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Product placements abound in this scene from "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" -- fitting for a movie about sponsor-covered race car drivers -- but is it the film where Will Ferrell houses a two-liter bottle of Coke?Columbia Pictures
Coca-Cola was first sold 135 years ago this week on May 8, 1886. Almost exactly 60 years later — on May 7, 1946, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering was founded, the company that would later change its name to Sony, parent company of Sony Pictures.
The Coca-Cola Company purchased Columbia Pictures in 1982 and wasted no time inserting product placement into its films. The experiment didn’t last long and by 1989 the soda conglomerate sold Columbia to … Sony.