1. INSTITUTION RESEARCH
COLUMBIA PICTURES
It’s a very famous American production company and distribution studio. Columbia pictures is also a
member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, which is basically a division of Entertainment. It
is also subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony. Columbia Pictures was founded as
the Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation on June 19, 1918, by brothers Jack and Harry
Cohn and Joe Brandtand .it had released its first film in August 1922. And had adopted the
Columbia Pictures name in 1924 .which went public two years later. Eventually it began to use the
image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo.
The first print logo used by Columbia Pictures, featuring its
Columbia personification
At first Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but it started to
grow in the late 1920s. Rita Hayworth became the studio's premier
star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. The studio's
early productions were low-budget short subjects like the "Hall
Room Boys’ and the Chaplin imitator. Start-up CBC leased space
in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywood's famously low-rent Gower
Street. The studio's small-time reputation led to some joke that
"CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage"
In order to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures
Corporation in 1924. Cohn remained head of production .He had run Columbia for 34 years.
Columbia's consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including
comedies, sports films, cartoons and etc. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-
budget films, eventually joining the second tier of Hollywood studios Columbia was a horizontally
integrated company. It controlled production and distribution; it did not own any theaters. Columbia
introduced animation into its studio in 1929, distributing Walt Disney's famous Mickey
Mouse cartoons as well as the Silly Symphonies cartoons until 1932. Also in 1929, Columbia took
over distribution of the Krazy Kat series from Paramount Pictures .Columbia agreed to release
animated shorts from United Productions of America; these new shorts won many critical praise and
industry awards.
2. The logo that Columbia used starting in 1936 and ending
in 1976.
Since Columbia did had any theaters of its own, it
was now on equal terms with the largest studios,
later was on the list of the "Big Five" studios. Screen
gem is also an American production and distribution
company .On 8th November 1948, Columbia
adopted the Screen Gems name for its television
production subsidiary. Katzman has extremely
contributed to Columbia's success by making of
dozens of topical films; including crime dramas,
science-fiction stories, and rock-'n'-roll musicals.
Columbia kept making serials and two-reel
comedies .Columbia's position improved in the 1950s. This was largely because it did not suffer from
the enormous loss of income that other major studios has suffered because of the loss of their
theaters. Columbia continued to make 40-plus pictures every year offering productions of films that
kept people coming to theaters like the adaptation of from here to eternity a novel by James jones.
Columbia president Harry Cohn died in 1958. And Ralph Cohn died in 1959,. The new
administration was headed by Abe Schneider, who had joined the company as an office boy out
of high school then became a director in 1929. Emerging through the financial side of the
business.
By 1966, the studio was suffering from box-office failures, and takeover rumors started to
spread .Columbia was surviving only on the profits made from Screen Gems. On 23rd
December
1968, Screen Gems joined Columbia Pictures Corporation and became a part of the newly
formed Columbia Pictures Industries.
In 1970s it was almost bankrupt. In 1971, Columbia Pictures had established sheet music Columbia
Pictures Publications. 1972, Columbia and Warner Bros. formed a partnership known as Burbank
Studios. In 1973, Allen & Co took a financial stake in Columbia Pictures Industries. 1974, Columbia
retired the Screen Gems name from television, and renaming its television division Columbia
Pictures Television. Coke spun off its entertainment holdings on 21st December, 1987 and sold it to
Tri-Star Pictures for $3.1 billion and Columbia Pictures Industries, it was renamed as Columbia
Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (CPE), with Coke owning 80% of the company. The Columbia Pictures
Empire was sold on 28th September 1989, to Sony for the amount of $3.4 billion. And Sony then
hired two producers. In 1990, Sony ended up paying hundreds of millions of dollars, and bought from
Time Warner the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio hence ending the the Burbank Studios
partnership. In 1997, Columbia Pictures was ranked as the highest-grossing movie studio in the
United States with a gross of $1.256 billion. In 1998, Columbia and TriStar merged to form the
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.
The Columbia Pictures logo, featuring a woman carrying a torch and wearing a drape has gone
through five major changes. It has mostly been compared to the Statue of Liberty, which was
actually an inspiration to the Columbia Pictures logo. The parent of Columbia pictures is known as
Sony pictures entertainment.
3. COLUMBIA PICTURES MOVIES
Comedy /Drama/romance genre
Julie & Julia is a American
2009 comedy-drama film written and
directed by Nora Ephron and the
production company was Columbia
pictures.
4. Action/thriller genre
The Tourist is a 2010 American romantic thriller
film written and directed by Donnersmarck.
Adventure /sci-fi genre
Total Recall is a 2012 action/thriller film
directed by Len Wiseman.
Biography, Drama, Family Genre
5. Miracles from Heaven is a 2016
American Christian drama film directed by Patricia
Riggen and written by Randy Brown.
