Editing Triumph Films (section)

==History==
It was founded in 1982 as a joint venture between [[Columbia Pictures]] and the French company [[Gaumont (company)|Gaumont]] to distribute foreign films in the US. In 1984, Marcie Bloom, who was formerly of the New York Film Festival, joined Triumph Films to serve as New York publicity director (Bloom would later co-found [[Sony Pictures Classics]]).<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 18, 1984|title=Triumph Appoints Bloom N.Y.-Based Pub Director|page=20|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

In 1985, Triumph Films announced that they would cut back down on their production slate, focusing on foreign-language films with English subtitles.<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 25, 1985|title=English-Lingo Fare To Dominate Triumph Films' Release Schedule|page=6|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, [[Gaumont (company)|Gaumont]] decided to cut ties, and Columbia Pictures, now the sole owner, decided to shutter Triumph Films, and fold it into the Columbia Pictures label.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Clark|first=Ted|date=October 9, 1985|title=Gaumont Pulling Out of Triumph; Buyse To Be Stateside Rep|page=3|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=October 30, 1985|title=Col Assessing Fate of Triumph Subsid|page=3|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

On January 5, 1988, the then-newly founded [[Sony Pictures Entertainment|Columbia Pictures Entertainment]] announced that they would revive the Triumph brand as a new worldwide subsidiary, Triumph Releasing Corporation; this incarnation of Triumph provided administrative services related to the distribution of [[Columbia Pictures]] and [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures]] in the U.S. and Canada, while internationally, Triumph would be responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of Columbia and Tri-Star films under the direction of each individual studio.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 6, 1988 |title=Columbia Resurrects 'Triumph' |page=7 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> It was officially incorporated on March 24, 1988.<ref name="BusinessProfiles">[http://businessprofiles.com/details/sony-pictures-releasing-corporation/NY-1358802 SONY PICTURES RELEASING CORPORATION] businessprofiles.com, Retrieved on January 20, 2014</ref> In 1989, Triumph began to distribute films from [[Crédit Lyonnais]]'s [[Trans World Entertainment (film company)|Epic Productions Inc.]]<ref name="METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER-INC-Mar-1999-10-K">{{cite web|url=http://pdf.secdatabase.com/827/0000898430-99-001265.pdf |title=METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER INC, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Mar 30, 1999 |publisher=secdatabase.com |accessdate =May 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516104053/http://pdf.secdatabase.com/827/0000898430-99-001265.pdf |archive-date=May 16, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On November 23, 1994, Triumph Releasing Corporation was renamed as Sony Pictures Releasing Corporation,<ref name="BusinessProfiles" /> and the Triumph name was spun off as Triumph Films, now primarily a label for low-budget and direct-to-video releases. After being shut down in 1997, the Triumph Films label was re-activated in 2003. The label went dormant again, becoming an in-name-only division of Sony Pictures Releasing Corporation.<ref name="BusinessProfiles" /> In 2014, the label was revived yet again for the release of ''[[The Remaining]]''. Their direct-to-video role has been taken by [[Destination Films]] within Sony.