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'''Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.''' is an [[United States|American]] company that produces [[movie]]s and [[television]] shows. It is part of the '''Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group''', which is owned by the [[Japan]]ese company [[Sony]].
{{Infobox company
| name = Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
| logo =
| type = [[Division (business)|Division]]<ref name="Sony Entertainment">{{cite web|title=Divisions - Sony Pictures|url=https://www.sonypictures.com/corp/divisions.html|website=sonypictures.com|access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>
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| image =
| predecessor =
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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1918|06|19}} (as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales Corporation) <br /> {{Start date and age|1924|01|10}} (as Columbia Pictures) <br /> [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States]]
| founder = {{plainlist|
* [[Harry Cohn]]
* [[Jack Cohn]]
* [[Joe Brandt]]
}}
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = [[Sanford Panitch]] (president)
| location = Thalberg Building, [[Sony Pictures Studios|10202 West Washington Boulevard]], [[Culver City, California|Culver City]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| industry = Film
| products = Motion pictures
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| owner = [[Sony]]
| parent = [[Sony Pictures|Sony Pictures Entertainment]]<br>{{small|([[Sony Entertainment]])}}
| divisions = [[Ghost Corps]]<ref name="Ghost Corps">{{cite web |url=https://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2016/05_16/050916_ghostbustersvirtualreality.html |title=Ghost Corps, Inc., a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |website=sonypictures.com |access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref>
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| homepage = {{url|sonypictures.com}}
}}
'''Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.''' is an [[United States|American]] company that produces [[movie]]s and at one time, [[television]] shows. It is now one of the "Big Five" American [[movie studio]]s and the oldest, busiest and most well-known member of the '''[[Sony Pictures]] Motion Picture Group''', which is owned by the [[Japan]]ese 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]].
==History==
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.<ref>Thomas, Bob (1967). ''King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn''. London: Barrie and Rockliff. p. 40.</ref> After Harry Cohn died,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/02/archives/ralph-m-cohn-45-ty-official-diesi-screen-gems-president-a.html]</ref> the studio went under hard times in the 1960s and 1970s before being bought by the [[Coca-Cola Company]] in 1982.<ref name= "Book ref">Dick, pp. 18–20</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/23/business/coke-completes-columbia-merger.html|title=Coke Completes Columbia Merger|date=June 23, 1982|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 14, 2010|agency=[[Associated Press]]|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 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 (US game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' and ''[[Jeopardy!]]''.<ref name="broadcasting19860512">{{cite journal|date=May 12, 1986|title=Structuring and restructuring|journal=Broadcasting|page=66}}</ref> In 1989, [[Sony Corporation]] decided to buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which included both Columbia and TriStar.<ref name=GT-DEX-1989-08>{{cite news|title=Sony to Buy Columbia, Says Americans Will Run Studio : 1st Sale of Film Maker to Japanese|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-27-mn-335-story.html|access-date=September 24, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 27, 1989|first=Paul|last=Richter}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/13/232494/index.htm|title=WHERE COKE GOES FROM HERE – October 13, 1997|work=CNN}}</ref> 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.<ref>[https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/sony-hitches-tristar-to-col-1117469309/ "Sony hitches TriStar to Col"], ''Variety'', March 31, 1998.</ref>
== Movies Columbia Pictures has made ==
== Movies Columbia Pictures has made ==
{{Main|List of Columbia Pictures movies}}
{{Main|List of Columbia Pictures movies}}
Columbia is known for making movies such as ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', ''[[The Karate Kid]]'', ''[[Men in Black]]'', ''[[Stuart Little (movie)|Stuart Little]]'', ''[[21 Jump Street (movie)|21 Jump Street]]'', ''[[Zombieland]]'', ''[[Bad Boys (1995 movie)|Bad Boys]]'', and several movies about [[The Three Stooges]] and [[Spider-Man]]. It has also helped make a few [[James Bond]] movies with [[MGM]].
== TV studio ==
At one point, one of the only ways that Columbia was still making money in the 1960s and 70s was through its TV department,<ref name= "Book ref" /> 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]]'' 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.
== References ==
{{reflist}}
== Further reading ==
*{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Bernard F.|title=Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio|location=Lexington, Ky.|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=1992|isbn=9780813117690|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K60eBgAAQBAJ}}
== Other websites ==
== Other websites ==
* [http://www.sonypictures.com/ Official Sony Pictures website]
* [http://www.sonypictures.com/ Official Sony Pictures website]
** [http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/index.html Sony Pictures Movies]
** [http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/index.html Sony Pictures Movies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050706034238/http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/index.html |date=2005-07-06 }}
** [http://www.sonypictures.net/ SonyPictures.net]
** [http://www.sonypictures.net/ SonyPictures.net]
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