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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
is an
American
company that produces
movies
and at one time,
television
shows. It is now one of the "Big Five" American
movie studios
and the oldest, busiest and most well-known member of the
Sony Pictures
Motion Picture Group
, which is owned by the
Japanese
company
Sony
. Sony Pictures also includes smaller studios like
TriStar Pictures
,
Screen Gems
, and
Sony Pictures Animation
. The studio buildings are located at the
Sony Pictures Studios
lot in
Culver City, California
.
Formed in 1918 as
CBC Film Sales
by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their partner Joe Brandt, the studio started out very small. It eventually adopted the "
Columbia
" name in 1924 and became better known and successful under president Harry Cohn and film director
Frank Capra
making Western movies, comedy movies, and short films.
[3]
After Harry Cohn died,
[4]
the studio went under hard times in the 1960s and 1970s before being bought by the
Coca-Cola Company
in 1982.
[5]
[6]
It created a side project with
CBS
and
HBO
that became
TriStar Pictures
and started making more successful films again such as the
Ghostbusters
movies and
The Karate Kid
.
Coca-Cola spun off Columbia into its own company again in 1987, which at that point had fully bought TriStar and other companies such as
Merv Griffin
's company, which was known for making
Wheel of Fortune
and
Jeopardy!
.
[7]
In 1989,
Sony Corporation
decided to buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which included both Columbia and TriStar.
[8]
[9]
Under Sony, Columbia moved into the former MGM studios after years of sharing space with
Warner Bros
. Columbia and TriStar continued making their own movies and TV shows before combining under the Sony name in 1999.
[10]
Movies Columbia Pictures has made
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Columbia is known for making movies such as
Ghostbusters
,
The Karate Kid
,
Men in Black
,
Stuart Little
,
21 Jump Street
,
Zombieland
,
Bad Boys
, and several movies about
The Three Stooges
and
Spider-Man
. It has also helped make a few
James Bond
movies with
MGM
.
At one point, one of the only ways that Columbia was still making money in the 1960s and 70s was through its TV department,
[5]
which was originally the first version of
Screen Gems
and later renamed
Columbia Pictures Television
. TV shows that Columbia made through Screen Gems/CPT included
I Dream of Jeannie
,
Days of Our Lives
,
Seinfeld
, and
Walker, Texas Ranger
. The TV department was eventually renamed "
Columbia TriStar Television
" and is now known as
Sony Pictures Television
, and the "Columbia" name is now only tied to movies.
- ↑
"Divisions - Sony Pictures"
.
sonypictures.com
. Retrieved
7 June
2015
.
- ↑
"Ghost Corps, Inc., a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc"
.
sonypictures.com
. Retrieved
January 30,
2020
.
- ↑
Thomas, Bob (1967).
King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn
. London: Barrie and Rockliff. p. 40.
- ↑
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/02/archives/ralph-m-cohn-45-ty-official-diesi-screen-gems-president-a.html
- ↑
5.0
5.1
Dick, pp. 18?20
- ↑
"Coke Completes Columbia Merger"
.
The New York Times
.
Associated Press
. June 23, 1982.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
March 14,
2010
.
- ↑
"Structuring and restructuring".
Broadcasting
: 66. May 12, 1986.
- ↑
Richter, Paul (September 27, 1989).
"Sony to Buy Columbia, Says Americans Will Run Studio : 1st Sale of Film Maker to Japanese"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
September 24,
2012
.
- ↑
"WHERE COKE GOES FROM HERE ? October 13, 1997"
.
CNN
.
- ↑
"Sony hitches TriStar to Col"
,
Variety
, March 31, 1998.
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