COLUMBIA PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC.


Meaning of COLUMBIA PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC. in English

Major U.S. film studio.

It originated in 1920 when brothers Jack and Frank Capra and many other successful films, including All the King's Men (1949), From Here to Eternity (1953), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and The Last Emperor (1987). After Columbia was purchased by the {{link=Coca-Cola Co.">Coca-Cola Co. in 1982, it helped launch Tri-Star Pictures. The two studios merged in 1987 as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which was bought by Sony Corp. in 1989.

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