TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures, Inc. ( Tri-Star until 1991 ) is an American film production company, part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, and owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment . It was founded in 1982.
TriStar was revived as a marketing and acquisition unit in 2004 "to have a special emphasis on genre films".
history
The concept for TriStar Pictures was the brainchild of Victor Kaufman, a senior executive at Columbia Pictures (then a subsidiary of Coca-Cola ). It convinced studios HBO and CBS to pool resources to reduce the ever-growing cost of making films by creating a new joint venture in 1982. On May 16, 1983, it was introduced under the name Tri-Star Pictures (when the new company was formed it did not have an official name and the press used the code name Nova , but the name could not be retained because it was already was the title for the PBS science series). It was the first major Hollywood studio after World War II , as RKO Pictures had been founded more than 50 years earlier.
CBS left the company in 1985 but still released some TriStar films on video until at least 1992. In 1986, HBO sold half of its stake in Tri-Star to Columbia Pictures . That same year, Tri-Star entered the television business through Tri-Star Television in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions and Witt Thomas Harris Productions. A television distribution company called TeleVentures was also created for this purpose.
logo
The company's logo, a Pegasus (either static or flying over the screen), was introduced in 1984 and has become something of a cultural icon. Numerous parodies developed, for example in the animated television series Family Guy . The second logo was designed by Alan Reingold.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sony Pictures - Corporate Fact Sheet . Sony Pictures Entertainment . Archived from the original on March 9, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2011: "The label will have a particular emphasis on genre films"
Coordinates: 34 ° 1 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 118 ° 24 ′ 5.6 ″ W.