
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation, which would eventually become Columbia Pictures. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968) went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood but began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others such as the most successful two-reel comedy series The Three Stooges, Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant. In the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studio's premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio. It is one of the leading film studios in the world and was one of the so-called "Little Three" among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, it has become the world's third-largest major film studio. The company was also primarily responsible for distributing Disney's Silly Symphony film series as well as the Mickey Mouse cartoon series from 1929 to 1932, and The Walt Disney Company currently owns those cartoons. The studio has been headquartered at the Irving Thalberg Building on the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (presently known as the Sony Pictures Studios) lot in Culver City, California since 1990.

A live action adaptation of the 1980s anime TV series. The plot follow three generations of humans. A "war movie", Robotech starts with an alien starship landing on Earth. Humans rebuild the ship and learn parts of its technology. When a race of giants comes looking for the ship, the humans defeat them by using human emotions and music to off balance them. The Second Generation is about their children, while the parents have gone to find the homeworld of the giant soldiers' makers, the Robotech Masters. However, the Masters have come to Earth and the Southern Cross must fight them off. The Third Generation is about the spacegoing humans coming back home to find out Earth has been taken over by yet another alien species. Throughout the series a mysterious power source, Protoculture, and its technological use, called Robotechnology, is paramount. A "serious" animated series, Robotech deals with the causes and consequences of war on people. The actual movie is currently in Development: https://www.movieinsider.com/m4358/robotech






