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Sega
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Nonetheless, Sega remains the worlds most prolific arcade producer, with over 500 games in over 70 franchises on more than 20 different arcade system boards since 1981. Sega, along with their sub-studios, are known for their multi-million selling game franchises, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Virtua Fighter, Phantasy Star, Yakuza, Segas head offices are located in Tokyo. Segas North American division, Sega of America, is headquartered in Irvine, California, Segas European division, Sega Europe, is headquartered in London. After the war, the founders sold that company and established a new distributor called Service Games and this company provided coin-operated slot machines to U. S. bases in Japan and changed its name again to Service Games of Japan by 1953. David Rosen, an American officer in the United States Air Force stationed in Japan and this company eventually became Rosen Enterprises, and in 1957, began importing coin-operated games to Japan. On May 31,1960, Service Games Japan was closed, Three days later, two new companies were established to take over its business activities, Nihon Goraku Bussan and Nihon Kikai Seizo. By 1965, Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades, Rosen then orchestrated a merger between Rosen Enterprises and Nihon Goraku Bussan, becoming chief executive of the new company, Sega Enterprises, which derived its name from Service Games. Within a year, Sega began the transition from importer to manufacturer, with the release of the submarine simulator game, the game sported light and sound effects considered innovative for that time, eventually becoming quite successful in Japan. It was soon exported to both Europe and the United States, becoming the first arcade game in the US to cost 25 cents per play, in 1969, Rosen sold Sega to American conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries, although he remained as CEO following the sale. Under Rosens leadership, Sega continued to grow and prosper, and in 1974, Gulf and Western made Sega Enterprises, a subsidiary of an American company renamed Sega Enterprises, Inc. allowing them to take the companys stock public. Sega prospered heavily from the gaming boom of the late 1970s. In 1982, Segas revenues surpassed $214 million and that year they introduced the first game with isometric graphics, Zaxxon, the industrys first stereoscopic 3D game, SubRoc 3D, and the first laserdisc video game, Astron Belt. Astron Belt wasnt released in the U. S. until 1983, other notable games from Sega during this period are Head On, Monaco GP, Carnival, Turbo, Space Fury, Astro Blaster, and Pengo. In 1983-4, Sega published Atari 2600 versions of some of its arcade games, Carnival, Space Fury, Turbo, and Zaxxon were licensed to Coleco as launch titles for the ColecoVision console in 1982. Some of these and other titles were licensed to different companies for 8-bit computer versions, the Atari 8-bit computer port of Zaxxon is from Datasoft, for example, while the Commodore 64 port is from Synapse. An overabundance of games in 1983 led to the game crash. Seeking an alternate source of revenue from the arcade market, Sega designed and released its first home video game console. G&W sold the U. S. assets of Sega Enterprises that same year to pinball manufacturer Bally Manufacturing, nakayama became the new CEO of Sega, Robert Deith chairman of the board, and Rosen became head of its subsidiary in the United States
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Jim Carrey
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James Eugene Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy television series In Living Color. He then starred in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, in the 2010s, he has starred in Mr. Poppers Penguins and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. In 2013, he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 as Colonel Stars and he retracted support for the film two months prior to its release. He issued a statement via his Twitter account that, in light of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, Carrey reprised his role as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber To. Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, to Kathleen, a homemaker, and Percy Carrey and he has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita. He was raised a Roman Catholic and his mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry. Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario, for eight years, in a Hamilton Spectator interview, Carrey said, If my career in show business hadnt panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill. When looking across the Burlington Bay toward Hamilton, he could see the mills and thought, Those were where the great jobs were. While Carrey was struggling to work and make a name for himself, his father tried to help the young comedian put together a stage act. Carreys impersonations bombed and this gave him doubts about his capabilities as a professional entertainer and his familys financial struggles made it difficult for them to support Carreys ambitions. Eventually, the financial problems were resolved and they moved into a new home. With more domestic stability, Carrey returned to the stage with a more polished act, in a short period of time, he went from open-mic nights to regular paid shows, building his reputation in the process. A reviewer in the Toronto Star raved that Carrey was a star coming to life. Carrey was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed the young comic to open his tour performances, Dangerfield eventually brought Carrey to Las Vegas. However, Carrey soon decided to move to Hollywood, where he began performing at The Comedy Store and, in 1982, the following year, he debuted his act on The Tonight Show. Carrey was not selected for the position, although he hosted the show in May 1996, January 2011. In 1984 Carrey was in the short-lived sitcom The Duck Factory, from 1990 to 1994, Carrey was a regular cast member of the ensemble comedy television series In Living Color
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Hedgehog
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A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the Eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, there are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews, with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life. Hedgehogs spiny protection resembles that of the porcupines, which are rodents, and echidnas. The name hedgehog came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English heyghoge, from heyg, hegge, because it frequents hedgerows, other names include urchin, hedgepig and furze-pig. The collective noun for a group of hedgehogs is array, hedgehogs are easily recognized by their spines, which are hollow hairs made stiff with keratin. Their spines are not poisonous or barbed and unlike the quills of a porcupine, however, the immature animals spines normally fall out as they are replaced with adult spines. Spines can also shed when the animal is diseased or under extreme stress, a defense that all species of hedgehogs possess is the ability to roll into a tight ball, causing all of the spines to point outwards. The hedgehogs back contains two large muscles that control the position of the quills, when the creature is rolled into a ball, the quills on the back protect the tucked head, feet, and belly, which are not quilled. Hedgehogs are primarily nocturnal, though some species can also be active during the day, hedgehogs sleep for a large portion of the day under bushes, grasses, rocks, or most commonly in dens dug in the ground, with varying habits among the species. All wild hedgehogs can hibernate, though not all do, depending on temperature, species, hedgehogs are fairly vocal and communicate through a combination of grunts, snuffles and/or squeals, depending on species. Hedgehogs occasionally perform a ritual called anointing, when the animal encounters a new scent, it will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. Anointing is sometimes also called anting because of a behavior in birds. In addition, hedgehogs are one of four known mammalian groups with mutations that protect against another snake venom, the olfactory regions have not been thoroughly studied in the hedgehog. In mammals, the part of the brain is covered by neopallium. This difficulty is not impossible, as it varies from one species to another, tests have suggested that hedgehogs share the same electrical activity as cats. Although traditionally classified in the now abandoned order Insectivora, hedgehogs are omnivorous and they feed on insects, snails, frogs and toads, snakes, bird eggs, carrion, mushrooms, grass roots, berries, melons and watermelons. Berries constitute a part of an Afghan hedgehogs diet in early spring after hibernation
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Paul Rudd
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Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the British American Drama Academy, Rudd received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 1,2015. Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey to a Jewish family and his parents were born in the United Kingdom, his father from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton, both in London. Rudds parents are both English-born and Jewish, the familys original surname, Rudnitzky, was changed by his grandfather to Rudd. Rudd had a bar mitzvah ceremony, growing up he loved reading British comics, The Beano and The Dandy, which his uncle in the U. K. would send to him. When he was ten, Rudds family moved to Lenexa, Kansas and his family also spent three years living in Anaheim, California, because of his fathers occupation. Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in the class of 1987, Rudd then went to the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater. He was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternitys Nu Chapter there and he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West in Los Angeles. Rudd spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy based in Oxford, U. K, while attending acting school, Rudd worked as a Bar Mitzvah disc jockey. Rudd made his debut in 1992 with the television drama Sisters where he played Kirby Quimby Philby. In 1994, he appeared in Wild Oats for six episodes, Rudd left Sisters in 1995 to then appear in the comedy film Clueless with Alicia Silverstone. He also appeared in Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers, William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet, The Locusts, Overnight Delivery, The Object of My Affection, and 200 Cigarettes. He was then in the 1999 film The Cider House Rules that earned him and he played FBI Agent Ian Curtis in Benny Chans 2000 Hong Kong action film Gen-Y Cops. In 2002, he was cast as Mike Hannigan on the sitcom Friends who dates and then marries Phoebe Buffay, played by Lisa Kudrow. In 2006, he appeared in episodes of Reno 911. as Guy Gerricault, the coach of a lamaze class. He guest-starred as a has-been 1990s rock star, Desmond Fellows, on the television series Veronica Mars and he subsequently worked with Apatow in 2007s Knocked Up, as frustrated husband Pete, married to Leslie Manns character. In that film, he co-starred with Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Rudd appeared as uncredited cameos in Year One and Bridesmaids. In 2012, he starred and also co-produced with Apatow on the film Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston and he starred in the comedy film This Is 40 with Leslie Mann, a spinoff from Knocked Up, which was directed and produced by Apatow
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
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Sonic is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who has the ability to run at supersonic speeds and the ability to curl into a ball, primarily to attack enemies. Throughout the course of the games, Sonic most commonly has to race through levels, collect power up rings and survive against a host of natural obstacles. While many individuals at Sega had a hand in Sonics creation, programmer Yuji Naka, the first game was released on June 23,1991, to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendos flagship character Mario. Since then, Sonic has become one of the worlds best-known video game characters, in 2005, Sonic was one of the first game character inductees into the Walk of Game alongside Mario and Link. Many results came forth from their experiments with character design, including an armadillo, a dog, a Theodore Roosevelt look-alike in pajamas, eventually, Naoto Ohshimas spiky teal hedgehog, initially codenamed Mr. Needlemouse, was chosen as the new mascot. Sonic was created without the ability to swim because of an assumption by Yuji Naka that all hedgehogs could not do so. A group of fifteen people started working on the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, the games soundtrack was composed by Masato Nakamura of the band Dreams Come True. Sega sponsored the groups Wonder 3 tour, painting Sonic on the bus, distributing pamphlets advertising the game. The original concepts gave Sonic fangs and put him in a band with a girlfriend named Madonna. However, a team from Sega of America, led by Madeline Schroeder and this sparked a heated issue with Sonic Team. Naka later admitted that it was probably for the best, Sonics appearance varies greatly depending on the medium and the style in which he is drawn. In the video games, Sonics original design by Oshima was short and round, with quills, a round body. Artwork featuring this design and drawn by Akira Watanabe was displayed on the artwork for Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonics proportions would change for the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Mega Drive, Sonics head to height ratio was changed from 1,2 to 1,2.5. For the 1998 release of Sonic Adventure, Sonic was redesigned by Yuji Uekawa as a character with longer legs and a spherical body, longer and more drooping quills. For the 2006 game, Sonic was redesigned to make him look adult-like and this was also done because Sonic would interact with humans more often and his design was supposed to fit. An alternative Werehog form was introduced in Sonic Unleashed, placing emphasis on Sonics melee skills rather than speed. Although Tetsu Katano acknowledged the large negative fan response to the Werehog, different actors have provided Sonics voice in his game appearances
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James Marsden
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James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. Marsden began his acting career guest-starring in television shows Saved by the Bell, The New Class, Touched by an Angel and he gained prominence with his portrayal of Scott Summers/Cyclops in the X-Men film series and starred in 2006s Superman Returns. Since 2016, Marsden has starred as gunslinger Teddy Flood, a sentient android, in the HBO science fiction-western thriller series Westworld, as Corny Collins, he sang two songs for the films soundtrack which has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Hes had starring roles in films such as Enchanted and Hop and leading man roles in 27 Dresses. Marsden later starred in a range of independent films such as Small Apartments, Bachelorette and he also returned to television guest-starring in Modern Family and playing Liz Lemons love interest, Criss Chros in 30 Rock in a supporting role. Marsden then portrayed President John F. Kennedy in Lee Daniels The Butler and had a role as an antagonist in Anchorman 2. Marsden was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the son of Kathleen and his ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, and distant French. He has four siblings, two sisters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and two brothers, Jeff and Robert. He attended Hefner Middle School and Putnam City North High School, in Oklahoma City, and later went on to attend Oklahoma State University and he was also a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Marsden left after one and a half years, opting instead to move to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career, Marsden got his first job in a series of episodes of The Nanny as Eddie, Margaret Sheffields boyfriend. Then he went on to star in the Canadian television series Boogies Diner, with the end of that series, he guest starred on other television shows such as Saved by the Bell, The New Class and Party of Five. He later starred in the ABC show Second Noah and he lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear and turned down the lead role in 54, which later went to Ryan Phillippe. He then went on to star in Disturbing Behavior opposite Katie Holmes and he also appeared in the television series Ally McBeal, as one of the main cast members during the first half of season 5, where he also showcased his singing abilities. He also starred in a 1998 episode of The Outer Limits, Marsden was cast as Cyclops in the X-Men films. His character is prominent in the comics, his time in the films, however, is increasingly reduced. Notably, Marsden also appeared in Bryan Singers Superman Returns, Marsdens portrayal of Cyclops in the films was well received and garnered him a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has expressed interest in returning for future films, the second man Allie Hamilton falls in love with. He was apparently cast for his resemblance to Garner, who played the older Noah Calhoun
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Doctor Eggman
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Doctor Ivo Eggman Robotnik is a fictional video game character and the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, created by Sega. His original character designer was Naoto Ohshima, who created him as one of many character designs for the companys new mascot. In main line of games, Dr. Eggman is a rotund mad scientist who plans to conquer the world in order to build his own Eggman Empire. Eggman possesses ability of creating machines and robots, as notably in early games, Dr. Dr. Eggman has also been very well received by critics and fans alike, while remaining as one of the most popular and recognizable villains in gaming. In April 1990, Sega commissioned its AM8 R&D department to create a character who would replace Alex Kidd as the mascot, as well as compete against Nintendos flagship character. The idea of a character became the basis of the visual design for Eggman. The character was designed to be easy for children to draw. It wasnt until 1999s Sonic Adventure that the character was called both Eggman and Robotnik in the English version, with all following English releases to date referring to him as Doctor Eggman. Yuji Naka has explained that Robotnik is the true last name while Eggman is a nickname taken after his shape. Despite that, no Japanese language media has ever acknowledged it, Eggman is described as being a certifiable genius with an IQ of 300. His fondness for machines has made him a renowned authority on robotics. Ultimately, his goal is to conquer the world and create his ultimate utopia and he selfishly never gives up on this matter, and does not care for others opinions. He considers those who would interrupt his plans a prime threat and his abominable laughter and maniacal declarations contrast his self-professed softer side. Although Sonic has always ruined his plans, Eggman begrudgingly holds a secret respect for his determination. Several voice actors have portrayed Dr. Eggman in his game appearances and his first voice actor was Masaharu Satō, who portrayed him in the arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog. The first video game to star Mike Pollock was Shadow the Hedgehog, Pollock reprises the role in the Sonic Boom animated series. In the Sonic OVA movie, Junpei Takiguchi provided Eggmans voice, Edwin Neal later provided the English dub. The early television cartoon incarnations of Eggman have been voiced by 3 different voice actors, in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik is voiced by British blues singer Long John Baldry, who coincidentally died the same year as Deem Bristow from a severe chest infection
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Sony Pictures
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment company that produces, acquires and distributes filmed entertainment through multiple platforms. It operates as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc. which is the parent company for both the music and motion picture businesses of Sony Corporation, based in Culver City, California, it encompasses Sonys motion picture, television production and distribution units. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2015 has been reported to be of $8.3 billion, Sony Pictures film franchises include Spider-Man, Men in Black, Underworld, Resident Evil, and Robert Langdon. Sony Pictures is one of Hollywoods major film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, on September 1,1987, The Coca-Cola Company announced plans to spin-off its assets of Columbia Pictures, which it had owned since 1982. Under this arrangement, Coca-Cola would sell its entertainment assets to TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star would be renamed to Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. with Coca-Cola owning 49%, its shareholders owning 31%, and Tri-Stars shareholders owning 20%. A new company was formed in early 1988 with the Tri-Star name to take over the studios operations, on September 28,1989, Sony obtained an option to purchase all of The Coca-Cola Companys stock in CPE for $27 per share. This was all led by Norio Ohga, who was the president, the hiring of Guber and Peters by Sony to run Columbia was conflicted by a previous contract the producers had signed at Warner Bros. Time Warners chairman, Steve Ross, threatened Sony with a lawsuit for breach of contract, the lawsuit would be subsequently dropped when Sony sold half-interest in Columbia House and cable distribution rights to Columbias feature films, TV movies, and miniseries to Warner Bros. Said agreement also saw Columbia sell its 35% interest in the Burbank Studios, on November 8,1989, Sony completed the acquisition by a short-form merger of its wholly owned subsidiary Sony Columbia Acquisition Corporation into CPE under Delaware law. Sony also completed a tender offer for shares of stock of the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company on November 6,1989. The acquisition cost Sony $4.9 billion and was backed by five major Japanese banks Mitsui, Tokyo, Fuji, Mitsubishi, the company was renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment on August 7,1991. On June 4,2008, SPEs wholly owned group 2JS Productions B. V. acquired Dutch production company 2waytraffic N. V. famous for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. and You Are What You Eat for £114.3 million. In 2011, the Sony Pictures computer network was breached and approximately one million user accounts associated with the SonyPictures. com website were leaked. On November 21,2013, SPE and Sony Entertainments CEO Michael Lynton announced that SPE will shift emphasis from movies to television by cutting its 2014 film slate, on January 22,2014, SPE folded its technology unit into its various cores of its businesses. On February 6,2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment, through their legal name Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal Ltda. announced that they close their offices in Portugal on March 31. On November 20,2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they will release Ultra HD Blu-ray releases, the first set will be in early 2016 and will include film and television content. In November 2014, the Sony Pictures computer network was compromised by a group of hackers named Guardians of Peace, disabling many computers. Later the same week, five of Sony Pictures movies were leaked, including some not yet released, as well as confidential data about 47,000 current and former Sony employees
