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 Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, United States | |
| Formerly | Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (1987–1991) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | December 18, 1987 |
| Founder | Victor Kaufman [1] |
| Headquarters | Poitier Building 10202 West Washington Boulevard, , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tony Vinciquerra (Chairman) Ravi Ahuja (President and CEO) |
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| Revenue | US$10,14 billion (FY2022) |
| US$894 million (FY2022) | |
Number of employees | 9,100 (2023) |
| Parent | Sony Corporation of America (1989–2012) Sony Entertainment (2012–present) |
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| Subsidiaries | See § Subsidiaries |
| Website | sonypictures |
| Footnotes / references [2][3] | |
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.[4][5]
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. All of SPE's divisions are members of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).[6] Sony's film franchises include The Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, Jumanji, Men in Black, Spider-Man, and Sony's Spider Man universe.
- ^ HOLLYWOOD'S NEWEST HEAVYWEIGHT: Victor A. Kaufman; Taking Tri-Star Into the Big Time Geraldine Fabrikant nytimes.com September 6, 1987. Retrieved on November 4, 2024
- ^ Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.: Private Company Information
- ^ "Supplemental Information for the Consolidated Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter Ended March 31, 2018" (PDF). Tokyo, Japan: Sony Corporation. April 27, 2018. p. 10. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
- ^ "About Sony Pictures". Sony Pictures Entertainment. Archived from the original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
- ^ Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is a wholly owned fifth-tier subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It is directly owned by Sony Film Holding Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. (FY2015 Securities Report (in Japanese), Sony Corporation)
- ^ "Who We Are". MPA.