Tri-Star Pictures

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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 concept 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. Originally, the name was known as Nova Pictures until it was changed to the proper name Tri-Star. 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]

Films

Main article: List of TriStar Pictures films
Big movies released by TriStar include:
  1. The Natural (1984) (stars Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, and Glenn Close)
  2. Real Genius (1985) (stars Val Kilmer)
  3. Labyrinth (1986) (stars David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly)
  4. The Monster Squad (1987) (stars Jason Hervey and Jon Gries)
  5. Steel Magnolias (1989) (stars Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, and Daryl Hannah)
  6. Look Who's Talking (1989) (stars John Travolta and Kirstie Alley)
  7. Basic Instinct (1992) (stars Sharon Stone)
  8. Jumanji (1995) (stars Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst)
  9. Matilda (1996) (stars Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman)
  10. Rudy (1993) (stars Sean Astin)
  11. Glory (1989) (stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher)

See also

References

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is a film and television production company. It is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony.
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is a film and television production company. It is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony.
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The Natural

Author Bernard Malamud
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Harcourt Brace and Company
Publication date 1952
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Where the Boys Are '84 is a 1984 teen sex comedy, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson. Directed by Hy Averback and produced by Allan Carr, it was the second release from TriStar Pictures and a remake of the 1960
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Where the Boys Are is a 1960 American motion picture comedic film, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout, about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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TriStar Television (first spelled Tri-Star) was an American television production company that was launched on April 2, 1987 by TriStar Pictures (the studio which was then-currently owned by Columbia Pictures, CBS, and HBO).
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Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1991 and last used in 2002.

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Columbia Pictures Television (CPT) was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems (SG). The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974.

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This is a list of films produced and/or released by American film studio TriStar Pictures.

1980s

  • Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
  • Birdy (1984)
  • Meatballs 2 (1984)
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
  • The Natural

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For the book upon which this film is based, see .


The Natural is a 1984 film adaption of the 1952 baseball novel of the same name. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert Redford.
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Robert Redford

Birth name Charles Robert Redford, Jr.
Born July 18 1936 (1936--) (age 71)
Santa Monica, California

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Robert Duvall

Birth name Robert Selden Duvall
Born January 5 1931 (1931--) (age 76)
San Diego, California

Awards
Academy Awards

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Glenn Close

Glenn Close (right) and Jim Dale in 2006 performing Busker Alley

Born March 19 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
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Real Genius is a 1985 comedy film starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. The movie is set on the campus of "Pacific Tech," a fictitious technical university in the US.
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Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer in 2005
Birth name Val Edward Kilmer
Born November 31 1959 (1959--) (age 49)
Los Angeles, California
Died


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Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed through the art of Brian Froud.
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Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly in Central Park, New York City, June 2, 2005
Birth name Jennifer Lynn Connelly
Born November 12 1970 (1970--) (age 38)
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This article is about the film. For the TV series, see Monster Squad


The Monster Squad
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Jason Hervey

Birth name Jason Robert Hervey
Born March 6 1972 (1972--) (age 35)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Jon Gries

Birth name Jonathan Francis Gries
Born May 17 1957 (1957--) (age 50)
Glendale, California United States
Died

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Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling, is a 1987 off-Broadway play, made into a movie in 1989. Based on the author's experience with the death of his sister, Steel Magnolias
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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, musician, author, actress, and philanthropist.
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Olympia Dukakis

Born May 20 1931 (1931--) (age 76)
Lowell, Massachusetts

Spouse(s) Louis Zorich (1962-)

Awards
Academy Awards
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