TriStar Pictures

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The white-winged Pegasus in the TriStar Pictures logo, used from 1993 to the present, with the byline added in 1995.

For other uses, see Tristar.

TriStar Pictures (spelled Tri-Star until 1991) is a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures. It was founded in 1982.

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. The name of the studio is a reference to its three original stakeholders. Their first release, in 1984, was The Natural. Their second movie was a flop remake of the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, Where the Boys Are.

CBS dropped out of the venture in 1984 and in 1987, HBO did as well. That same year, Tri-Star entered into the television business as Tri-Star Television. In December 1987, Columbia Pictures bought their venture shares and merged Columbia and Tri-Star into Columbia Pictures Entertainment. In 1989, all of Coke's entertainment holdings were acquired by Sony Corporation of Japan, who merged Columbia and TriStar, but continued to use the separate names. Sony Pictures Entertainment later revived TriStar Television as a television production banner in 1991 and co-launched Columbia TriStar Television in 1994 with its sister television studio Columbia Pictures Television. TriStar was relaunched in 2004 as a marketing and acquisitions unit that will have a "particular emphasis on genre films". [1]

[edit] Notable films

[edit] 1980s

The 1980s TriStar Pictures logo from 1984 to 1993.

• Like Father, Like Son (1984)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
• Birdy (1984)
• Meatballs 2 (1984)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• The Natural (1984)
• Supergirl (1984, distribution)
• Places in the Heart (1984)
• Where the Boys Are '84 (1984)
• Lovelines (1984)
• Runaway (1984)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• The Last Dragon (1985)
• Private Resort (1985)
• The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
• Real Genius (1985)
• Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
• About Last Night (1986)
• Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
• Iron Eagle (1986)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Nothing in Common (1986)
• Rad (1986)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987, distribution)
• Blind Date(1987)
• The Principal (1987)
• Extreme Prejudice (1987, distribution)
• Ironweed (1987)
• The Monster Squad (1987)
• The Running Man (1987) (distribution)
• Sunset (1988)
• Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Fright Night II (1988)
• The Bear (1988)
• The Blob (1988)
• The Seventh Sign (1988)
• Steel Magnolias (1989) (co-production with Rastar)
• Tap (1989)
• Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
• Look Who's Talking (1989) (plus sequels in 1991 and 1993)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

[edit] 1990s

• Avalon (1990)
• I Love You to Death (1990)
• Total Recall (1990, distribution)
• Bugsy (1991)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• Jack's Way (1991, distribution)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, USA distribution only) (co-production with Carolco Pictures)
• Another You (1991)
• Bingo (1991)
• Hook (1991)
• Basic Instinct (1992, distribution)
• Candyman (1992)
• Chaplin (1992, distribution)
• City of Joy (1992)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Cliffhanger (1992, distribution)
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1992)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Rudy (1993)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Sniper (1993)
• 3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)
• Guarding Tess (1994)
• It Could Happen to You (1994)
• Legends of the Fall (1994)
• Only You (1994)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995)
• Jumanji (1995)
• Magic in the Water (1995)
• Johnny_Mnemonic_(film) (1995)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• The Fan (1996)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Matilda (1996) (co-production with Jersey Films
• Sunset Park (1996)
• My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
• The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo (1997)
• Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Anaconda (1997)
• Godzilla (1998) (co-production with Centropolis Entertainment)
• Madeline (1998)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998) (plus Columbia Pictures sequel in 2005) (co-production with Amblin Entertainment)
• Urban Legend (1998) (plus Columbia Pictures sequel in 2000)
• Baby Geniuses (1999)
• Crazy in Alabama (1999)
• Jawbreaker (1999)

[edit] 2000s

• Godzilla 2000 (2000, dubbing)
• Metropolis (2001, subtitles)
• New Best Friend (2001, distribution)
• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2003, distribution)
• Oliver Twist (2005, distribution)
• Silent Hill (2006)
• Premonition (2006) (co-released by MGM)
• Running With Scissors (2006)
• Crossover (2006)
• Stomp The Yard (co-released by Screen Gems, MGM, and Hyde Park Entertainment)

[edit] External links

• TriStar Pictures at the Internet Movie Database