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| Columbia Pictures | |||||||
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| Current Name | Columbia Pictures | ||||||
| Role | Film Studio, Production Company | ||||||
| Predecessor(s) | CBC Film Sales Corporation | ||||||
| Founded | June 19, 1918 (as CBC Film Sales Corporation) January 10, 1924 (as Columbia Pictures) | ||||||
| Key Figure(s) | Harry Cohn (Co-Founder) Jack Cohn (Co-Founder) Joe Brandt (Co-Founder) Sanford Panitch (President) | ||||||
| Parent Company | Sony Pictures Entertainment | ||||||
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Columbia Pictures is a film studio that produced Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
History[]
It was initially founded as CBC Film Sales Corporation. It became Columbia Pictures in 1924, named after the personification of the United States.
It was initially a minor studio in Hollywood. It grew in size thanks to director Frank Capra. At the time, it was one of the "Little Three" of studios in Hollywood's Golden Age.
It currently is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios. It is the world's fifth largest major film studio.
When the Columbia logo pops up at the beginning of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse the torch lady briefly turns into a cowgirl. This is a reference to the 1956 western comedy film Cat Ballou in which the same thing happens to the Columbia logo in that movie.
Notable films include The Lion and the Lamb, Night of Terror, It Happened One Night, Crime and Punishment, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Shadow, Rio Grande, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, His Girl Friday, All the King's Men, M, Death of a Salesman, From Here to Eternity, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 1984, Seven Samurai, 3:10 to Yuma, Anatomy of a Murder, Mothra, Lawrence of Arabia, Jason and the Argonauts, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Casino Royale, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Hamlet, Macbeth, Brian's Song, Death Wish, The Stepford Wives, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Midnight Express, Kramer vs. Kramer, Stripes, Gandhi, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Fright Night, Stand by Me, The Last Emperor, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, City Slickers, A Few Good Men, Groundhog Day, The Shawshank Redemption, Desperado, The American President, Men in Black, Air Force One, Les Misérables, Erin Brockovich, Charlie's Angels, Ali, Hellboy, The Punisher, Spider-Man, Rocky Balboa, Ghost Rider, The Da Vinci Code, The Social Network, Moneyball, 21 Jump Street, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, Captain Phillips, American Hustle, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.