winning The King's Speech, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in

Translation, Control, Downfall, The Young Victoria, Defiance, Milk, Let the Right One In, The Illusionist, Just Friends, District B13 Ultimatum, The Men Who Stare

at Goats, Law Abiding Citizen, Glorious 39, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Red Tails (co-distribution with 20th Century Fox) and P.S. I Love You.