TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. Type Film production and distribution studio Status Active Led by Nicole Brown Founder(s) Victor Kaufman Founded March 2, 1982 Head- quarters 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California, U.S. Also known as Nova Pictures (1982-1983) Tri-Star Pictures (1983-1991) Parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment Website https://www.sonypictures.com/

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film production and distribution studio and sister company of Columbia Pictures, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

TriStar produced the 1998 American GODZILLA film and Godzilla: The Series, and distributed many of the Japanese Godzilla films in the United States from 1998 to 2005. TriStar's version of Godzilla would later be reintroduced into the Godzilla franchise as Zilla, and continues to appear in official merchandise licensed by Toho.

Selected filmography

• GODZILLA (1998)
• Godzilla: The Series (TV 1998-2000)

Selected distributions

• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) - VHS/DVD (1998)
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) - VHS/DVD (1998)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) - VHS (1998), DVD (2005)
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) - VHS (1998), DVD (2000)
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) - VHS (1998), DVD (2000)
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) - Theatrical (2000), VHS/DVD (2000)
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - DVD (2003)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) - DVD (2003)
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) - DVD (2004)
• Son of Godzilla (1967) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) - DVD (2004)
• Godzilla Final Wars (2004) - DVD (2005)

Monsters created by TriStar

• Godzilla (1998)
  • Zilla (introduced by Toho in Godzilla Final Wars after the rights to TriStar's Godzilla reverted back to them)
• Godzilla (Godzilla: The Series)
• Baby Godzillas (1998)
• Cyber Godzilla
• Various monsters from Godzilla: The Series

Scrapped Godzilla elements from TriStar

• Film: Godzilla (1994)
  • Monster: Gryphon
  • Monster: Probe Bat
• Film: GODZILLA 2
  • Monster: Queen Bitch
• Film: GODZILLA 3 - Planned, no screenplay is known to exist
• Film: Godzilla Reborn
  • Monster: Miba

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