Tencent Pictures

Tencent Pictures is a Chinese film production, investment, marketing, distribution, and IP licensing company established in September 2015 as a division of Tencent Holdings Limited. The company specializes in adapting intellectual properties from Tencent's expansive ecosystem—including literature, comics (manhua), animation (donghua), and video games—into cinematic projects, while also co-financing and co-producing international films to bridge Chinese and global markets. Tencent Pictures leverages Tencent's digital platforms such as WeChat, QQ, and Tencent Video to cultivate a comprehensive content ecosystem, and established a dedicated distribution arm in 2018 to expand its reach in China's rapidly growing cinema market. Notable co-productions include Venom (2018, $856M worldwide), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Wonder Woman (2017), and domestic blockbusters such as The Eight Hundred (2020) and Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023).