Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group,[1] a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.

• Founded: January 10, 1924, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Headquarters: Culver City, California, United States
• Key person: Sanford Panitch (President)
• Subsidiaries: TriStar Pictures, Ghost Corps, Triumph Films
• Parent organizations: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures
• Founders: Joe Brandt, Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn