Tuesday 15 October 2013

Potential Production Company Logos

I will be researching production companies to find out what kind of production company will my film come under. I have looked at different films in IMDB, looking at thrillers and seeing who produced them and to find out thrillers they have produced. In all teaser trailers and most poster they put the production company logo as part of it. For my taser trailer and poster to be realistic I need to look at a various if different product companies to see if they have made thrillers.






Universal Studios (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American motion picture studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of six major movie 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.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:


  • Dark Intruder 
  • Gravity 
  • Green zone 





Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (or lionsgate) is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver British Colombia, on July 3, 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. As of 2012, it is the most commercial successful independent film and television distribution company in North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:


  • The Next Three Days 
  • Abduction 
  • The Last Stand 





Dark Castle Entertainment is a division of Silver Pictures, a production house afflicted with Warner Bros, and Universal. it was formed in 1999 by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler, Susan Downey was the vice president of development until february 2009, a term running congruent of her tenure as a VP of production as parent company Silver Pictures.

Dark Castle Entertainment's name pays homage to William Castle, a horror film maker from the 1950s and 1960s. Dark Castle Entertainment also produce Thriller. When first formed, the goal was to remake Castle's horror films (very similar to another production company Platinum Dunes). AFter two remakes, it moved on to producing original material, along with remakes of non-castle films. Starting with RocknRolla, the company began producing fix in genres other than horror. Initially, most of the company's films were mostly critically panned, however recently their films have been received better by critics, including RocknRolla, Orphan, Splice and Unknown.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:


  • RocknRolla
  • Orphan
  • Unknown




Alcon Entertainment was established on January 1997, and founded by film producers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, who are co-presidents of the company. The Company is headquartered on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Both Johnson and Kosove presented FedEx founder and chairman Frederick W. Smith with a proposal suggesting that an independent film company, backed by a capitalised individual or company, and aligned with a major studio for an exclusive distribution arrangement would reap profits on copyrighted assets over a set period of time.


These are a few thriller films that they produce:

  • The Apparition 
  • Argo
  • Gone



Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus, Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures and October Films) is the art house films division of NBCUniversal, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films. 

Focus was formed the 2002 divisional merger of USA FIlms, Universal Focus and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 when he purchased OCtober Films and Gramercy Pictures from Seagram and merged the two units together.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:
  • The American 
  • Black Sea
  • Currency 






Working Title Films is a British film Production company, based in London owned by Universal Studios. The company was found by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyff in 1983. It produced feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-chairs of the company.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:
  • Trash 
  • Green Zone
  • Everest 






Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. formerly known as Warner Bros. Studios, commonly referred to as Warner Bros. (Spelled Warner Brother during the company's early years), or simply WB - 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. Warner Bros. Has several Subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:
  • Exposed
  • Inception 
  • ThanksKilling 



Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004. In 2005 the company concluded a 40-picture agreement to co-finance with Warner Bros.

These are a few thriller films that they produce:

  • 300
  • The Town
  • Watchmen



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