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Sony Pictures
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American television and film studio
Sony Pictures is an American company that produces and distributes television shows and movies. It matters because it's one of the major studios that creates and releases entertainment content that reaches audiences worldwide.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film production company
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Sony Group
- Headquarters
- Culver City
- Owned by
- Sony Group
- Parent organization
- Sony Corporation of America
- Subsidiary
- TriStar Pictures
- Industry
- entertainment
- Legal form
- public company
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.net
- Image
- Sony Pictures Entertainment (51637461343).jpg
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- owner of
- Stage 6 Films
- Commons category
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- topic's main category
- Category:Sony Pictures Entertainment
- inception
- 1991-08-07
- product or material produced
- film
- social media followers
- 7650000
- name
- ソニー・ピクチャーズ エンタテインメント・インク
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Encyclopedic overview
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., commonly referred to as Sony Pictures and abbreviated as SPE, is a Japanese-owned American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment company that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. It was founded on December 18, 1987 as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. from the spinoff of the Coca-Cola Company's entertainment business sector and merger with Tri-Star Pictures, Inc., with Coca-Cola initially retaining 80% in the resulting entity before reducing its stake to 49% in January 1988. The studio was wholly acquired by Sony in 1989 and renamed as SPE in 1991.
Based at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California, as one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, it encompasses Sony's motion picture, television production and distribution units. Sony Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
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