Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE) is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony.
Corporate structure
Headquartered in Culver City, California, USA, SPE is comprised of various studios and entertainment brands including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists and GSN.
Senior management team
- Michael Lynton
- Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Amy Pascal
- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Jeff Blake
- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
- Yair Landau
- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- President, Sony Pictures Digital
List of holdings
- Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE): Reported group sales in 2003 of $6.7 billion dollars.
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group: With a library of more than 4,000 films (including 12 Academy Award for Best Picture winners), as of 2004 this unit of Sony distributes about 22 films a year under its various studio brands in 67 countries. The group owns studio facilities in the United States, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Japan. In addition to the below company-owned brands, Columbia TriStar also has a contract to distribute films for independent Revolution Studios and films by MGM/UA.
- Columbia Pictures: Founded in 1924 by Harry Cohn, Sony acquired the studio in 1989 from The Coca-Cola Company for $3.4 billion.
- TriStar Pictures
- Sony Pictures Classics (SPC): Specializes in acquiring distribution rights to independent and art films as well as producing lower-budget productions geared to limited audiences.
- Screen Gems: Originally Columbia's animation division and later a popular television production company best known for TV's Bewitched and The Partridge Family, Sony revived the Screen Gems brand to develop mid-priced movies (production budget of between $20 million and $50 million) in specific genres such as science fiction, horror, black cinema and franchise films.
- Triumph Films: The label Sony uses for its low-budget or direct to video films.
- Destination Films: A "niche" motion picture company purchased by Sony in 2001.
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: Manufactures and distributes the Sony film library in DVD, video cassette, and UMD forms to global markets.
- Sony Pictures Television Group: The successor-in-interest to Columbia's television division (first Screen Gems, later Columbia Pictures Television, Coca-Cola Television, TriStar Television (A division of Columbia Pictures Television), and Columbia TriStar Television), as of 2004 the unit was producing 60 titles for various television outlets globally. Contains a library that includes more than 35,000 episodes of more than 270 television series and 22,000 game show episodes under the Columbia TriStar Television brand, and the television rights to the Embassy Pictures library (including The Graduate and The Lion in Winter) and also the owner of the television brand Embassy Television, this is the television studio behind such popular series as Seinfeld, King of Queens, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.
- Merv Griffin Entertainment: Founded in 1964 by Merv Griffin as Merv Griffin Productions. He sold his company to The Coca-Cola Company in 1986 as Merv Griffin Enterprises. It is now a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment since 1991.
- Barry & Enright Productions
- Chuck Barris Productions
- Bob Stewart Productions
- Sony Pictures Television International: Formed in 1994 as the worldwide television distribution arm for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Formerly known as Columbia TriStar International Television from 1994-2002.
- Sony Pictures Consumer Products
- Sony Pictures Digital
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
- Sony Pictures Animation
- Sony Online Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Digital Networks
- SPiN
- SoapCity
- Screenblast
- Advanced Platform Group APG
- The Wireless Services Group
- Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group: With a library of more than 4,000 films (including 12 Academy Award for Best Picture winners), as of 2004 this unit of Sony distributes about 22 films a year under its various studio brands in 67 countries. The group owns studio facilities in the United States, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Japan. In addition to the below company-owned brands, Columbia TriStar also has a contract to distribute films for independent Revolution Studios and films by MGM/UA.
- Sony Pictures Studios: The actual physical buildings, land and movie-making equipment properties in Culver City, California. Includes 22 sound stages, ranging in size from 7,600 to 43,000 square feet (700 to 4,000 m²)
- Sony Pictures Studios Post Production Facilities
- Worldwide Product Fulfillment
- Game Show Network: (joint venture with Liberty Media)
- Movielink: (joint venture with MGM, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros.)
- Sony Pictures Studios: The actual physical buildings, land and movie-making equipment properties in Culver City, California. Includes 22 sound stages, ranging in size from 7,600 to 43,000 square feet (700 to 4,000 m²)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.: Sony (in partnership with Comcast and several private equity firms) acquired the legendary Hollywood studio in a deal finalized on April 8. 2005.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc.
- United Artists Corporation: MGM's sister specialty studio also acquired by the Comcast/Sony partnership.
- Orion Pictures Corporation: In-name-only unit of MGM, its library also now part of the Comcast/Sony acquisition.
- Filmways, Inc.
- American International Pictures
- Heatter-Quigley Productions
- Streamline Pictures: In-name-only anime-dubbing unit of Orion.
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company: Founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. in 1979. It is also part of the Comcast/Sony partnership. Also known as Samuel Goldwyn Films and G2 Films.
- Motion Picture Corporation of America
- MGM Television: MGM's television division established in 1955. MGM Television owns shows from United Artists Television, Orion Television, Filmways Television, American International Television, Samuel Goldwyn Television, Heatter-Quigley Productions, and post-1986 shows by MGM/UA.
- MGM Networks
- MGM Worldwide Television: MGM's global television arm of MGM Television established in 1996
- MGM Home Entertainment: Manufactures and distributes the MGM film library for DVD and video cassette.
- MGM Interactive
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.: Sony (in partnership with Comcast and several private equity firms) acquired the legendary Hollywood studio in a deal finalized on April 8. 2005.