Columbia Pictures
American film production and distribution company
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Summary
Columbia Pictures is a film production company[1]. It ranks in the top 0.94% of film production company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,683 views/month, #6 of 640).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: United States[3]
- Instance of: film distributor[4]
- Founder: Harry Cohn[5], Joe Brandt[6], Jack Cohn[7]
- Owned by: Sony Pictures[8]
- Headquarters location: Culver City[9], United States[10]
- Child organization or unit: Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion[11], Gottlieb[12]
- Commons category: Columbia Pictures[13]
- Industry: film production[14]
- Inception: 1918[15]
- Location of formation: Los Angeles[16]
- Parent organization or unit: Sony Pictures[17]
- Official website: https://www.sonypictures.com/[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Columbia Pictures[19]
- Product or material produced: film[20]
- Replaces: CBC Film Sales Corporation[21]
- Legal form: public company[22]
- Owner of: Screen Gems[23], Gottlieb[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: NADD Wikidata project[25]
- Has works in the collection: Australian National Maritime Museum[26], Eye Filmmuseum[27]
- P14536: 390938[28]
- P14541: Iu8bU[29]
- P14750: 9B9A-E920-BDC5-D34B-E009[30]
Why It Matters
Columbia Pictures has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]