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Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., formerly Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, is an American company that makes and distributes movies. The company is owned by Sony Corporation. They also own Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Affirm Films and other studios. The company makes movies and television programs. The movies are mainly released under Columbia Pictures (though TriStar, Screen Gems, and the other studios also release movies) and the TV programs are released by its TV department Sony Pictures Television. The main operations of the company are in the United States. Sony Pictures also has many different divisions around the world. These places include Canada, United Kingdom, India and Japan. The company is now headquartered at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
Formerly
Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (1987–1991)
Subsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
FoundedDecember 21, 1987; 38 years ago (1987-12-21) as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
August 7, 1991; 34 years ago (1991-08-07) as Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
FounderSony
Headquarters
10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Tony Vinciquerra (Chairman and CEO)
  • Stacy Green (Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer)[1]
  • Jon Hookstratten (Executive Vice President, Administration & Operations)
Products
Services
Revenue11px US$7.097 billion (FY2020)
Increase US$753 million (FY2020)
OwnerSony Group Corporation
Number of employees
9,500 (2019 [1])
ParentThe Coca-Cola Company (1987–1989)
Sony Corporation of America (1989–2012)
Sony Entertainment (2012–present)
Divisions
Subsidiaries
Websitesonypictures.net
Footnotes / references
[2][3]

History

Sony Corporation first got into the movie business after buying Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures in 1989. They renamed the company as "Sony Pictures" in 1991.[4]

Sony Pictures eventually branched out. It created other divisions. The company even had a part of rival studio MGM at one point. It made several James Bond movies with them.[5] The company was hacked in 2014 by people who seemed to be from North Korea. The U.S. government thinks this was for making The Interview, a movie that made fun of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.[6]

Sony Pictures recovered after the hacking. They made a deal with Disney to share Spider-Man movies with Marvel Studios.[7] They also stream movies and television programs on Netflix.[8]

Sony Pictures Television acquiring Hazbin Hotel on Prime Video with SpindleHorse Toons, A24, Bento Box Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios by January 2024.[9][10]

Sony Pictures Media

  • Sony Pictures Inc. logo.svg

    The logo of Sony Pictures – American television and film studio

  • Sonypicturesentertainmentoffices.jpg

    Sony Pictures Plaza in 2008

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  2. ↑ Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.: Private Company Information
  3. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  4. ↑ David E. Sanger, Special To The New York Times (1989-09-28). "Sony Has High Hopes For Columbia Pictures" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/28/business/sony-has-high-hopes-for-columbia-pictures.html. Retrieved 2017-07-26. 
  5. ↑ Sony nabs MGM for $5B, source says, CNN, September 14, 2004.
  6. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  7. ↑ Marvel. "Sony Pictures Entertainment Brings Marvel Studios Into The Amazing World Of Spider-Man" (in en-US). Press release. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20180414210216/https://news.marvel.com/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man/. Retrieved 2017-02-11. 
  8. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  9. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  10. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).


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