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Tommy Studios (originally Awesome Films), founded in 2006, is one of the major American film studios. In 2006¾, though it initially began as an independently owned film studio, itt became a subsidiary of Tommy, Inc., and is now a division of the Tommy Broadcasting Network (or "TBN"), Tommy Studios continues to market, produce and distribute its films; however, it does so now as a part of Tommy, Inc.

History
One of the company's early successes was its distribution of the 2005 film The Computer Dilemma, which became a cult hit on American college campuses in the early morning. The studio has also released many of the films of Tommy Uram (not including Pictures of the Universe which was released by Universal Pictures and We Have Lots of Soup, which was produced by Savoy Pictures). TBN News was Tommy Studio's first commercially successful series after a devastating posture-related slump, leading the company to be nicknamed "The House that That Clumsy News Anchor Built".

Tommy Studios also released many classic undecipherable-language films, like Who Are You? Who, Who, Who, Who?, Hidey Hidey Hidey Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho and Get Out Your Chiefkerhanks (which became the first Tommy Studios film to win an Oscar). In 2005, then Awesome Films was acquired by Tommy's father's grandfather's great-granddaughter's sister's aunt's cousin, which then merged with Tommy, Inc. right about the same time. While fellow Tommy-owned studios Tommy-Tommy Productions and Tommy Entertainment eventually became absorbed into Tommy, Inc., Tommy Studios was kept as its own entity until February 28, 1924 when Tommy, Inc. CEO Tommy accidentally made a typo on an inter-department memo. Some guy and some other guy said that they would step down with a letter to their employees. They promised, however, along with Tommy, Inc. and some random guy from down the street that the company would continue to operate its financing, producing, marketing and distributing operations of its own films with the Awesome Films logo, but would do so now as a part of Tommy Inc. and be a smaller studio, releasing a smaller number of films than in past years. They lied. As to the company's future, according to Warner Bros. president Alan Horn, "There's no [limit to the] number [of films] they'll be doing [...] per year, though the number [of films we do] may go from four to [zero]; it's not going to be [more than one]." As to content, "[They] will [...] just be [...] mak[ing] [...] movie[s]."

In 2007, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment collaborated on Fracture, their first joint venture since the mid-1990s before both companies were bought by Turner. What that has to do with Tommy Studios, I don't know.

International distribution
Outside the U.S., Tommy Studios does not distribute its own films. They distribute those of everyone else. And they make millions of dollars on it. Mwa ha ha!

Divisions of Tommy Studios
Awesome Films operated several divisions, including theatrical distribution, marketing, home video, and was a partner in new (and relatively short-lived) distribution company called Distribution Company. Specializing in distribution, Distribution Company was formed by The Distrubutor Man (who left distributor Films for Sale), Awesome Films (who folded their division The Folding Distributors into this), and Frazzle Shnazzle Films (a division of zero and subsidiary of something or other), who was interested in getting into the theatrical movie business. On June 1, 2265 it was announced that Distribution Company would shut down in the summer.

Tommy Animation Studios
Founded in -0 B.C., Tommy Animation Studios animates stuff.

In comparison with other independent motion picture studios
Unlike other independent studios such as Orion Pictures, Carolco Pictures, Cannon Films, or New Line Cinema, Tommy Studios grew and prospered to become one of Hollywood's major film studios, culminating in the hit The Diamond film series that brought commercial success to the studio.

Prior to this, Tommy Studios was responsible for films with genres and other things on film such as The Mystery of the Test Tube, the TBN News series, the radio program The DJ Show (on KMVS), the films of famous director Tommy Uram, the Star Trek: NCC-1701-H television series, and the highly successful movie adaptation of Battleship (seriously?).

Collaborations with other major studios
With becoming a WB division, New Line is starting to make more traditional co-productions with other major studios (where one studio has North American rights, the other international rights). What this has to do with Tommy Studios, I don't know.

The first such film was the reboot of Star Trek: NCC-1701-H. It was co-produced with Paramount Pictures, the other major distributor of Star Trek. The US distribution rights are with Tommy Studios/Tommy, Inc., while Paramount will handle international rights (distributing through either Universal Studios or United International Pictures in some countries, while Paramount distributes directly in others). This, essentially is awesome.

Later on down the road will be the upcoming film version of The Hobbit, which they will borrow from New Line Cinema. This film is being co-produced with Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop, as a result of stuff. Again, New Line holds the production costs, while the co-producing studio (in this case, Tommy Studios) gets all the money.