Columbia Pictures

American film production and distribution company
Organization film_production_company Q186941
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Columbia Pictures

Summary

Columbia Pictures is a film production company[1]. It ranks in the top 0.94% of film_production_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,556 views/month, #6 of 640).[2]

Key Facts

  • Columbia Pictures is in the country of United States[3].
  • Columbia Pictures's instance of is recorded as film production company[4].
  • Columbia Pictures's instance of is recorded as film distributor[5].
  • Columbia Pictures's founder is recorded as Harry Cohn[6].
  • Columbia Pictures's founder is recorded as Joe Brandt[7].
  • Columbia Pictures's founder is recorded as Jack Cohn[8].
  • Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony Pictures[9].
  • Columbia Pictures's headquarters location is recorded as Culver City[10].
  • Columbia Pictures's headquarters location is recorded as United States[11].
  • Columbia Pictures's child organization or unit is recorded as Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion[12].
  • Columbia Pictures's child organization or unit is recorded as Gottlieb[13].
  • Columbia Pictures's Commons category is recorded as Columbia Pictures[14].
  • Columbia Pictures's industry is recorded as film production[15].
  • 1918 marks the founding of Columbia Pictures[16].
  • Columbia Pictures's location of formation is recorded as Los Angeles[17].
  • Columbia Pictures's parent organization or unit is recorded as Sony Pictures[18].
  • Columbia Pictures's official website is recorded as https://www.sonypictures.com/[19].
  • Columbia Pictures's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Columbia Pictures[20].
  • Columbia Pictures's product or material produced is recorded as film[21].
  • Columbia Pictures's replaces is recorded as CBC Film Sales Corporation[22].
  • Columbia Pictures's legal form is recorded as public company[23].
  • Columbia Pictures's owner of is recorded as Screen Gems[24].
  • Columbia Pictures's owner of is recorded as Gottlieb[25].
  • Columbia Pictures's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as NADD Wikidata project[26].
  • Columbia Pictures's has works in the collection is recorded as Australian National Maritime Museum[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Harry Cohn[6], Joe Brandt[7], and Jack Cohn[8]. 1918 marks the founding of Columbia Pictures[16]. Its location of formation is recorded as Los Angeles[17].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Culver City[10], a city in the United States[28], in United States[29] and United States[11], a sovereign state[30], in United States[31], founded in 1776[32]. Columbia Pictures's parent organization or unit is recorded as Sony Pictures[18]. Subsidiaries include Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion[12], a film production company[33], in Germany[34], headquartered in Berlin[35] and Gottlieb[13], a business[36], in United States[37], founded in 1927[38], headquartered in Chicago[39].

Industry

Columbia Pictures's industry is recorded as film production[15].

Ownership

Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony Pictures[9]. Its product or material produced is recorded as film[21].

Why It Matters

Columbia Pictures ranks in the top 0.94% of film_production_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,556 views/month, #6 of 640).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Sd5605 · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 4w ago · Lmerice · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Child organization or unit TriStar Pictures, Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, Gottlieb
    Parent org
    Inception +1918-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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