Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

Love was ordered urine tests under the supervision of Columbia Pictures while filming the movie, and passed all of them.

* Columbia Pictures ( some properties licensed 1945 to 1968 )

Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems ( then the television division of Columbia Pictures ).

The film was one of Columbia Pictures ' earliest successes.

Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin.

In 1934 Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make his first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks's distant cousin Carole Lombard.

Hawks followed this with the aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, again starring Cary Grant and made in 1939 for Columbia Pictures.

* Robin Ellis in the 1980 Columbia Pictures Television production The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Under Bogart's Santana Productions, which released through Columbia Pictures, Bogart starred in Knock on Any Door ( 1949 ), Tokyo Joe ( 1949 ), In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), Sirocco ( 1951 ) and Beat the Devil ( 1954 ).

Undaunted, Lewis packed up and went to Columbia Pictures, where he made several more comedies.

In 1994, the Columbia Pictures film, North featured footage of Lewis's classic movies.

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

In 1818, a group of settlers incorporated under the Smithton Land Company purchased over and established the village of Smithton near present-day downtown Columbia.

His studio property was purchased by Mascot Pictures ( later part of Republic Pictures ), and many of his former staffers found work at Columbia Pictures.

( Nunn's home can be found at the corner of Aspen and Columbia Streets ; next door is the home he purchased for the " pinheads " to study hydro-electric engineering.

Further, though neither was ever used for their intended purpose, Hatley Castle in British Columbia was purchased in 1940 by King George VI in Right of Canada to use as his home during the course of World War II, and the Emergency Government Headquarters, built in 1959 at CFS Carp and decommissioned in 1994, included a residential apartment for the sovereign or governor general in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa.

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

In January 1938, both Paramount Pictures and MGM had submitted Foster's story to the censors at the Hays Office, probably indicating that both studios had interest in the project before Columbia purchased it.

Before Liberty Media purchased 50 % of the network, GSN had unlimited access to the game shows owned by Sony Pictures subsidiary Columbia TriStar Television.

As this congregation grew ; a new site was purchased at the corner of West Columbia and Franklin Streets.

Elio Carerj purchased the Columbia portion of Pine Island ( which is in the middle of the Great Heath ) from Maurice Worcester for $ 1, 000 on August 17, 1963.

A triangular plot was purchased soon after by the Columbia Realty Company.

In the late 1920s, a group from Columbia purchased and partially developed the land.

Lexington was not a marketing center for these staples, but did serve as a retail market for manufactured goods purchased wholesale by merchants in nearby Columbia.

Hachaliah Bailey moved here from New York state and on December 19, 1837, he purchased a tract of land on the outskirts of Falls Church including what is now the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike.

By this time the record industry had been hit hard by the Depression and in 1934 a much-diminished Columbia USA was purchased for just US $ 70, 500 by ARC-BRC ( American Record Corporation – Brunswick Record Company ), which also acquired the OKeh label.

Volvo AB acquired the U. S. assets of the company in 1981, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services, and NovaCorp, an Alberta corporation, purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range.

In 1981, Columbia Pictures acquired 81 % of The Walter Reade Organization, which owned 11 theaters ; it purchased the remaining 19 % in 1985.

Be it enacted ... That whoever, within the District of Columbia or any of the Territories of the United States ... shall sell ... or shall offer to sell, or to lend, or to give away, or in any manner to exhibit, or shall otherwise publish or offer to publish in any manner, or shall have in his possession, for any such purpose or purposes, an obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or shall advertise the same for sale, or shall write or print, or cause to be written or printed, any card, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means, any of the articles in this section … can be purchased or obtained, or shall manufacture, draw, or print, or in any wise make any of such articles, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States ... he shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years for each offense, or fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, with costs of court.

Several of Beebe's photographs from these expeditions were purchased by Columbia professors to use as slides during their lectures.

On November 11 of that year, controlling interest in Okeh was purchased by Columbia Records.

In 1945 it was purchased by The State which is the morning daily paper in Columbia to form the State-Record Company.

The company was purchased by Knight-Ridder in 1986 and publication of the Columbia Record ceased on April 1, 1988.

He failed a screen test at Columbia Pictures and was told by studio boss Harry Cohn that " for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes.

Hepburn and Kanin encouraged Judy Holliday to play the role of Doris in the movie, which was used by Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn as a screen test for the chance to re-create on film her Broadway success in Kanin's play Born Yesterday.

When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of Al Jolson, many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James Cagney and Danny Thomas ( both of whom turned it down ), but resident contractee Larry Parks was reportedly the first actor to be interviewed.

Eventually, she was seen by a Columbia Pictures talent agent and filmed a screen test.

Feeling that Cansino had screen potential, the salesman and promoter Edward C. Judson, whom she would marry in 1936, got her the lead roles in several independent films and arranged a screen test with Columbia Pictures.

In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a film version of Postcards from the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.

This striking addition gave the silver screen Spider an appearance more like that of a traditional superhero, like other comics heroes being adapted for the era's movie serials ; it also made the serial Spider look less like the very popular Street and Smith pulp hero The Shadow, which also had been produced by Columbia and starred Victor Jory.

Jackie Moran ended his screen career in 1945-46 with a collection of teenage musical comedies at Columbia and Monogram.

Frank Capra had directed Lady for a Day in 1933 and for years had wanted to film a remake, but executives at Columbia Pictures, which owned the screen rights, felt the original story was too old-fashioned.

In 1960, Capra bought the screen rights from Columbia for $ 225, 000, and the director made a deal with United Artists, where it was decided to film the story as a period piece set in the 1930s.

Some films shot in 35mm, such as Camelot, featured four-track stereophonic sound and were then " blown-up " to 70mm so that they could be shown on a giant screen with six-track stereophonic sound, but many were pseudo six-track as the " Columbia Spread " was often used to synthesize Left Center and Right Center from a combination of Left and Center and Right and Center, respectively, or, for effects, the effect could be " panned " anywhere across the five stage speakers using a one-in / five-out pan pot.

The 1972 film was produced by M. J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe.

* Martin's Cinerama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1962 ( formerly the Tower Theatre, later renamed the Atlanta Theatre and later still, the Columbia Theatre ; from 1962 onward, however, no matter what the name, it always retained its ultra-curved screen.

Savage instead made a screen test with Columbia Pictures — after playing " Lorna in a Reinhardt acting showcase of Odets ' Golden Boy "— and was offered a contract.

Although Columbia typically " groomed " its girls to look like Rita Hayworth, Savage's look echoed Ann Sheridan, although her perpetually blonde locks were reddened for Footlight Glamour ( 1943 ) " so that the star, Penny Singleton, would be the only blonde on screen ".

Scourby first appeared on screen in two films with Glenn Ford, Affair in Trinidad ( Columbia, 1952 ) and The Big Heat ( Columbia, 1953 ).

Hall preferred Finch but sent extensive screen tests of both actors with Muriel Steinbeck back to Columbia in Hollywood.

She made her last appearance on screen with Columbia ’ s Under Age in 1941.

After a stint at Twentieth Century Fox during which they earned an Oscar for the screen story to the urban thriller Panic in the Streets ( 1950 ), the husband and wife team returned to Columbia as writer-producers, scoring another Academy Award nomination for their story to the gritty thriller The Sniper in 1952.

Eventually, the film reached the big screen in a limited release in under 20 U. S. cities under a collaboration of Columbia Pictures and Cinepix Film Properties on August 29, 1997, in an edited version, and under the title Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.