Are Sony Pictures trying to loose the Columbia Tristar brand?

[cybersoga]

Sony Pictures own Columbia Tristar - that's common knowlage, but are they trying to loose the Columbia Tristar brand and start using "Sony Pictures" on it's own - promoting the Sony name? I had an email from them today about Terminator 3 DVD, and when I clicked on it, it took me to the Sony Pictures UK website rather than Columbia Tristar as I expected.

There's also the Buena Vista/Disney thing - are they going to start branding everything with the Disney logo like the DVD of Pirates of the Carribean?

[Mr.D]

Distribution and production are different areas.
Distribution companies can even vary from country to country.

[cybersoga]

Who produced T3? Warner or Sony? I know it's being distributed by Warner in the US.

*edit* I just realised what I said. T3 was produced by C2 Pictures (the new name for Carloco AFAIK).

[cybersoga]

Pulp Fiction is distributed by Buena Vista in the UK, imagine if that started with the Disney cindarella's castle intro!!!! lol :D

[Mr.D]

Production companies , Production studios and Distribution companies are all different things.

A production company makes the movie , a production studio usually pays for it and a distribution company distributes it.... sometimes all three are the same somethimes all three are totally different.

Carolco are a production company.

[cybersoga]

Ah, right. And sometimes production and distribution are the same company but under different names...

[Mr.D]

All sorts of mad nonsense.
You end up with one wing of a production company deciding to go with a different company altogether for distribution because its own distribution wing runs as a completely seperate entity and bills them like any other company so they find they get a cheaper deal if the go for an entirely seperate , sometimes even rival company!

Its mad.

[Darth_Fisto]

There's also the Buena Vista/Disney thing - are they going to start branding everything with the Disney logo like the DVD of Pirates of the Carribean?

Pirates of the Caribbean was a Disney film. It was well publicised (in America) that this was the first Disney film to get a PG-13 rating in the US. So don't worry, you won't be seeing Pulp Fiction with the Disney logo