ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks is an American mass media division of ViacomCBS that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands. Its related international division is ViacomCBS Networks International.
Nickelodeon Movies is a theatrical motion picture production division for the American children's network Nickelodeon, which releases both animated and live action films. The division was founded on February 25, 1995 and currently a part of the Paramount Players arm of Paramount Pictures, itself owned by ViacomCBS and ultimately the holding company National Amusements. The company released its first film Harriet the Spy in 1996 which was in live action and its first animated film The Rugrats Movie in 1998. It has produced family features and films based on Nickelodeon programs, as well as other adaptations and original projects. Its films are co-produced and/or distributed by fellow ViacomCBS division Paramount Pictures. The studio's highest-grossing films are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), which grossed $493.3 million worldwide, The Adventures of Tintin (2011), which grossed $374 million worldwide, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), which grossed $325.2 million worldwide. The company has so far produced over 33 theatrical feature films in total. Their next film, PAW Patrol: The Movie, based on the Nick Jr. series of the same name, will be released on August 20, 2021.
Imagine Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in November 1985 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer.
Sony Pictures Animation Inc. is an American animation studio owned by Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label, while all direct-to-video releases are released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Brian Levine, known professionally as Brian Robbins, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who is the President of Kids & Family Entertainment at ViacomCBS. As of 2018, he is the President of Nickelodeon. He has often collaborated with producer Michael Tollin.
Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by ViacomCBS. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Rugrats and Avatar: The Last Airbender, among various others. Since the 2010s, the studio has also co-developed its own series based on preexisting IP purchased by ViacomCBS, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Winx Club. In November 2019, Nickelodeon Animation Studio signed a multiple-year output deal for Netflix, which will include producing content, in both new and preexisting IP, for the streaming platform.
Participant is a Los Angeles, California-based film production company founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Skoll, dedicated to entertainment intended to spur social change. The company finances and co-produces film and television content, as well as digital entertainment through its subsidiary SoulPancake, which the company acquired in 2016.
Nikolina Kamenova Dobreva, known professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress. Her first acting role was as Mia Jones in the drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She later became known for portraying Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries.
Plan B Entertainment, Inc., more commonly known as Plan B, is an American production company founded in November in 2001 by Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. In 2005, after Pitt and Aniston divorced, Grey became the CEO of Paramount Pictures and Pitt became the sole owner of the company. The president of the company was for many years Dede Gardner, but she and Pitt named Jeremy Kleiner co-president with Gardner in 2013. Three of the production company's movies, The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Albie Hecht is a film and television producer and media executive. In 1997, Hecht was the president of film and TV entertainment for Nickelodeon before becoming president of the television channel Spike TV in 2003. In 2005, he founded and was CEO of the digital studio Worldwide Biggies. From 2013 to 2015, he also served as general manager of the TV channel, HLN, and currently serves as chief content officer of PocketWatch.
Epix is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Epix Entertainment LLC, a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The channel's programming consists of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, original television series, documentaries, and music and comedy specials.
Paramount Animation is the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS. The division was founded on July 6, 2011 following the box office success of Paramount's own Rango and the end of their distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation in 2012.
Point Grey Pictures, Inc. (PGP) is a Canadian independent film and television production company founded by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in 2011. It is named after Vancouver's Point Grey Secondary School, where Rogen and Goldberg met.
Paramount Players is an American film production label of Paramount Pictures, focusing on "contemporary properties" while working with other ViacomCBS brands. The name alludes to the company's earliest origins as Famous Players Film Company, before its 1914 founding by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
Sunday Night Productions is an American film and television production company founded by John Krasinski and Allyson Seeger in 2013. It is known for producing the television series Lip Sync Battle, Dream Corp LLC and Jack Ryan, the YouTube streaming news show Some Good News, and the feature-length films The Hollars, A Quiet Place, and A Quiet Place Part II.
The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2021. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
