In honour of the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment [SPE] proudly announces the launch of a unique genre-based personality quiz, marking a first of this scale for the studio. This quiz invites fans to dive into the legacy of some of the studio’s most iconic features and series, offering a personalized and unparalleled experience in celebration of this significant milestone.
Created by Sony Pictures Digital Marketing in collaboration with Watson Design Group, the quiz provides a unique and interactive digital fan experience and signals the next phase of many celebratory initiatives planned for its iconic anniversary. Participants answer entertaining general interest questions, which, upon completion, a custom personality type based on genre and a curated list of recommended Sony films and TV series are presented, encouraging the rediscovery of the studio’s expansive catalogue of film and TV titles. The results are then shareable with friends and family across social media.
“Envisioning an experience where fans could not just watch but see themselves within our iconic titles, we designed a dynamic personality quiz that takes them on a captivating journey through our extensive library,” explained Rose Phillips, Senior Vice President of Global Digital Marketing and Social, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “This is a chance for fans to relive or rediscover our cherished titles, capturing a piece of our studio’s historic legacy to share on social media, and a fun way for fans to express their TV and movie interests while forging a deeper emotional bond during our fan-led celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary.”
As part of the commemoration, fans can expect to encounter beloved movie titles and characters, such as GHOSTBUSTERS, TAXI DRIVER, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, ANNIE, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, FUNNY GIRL, MEN IN BLACK, and many more. Characters like Peter Parker [SPIDER-MAN], Walter White [BREAKING BAD], and Jerry Maguire will also play a significant role in the personalized quiz experience.
The quiz ties seamlessly into the yearlong celebration of Columbia Pictures’ centennial, capturing 100 years of iconic titles. It follows the recent TikTok “My Life As A Movie” custom filter, now Sony Pictures’ most-used organic TikTok filter. Additionally, Columbia Pictures has released a celebratory video highlighting some of the best films and TV series. Watch now here.
Users can participate in the quiz at Columbia Pictures’ 100th Anniversary – join the celebration using #ColumbiaPictures100 and follow along via the social media channels below. Fans can also explore and add their favourite Columbia Pictures titles to their collection at https://www.sonypictures.ca/
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As part of the upcoming 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is proud to debut six more beloved films from its library on 4K Ultra HD disc for the first time ever, exclusively within the COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 4, available February 13, 2024. This must-own set includes films with which audiences around the world have fallen in love: HIS GIRL FRIDAY, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, KRAMER VS. KRAMER, STARMAN, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Each film is presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range, and five of the films have all-new Dolby Atmos mixes.
The six films in the COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 4 are only available on 4K Ultra HD disc within this special limited edition collector’s set. Included with the collection is a gorgeous hardbound 80-page book, featuring in-depth sections about the making of each film within the set via six all-new insightful essays from renowned writers and journalists, plus rare photos from deep within the Columbia Pictures archives. The set also includes hours of special features across the films, including both newly created behind-the-scenes featurettes and commentaries and never-before-seen archival materials, plus the entirety of the 1986 “Starman” TV series, exclusively debuting in high definition!
All six films will also be available for purchase at digital retailers in 4K with HDR, and the physical set includes digital redemption codes for each film. With redemption of the digital codes, the films are available to enjoy at home or on the go!
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Synopsis:
A classic screwball comedy in which Rosalind Russell plays investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, who is engaged to a successful insurance agent. On the eve of her remarriage, she is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, played by the Academy Award-winning Cary Grant. To distract her from her wedding, Walter instructs Hildy to interview a murder convict with an impending execution, but things take a turn when she realizes he may be innocent.
HIS GIRL FRIDAY Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
Audio Commentary Featuring Film Critic and Author Todd McCarthy
NEW: Screwball Style: The Iconic Costumes of Robert Kalloch Featurette
NEW: Breaking the Speed Barrier: The Dialogue of
His Girl Friday Featurette
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson Featurette
Ben Hecht Featurette
On Assignment:
His Girl Friday Featurette
Cary Grant: Making Headlines Featurette
Rosalind Russell: The Inside Scoop Featurette
Howard Hawks: Reporter’s Notebook Featurette
The Funny Pages Featurette
Vintage Advertising
Theatrical Trailers
HIS GIRL FRIDAY has a run time of approximately 92 minutes and is rated PG.
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Synopsis:
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about interracial marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancé John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished Black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter’s decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this mixed union; the doctor’s parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other’s level of intolerance. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, director Stanley Kramer’s GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, is a masterful study of society’s prejudices.
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
Dolby Atmos English audio
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
Audio Commentary Featuring Eddy Friedfeld, Lee Pfeiffer and Paul Scrabo
Theatrical Teaser
Feature Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
3.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
Introductions
Karen Kramer
Steven Spielberg
Tom Brokaw
Quincy Jones
A Love Story for Today Featurette
A Special Kind of Love Featurette
Stanley Kramer: A Man’s Search for Truth Featurette
Stanley Kramer Accepts the Irving Thalberg Award
2007 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award Presentation to An Inconvenient Truth
Photo Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER has a run time of approximately 108 minutes and is rated PG.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER
Synopsis:
Celebrating its 45th anniversary and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, KRAMER VS. KRAMER is a groundbreaking drama about the heartbreak of divorce and the struggle between work and family. Young husband and father Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) loves his family– and his job, which is where he spends most of his time. When he returns home late one evening from work, his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) confronts him and then leaves him, forcing Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure career. But just as Ted adapts to his new role and begins to feel like a fulfilled parent, Joanna returns. And now she wants her son back.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
Dolby Atmos English audio
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
NEW: Audio Commentary with Film Professor Jennine Lanouette
NEW: 5 Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
4 Featurettes
Robert Benton on Directing
Justin Henry on Acting
Mothers and Daughters
Points of Pride
Theatrical Trailer
Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition
5.1 Dolby TrueHD
Special Feature:
Finding the Truth – The Making of
Kramer vs. Kramer
KRAMER VS. KRAMER has a run time of approximately 105 minutes and is rated PG.
STARMAN
Synopsis:
Director John Carpenter presents a romantic science-fiction odyssey starring Jeff Bridges in his Oscar-nominated role as an innocent alien from a distant planet who learns what it means to be a man in love. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the film follows Starman (Bridges) after his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin. He arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he isn’t picked up by his mothership in three days, he’ll die. Hot on their trail are government agents, intent on capturing the alien, dead or alive. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
STARMAN Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
Dolby Atmos English audio
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition, from the 4K master
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
Audio Commentary with Director John Carpenter and Actor Jeff Bridges
NEW: Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
NEW: Behind-the-Scenes Time Lapses
They Came from Hollywood: Revisiting
Starman Featurette
Making-Of Featurette
Music Video
Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
Exclusive Bonus Disc Includes:
The complete 1986-1987 22-episode follow-up series, based on the feature film—exclusively presented in high definition! HD episodes included on 4K UHD discs for maximum space
STARMAN has a run time of approximately 115 minutes and is rated PG.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Synopsis:
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron’s wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn together by destiny. Co-starring Rosie O’Donnell, Rita Wilson and Rob Reiner, Hanks stars as Sam Baldwin, a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He’s an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts by Sam’s story and classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Reed (Ryan) becomes convinced that it’s her destiny to meet Sam. There are two problems: Annie’s engaged to someone else, and Sam doesn’t know yet that they’re made for each other.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
Dolby Atmos English audio
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Feature Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
NEW: 30th Anniversary Critic Commentary with Karen Han & David Sims
NEW: A Conversation on
Sleepless in Seattle with Gary Foster and Meg Ryan
Audio Commentary Featuring Nora and Delia Ephron
4 Deleted Scenes
Love in the Movies Featurette
“When I Fall in Love” Music Video
Theatrical Trailer
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE has a run time of approximately 105 minutes and is rated PG for some language.
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE
Synopsis:
Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure. Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt. From the writer/director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is a dark, lovely and unique film experience.
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE Disc Breakdown
4K Ultra HD Includes:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, approved by director Paul Thomas Anderson
Dolby Atmos English audio, approved by director Paul Thomas Anderson
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Feature Blu-ray Includes:
Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
2 Deleted Scenes
Mattress Man Commercial
Blossoms and Blood
12 Scopitones
Jon Brion Featurette
Recording Session
Theatrical Trailers
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE has a run time of approximately 95 minutes and is rated 14A.
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In celebration of Columbia Pictures’ 100th anniversary, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) will be presenting a wide variety of unique catalogue offerings throughout 2024, across the entire Sony Pictures Entertainment library of movies and TV shows. This celebration will highlight the studio’s blockbuster franchises, fan-favourites and cult classics, quotable perennials and little-known gems, award-winners, iconic star-making performances, filmmaker-driven showcases, and everything in between.
January kicks off with two great ways to revisit the studio’s library and supercharge movie collections, with both a physical disc sale at Amazon and a one-of-a-kind “100 movies for $100” digital bundle. The Amazon sale—across 4K Ultra HDs, Blu-rays and DVDs—has begun and includes deals on major library titles such as GHOSTBUSTERS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, TAXI DRIVER and more.
Then on January 16th, in addition to an overall digital movie sale, there will be a “100 movies for $100” digital bundle available at participating digital retailers, featuring such acclaimed and iconic titles as THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, TOOTSIE, 2012, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and many more.
The 100th anniversary celebration will continue throughout 2024 with more details to come.
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