Columbia Pictures

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., also referred to as Columbia Pictures, is an American film production and distribution label of Sony Pictures. It is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures, which is one of the major film studios and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Columbia Pictures is one of the leading film studios in the world, and was one of the so-called "Little Three" among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's "Golden Age". On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their best friend and business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. The studio was acquired by the Coca...

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