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TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, [1] part of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is a corporate sibling of fellow Sony studio, Columbia Pictures.
The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations. It was launched in 1998 by integrating the businesses of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and TriStar Pictures, Inc. [1]
The company shares its name and logo with the current TriStar Pictures distribution label of Sony Pictures, [4] under which TriStar Productions' four films per year will be released joining the other titles released from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. [2] [5] The television programming however, will be produced for Sony Pictures ...
Tri-Star Pictures: co-production with Gordon Company: N/A $12.1 million 1990s ... theme music later served as basis for its own logo $30 million $150.1 million
TriStar Pictures — an American film studio founded in 1982 that has division of Sony Pictures Entertainment since 1989 and is the sister studio of Columbia Pictures;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
Coca-Cola, however, retained the Embassy Pictures name, logo, and trademark. HBO was the last partner to drop out of the Tri-Star venture and sold its shares to Columbia [58] Tri-Star later expanded into the television business with its new Tri-Star Television division. The same year, Columbia recruited British producer David Puttnam to head ...
TAV, however, was not included in the deal. The company later became part of Columbia Pictures Entertainment on December 21, 1987, [3] and was sold to Sony Corporation along with CPE's other companies on November 8, 1989. Merv Griffin Enterprises was folded into Columbia TriStar Television (now Sony Pictures Television) on June 4, 1994.