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TriStar Pictures

American film production company
Organization film_production_company Q651454
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Summary

TriStar Pictures is a film production company[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of film production company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,471 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Founder: Victor A. Kaufman[4]
  • Owned by: Sony Group[5]
  • Headquarters location: Culver City[6]
  • Child organization or unit: Carolco Pictures[7]
  • Inception: 1982[8]
  • Parent organization or unit: Sony Pictures[9], National Amusements[10]
  • Official website: https://sonypictures.com[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:TriStar Pictures[12]
  • Product or material produced: film[13]
  • Legal form: subsidiary company[14]

Product Details

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  • Country: US[15]

  • Began / founded: 1982[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1f08ec8f-f1c0-47fb-b365-8b1d7adfadd2[17]

Why It Matters

TriStar Pictures has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Parent organization or unit → Sony Pictures, CBS, Columbia Pictures +1
    Country → United States
    Country → —
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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