Columbia Pictures
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San Jose Mercury News | 1 day ago
Review: 'Planet 51' lacks animation
In this film publicity image released by Columbia Pictures, the characters Lem, voiced by Justin Long, and Chuck Baker, voiced by Dwayne Johnson, right, is shown in a scene from the animated feature "Planet 51." (AP Photo/Columbia...
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South Bend Tribune | 1 day ago
'Planet 51' could use a humor invasion
...anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off, according to the sci-fi kids cartoon "Planet 51." AP Photo/ILION, COLUMBIA PICTURES The character of Chuck Baker, voiced by Dwayne Johnson, right, is shown in a...
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Telegraph.co.uk - Top ten stories | 1 day ago
Society must decide if it 'will accept relationships between humans and robots'
...become so sophisticated they start demanding rights, a legal expert has warned. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the fim Terminator Photo: COLUMBIA FILMS Rapid advances in technology mean cyborgs, or human-like robots, are no longer a vision of...
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
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...beats estimate by $5 million LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disaster movie "2012" wreaked even more havoc at the box-office than expected, Columbia Pictures said on Monday, taking in $230.4 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Sony said the...
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Reuters | 4 days ago
New hit film 2012 beats estimate by $5 million
New hit film "2012" beats estimate by $5 million Disaster movie "2012" wreaked even more havoc at the box-office than expected, Columbia Pictures said on Monday, taking in $230.4 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Sony said the...
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Moviegoers make date with disaster film '2012'
...movie. The latest calamity epic from "Independence Day" director Roland Emmerich sold $225 million worth of tickets globally, distributor Columbia Pictures said on Sunday. Moviegoers in the United States and Canada chipped in $65...
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Disaster film '2012' strikes worldwide box office
...latest end-of-days picture from "Independence Day" director Roland Emmerich sold $225 million worth of tickets globally, distributor Columbia Pictures said on Sunday. The contribution from the United States and Canada was $65 million, at the...
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NPR | 5 days ago
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Gidget director Paul Wendkos dies at age 84
...Mansfield, who was a little known actress at the time. Shot on the streets of Philadelphia and New York, "Burglar" captured the attention of Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohen, and the legendary studio boss brought Wendkos to Hollywood.
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Jackson's This Is It passes $200 million worldwide
...grossing movie worldwide of 2009, according to industry tracker boxofficemojo.com "This Is It", distributed by Sony Corp-owned Columbia Pictures, was compiled from footage of Jackson rehearsing for a series of planned comeback concerts...
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Today, Columbia Pictures has no connection with CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), but it is a sister company to the former CBS record division. In fact, from May 2004-December 2005, it was the only one of the Big Six without an affiliated broadcast television network, and (along with Paramount Pictures) is one of 2 to have its name erased from television (but unlike Paramount, Columbia is still a direct sister company to its former television division; however the parent companies of both Paramount and its former TV division are themselves sisters).
The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years later. In its early years a minor player in Hollywood, Columbia began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra.
In 1982, the studio was purchased by Coca-Cola; that same year it launched Tri-Star Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola divested Columbia, which merged with Tri-Star. After a brief period of independence, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989.
- Name:
- Columbia Pictures
- Type:
- Subsdiary
- Location City:
- Culver City, California
- Location Country:
- U.S.
- Founded:
- Los Angeles, California, U.S. (May 1919 as C.B.C. Film Sales, renamed Columbia Pictures in 1924)
- Owned by:
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- Independent (publicly traded) (1926-1982)
- Independent (privately held) (1919-1926)
- Sony Pictures (1991-Present)
- Sony (1989-present)
- Coca-Cola Co. (1982-1987)
- Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (publicly traded) (1987-1989)
- Industry:
- Motion pictures
- Parent Company:
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
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