What if Paramount Global co-owned Columbia and TriStar?/Columbia Feature Animation

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Columbia Feature Animation (often refereed to as simply Columbia Animation and sometimes Columbia Pictures Animation) is an animation subsidiary of ViacomCBS, located in Culver City, California, tasked with producing feature-length animated films of either traditional, computer-generated, stop-motion or other.

Background
Columbia Pictures was given its own company for its own animated feature films in its name and tasked with producing feature-length animated, stop motion, mixed media and digitally-produced films after ViacomCBS had purchased Columbia. Its existence would also result in Columbia's films it had distributed for Sony Pictures Animation to be absorbed into Columbia's animation studio in order for Columbia to retain the rights.

Rather than having its own in-house animation studio, it outsources its animation production from other animation studios, but still relies on Imageworks for its acquired franchises: Open Season, Surf's Up, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, and the Angry Birds film series.