Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has worked as a U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese company Sony in the production and distribution of television and film content. The company is based in Culver City, California.

The origin of the company was strongly influenced by the predecessor companies and their owners. The discontinuous course of business in the 1980s increasingly unsettled investors of the former parent company of Columbia Pictures (founded in 1924) and Tri - Star Pictures (founded in 1982/1983 ) - The Coca -Cola Company outsourced then the movie business in a subsidiary from. By outsourcing, and merging the two studios, from which it was hoped that various savings, created in 1987 Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., the direct forerunner of SPE.

Sony Corporation of America ( SCA) took over in 1989, the film and television companies of The Coca -Cola Company and first led Columbia and Tri-Star as a separate company on. Sony spared no expense after the takeover and Warner Bros. bought at a very high price from two production manager who had just completed new long-term contract with Warner. Their balance sheet fell, however, by growing and led to a profound restructuring of the company, which amounted to a restart.

1991 Sony Pictures Entertainment was lifted out of the baptism. Columbia TriStar and (which lost the hyphen from the name ) were finally merged and functionally separated: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group took over the movie business, Columbia TriStar Television Group, the television business. The former (subsidiary) companies have since only managed as brands that have been established in the following years alone profiles:

The name Sony Pictures was - outside of Japan and official documents - for a long time largely into disuse. Biggest exception since 1992, the SPE Arthaus label Sony Pictures Classics in the United States. Only in 2002 was known by the renaming of Columbia TriStar Television, a larger line of business under the name "Sony". This development will be continued since 2004, even if she persists partially hardly. Instead of the sometimes very inconsistent names, operate the global sales offices and the U.S. Kinovertriebsarm under the single name of Sony Pictures Releasing. The missions of the home entertainment division have taken the same step and operate under the name of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It is unclear whether the label Columbia Pictures will also be replaced permanently by the label Sony Pictures.

Since 8 April 2005 Following the acquisition of Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer by Sony Pictures (20 %) and cable operator Comcast (20%) led consortium also includes the following former company as a label to SPE:

  • Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM)
  • United Artists (UA)
  • Orion Pictures Corporation American International Pictures (AIP )
  • Filmways, Inc.

In addition, the home entertainment distribution MGM Home Entertainment, and the television production / distribution MGM Television and various pay-TV channels. Since a total of six consortium partners MGM share, the company is composed of financial legal reasons further. Four of the companies are pure investment companies, which Sony Pictures has the operational management of MGM's get transferred and the individual businesses with their own lines of business brings together surgically. Comcast, however, has the involvement access to MGM's film library, which is recycled via Comcast's Pay -Per-View channels.

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