Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
List of Genres:
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Romantic Comedy, Disaster
History
The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group was launched in 1998 as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, as a current division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, owned by Sony. It also has many of Sony Pictures's current motion picture divisions as part of it. Its divisions at that time were Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Sony Pictures Releasing.
On December 8, 1998, SPE resurrected its former animation and television division Screen Gems as a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.[2]
In 2002, Columbia TriStar Television was renamed as Sony Pictures Television. The last two remaining companies, with the "Columbia TriStar" brand in its name, were Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, and the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment became Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2004 and Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group became the only subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment that used the "Columbia TriStar" brand name in its name.
Top 10 Grossing Films Produced
Spider-Man 2002 for $404 million
Spider-Man 2 2004 for $374 million
Spider-Man 3 2007 for $337 million
Skyfall 2012 for $304 million
The Amazing Spider-Man 2012for $262 million
Men In Black 1997 for $251 million
Ghostbusters 1984 for $229 million
Hancock 2008 for $228 million
The Da Vinci Code 2006 for $218 million
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 for $205 million
Parent Company
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Holdings
Columbia Pictures
TriStar Pictures
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Animation
Screen Gems
TriStar Productions
Sony Pictures
Imageworks
Sony Pictures
Worldwide Acquisitions
Top Grossing in the last decade:
2016 – Ghostbusters $128 million
2015 – Spectre $197 million
2014 – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $203 million
2013 – Grown Ups 2 $134 million
2012 – Skyfall $291 million
2011 – The Smurfs $143 million
2010 – The Karate Kid $177 million
2009 – 2012 $162 million
2008 – Hancock $228 million
2007 – Spider-Man 3 $337 million
2006 – The Da Vinci Code $218 million
2005 – Hitch $179 million
Major executives:
Michael Lynton – Chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment
Tom Rothman – Chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group