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Top 25 Theatrical release distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 825 theatrical release distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 10,873 professional contacts across them, including 2,208 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers theatrical release distributors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for theatrical release distributors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest theatrical release distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pathé est leader de l’exploitation cinématographique en France, aux Pays-Bas et en Suisse et est également présent en Belgique et en Afrique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 633 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In December 2016, Carmike Cinemas became part of AMC Theatres, the largest movie exhibition company in the U.S, in Europe and throughout the world with approximately theatres and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SVF is one of Eastern India’s largest entertainment companies, having business interests in Film Production, Film Distribution, Television content Production, Digital Cinema…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Picturehouse is a leading UK film company incorporating cinema, distribution and home entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SND (Société Nouvelle de Distribution) est la filiale de distribution de droits audiovisuels du Groupe M6.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WILDSIDE SRL is a Motion Pictures and Film company located in 9 Viale Giuseppe Mazzini, Rome, RM, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1937, Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® is a successful, growing business privately owned by the Swank family and led by Tim Swank, Chairman.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the launch of our flagship cinema in 1934, we have been inviting film lovers to open their eyes to new worlds and new ways of seeing with our rich programme that caters to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En Filmax creemos que la industria del cine es de valientes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FilmNation Entertainment is a leading distributor, financier and producer of independent films and is a destination for many of the world's most renowned filmmakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1987 da Andrea Occhipinti, Lucky Red è oggi la prima distribuzione indipendente italiana in termini di Box Office e admissions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Paris Filmes é uma empresa consolidada, que desde 1960 atua no mercado de distribuição e exibição de filmes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Eagle Pictures è una delle principali case di distribuzione cinematografica che vanta le release sul territorio italiano dei listini Paramount Pictures ed MGM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Filmhub is a worldwide full-service film & TV distribution company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in May STUDIOCANAL theatrical UK has established a reputation for an innovative approach to distribution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PLAION PICTURES ist ein unabhängiger Filmverleih und Home Entertainment Vertrieb.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1959, Beta Film GmbH is one of the world's leading international distributors of TV license rights with customers in over 165 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Magnolia Pictures is a leading independent film studio and the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, specializing in acquiring and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With a library of over titles, Kino Lorber has been a leader in independent art house distribution for over 45 years, releasing 35 films per year theatrically and garnering seven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Notorious Pictures, società indipendente costituita nel luglio 2012, con sede a Roma, opera nell'acquisizione di Diritti di Opere Cinematografiche (full rights) e nella…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fathom Entertainment is the leading specialty content distributor in the theatrical space and is widely recognized as one of the top content providers to movie theatres across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: theatrical release distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names theatrical release distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of theatrical release distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name theatrical release distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Theatrical release distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among theatrical release distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 9 countries, largest first: the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India, Spain, Brazil, Canada. Country and city lists for theatrical release distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “theatrical release distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names theatrical release distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among theatrical release distributors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,208 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Theatrical release distributors by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Theatrical release distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Theatrical release distributors based in the United States270
- Theatrical release distributors based in France160
- Theatrical release distributors based in the United Kingdom80
- Theatrical release distributors based in Germany77
- Theatrical release distributors based in Italy73
- Theatrical release distributors based in India55
- Theatrical release distributors based in Spain46
- Theatrical release distributors based in Brazil36
- Theatrical release distributors based in Canada28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names theatrical release distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many theatrical release distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 825 theatrical release distributors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Pathé Cinémas, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most theatrical release distributors?
The United States leads with 270 companies, followed by France (160) and the United Kingdom (80). Every theatrical release distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most theatrical release distributors?
Paris leads with 85 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (67) and London (51).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.