Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc. (previously known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, Sony Pictures Interactive Network, and Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment) is a subsidiary of
Sony Group Corporation. Operating under the trade name Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc., it is currently based in Japan, and was formerly based in
Culver City, California
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, up until 2013. Bob Osher was the president of Sony Pictures Digital before he was fired in February 2015.
It oversees the digital production and online entertainment assets of
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and rec ...
, consists of
Sony Pictures Mobile, Sony Pictures Digital Networks, and others. It is known as the digital website interactive creator for SPE. Sony Pictures Digital designed websites for Sony Pictures,
Screen Gems Network,
SoapCity,
Sony Pictures Imageworks,
GSN, among others for SPE.
Columbia TriStar Interactive was formed in 1994. The first official website it launched was for ''
Johnny Mnemonic'' in 1995. As well as building websites for films and TV shows, it also set up the Sony Studio Store in 1998 and went into partnership with
444-FILM selling movie tickets.
In 2005, the group's name was changed to Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing and encompassed all areas of interactive media creation and marketing for SPE, including
gaming, mobile, websites, design and sales.
The company was also a co-producer along with
ShadowMachine,
Seth Green's
Stoopid Monkey production company,
Williams Street
Williams Street Productions, LLC, formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries, is an American animation and live action television production studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a unit of Warner Bros. ...
, and
Cartoon Network
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for the show, ''
Robot Chicken
''Robot Chicken'' is an American adult animation, adult stop motion, stop-motion animated sketch comedy television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The twelve-minute ...
'' until
season 5, when
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production company, production and broadcast syndication, distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, California, it is a division o ...
assumed the role.
Its former
visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of
a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...
division Sony Pictures Imageworks provides visual effects for films produced not only by the divisions of the current parent
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, but also by other non-SPE studios.
See also
*
List of Sony Pictures mobile games
References
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Businesses
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*Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company
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Entertainment companies established in 2005
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