Watch: Columbia Photos Celebrates 100 Years of Movie in Video Tribute
by Alex Billington
December 21, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“It is showtime, of us!” Columbia Photos celebrated its one centesimal birthday in 2024. Because the 12 months involves an finish, Sony Photos (who now owns Columbia) launched a tribute video celebrating the film studios’ 100 years. “For our one centesimal birthday, we have a good time you.” The video options numerous filmmakers, actors, and lots of different employees at Columbia speaking about why they love Columbia motion pictures, a few of their favourite motion pictures and moments, and the legacy of the studio. Disney and Warner Bros celebrated their one centesimal birthday final 12 months, as each of those studios have been based in 1923. Columbia Photos, a minimum of this iconic Hollywood title, was created in 1924 by Harry & Jack Cohn and Joe Brandt (initially referred to as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn CBC Movie Gross sales Company till they modified this title in Jan 1924). Columbia’s most commercially profitable franchises embody Spider-Man, Jumanji, Dangerous Boys, Males in Black, The Karate Child, Robert Langdon, & Ghostbusters, and the studio’s highest-grossing film worldwide is Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling incomes $1.92 billion. The final time they gained Greatest Image was for 1987’s The Final Emperor. Take pleasure in this warm-hearted tribute under. For those who’re in search of extra to observe, they launched this live-stream with 100 trailers from 100 years proper right here.
“That woman has been holding up that lamp for an excellent very long time…” “Effectively completed, woman.” Ha ha – sure certainly. That woman is definitely Girl Columbia or Miss Columbia – the unique feminine nationwide personification of the US. The enduring film studio is formally 100 years outdated in keeping with their title change. By way of Wiki: On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their enterprise associate Joe Brandt based the studio as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Movie Gross sales Company. It adopted the Columbia Photos title on January 10, 1924 (working as Columbia Photos Company till December 23, 1968) went public two years later and finally started to make use of the picture of Columbia, the feminine personification of the US, as its emblem. Their large break got here within the late Twenties after they partnered with filmmaker Frank Capra and began making screwball comedies – their greatest early hits have been The Three Stooges and It Occurred One Evening (in 1934). Sony Photos purchased them in 1991 although they nonetheless run it as Columbia anyway. The studio has been situated on the previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (at the moment often known as the Sony Photos Studios) lot in Culver Metropolis, California since 1990. For updates and a glance again at their 100 years, go to the celebration web site right here.
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