TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures is an American film production company and film distributor. It was founded by Victor Kaufman on May 16th, 1983. TriStar was originally a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures until Columbia was bought out by the Sony Corporation in 1989. Sony continued to release films via Columbia and TriStar under separate brands. In 1998, Sony merged the two studios into the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.