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Distribution company: Warner Bros. Pictures Post apocalyptic films THE BOOK OF ELI (2010) I AM LEGEND (2007) THE POSTMAN (1997) THE MATRIX (1999) GODZILLA (2014) PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES - WARNER BROS.

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Distribution company: Warner Bros. PicturesPost apocalyptic films

THE BOOK OF ELI (2010)I AM LEGEND (2007)

THE POSTMAN (1997)THE MATRIX (1999)

GODZILLA (2014)

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES - WARNER BROS.

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Warner Bros. PicturesIt was founded on April 4th 1923 by: Albert Warner, Harry Warner, Sam Warner and Jack Warner. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. Warner Bros has several subsidiary companies:•Warner Bros. Studios•Warner Bros. Pictures•Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment•Warner Bros. Television•Warner Bros. Animation•Warner Home Video •New Line Cinema•Castle Rock Entertainment•TheWB.com

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Headquarters Burbank, California, United States

Key people Kevin Tsujihara(Chairman and CEO)

Products Motion pictures, television programs, video gamesRevenue US$ 12.3 billion (2013)Operating income US$ 1.3 billion (2013)

Warner Bros. Pictures

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PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES - LIONSGATE

DIVERGENT (2014)Production company:

Red Wagon Entertainment

Summit EntertainmentDistributed by:

LionsgateSummit Entertainment

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)Production company:

Color forceDistributed by:

Lionsgate

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)

Production company: Centropolis

EntertainmentLionsgate

The Mark Gordon Company

Distributed by: 20TH Century Fox

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RED WAGON ENTERTAINMENTDouglas Wick is an American movie producer whose work includes producing the Academy Award-winning films: Gladiator, Stuart Little, and Memoirs of a Geisha.

He is the founder of Red Wagon Entertainment and Red Wagon Productions. In 2000, he expanded the company to bring in Lucy Fisher, his partner. Red Wagon Productions has been the production company on fifteen of the films Wick has produced, including: Girl, Interrupted; Spy Game; Divergent.

SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENTSummit Entertainment is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment headquartered in Universal City, California with international offices in London. It was founded in 1991 by Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milchan and Andrew G. Vajna.

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SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENTFilm distributor history in the UK

Momentum Pictures (2005–2008) (through Alcon Entertainment)Entertainment One Films (2008–) (main contractor)Icon Entertainment International (The Beaver only)

Lionsgate UK (2013–present) (secondary contractor)Universal Pictures UK (Step Up film series)

Entertainment Film Distributors (rarely)

Successful FilmsTwilight (2008) $408,773,703 worldwideKnowing (2009) $182,492,056 worldwide

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows $168,550,000On June 30, 2010 Summit released the third film of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga:

Eclipse. It broke a midnight screening record of over $30 million and set a one-day Wednesday record of $68.5 million but failed to surpass the one-day tally of $72 million set

by New Moon. It became the first movie in the series to cross the $300 million mark domestically.

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LIONSGATE

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (or Lionsgate) 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.

The distribution of selected recent non-in-house films for pay-per-view and on-demand are under the supervision of NBC Universal

Television Distribution under Universal Pictures(Universal formerly held home video and television rights to many of the early Lionsgate

films), while all others (particularly the in-house films) are distributed for both cable and broadcast television through

Lionsgate's syndicated division.

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20TH CENTURY FOXTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1935 to 1985)—also

known as 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Pictures, simply Fox, is one of the six major American film studios. It is located in the

Century City area of Los Angeles, but now it is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It's the world's second largest major film studio, after Warner Bros. It was formed on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger between Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl

F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck.

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UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American film studio, owned by Comcast. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in

New York City. Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass,

Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour.