With all of the different studios all setting up their own streaming services with their own content, it can get hard to keep track of which studios own which SFF franchises, so I thought I'd start a thread that keeps track of who owns or has the movie/TV right to them. I'm including a few popular non-SFF franchises too. Disney: Disney Animation, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Simpsons, Alien, Predator, Avatar, The Orville Warner Bros.: DC Comics, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes Universal: Univeral Monsters, Jurrasic World, Fast and Furious, Jason Bourne, Battlestar Galactica, Dreamworks Animation, Despicable Me/Minions, Sony: Spider-Man, Sony Animation (Hotel Transylvania, Angry Birds, The Smurfs) CBS/Paramount: Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Twilight Zone These ones I'm not sure about: James Bond: I believe Sony has released the last few, but I'm not sure if they actually own any rights or if they just release the movies. Transformer/Hasbro: Not sure who made or released them Stargate: They were shown on the NBCUniversal owned Sci-Fi/Syfy, but I'm not sure if they actually own them. Lord of the Rings: The movies were produced by New Line, which is part of WB, but the show is being made by Amazon. Stranger Things: Shown by Netflix, but I'm not sure if they actually own it.
The Bond films are owned and produced by MGM, with Sony co-producing and distributing the recent ones, theatrically and (I believe on home video in the US, though as I type, I'm not 100% certain). MGM owns and produced the Stargate film and series. Paramount co produces and releases the Transformer films.
Not sure what changed and when or when again, but for a while FOX was releasing the Bond blu-rays - including "Bond 50". Quite a surprise, that was...
The dreaded Comcast/NBC, via their purchase of Dreamworks Animation, which bought the British company Entertainment Rights, who bought the Filmation library from Westinghouse (aka Group W). You'll note that Dreamworks is the producer of the new She-Ra on Netflix.
WB also has the Hanna-Barbera library of characters, so Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Birdman, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, as well as more recent franchises like Captain Planet, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and so on. They don't, of course, hold the rights to the characters that Hanna-Barbera did under licence, like Godzilla, Lucky Luke or The Smurfs.
Hasbro is their own company, whose TV/film production wing is called Allspark. In addition to the properties based on Hasbro toys and games, they also acquired the Power Rangers franchise last year.
Sony's James Bond contract expired with Spectre. The next Bond film will be all MGM(United Artists)/Eon(the company of the original Bond producer Albert Broccoli). It's the first bond movie to be 100% homegrown and distributed since the 90s (though they did give a contract to Universal to handle the worldwide distribution).