Sony Pictures (1987-2009, 2018-present)
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California as one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, it encompasses Sony's motion picture, television production and distribution units. Its sales in the fiscal year 2020 (April 2020 – March 2021) was reported to be $7.16 billion.
Movies/films produced
Columbia Pictures (before the Sony acquisition)
- It Happened One Night
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- The Lady from Shanghai
- Gilda
- Born Yesterday
- From Here to Eternity
- On the Waterfront
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- A Man for All Seasons
- Easy Rider
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Tootsie
- Ghostbusters
- The Big Heat
- Bell, Book and Candle
- Picnic
- The Caine Mutiny
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Funny Girl
- The China Syndrome
- Stripes
- Starman
Sony Pictures
- Men in Black
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 2
- The Da Vinci Code
- Casino Royale
- Spider-Man 3
- Hancock
- Quantum of Solace
- 2012
- The Social Network
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Skyfall
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Spectre
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
- Venom
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Jumanji: The Next Level
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Uncharted
- Morbius
- Bullet Train
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Equalizer
- Gran Turismo
- Insidious: The Red Door
- No Hard Feelings
- Napoleon
- Dumb Money
- The Garfield Movie
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Haikyuu!! The Dumpster Battle
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die
- Hijack 1971
- Madame Web
- Amélie
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Run Lola Run
- The Book of Clarence
- They Listen
- Kraven the Hunter
- Venom: The Last Dance
- Wolfs
- Here
- Afraid
- It Ends with Us
- The Forge
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
- untitled The Legend of Zelda film (in development)
Why They Make Believe
- Most of their franchises are surprisingly great such as the The Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man, Jumanji, Stuart Little, Universal Soldier, Men in Black, Zombieland, Underworld, Sony's Spider-Man Universe, Robert Langdon, Sniper, Hotel Transylvania, Bad Boys, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Charlie's Angels.
- Their main studios, Columbia Pictures and Tristar Pictures, are great like they have always been.
- They successfully revived Screen Gems and turned it into a movie studio.
- They have good acting in most of their movies.
- The music in their movies is very good, especially since Sony is well-loved for their songs.
- Most of the characters in their movies are very memorable.
- Their animation division, Sony Pictures Animation, is very good.
- Their Home Entertainment logo from 2005 is beautiful, awesome, and much more well-received than its television counterpart.
- Just like Warner Bros., they are a huge and powerful entertainment company outside movies, producing video games, television, comic books, music, and much more.
- It is one of the most successful American film studios along with Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount and Universal.
- Before the early 2010s and after the late-2010s, Sony actually preferrs quality over quantity so they could focus on making their films good, and they have been shown learning from their mistakes and improving, getting them back on track.
- When Sony products are placed into the movies, it's usually subtle and doesn't effect the plot.
Bad Qualities
Like Sega, Sony was notorious for making bad decisions that led to many mistakes. They were most notably infamous for prioritizing quantity over quality in the early to mid-2010s. Because of this, Sony gained notoriety on its separate page.