Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures is now forms part of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.

Films

 * Z's Laboratory (2008)
 * The Sleigh Ride Adventure (2014)
 * Christmas Heart (2015)
 * Guns Out (2016)
 * On The Way (2018)
 * Brewster's Millions (2018)
 * Stine (2019)
 * On The Way: One Year Ago (2020)
 * Astro Boy (2020) with Legendary Entertainment
 * Carmen Sandiego (2020)
 * Godzilla VS Astro (2023, Domestic Distribution only)
 * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2024) with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Legendary Entertainment
 * Alex The Brave (2025)
 * Scanners (2025) with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * Toby (2025)
 * Monarchs (2026, Domestic Distribution only)
 * Astro Boy 2 (2027)
 * Toby: Part II (2028)
 * The Church (2029)
 * The Mighty Atom (2031)
 * The Shmucks (2031)

Fanon Variations

 * Pikmin - The logo plays normally, but after the logo, Blue, red and yellow pikmins appears and carries the statue.
 * On The Way and On The Way: One Year Ago - The torch shines bright and turns the logo into an animated version of it.

1st Logo (1924-1927)
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2nd Logo (1928-1936)
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3rd Logo (1936-1976)
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4th Logo (1976-1981)
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5th Logo (1981-1993)
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6th Logo (1993- )


Nicknames: "'90s Torch Lady", "Ultra Majestic Torch Lady", "Columbia Torch Lady V", "CGI Torch Lady", "Ultra Common Torch Lady", "Jenny Joseph"

Logo:
 * 1993-2006: We start out with a light coming in a black background. The clouds fade in a brief second later. We pan down to reveal it's the torch with a torch lady who's holding it. When the camera stops zooming, "COLUMBIA" in a chiseled silver font fades in above the screen and the clouds move very slowly to the right.

Closing Variants: Byline: Below the logo, one of the two bylines fade in below the logo: Variants: FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: CGI.
 * 2006-: Starting with The Holiday, released on December 18, 2006, the logo has been given an "enhanced" look. The hand is at a different pose (which the finger is at the tip of the torch). The sky is also darker. Trailers and TV spots, however, use the previous version until 2008.
 * 2014-: Starting with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Sony logo now transitions to this logo.
 * 1993, 2004, 2017-: One early closing variant such featured the boxed torch lady at center with "COLUMBIA PICTURES" in Bank Gothic MD BT and the byline "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company" below one another. Sometimes, "COLUMBIA PICTURES" and the SPE byline are smaller to fit the width of the boxed torch lady. Starting with Smurfs: The Lost Village, the "a Sony Company" byline is used.
 * 1993-2017: This superimposed has the boxed torch lady next to the stacked words "COLUMBIA PICTURES". Below the logo is "A COLUMBIA PICTURES RELEASE" and the SPE byline underneath. Some films have a "RELEASED BY". This variant was previously very rare, but it's now increasingly common, starting with The Angry Birds Movie. Starting with American Hustle (the 4th logo appears at the beginning), the "a Sony Company" byline is used.
 * 1993-1999: (bylineless)
 * 1996-2013: Starting with The Craft, released on May 3, 1996, "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company" appears on the bottom of the screen. It is slightly off center. However, some post-1996 films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, Dance with Me and John Carpenter's Vampires and trailers and TV spots until 1999 may have it without the byline.
 * 2014-: "a Sony Company", the byline from the previous byline was changed from a yellow-orange color to a bronze.
 * There is a version where the left and right clouds are stretched out and the "COLUMBIA" text and torch lady are zoomed out a little.
 * At the end of Black Hawk Down, the logo is zoomed out much further than usual, revealing the bottom of the cloud background below the pedestal. This is because of the negative ratio. This can be also be found on a trailer for Erin Brockovich.

Music/Sounds: A majestic tune is heard. Here are the three themes: All three themes have the same ending.
 * 1) The normal theme.
 * 2) A more majestic theme
 * 3) The theme is played by a piano.

Music/Sounds Variants: Availability: Very common on almost every film from the company since Last Action Hero. The 1996 logo is the easiest to find and usually the one that plasters older logos. The bylineless logo is uncommon to rare that it is found on all 1993-96 films. The Sony Pictures Entertainment logo is slightly more common that it is seen on almost all 1996-2013 films. The current logo is seen on all films since 2014.
 * On the SPA shorts, we hear the Sony Pictures Animation theme before the mentioned logo cuts in.
 * There is also a high pitched version of the fanfare. This version was used on some films like The Pink Panther, Open Season, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the 2012 remake of Total Recall and Hotel Transylvania.
 * A doubled pitched version of the fanfare was used on Hollow Man.
 * On Finding Forrester, a guitar version of the fanfare is heard.
 * On Palmetto, yet another arrangement of the fanfare without cymbal hits with synthesized flutes at the end. This was only used on original international releases, current prints remove this logo (prior to Time Warner owning Castle Rock's library, as Palmetto is a Castle Rock film).

Scare Factor: None. This logo has a beautiful