What is Columbia Pictures?
Columbia Pictures is one of the largest film making and distribution companies and is owned by Sony Picture Entertainment, an American television and film production and distribution unit and a part of Japanese multinational technology company Sony. The studio is headquartered in Culver City of California and releases several Bollywood and Hollywood movies under its brand name and served as distributor for many famous movies till date. The company owns several subsidiaries in many countries of the world.
Fast Facts
Columbia Pictures is one of the well-known film studios and contributed to the glory of the Golden
Age and Modern Cinema of Hollywood through many iconic films such as Spider Man series, James Bond series, Lawrence of Arabia, It Happened One Night, The Karate Kid, Gandhi, When Harry Met Sally, Da Vinci Code. It has been associated with various popular artists and directors of Hollywood Frank Capra, Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth and William
Holden to name a few.
Brief History
Columbia Pictures was incorporated as CBC Film Sales in 1918 with the partnership of Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn and Joe Brandt. Its earlier production was low
Budget cinema and was headquartered at Goer Street. In 1924, CBC was renamed as Columbia Pictures Corporation after Joe Brandt sold his stake to Cohn brothers. The studio was led to success when it signed Frank Capra, who gave breakthrough success to the studio with the films, It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, etc. After enjoying the phenomenal success for over sixty years, Columbia Pictures was sold to
Coca Cola Company in 1982. The latter kept the studio under its ownership until 1989 before being purchased by Sony.