6) Sony/Columbia Pictures – $1,181,819,246
Founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, the studio is one of the leading film studios in the world.
The studio which released its first feature film in 1922 is the world fifth largest major film studio.
Columbia Pictures’ most famous productions are Lost Horizon, His Girl Friday, The Lady from Shanghai, Gilda, All the King’s Men and “You Can’t Take It With You”.
Jack and Harry died in 1956 and 1958, but the studio continued to produce major box-office hits like: The Last Picture Show, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Saturday Night Fever.
Coca-Cola Company bought the film studio in 1982 and after that the studio sold Columbia Pictures Entertainment to Sony Corporation in 1989.
Their recent blockbusters are: Men in Black/ Spider-Man/Da Vinci Code franchises, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zero Dark Thirty and The Social Network.
