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|founded=January 10, 1924 ({{age|1924|1|10}} years ago) | |founded=January 10, 1924 ({{age|1924|1|10}} years ago) | ||
|formerly= Cohn-Brandt-Cohn<br>Film Sales Corporation | |formerly= Cohn-Brandt-Cohn<br>Film Sales Corporation | ||
|founder= | |founder={{unbulleted list|{{w|Harry Cohn}}|{{w|Joe Brandt}}|{{w|Jack Cohn}}}} | ||
{{unbulleted list|{{w|Harry Cohn}}|{{w|Joe Brandt}}|{{w|Jack Cohn}}}} | |key people=Sanford Panitch (president) | ||
|subsidiaries= ''See [[:Category:Columbia Pictures|Category:Columbia<br>Pictures]]'' | |subsidiaries=''See [[:Category:Columbia Pictures|Category:Columbia<br>Pictures]]'' | ||
|parent= | |parent=Independent <br>(privately held)<br>(1918-1926)<br>Independent<br>(publicly traded)<br>(1926-1982)<br>The Coca-Cola<br>Company<br> (1982-1987)<br>Columbia Pictures<br>Entertainment, Inc.<br>(1987-1989)<br>Sony Corporation<br>(1989-) | ||
Independent <br>(privately held)<br>(1918-1926)<br>Independent<br>(publicly traded)<br>(1926-1982)<br>The Coca-Cola<br>Company<br> (1982-1987)<br>Columbia Pictures<br>Entertainment, Inc.<br>(1987-1989)<br>Sony Corporation<br>(1989-) | |||
|country=[[:Category:United States|United States]] | |country=[[:Category:United States|United States]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.''' | '''Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.''' is an American film studio and production company owned by the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]], and one of the major American film studios. Since 1993, it has been headquartered at Sony Pictures Studios (formerly [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM Studios]] and the [[Lorimar Television|former Lorimar's studios]]) in Culver City, California. | ||
Columbia Pictures was originally founded as "Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales" in 1918 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Jack's friend Joe Brandt. Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. Many of the studio's early productions were low-budget affairs; the start-up CBC leased space in a poverty row studio on Hollywood's Gower Street. Among Hollywood's elite, CBC's reputation led some to joke that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage". | Columbia Pictures was originally founded as "Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales" in 1918 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Jack's friend Joe Brandt. Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. Many of the studio's early productions were low-budget affairs; the start-up CBC leased space in a poverty row studio on Hollywood's Gower Street. Among Hollywood's elite, CBC's reputation led some to joke that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage". | ||