query: distributor the chubbchubbs save xmas
supports: The ChubbChubbs! is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy short film by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was directed by Eric Armstrong, produced by Jacquie Barnbrook, and written by Jeff Wolverton. Daddy Day Camp is a 2007 American comedy film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., and directed by Fred Savage in his film directorial debut. It is the sequel to the 2003's "Daddy Day Care"; however, all the lead characters were recast. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and released by TriStar Pictures. The film was released in the United States on August 8, 2007. TriStar Pictures (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film production/distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, owned by the Sony subsidiary Sony Pictures Entertainment. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (known professionally as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack's best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later. Its name is derived from "Columbia", a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studio's logo. In its early years, it was a minor player in Hollywood, but began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant. In the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studio's premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio. Sony Pictures Animation is an American animated film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded in May 2002. It works closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which handles digital production. Theatrical releases are distributed by Columbia Pictures, and direct-to-video releases are distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
  The studio's franchises include "Open Season", "Surf's Up", "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs", "The Smurfs" and "Hotel Transylvania". Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. (SPI) is a visual effects and character animation company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SPI is a unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas is a 2007 computer - animated short by Sony Pictures Animation . It was produced by Kirk Bodyfelt and directed by Cody Cameron . It was theatrically released on August 8 , 2007 along with Daddy Day Camp and is a sequel to the Academy Award - winning animated short film The ChubbChubbs ! . On October 9 , 2007 , both The ChubbChubbs ! and The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas animated shorts were released as special features on the Surf 's Up DVD and Blu - ray . Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home video distribution division of Sony Pictures, a subsidiary of Japanese company Sony Corporation. Daddy Day Care is a 2003 American family comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and co-starring Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Anjelica Huston and Lacey Chabert. Written by Geoff Rodkey and directed by Steve Carr, the film was released in theaters on May 9, 2003. It was produced by Revolution Studios and released by Columbia Pictures. The film grossed $164 million worldwide on a budget of $60 million. It is also Murphy and Zahn's second collaboration after "Dr. Dolittle 2" (2001).
candidates: columbia pictures sony sony pictures entertainment sony pictures home entertainment tristar pictures
answer: columbia pictures