TriStar Pictures (spelled Tri-Star until 1991) is a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures. Image File history File links TriStar Pictures This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Columbia Pictures logo, used only from 1981-1993 Columbia Pictures, now Columbia TriStar Pictures after their merger with the former TriStar Entertainment in 1998, is a film production company, and part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ... Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is the television and film production unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony. ...

The idea for TriStar came about in 1982 when Columbia (then a subsidiary of Coca-Cola), HBO, and CBS, decided to pool resources to split the ever-growing costs of making movies. Their first release, in 1983, was The Natural. Their second movie was a flop remake of the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, Where the Boys Are. The Coca-Cola Companys headquarters building in Atlanta, GA. The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is an international beverage and food manufacturer whose headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America. ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Where the Boys Are is a 1960 American motion picture comedy about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ...

In 1989, all of Coke's entertainment holdings were owned by Sony, who merged Columbia and TriStar, but continued to use the separate names. According to this page, TriStar was relaunched in 2004 as a marketing and acquisitions unit that will have a "particular emphasis on genre films".

Notable films

1980s

• The Natural (1983)
• Where the Boys Are (1984)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• Birdy (1984)
• Places in the Heart (1984)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
• Short Circuit (1986, plus sequel in 1988)
• About Last Night... (1986)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• The Blob (1988, remake of 1958 film)
• The Seventh Sign (1988)
• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• Look Who's Talking (1989, plus two sequels in 1990 and 1993)

The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. ... Where the Boys Are is a 1960 American motion picture comedy about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ... The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of popular live-action musical feature films starring Jim Hensons Muppets. ... Birdy is a movie directed by Alan Parker staring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, released in 1984. ... Places in the Heart is a 1984 film which tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man. ... Lifeforce is a science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper, based on the book, Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson and screenplay by Dan OBannon. ... For alternate meanings see Short circuit (disambiguation) A short circuit (sometimes known as simply a short) is a fault whereby electricity moves through a circuit in an unintended path, usually due to a connection forming where none was expected. ... Classical labyrinth Another labyrinth Walking the famous labyrinth within the Chartres Cathedral. ... For other meanings of this term, see Blob A film poster for The Blob The Blob is a American science-fiction movie from 1958 that has risen to cult status partly because it starred Steve McQueen before he became famous, and partly because it almost perfectly exemplifies the era of... The Seventh Sign is a film from 1988 directed by Carl Schultz. ... Steel Magnolias is a 1989 movie. ... Look Whos Talking is a 1989 comedy film which stars John Travolta (James Ubriacco) and Kirstie Alley (Mollie). ...

1990s

• Avalon (1990)
• Total Recall (1990, distribution only)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, distribution only)
• Hook (1991)
• Basic Instinct (1992, distribution only)
• Chaplin (1992, distribution only)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Rudy (1993)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
• Legends of the Fall (1994)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• The Fan (1996)
• Sunset Park (1996)
• Matilda (1996)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
• Godzilla (1998)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• Crazy in Alabama (1999)
• Jakob the Liar (1999)

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2000s

• Godzilla 2000 (2000)
• Metropolis (2001) (subtitled)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Oliver Twist (2005)