Columbia Pictures' founders, Harry and Jack Cohn	1919	Jack Cohn, Harry Cohn, and Joe Brandt form CBC Film Sales
	1924	CBC Film Sales is incorporated as Columbia Pictures Corp
	1928	Columbia Pictures Corp. hires director Frank Capra
Screen Gems developed a roster of hit television shows and now produces films.	1948	Screen Gems is created, making Columbia Pictures one of the first studios to work in television
	1974	Screen Gems changes name to Columbia Pictures Television
	1982	The Coca-Cola Company purchases Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., parent company of Columbia Pictures
SPE's popular game shows are filmed in Culver City	1983	TriStar Pictures is formed as a joint venture between Columbia, HBO, and CBS
	1986	Merv Griffin Enterprises is acquired, which produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
	1987	The theatrical divisions of Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures merge to form Columbia Pictures Entertainment (CPE)
The MGM Lot in Culver City becomes home to Sony Pictures	1989	The Coca-Cola Company sells Columbia Pictures Entertainment to Sony Corporation
	1990	CPE moves to the historic MGM lot in Culver City, CA, renaming it Sony Pictures Studios
	1991	Columbia Pictures Entertainment changes its name to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
Imageworks becomes an industry leader in computer-generated special effects, notably on the Spider-Man franchise.	1992	Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is formed, specializing in the acquisition, marketing, and distribution of prestigious foreign and American independent films. Also, Sony Pictures Imageworks becomes a new division of Sony Pictures Entertainment
	1994	The Game Show Network is launched by SPE
	1998	Screen Gems is reorganized as a specialty motion picture label focusing on films that fall between the wide-release movies traditionally developed and distributed by Columbia Pictures and those released by SPC
Sony Pictures Animation is formed, producing feature length films like Monster Houseand Surf's Up.	2000	SPE announces the creation of Sony Pictures Digital, a new business aligning SPE's digital production with its online content and game services to deliver next-generation broadband entertainment
	2002	Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) is formed to develop all-CG features for SPE
	2004	Michael Lynton joins SPE as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Amy Pascal is promoted to Chairman of the Motion Picture Group
Crackle is a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio that distributes the hottest emerging talent on the web and beyond	2005	Sir Howard Stringer assumes position of Chairman, Group CEO and Representative Corporate Executive Officer of Sony Corporation. At Sony Pictures, the TriStar label is relaunched, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment completes the first full-length Blu-ray disc
	2006	Amy Pascal is promoted to Co-Chairman, SPE, and the Company acquires Grouper, one of the largest video communities on the Internet. It later relaunches itself as Crackle
	2008	Sony Pictures Digital is renamed Sony Pictures Digital Productions