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Rank Distributor (Ranking in 2004)
* address
* city/zip
1 Sony Pictures Releasing (2)
10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City 90232
2 Warner Bros. Domestic Theatrical Distribution (3)
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank 91522
3 Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Inc. (1)
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank 91506
4 DreamWorks Pictures (10)
1000 Flower St.
Glendale 91201
5 Universal Pictures Distribution (4)
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City 91608
6 Twentieth Century Fox (6)
10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles 90035
7 Paramount Domestic Distribution (8)
5555 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood 90038
8 Newmarket Films LLC
597 Fifth Ave., Seventh Floor
New York 10017
9 New Line Cinema Inc. (5)
116 N. Robertson Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles CA 90048
10 Miramax Films (7)
8439 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood 90069
Rank 2004 Results Top-Grossing Film
* box-office receipts (1)
(millions)
* number of films (1)
* market share (2)
1 $1,308 Spider-Man 2
22
14.2%
2 1,215 Harry Potter and the
29 Prisoner of Azkaban
13.2
3 1,157 The Incredibles
27
12.6
4 926 Shrek 2
10
10
5 905 The Bourne Supremacy
18
9.8
6 903 The Day After Tomorrow
18
9.8
7 625 Lemony Snicket's A Series of
17 Unfortunate Events
6.8
8 406 The Passion of the Christ
8
4.4
9 388 The Lord of the Rings: The
12 Return of the King
4.2
10 378 Kill Bill Volume 2
24
4.1
Rank Top Film's Data Parent Company
* box-office dollars
(millions) (1)
* % of total receipts
derived from top film
1 $3,734 Sony Corp.
28.5%
2 249.4 Time Warner Inc.
20.6
3 251.7 Walt Disney Co.
21.7
4 436.7 DreamWorks SKG
47.2
5 176.1 NBC Universal
19.4
6 186.7 News Corp.
20.7
7 94.6 Viacom Inc.
15.1
8 370.3 Newmarket
91.1 Entertainment Group
9 86.6 Time Warner Inc.
22.3
10 66.2 Walt Disney Co.
17.4
Rank Production Cos. For Top Local Executive
Which the Company * title
Distributes * phone
(partial list)
1 Columbia Pictures, Revolution Rory Bruer
Studios, TriStar Pictures, president, distribution
Screen Gems (310) 244-4000
2 Warner Bros., Silver Daniel Fellman
Pictures, Dark Castle president, distribution
Entertainment, Section Eight (818) 954-6000
Productions
3 Walt Disney Pictures, Chuck Viane
Touchstone Pictures, president, distribution
Hollywood Pictures (818) 560-1000
4 Image Movers, Montecito James C. Tharp
Pictures, Bandero, Amblin president, theatrical
distribution
(818) 695-5000
5 Imagine Entertainment, Nikki Rocco
Kennedy/Marshall Co., president, distribution
Shady Acres Entertainment, (818) 777-1000
Sommers Co., Strike
Entertainment, Working Title
Films
6 Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Bruce Snyder
2000, Fox Family Films, president, domestic
Searchlight Pictures, distribution
Twentieth Century Fox (310) 369-1000
Animation,
7 Scott Rudin Productions, C/W Wayne Lewellen
Productions, Lakeshore, president, distribution
Alphaville, Kopelson/ (323) 956-5000
Intertainment
8 Newmarket Entertainment Bob Berney
Group, Icon Pictures, Raygun president
Films (310) 858-7472
9 New Line, Fine Line, David Tuckerman
Rat Entertainment, president, domestic theatrical
Benderspink dist.
(310) 854-5811
10 A Band Apart, Wes Craven Elliot Slutzky
Films, Dimension Films exec. v.p., general manger
(323) 822-4100
(1) For the play period Jan. 5, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005.
(2) Percentage of total domestic box-office receipts for the play
period Jan. 5, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005.
Note: The information on this list was supplied by Nielsen EDI Inc.
Additional information was provided by representatives of the
distributors. Distributors are ranked by total domestic box-office
receipts for play period Jan. 5, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005.
To the best of our knowledge, this information is accurate as of press
time. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and
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Researched by David Nusbaum
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