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  1. And you can’t think 21st-century comedy without movies like Step Brothers, Superbad, 21 Jump Street, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and even Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Come celebrate a century of of cinema with Columbia Pictures’ 100 essential movies (sorted by release year)!

    • That Certain Thing (1928) Director: Frank Capra. Come the 1930s, Columbia’s fortunes would be tied to those of its most valuable signing, director Frank Capra, who would deliver a pair of best picture winners for the studio in It Happened One Night (1934) and 1938’s You Can’t Take It with You.
    • Twentieth Century (1934) Director: Howard Hawks. Keen to repeat the success of It Happened One Night, Columbia went all in on screwball comedy throughout the 1930s.
    • The Reckless Moment (1949) Director: Max Ophüls. The 1940s meant one thing: film noir. Columbia was already a dab hand at making every dollar count, and its extensive run of good-looking noirs throughout the 1940s and 1950s belied Harry Cohn’s notorious penny-pinching.
    • The Long Gray Line (1955) Director: John Ford. From mistaken-identity comedy (The Whole Town’s Talking, 1935) and political melodrama (The Last Hurrah, 1958) to British police procedural (Gideon’s Day, 1958), John Ford covered some varied terrain across his five films for Columbia.
  2. Aug 1, 2024 · On a recent July afternoon, the ever-mercurial Tom Rothman arrives in good spirits for a tour of Columbia Pictures’ archives in honor of the studio’s 100th anniversary. “Ask a lot of ...

  3. Two years later, in 1969, Columbia released Easy Rider, the movie that turned the counterculture into popular culture. Made by and starring hippie icons Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, the film's ...

  4. Feb 22, 2024 · The death of Harry Cohn in 1958 marked the end of an era for the studio. For the first time since its inception, no one within the Cohn family was involved in the company's management, and faced ...

  5. **Columbia Pictures: A Journey Through Cinematic Excellence**In the illustrious annals of Hollywood, Columbia Pictures stands as a beacon of cinematic innova...

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  7. Oct 8, 2024 · The movie would gross over US$1 billion at the box office to become Sony Pictures' highest-grossing release to date. In 2024—Columbia Pictures' centennial anniversary year—cinemagoers have already been treated to a batch of new film releases, movies that include 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,' and 'The Garfield Movie.'.

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