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TriStar Pictures was established on March 2, 1982, founded by Victor Kaufman as Nova Pictures, and has ever since released some of the most iconic Hollywood movies, such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Basic Instinct, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Hollywood’s first ever Godzilla.
The concept for Tri-Star Pictures can be traced to Victor Kaufman, a senior executive of Columbia Pictures (then a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company), [18] who convinced Columbia, HBO, and CBS to share resources and split the ever-growing costs of making movies, leading to the creation of a new joint venture on March 2, 1982.
TriStar Pictures was created in 1982 and founded as Nova Pictures by Victor Kaufman, a high-ranking employee at Columbia. He convinced Columbia, CBS, and HBO to give him money for a new studio, [4] and the first movie made by TriStar was The Natural in 1984.
I look at the history of Columbia's sister studio TriStar Pictures, which has carved out its own impressive slate of fantasy adventures, Oscar-winning dramas...
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Founded in 1982 as Nova Pictures by a joint venture of Columbia, CBS and HBO, the company's name changed to Tri-Star Pictures (the name was modified in 1993 to remove the hyphen) due to the existence of Nova, a science series on PBS, and began distributing films in 1984 (their first release was Where The Boys Are '84, a pickup from ITC ...
TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film production studio of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
History. The concept for TriStar Pictures was the brainchild of Victor Kaufman, a senior executive of Columbia Pictures (then a subsidiary of Coca-Cola), who convinced the studio, HBO, and CBS, to pool resources to split the ever-growing costs of making movies, creating a new joint venture in 1982.
