A production house refers to a company that is in charge of the development and production of films. In some cases the production house may also be responsible for raising the funds for the film. Sometimes they also sell the products to a film studio or present them in a theatrical venue. In these days we find that the actors, directors, producers, and writers of Hollywood have started opening their own production houses because that way they can have control over their own careers. Now we are going to take a look at the details of these production houses of Hollywood. In the late 1960, Francis Ford Coppola started American Zoetrope that was considered as an early adopter of digital filmmaking. The studio had produced the films of renowned filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa etc. In fact four films produced by this production house are included in the blues guitar list of top100 films by the American Film Institute. Till now the films that produced by American Zoetrope have received fifteen Academy Awards and sixty eight nominations. Columbia Pictures Industries is an American production and distribution house that is a part of Columbia Tristar Motion Picture group. This production house was established in 1924 and has worked collaboration with MGM movie studio. In the year 1989 the electronic giant Sony bought Columbia Pictures. Sony spent nearly $100 million and inaugurated Sony pictures studio. Some of the films that have come from the Columbia Pictures are Batman and Robin, The Legend of Zorro, Spiderman, Anaconda, etc. Paramount Pictures Corporation based in Hollywood, California, was founded in 1912 and is one of the oldest running production houses of America. Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor.