Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures is een Amerikaans filmproductiemaatschappij en onderdeel van de Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (sinds de fusie met TriStar Pictures uit 1998, nadat ze beide overgenomen waren door Sony), dat weer een onderdeel is van de entertainmentdivisie van de Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Geschiedenis

Columbia Pictures is opgericht in 1920 als de CBC Sales Film Corporation door Harry Cohn, Joe Brandt en Jack Cohn. Door dat The Coca-Cola Company als grootaandeelhouder zich in 1989 meer op haar kernactiviteiten ging richten verkocht men deze entertainmenttak aan Sony Corporation. Sindsdien is Columbia Pictures een onderdeel van Sony Pictures Entertainment, via de Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.

Bekende films

1930-39

• Platinum Blonde (1931)
• Twentieth Century (1934)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

1940-49

• You Were Never Lovelier (1941)
• You'll Never Get Rich (1942)
• My Sister Eileen (1942)
• Cover Girl (1944)
• Gilda (1946)
• The Jolson Story (1946)
• All the King's Men (1949)

1950-59

• Are we there yet (1950)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• Matilda (1954)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Picnic (1955)
• My Sister Eileen (1955)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Pal Joey (1957)
• Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)
• Gidget (1959)
• Stuart Little (1951)

1960-69

• The Guns of Navarone (1961)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• The Collector (1965)
• Lord Jim (1965)
• Born Free (1966)
• Georgy Girl (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Oliver! (1968)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• Easy Rider (1969)

1970-79

• I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• Brian's Song (1971) (als Screen Gems)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• 1776 (1972)
• Butterflies Are Free (1972)
• Godspell (1973)
• Lost Horizon (1973)
• The Way We Were (1973)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
• Funny Lady (1975)
• Shampoo (1975)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Thank God It's Friday (1978)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• All That Jazz (1979) (co-productie met 20th Century Fox)

1980-89

• The Blue Lagoon (1980)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• Stripes (1981)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Annie (1982, plus made-for-TV sequel in 1999)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Gandhi (1982)
• The Big Chill (1983)
• Blue Thunder (1983)
• Christine (1983)
• The Dresser (1983)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Karate Kid (1984) and its first two sequels (1986) and (1989)
• Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
• Starman (1984)
• Agnes of God (1985)
• St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
• Stand by Me (1986)
• Ishtar (1987)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• Roxanne (1987)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• The Big Blue (Le Gran Bleu) (1988)
• My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)

1990-99

• Awakenings (1990)
• The Prince of Tides (1991)
• Boyz N the Hood (1991)
• My Girl (1991)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• Little Women (1994)
• My Girl II (1994)
• First Knight (1995)
• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) (co-productie met Paramount Pictures)
• The Cable Guy (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Air Force One (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• Booty Call (1997)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• Stuart Little (1999)

2000-heden

• What Planet Are You From? (2000)
• Charlie's Angels (2000)
• Hollow Man (2000)
• The Patriot (2000)
• America's Sweethearts (2001)
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• Men in Black II (2002)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• XXX (2002)
• Daddy Day Care (2003)
• Gigli (2003)
• S.W.A.T. (2003)
• Something's Gotta Give (2003) (co-productie met Warner Bros.).
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• White Chicks (2004)
• Guess Who (2005)
• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005) (co-productie met TriStar Pictures).
• Hitch (2005)
• Bewitched (2005)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Externe links

• Sony Pictures-website