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 Today,
the motion picture library is one of the company’s
most valuable assets with more than 3,500 films—from
timeless classics to long-running franchises, including
12 Best Picture Academy Award® winners.
Although
its films were successful,
Columbia didn't know the meaning of the word "blockbuster"
until the mid '40s when THE
JOLSON STORY became its biggest-grossing movie
to date. That set the stage for the company's most profitable
decade yet, culminating in another Best Picture Oscar®
) for its 1949 film, ALL THE KING'S MEN.
Columbia
Pictures was one of the first studios to venture into
the television business with the creation of a division
called Screen Gems in 1948. With Screen Gems came a
lucrative new income stream for the company. The television
division was later named Columbia Pictures Television,
then became Columbia TriStar Television before being
renamed Sony Pictures Television in 2002. Today, the
company’s classic television library is filled
with more than fifty years of the world’s favorite
programs with such titles as BEWITCHED, I DREAM OF JEANNIE,
and CHARLIE’S ANGELS and includes more than 35,000
television episodes, 275 television series and more
than 22,000 episodes of game show programming.
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