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  1. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony ...

  2. 100 Years Columbia Pictures. Take the Columbia Pictures 100th Anniversary Quiz to discover your film and TV personality profile. Explore a lifetime of entertainment to discover the stories that moved you the most.

  3. Sony Pictures Entertainment is a leading studio that produces and distributes movies, TV shows, games and other content. Explore the latest releases, upcoming projects, videos and press releases from Columbia Pictures and other brands.

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    The early years

    The predecessor of Columbia Pictures, CBC Film Sales Corporation, was founded in 1918 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt. Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studio's early productions were low-budget short subjects: "Screen Snapshots", the "Hall Room Boys" (the vaudeville duo of Edward Flanagan and Neely Edwards), and the Chaplin imitator Bill...

    Reorganization and new name

    Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his one-third stake to Harry Cohn, who took over as president. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10, 1924. Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, behind only Warner Bros.' Jack Warner. In an industry rife w...

    Short subjects

    At Harry Cohn's insistence the studio signed The Three Stooges in 1934. Rejected by MGM (which kept straight-man Ted Healy but let the Stooges go), the Stooges made 190 shorts for Columbia between 1934 and 1957. Columbia's short-subject department employed many famous comedians, including Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde, and Hugh Herbert. Almost 400 of Columbia's 529 two-reel comedies were released to television in the late 1950s; to date, only the Stooges, Keaton, and...

    The Columbia Pictures logo, a woman carrying a torch and draped in the American flag (representing Columbia, a personification of the United States), has gone through five major revisions. In 1924, Columbia Pictures used a logo featuring a female Roman soldier holding a shield in her left hand and a stick of wheat in her right hand. The logo change...

  4. Jan 24, 2024 · After its acquisition by the Coca-Cola Company in 1982, Columbia Pictures Corporation and all of its entertainment holdings were purchased by Sony Corporation from The Coca-Cola Company in 1989, and the company was renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1991.

  5. List of Columbia Pictures films (1922–1939) List of Columbia Pictures films (1940–1949) List of Columbia Pictures films (1950–1959) List of Columbia Pictures films (1960–1969) List of Columbia Pictures films (1970–1979) List of Columbia Pictures films (1980–1989) List of Columbia Pictures films (1990–1999) List of Columbia ...

  6. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is a diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos ...