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The Businesses Behind the Show Business

The awards for best film-production-company name go to …

The names of actors and directors are as famous as their faces, especially during movie-awards season, which culminates this year on March 10 with the Academy Awards ceremony. One set of names, however, remains largely unknown to filmgoers: the names of production companies, the businesses that raise the money, supervise the filming, and take legal and financial responsibility for the finished product. And yet those names are often…