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CBS Films Inc. was an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of CBS Corporation [3] and was considered a mini-major studio up until 2019. [ 4 ] CBS Films originally was planned to distribute, develop and produce four to six $50 million budget films a year. [ 2 ]
Viacom Inc. [a] (derived from "Video & Audio Communications") was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City.It began as CBS Television Film Sales, the broadcast syndication division of the CBS television network in 1952; it was renamed CBS Films in 1958, renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, renamed Viacom in 1970, and spun off into its own company in 1971.
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
As for CBS Films, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has the U.S. home entertainment distribution rights and the foreign theatrical and home entertainment distribution rights in 2010 until expire, Paramount now rights to CBS Films for all pre-2015 films after the re-merger of CBS and Viacom in 2019, [1] while Lionsgate owns the distribution ...
CBS was founded as a radio network in 1927 and then expanded to television in the 1940s. ... There were 64 American cities with television stations, though most of ...
Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company. [11] CBS was founded in 1927, which Paramount Pictures held a 49 percent ownership stake in from 1929 to 1932. [12] [13] In 1952, CBS
With films distributed by a major studio, ABC's films were slotted in less desirable release dates. On October 28, 1985, ABC shut down ABC Motion Pictures theatrical motion picture operation after the release of only 6 theatrical films [96] which was within weeks of CBS shutting down CBS Theatrical Films. [95]
On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which held the namesake flagship channel CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (merged with The WB to form the CW, co-owned by Time Warner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV, Simon and ...