Columbia Pictures is a major film studio owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which itself is owned by Sony Corporation. Originally founded in 1918, Columbia Pictures helped pioneer the modern Hollywood studio system and was one of the "Big Six" major studios in Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, Columbia Pictures and its parent and sister companies, including TriStar Pictures, produce a wide variety of films that have found significant box office success, such as the Spider-Man and Pink Panther franchises.

1. Institution research
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2. Colombia Pictures
• Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production
and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a
division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese
conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film studios 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. Sony
• Sony is the conglomerate behind Sony Pictures Entertainment. Its major
studio subsidiary is Columbia Pictures. The company is also friendly to
independent producers with its own art-house division that is called Sony
Pictures Classics. The company, through its distribution subsidiary called
Screen Gems, also backs genre and B movie producers. With a 17 percent
share of the entire US and Canadian markets, Sony is considered as the
biggest studio these days. It also owns companies and prominent film brands
like Tri Star Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Destination Films, Triumph
Films, Stage 6 Films and Affirm Films

4. Founded
• The studio, originally founded in 1918 as "Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales" by
brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack's best friend Joe Brandt, released its
first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in
1924 and went public two years later. The name is derived from "Columbia",
a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studio's
logo.

5. Subsidiary companies
• Colombia research is part of Sony pictures entertainment ,which is then
owned by the top company Sony corporate of America.
• Other companies that are owned by sony are:
• Tri star pictures
• Sony pictures animations
• Destination films
• Triumph films

6. Success
• Spiderman, the grudge, the pink panther and many more
• Spiderman reached number 10 in top 100 films of all time (domestic gross)
• In 2002, Colombia broke the record for the biggest theatrical gross with a
tally of $1.575 billion, this gross was by blockbusters such as Spiderman,
Man in black II.

8. Colombia pictures entertainment
• The volatile film business made Coke shareholders nervous, and following the box-office
failure Ishtar, Coke spun off its entertainment holdings on December 21, 1987 and sold it to
Tri-Star Pictures for $3.1 billion, also creating Columbia/Tri-Star by merging Columbia and
Tri-Star. Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. was renamed to Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
(CPE), with Coke owning 49% of the company. Both studios continued to produce and
distribute films under their separate names. Puttnam was succeeded by Dawn Steel, the first
woman to run a Hollywood motion picture studio. Other small-scale, "boutique" entities
were created: Nelson Entertainment, a joint venture with British and Canadian partners,
Triumph Films, jointly owned with French studio Gaumont, and which is now a low-budget
label, and Castle Rock Entertainment. On January 4, 1988, Columbia/Embassy Television
and Tri-Star Television were formed into the new Columbia Pictures Television and
Embassy Communications was renamed to ELP Communications. On April 13, 1988,
CPE spun off Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. as a reformed company of the Tri-Star studio.