TriStar ( Tri-Star , with an indent, until 1992) was a production company and of film distribution of cinema. TriStar was a subsidiary company of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, a company of the group Sony Pictures.

It is in 1982 that Columbia, then subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company, HBO and CBS decides to create a common company to limit the associated costs to the production and the film distribution whose budgets know a sensitive inflation then.

In 1984, the first production of TriStar is Where the Boys Are , a remake of a film which had been produced in the years 1960 by Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1986, Pictures Tri-Star repurchases the network of cinemas Loews Cineplex.

In 1989, Coca-Cola disengages world of the media. Its cinema activities are then taken again by Sony which amalgamates Columbia and Tri-Star but continuous to use one or the other of the names for its productions. Since 1999, Sony does not seem any more to use the name of TriStar but for the acquisition of independent films.

Selective catalog of films

1980s

• Where the Servant boys Are (1984)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• Birdy (1984)
• Best the ( The Natural ) (1984)
• Seasons of the heart ( Places in the Heart ) (1984)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Santa Claus ( Santa Claus: The Movie ) (1985)
• Shorts Circuit (1986, like its continuation in 1988)
• Butt Last Night… (1986)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• The Blob (1988, remake off 1958 film)
• the Seventh Prophecy ( The Seventh Sign ) (1988)
• Pewters of women ( Steel Magniolias ) (1989)
• Hello mom, here baby ( Look Who' S Talking ) (1989, like its two continuations in 1990 and 1993)

1990s

• Avalon (1990)
• Total Recall (1990, distribution)
• Terminator 2 ( Terminator 2: Judgment Day ) (1991, distribution)
• Hook or the Revenge of the Captain Hook (1991)
• BASIC Instinct (1992, distribution)
• Chaplin (1992, distribution)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Rudy (1993)
• Mary Shelley' S Frankenstein (1994)
• Legends of autumn ( Legends off the Fall ) (1994)
• Devil in has Blue Dress (1995)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Mort or sharp ( The Quick and the Dead ) (1995)
• The Fan (1996)
• Sunset Park (1996)
• Matilda (1996)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• the Marriage of my best friend ( My Best Friend' S Wedding ) (1997)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Seven Years in Tibet ( Seven Years in Tibet ) (1997)
• Godzilla (1998)
• The Mask off Zorro (1998)
• the Head in the hatbox ( Crazy in Alabama ) (1999)
• Jakob the liar ( Jakob the Liar ) (1999)