Columbia Pictures is a major American film production and distribution company that is part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. As one of the leading film studios in Hollywood's Golden Age, Columbia Pictures is known for horror films like Anaconda and Fright Night, with production budgets in the tens of millions of dollars and worldwide box office grosses over $100 million. The document discusses Columbia Picture's films, budgets, and reasons for choosing the studio for its genre of horror production and distribution.

1. FILM DISTRIBUTING COMPANY
BY:VERA OSEI

2. Columbia Pictures
• It’s an American film production and distribution
company.
• Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia
TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures
Entertainment.
• Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and
Cary Grant (who was shared with RKO Pictures).
• 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.

3. FILMS AND BUDGETS
Anaconda The plot centre's on a Budget:$45,000,000
film crew for National (estimated)
Geographic's who are Opening
kidnapped by a Weekend:$16,620,88
hunter who is going 7 (USA) (13 April
after the world's 1997) (2456 Screens)
largest Gross:$136,885,767
anaconda, which is (Worldwide) .
discovered in the
remote jungle.
Fright Night Fright Night is an Budget:$9,000,000
American vampire (estimated)
comedy horror film Opening
starring William Weekend:$6,118,543
Ragsdale, Chris (USA) (4 August 1985)
Sarandon, Stephen (1542 Screens)
Geoffreys and Roddy Gross:$24,922,237
McDowall that was (USA) (22 September
released in 1985. 1985)

4. THE REASONS WHY I CHOSE COLUMBIA
PICTURES
• I chose this because they make lots of horror films that relate
to our genre.
• We aim a big hit for our genre so we can relate it to the
budget of Columbia pictures.
• It is an inspiration to film distributing and production.
• They have Co-production companies who help and support
them in exhibition and going into cinemas.

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