('''SPE''', Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.) is the Television and Film production/distribution unit of Japan -based corporate giant Sony .
Headquartered in Culver City, California , SPE is comprised of various studios and entertainment brands including Columbia TriStar Pictures , MGM , United Artists and GSN .
- Michael Lynton
- --- Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Amy Pascal
- --- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- --- Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Jeff Blake
- --- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- --- Chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
- Yair Landau
- --- Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- --- President, Sony Pictures Digital
- Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE): Reported group sales in 2003 of $6.7 billion Dollars .
- --- winners), as of 2004 this unit of Sony distributes about 22 films a year under its various studio brands in 67 countries. The group owns studio facilites in the United States , Hong Kong , Madrid , Mexico , the United Kingdom , Brazil and Japan. In addition to the below company-owned brands, Columbia TriStar also has a contract to distribute films for independent Revolution Studios .
-- by Harry Cohn , Sony acquired the studio in 1989 from The Coca-Cola Company for $3.4 billion.
- TriStar Pictures
-- and Art Film s as well as producing lower-budget productions geared to limited audiences.
-- '' and '' The Partridge Family '', Sony revived the Screen Gems brand to develop mid-priced movies (production budget of between $20 million and $50 million) in specific genres such as Science Fiction , Horror , Black Cinema and Franchise Film s.
-- films.
-- Destination Films : A "niche" motion picture company purchased by Sony in 2001.
- --- and several investment firms) acquired the legendary Hollywood studio in a deal finalized on April 8 . 2005 .
-- United Artists : MGM's sister specialty studio also acquired by the Comcast/Sony partnership.
-- Soul Cinema : A subsidiary of MGM launched in fall 2004 distributing black cinema movies on DVD.
-- Orion Pictures : In-name-only unit of MGM, its library also now part of the Comcast/Sony acquisition.
- Filmways, Inc.
- American International Pictures
- Heatter-Quigley Productions
- Streamline Pictures : In-name-only anime-dubbing unit of Orion.
-- The Samuel Goldwyn Company : Founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. in 1979. It is also part of the Comcast/Sony partnership. Also known as Samuel Goldwyn Films and G2 Films.
-- Motion Picture Corporation Of America
-- , Orion Television, Filmways Television, American International Television, Samuel Goldwyn Television, Heatter-Quigley Productions, and post-1986 shows by MGM/UA.
- MGM Networks
- MGM Worldwide Television : MGM's global television arm of MGM Television established in 1996
-- and Video Cassette .
- ---, Video Cassette , and UMD forms to global markets.
- --- to Columbia's television division (first Screen Gems, later Columbia Pictures Television , Coca-Cola Television, TriStar Television (A division of Columbia Pictures Television), and Columbia TriStar Television ), as of 2004 the unit was producing 60 titles for various television outlets globally. Contains a library that includes more than 35,000 episodes of more than 270 Television Series and 22,000 game show episodes under the Columbia TriStar Television brand, and the television rights to the Embassy Pictures library (including '' The Graduate '' and '' The Lion In Winter ''), this is the television studio behind such popular series as '' Seinfeld '', '' King Of Queens '', '' Days Of Our Lives '' and '' The Young And The Restless ''.
-- . He sold his company to Coca-Cola Television in 1986. It is now a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment since 1991.
-- Barry & Enright Productions
-- Chuck Barris Productions
-- Bob Stewart Productions
- --- Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group
-- from 1994-2002.
- Sony Entertainment Television
- Animax Entertainment
- AXN
- ---Sony Pictures Consumer Products
- --- Sony Pictures Digital
-- Sony Pictures Imageworks
-- Sony Pictures Animation
- Adelaide Productions
-- Sony Online Entertainment
-- Sony Pictures Digital Networks
- SPiN
- SoapCity
- Screenblast
- Advanced Platform Group APG
- The Wireless Services Group
- --- Sony Pictures Studios : The actual physical buildings, land and movie-making equipment properties in Culver City, California. Includes 22 sound stages, ranging in size from 7,600 to 43,000 square feet (700 to 4,000 m²)
-- Sony Pictures Studios Post Production Facilities
-- Worldwide Product Fulfillment
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- --- , Paramount Pictures , Universal Studios , and Warner Bros. )''
- [http://www.sonypictures.com/ Official website]
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