Movie (must see)'s

[RCBH928]

So, a small studio would make a movie and then give it to Dreamworks to distribute it?
Thats funny because its usually the bigger company's name that comes out first.

I thought it worked this way, huge company(Dreamworks, WB) thinks of a movie and brings up the money, then they give it to a smaller studio to work on it and make it happen. So when the movie is showing its like WB presents to you its movie in full screen logo, then "those guys we paid to work on it" and its like 'Whatever Studios' is like just for credit.

Isn't it like this in videogames, Microsoft thinks of something and pays for it or buys another idea and make someone else do it. Like on Xbox you see MIcrosoft Sutdios, then Bungie...

what I understand from you it works like this: WB(those guys distributing the film world wide ) then comes on the screen 'Whatever Studios'(those guys funded the movie, came with the idea, and executed it). How come they do most of the stuff and the distributor gets his name so big on the screen? Distributor is someone that sells the movie world wide right? Or they do more?

[MrPopo]

Isn't it like this in videogames, Microsoft thinks of something and pays for it or buys another idea and make someone else do it. Like on Xbox you see MIcrosoft Sutdios, then Bungie...

That generally only happens when the parent owns the smaller company, like Activision and Neversoft. Frequently what you see is a small studio comes up with a game idea, create a proof of concept, and find a publisher who will fund distribution (and possibly the rest of development). This was the case for the Ghostbusters game, as it was well known on the internet just how hard they had it trying to find a publisher.