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Screen Gems is an American
United States

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 subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion....
's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
 that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.

an entire decade, Charles B. Mintz
Charles B. Mintz

Charles B. Mintz was an United States film producer and distributor, who took control over Margaret J. Winkler's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924....
 distributed his Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
, Scrappy
Scrappy

Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
, and Color Rhapsody
Color Rhapsodies

Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
 animated film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 shorts
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 through Columbia Pictures. When Mintz became indebted to Columbia in 1939, he ended up selling his studio to them.






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Screen Gems is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion....
's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
 that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.

Animation studio: 1940–1946

For an entire decade, Charles B. Mintz
Charles B. Mintz

Charles B. Mintz was an United States film producer and distributor, who took control over Margaret J. Winkler's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924....
 distributed his Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
, Scrappy
Scrappy

Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
, and Color Rhapsody
Color Rhapsodies

Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
 animated film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 shorts
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 through Columbia Pictures. When Mintz became indebted to Columbia in 1939, he ended up selling his studio to them. Under new management, the studio assumed a new name, Screen Gems. Jimmy Bronis, Mintz's production manager became the studio head, but was shortly replaced by Mintz's brother-in-law, George Winkler. After this, Columbia decided to "clean house" by ousting the bulk of the staff (including Winkler) and hiring creative cartoonist, Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director....
. After Tashlin's short stay came Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer

David Fleischer was a Jewish-American animator film director, and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer as well as uncle to director Richard Fleischer....
 and after several of his successors came Ray Katz and Henry Binder from Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  Animators, directors, and writers at the series included people such as Art Davis
Arthur Davis

Arthur "Art" Davis was an animator and a film director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. You however, should not confuse this person with Arthur Davis, a member of the Dover Chamber Group and fiction writer....
, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham, and, during its latter period, Bob Clampett
Bob Clampett

Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an United States animator, film producer, film director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
.

The studio had several characters on their roster. These included Flippy, Willoughby Wren
Willoughby's Magic Hat

Willoughby's Magic Hat is a 1943 Phantasies animation short subject directed by Bob Wickersham, produced by Screen Gems, and released to theatres by Columbia Pictures on April 20, 1943....
, and Tito and his Burrito. However, the most successful characters the studio had were The Fox and the Crow
The Fox and the Crow

The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Scr...
, a comic duo of a refined Fox and a street-wise Crow.

Screen Gems is also notable for being, in an attempt to keep costs low, the last American animation studio to stop producing black and white cartoons. The final black-and-white Screen Gems shorts appeared in 1946, over three years after the second-longest holdouts (Famous Studios
Famous Studios

Famous Studios, renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios in 1956, was the animation division of the Hollywood film studio Paramount Pictures from 1942 to 1967....
 and Leon Schlesinger Productions). During that same year, the studio shut its doors for good, though their animation output continued to be distributed until 1949.

The Screen Gems cartoons were only moderately successful when compared to those of Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
, Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
, and MGM. The studio's purpose was assumed by an outside producer, United Productions of America
United Productions of America

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an United States animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films....
 (UPA), whose cartoons, including Gerald McBoing Boing and the Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo

Quincy Magoo is a cartoon character created at the United Productions of America animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus , Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, or latent myopia, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem....
 series, were major critical and commercial successes.

Television subsidiary: 1948–1974

In 1948, Screen Gems was revived to serve as the television subsidiary of Columbia, producing and syndicating several popular shows (see below) and also syndicating Columbia Pictures' theatrical film library to television, including the wildly successful series of two-reel short subjects starring The Three Stooges in the late 1950s. Earlier, they also acquired syndication rights to a package of Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 horror film
Horror film

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit responses of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of the supernatural....
s, which was enormously successful in reviving that genre.

From 1964 to 1969, former child star Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
 was Vice President of Program Development. He was responsible for packaging series (such as Bewitched
Bewitched

Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
) and other projects and selling them to the networks.

From 1958 through 1974, under Vice President of Production Harry Ackerman
Harry Ackerman

'Harry Ackerman' was a famed TV executive producer at Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures.From 1958 through 1974, under the command of Ackerman as Vice President of Production, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace , The Donna Reed Show, Hazel , Gidget, Bew...
, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best
Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best is a long-run United States radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s....
, Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace (TV series)

Dennis the Menace is a television series based on the popular Hank Ketcham Dennis the Menace of the same name. The show aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS and stars Jay North as Dennis Mitchell; Herbert Anderson as his father, Henry; Gloria Henry as his mother, Alice; Joseph Kearns as George Wilson and Sylvia Field as Martha Wilson....
, The Donna Reed Show
The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
, Hazel
Hazel (TV series)

Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series first aired September 1961-April 1966....
, Gidget
Gidget

Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach at Malibu, California....
, Bewitched
Bewitched

Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
, I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
, The Flying Nun
The Flying Nun

The Flying Nun is a sitcom produced by Screen Gems for American Broadcasting Company based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios....
, The Monkees
The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
, and The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an United States television Situation comedy about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career....
. It was also the original distributor for Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
 Productions, an animation studio founded by William Hanna
William Hanna

William Denby "Bill" Hanna was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, television director, television producer, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
 and Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ; was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
 after leaving Columbia's now-semi-sister studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In the late 1950s Screen Gems would also go into broadcasting. Stations that would be owned by Screen Gems over the years would include KCPX (Salt Lake City), WVUE
WVUE

WVUE channel 8, is a TV station in New Orleans, Louisiana, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company. WVUE is owned by Louisiana Media Company, with studios in the Gert Town, New Orleans section of New Orleans and transmitter in Chalmette, Louisiana....
 (New Orleans), WAPA
WAPA-TV

WAPA-TV is a full-power, Independent station television station located in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 4, digital channel 27....
 (San Juan), WNJU
WNJU

WNJU, channel 47, is the flagship station of the Spanish-language Telemundo television network, licensed to Linden, New Jersey and serving the New York City television market....
 (Linden, NJ), and several radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
s as well, including 50,000-watt clear channel WWVA
WWVA (AM)

WWVA is an AM broadcasting radio station that broadcasts on a frequency of 1170 kHz with studios in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States and its transmitter in St....
 (Wheeling WV).

In 1974, the Screen Gems name was retired and Columbia's television subsidiary became Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television

Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974....
. The final notable production from this incarnation of Screen Gems before the name change was the 1974 mini-series QB VII
QB VII

QB VII by Leon Uris was a best seller published in 1970. This four-part novel highlights the events leading to a life-shattering libel trial in the United Kingdom....
. Changes in corporate ownership of Columbia came in 1982, when The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States....
 bought the company, although continuing to trade under the CPT name. In the mid-1980s, Coca-Cola reorganized its television holdings to create Coca-Cola Television, merging CPT with the television unit of Embassy Communications as Columbia/Embassy Television, although both companies continued to use separate identities until 1988, when it and TriStar Television
TriStar Television

TriStar Television was an American television production company that was launched on April 2, 1987 by TriStar Pictures . In December 1987, TriStar Television was bought by Columbia Pictures Television, and merged to create the new CPT , although Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures were sold in 1989 to Sony Corporation of Japan....
 were reunited under the CPT name. In 1989 Columbia Pictures was purchased by Sony
Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
 Corporation of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. In 1991, Columbia Pictures Entertainment was renamed to Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion....
 as a film production-distribution subsidiary, and subsequently combined CPT with a revived TriStar Television in 1994 to form Columbia TriStar Television
Columbia TriStar Television

Columbia TriStar Television was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Sony Pictures Entertainment merger of 1991 and last used in 2002....
.

The television division today is presently known as Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
.

Selected TV shows

Television programs produced and/or syndicated by Screen Gems (most shows produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions are now owned and distributed by Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production company and distribution arm of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Paramount Television, it serves as a television production company arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Chuck on NBC, Pushing Daisies on ABC, and...
, except for Jeannie and Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

Partridge Family 2200 A.D. is an animated television series based on The Partridge Family....
 (see below):

  • Burns & Allen (syndicated reruns of filmed episodes from 1953-1958)
  • The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
    The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

    The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is a children's television television program which ran on American Broadcasting Company from October 1954 until August 1959....
     (1954-1959)
  • Father Knows Best
    Father Knows Best

    Father Knows Best is a long-run United States radio and television comedy series which portrayed middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s....
     (1954-1962)
  • Treasure Hunt (1956-1959)
  • Huckleberry Hound
    Huckleberry Hound

    Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 Syndication animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo ; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1958-1962)
  • The Donna Reed Show
    The Donna Reed Show

    The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
     (1958-1966)
  • Tightrope (TV series)
    Tightrope (TV series)

    Tightrope was a 1959 half hour weekly CBS American television series produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in cooperation with Screen Gems....
     (1959-1960)
  • Dennis the Menace
    Dennis the Menace (TV series)

    Dennis the Menace is a television series based on the popular Hank Ketcham Dennis the Menace of the same name. The show aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS and stars Jay North as Dennis Mitchell; Herbert Anderson as his father, Henry; Gloria Henry as his mother, Alice; Joseph Kearns as George Wilson and Sylvia Field as Martha Wilson....
     (1959-1963)
  • Quick Draw McGraw
    Quick Draw McGraw

    Quick Draw McGraw is the anthropomorphic cartoon horse starring in The Quick Draw McGraw Show, the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera following their success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1959-1962)
  • The Three Stooges (1959-1974; distributed thereafter by other Columbia/Sony divisions)
  • Two Faces West
    Two Faces West

    Two Faces West is a 39-episode half-hour Television syndication television Western television series set in Gunnison, Colorado in southwestern Colorado, which aired from October 17, 1960, to July 31, 1961....
     (1960-1961); syndicated
    Television syndication

    In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
  • Route 66
    Route 66 (TV series)

    Route 66 is an United States TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock....
     (1960-1964)
  • The Flintstones
    The Flintstones

    The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1960-1966; syndicated by Screen Gems until 1974)
  • Yogi Bear
    Yogi Bear

    Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1960-1963)
  • Top Cat
    Top Cat

    Top Cat was a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the American Broadcasting Company network on Wednesdays....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1961-1962)
  • The Jetsons
    The Jetsons

    The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1962-1963)
  • Hazel
    Hazel (TV series)

    Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series first aired September 1961-April 1966....
     (1961-1966)
  • The Farmer's Daughter
    The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)

    The Farmer's Daughter is an United States situation comedy series that was produced by Screen Gems Television and aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1963 in television to 1966 in television....
     (1963-1966)
  • Bewitched
    Bewitched

    Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
     (1964 - 1972)
  • Jonny Quest
    Jonny Quest

    Jonny Quest is a science fiction/adventure animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera, and created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey, about a boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions)
  • Magilla Gorilla
    Magilla Gorilla

    Magilla Gorilla is the main character from The Magilla Gorilla Show, an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera between January 14, 1964, and 1967....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1964-1966)
  • Peter Potamus
    Peter Potamus

    Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964 ....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) (1964-1966)
  • Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives

    Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
     (produced by Corday Productions) (1965-1974; produced thereafter by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television)
  • Camp Runamuck
    Camp Runamuck

    Camp Runamuck was an United States situation comedy which ran on NBC during the 1965-1966 television season that related the wacky goings-on at the titular boys' summer camp, and at Camp Divine, its girls counterpart across the lake....
     (1965-1966)
  • Gidget
    Gidget (TV series)

    Gidget is a 1965 Screen Gems television program about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widower father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor....
     (1965-1966)
  • I Dream of Jeannie
    I Dream of Jeannie

    I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
     (produced by Sidney Sheldon
    Sidney Sheldon

    Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway theatre playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist....
     Productions) (1965 - 1970)
  • Love on a Rooftop
    Love on a Rooftop

    Love on a Rooftop is an American Situation comedy about a newlywed couple, Dave and Julie Willis, and their humorous struggles to survive in San Francisco on Dave?s apprentice architect's salary of $85.37 a week....
     (1966-1967)
  • The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
     (produced by Raybert Productions
    Raybert Productions

    Raybert Productions was a 1960s production company, founded by Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider. Its principal works were the wildly successful situation comedy The Monkees, and the 1969 movie Easy Rider ....
    ) (1966-1968)
  • The Flying Nun
    The Flying Nun

    The Flying Nun is a sitcom produced by Screen Gems for American Broadcasting Company based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios....
     (1967-1970)
  • The Johnny Cash Show
    The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)

    The Johnny Cash Show was an United States television music variety show presented by Johnny Cash. The 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on American Broadcasting Company....
     (1969-1970)
  • The Partridge Family
    The Partridge Family

    The Partridge Family is an United States television Situation comedy about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career....
     (1970-1974)
  • Bridget Loves Bernie
    Bridget Loves Bernie

    Bridget Loves Bernie is an American television comedy program created by Bernard Slade, based loosely on the premise of the 1920's Broadway play and 1940's radio show Abie's Irish Rose....
     (1972-1973)
  • Temperatures Rising
    Temperatures Rising

    Temperatures Rising is an United States television situation comedy that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the American Broadcasting Company network....
     (produced by Ashmont Productions)(1972-1973)
  • The New Temperatures Rising Show (produced by Ashmont Productions)(1973-1974)
  • The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless

    The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1973. It was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, who set their show in a Genoa City of Genoa City, Wisconsin, a town near their annual vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....
     (produced by Bell Dramatic Serial Company
    William J. Bell

    William Joseph Bell was the creator and executive producer of the extremely successful soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful....
    ) (1973-1974; produced thereafter by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television)
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973-1974)
  • Police Story
    Police Story

    Police Story is an Anthology series Police procedural that aired on NBC from 1973 through 1978. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV....
     (1973-1974; by Columbia Pictures Television from 1974-1977)
  • Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
    Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

    Partridge Family 2200 A.D. is an animated television series based on The Partridge Family....
     (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; Sony Pictures Television owns the distribution rights due to the show's connection to The Partridge Family) (1974-1975)
  • Jeannie (produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; Sony Pictures Television owns the distribution rights due to the show's connection to I Dream of Jeannie) (1973-1975)


Specialty feature film studio, 1999–present

In September 2002, Columbia TriStar Television became Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
, while three years earlier, in 1999, Screen Gems was resurrected as a second specialty film producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, after Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics is one of two specialty film divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the other being Screen Gems . Founded in December 1991, Sony Pictures Classics produces, acquires, finances and distributes independent films from America and around the world....
. Similar to Dimension Films
Dimension Films

Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films....
, Screen Gems produces and releases smaller-budget science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
, horror
Horror film

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit responses of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of the supernatural....
, teen movies, farce
Farce

A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced Plot whose speed usually increases, culminat...
 or ethnic films with more centralized target audiences than Columbia TriStar's mainstream outputs, although it started out as a sister studio of Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics is one of two specialty film divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the other being Screen Gems . Founded in December 1991, Sony Pictures Classics produces, acquires, finances and distributes independent films from America and around the world....
, which produced more mature, intellectual fare.

The most-successful Screen Gems film commercially as of 2007 was Resident Evil: Extinction, which grossed $147,713,442 in international box office receipts.

Screen Gems films

  • Ivanhoe (film)
    Ivanhoe (film)

    The films Ivanhoe are based on the Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The novel has been made into a movie several times, the first filmatisation was done as early as 1913....
     - 1993
  • Arlington Road
    Arlington Road

    Arlington Road is a 1999 film which tells the story of a widowed George Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbors are involved in terrorism and becomes obsessed with foiling their terrorist plot....
     - 1999
  • Limbo
    Limbo (film)

    Limbo is a 1999 in film drama film written, directed, and produced by United States filmmaker John Sayles. The drama features Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez and Kris Kristofferson....
     - 1999
  • Girlfight
    Girlfight

    Girlfight is a 2000 in film drama film starring Michelle Rodriguez. It focuses on Diana Guzman, a troubled teen who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a Women's boxing, despite the skepticism of both her abusive father and the prospective trainers in the male-dominated sport....
     - 2000
  • Snatch
    Snatch (film)

    Snatch. is a 2000 in film crime film by United Kingdom writer-director Guy Ritchie, and featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the movie contains two intertwined plots — one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish who finds himself under the...
     - 2000
  • The Brothers
    The Brothers (film)

    'The Brothers' is a romantic comedy starring Morris Chestnut, D.L. Hughley, Bill Bellamy, and Shemar Moore. The film was directed by Gary Hardwick, who has directed other films and television series such as Deliver Us From Eva and Hangin' With Mr....
     - 2001
  • The Forsaken
    The Forsaken (film)

    The Forsaken is a 2001 in film Horror film/thriller film written and directed by J. S. Cardone. In Australia, its promotional title was The Forsaken: Desert Vampires....
     - 2001
  • Ghosts of Mars
    Ghosts of Mars

    John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 movie directed by John Carpenter, which in its basic themes is similar to his earlier film, Assault on Precinct 13 ....
     - 2001
  • Two Can Play That Game
    Two Can Play That Game

    Two Can Play That Game is a 2001 in film romantic comedy film, written and film director by Mark Brown. This film stars Vivica A. Fox, Morris Chestnut, and Anthony Anderson....
     - 2001
  • The 51st State
    The 51st State

    The 51st State is a 2001 Cinema of the United Kingdom produced by Focus Films Ltd. directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, starring Samuel L....
     - 2002
  • Love and A Bullet - 2002
  • The Mothman Prophecies
    The Mothman Prophecies (film)

    The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 film directed by Mark Pellington, adapted from the 1976 book The Mothman Prophecies by parapsychology and Charles Fort John Keel....
     - 2002
  • Resident Evil
    Resident Evil (film)

    Resident Evil or Biohazard: Genesis is a 2002 in film American science fiction horror film based on the Resident Evil series of Survival horror video games video game developer by Capcom....
     - 2002
  • Swept Away
    Swept Away (2002 film)

    Swept Away is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Madonna , Adriano Giannini, and Bruce Greenwood. The film is a remake of the 1974 in film Italy film Swept Away , which stars Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato....
     - 2002
  • In the Cut
    In the Cut

    In the Cut is an erotic thriller film, written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh....
     - 2003
  • The Medallion
    The Medallion

    The Medallion is a 2003 in film action film/comedy film directed by Cinema of Hong Kong filmmaker Gordon Chan, and starring Jackie Chan, Lee Evans and Claire Forlani....
     - 2003
  • Underworld
    Underworld (2003 film)

    Underworld is a 2003 in film action film-horror film film about the secret history of Races of Underworld universe#Vampires and a type of werewolf known as Races of Underworld universe#Lycans ....
     - 2003
  • Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is a 2004 Horror film thriller film, and sequel to the 1997 film Anaconda . It was directed by Dwight H....
     - 2004 (distributed by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
    ).
  • Breakin' All the Rules
    Breakin' All the Rules

    Breakin' All the Rules is a 2004 in film United States comedy film/romance film. It was film director and screenwriter by Daniel Taplitz. This comedy film/romance film was financially successful grossing twice it's budget ....
     - 2004
  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    Resident Evil: Apocalypse or Biohazard: Apocalypse is a 2004 in film science fiction film Action film horror film. It is the second installment in the series of film adaptations based on the Capcom survival horror series Resident Evil....
     - 2004
  • Into the Sun
    Into the Sun (film)

    Into the Sun is a 2005 in film action film modeled after the Cinema of the United States yakuza films The Yakuza and Black Rain . It stars martial artist/actor Steven Seagal....
     - 2004
  • You Got Served
    You Got Served

    You Got Served is a 2004 in film drama film written and directed by Chris Stokes, manager of its stars, recording artist Marques Houston and the members of boy band B2K....
     - 2004
  • Boogeyman
    Boogeyman (film)

    Boogeyman is a 2005 United States/New Zealand production horror film, film director by Stephen T. Kay. The film is a take on the classic "Bogeyman", or monster in the closet....
     - 2005
  • The Cave
    The Cave (film)

    The Cave is a 2005 in film science fiction film/horror film film directed by Bruce Hunt. The MPAA rated this film with a PG-13 for intense creature violence....
     - 2005
  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The Exorcism of Emily Rose

    The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 in film Horror film/Legal_drama film directed by Scott Derrickson. The film is claimed by marketing to be based on a true story....
     - 2005
  • The Gospel
    The Gospel

    The Gospel is a 2005 in film film directed and written by Rob Hardy. It was released in the United States on October 7, 2005. The film retells the Parable of the Prodigal Son in a modern context....
     - 2005
  • Hostel
    Hostel (film)

    Hostel is a 2005 in film horror film written and directed by Eli Roth, starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Jennifer Lim, Ey??r Gu?j?nsson and Barbara Nedelj?kov?....
     - 2006 (distributed by Lions Gate.)
  • Underworld: Evolution
    Underworld: Evolution

    Underworld: Evolution is the second film in the Underworld , following Underworld in 2003. Evolution continues the feud between Vampires and Lycans, but highlights glimpses of their origins some centuries ago....
     - 2006
  • When a Stranger Calls
    When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)

    When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 in film remake of the 1979 horror When a Stranger Calls . In the film, baby-sitter Jill Johnson receives increasingly threatening calls from a brutal serial killer who she first assumes is simply a juvenile prankster....
     - 2006
  • Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet (film)

    Ultraviolet is a 2006 in film science fiction film / action movie. It was released in North America on March 3, 2006. The film was written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and produced by Screen Gems....
     - 2006
  • I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
    I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer

    I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film released straight to DVD on August 15, 2006 as the direct-to-video sequel to 1997 in film's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and the third installment in the series....
     - 2006
  • Hard Break - 2006
  • The Grudge 2
    The Grudge 2

    The Grudge 2 is the 2006 in film to the 2004 in film United States horror film remake The Grudge. The Grudge 2 is the second film in Sony Pictures Entertainment's The Grudge Trilogy and is directed by Takashi Shimizu and Screenwriter by Stephen Susco....
     - 2006 -
  • Zombies - 2006
  • The Covenant
    The Covenant (film)

    The Covenant is a 2006 supernatural thriller movie directed by Renny Harlin and written by J. S. Cardone....
     - 2006
  • Dead Weekend - 2006 (co-production with Destination Films
    Destination Films

    Destination Films is Sony Pictures' "niche" film distribution company founded by Brent Baum and Steve Stabler established in 1998 and launched in 1999....
     and Front Street Production)
  • The Messengers
    The Messengers

    The Messengers is a 2007 in film supernatural Thriller film directed by the Pang Brothers and produced by Sam Raimi. It stars Kristen Stewart, John Corbett, William B....
     - 2007 (distributed by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
    ).
  • Resident Evil: Extinction
    Resident Evil: Extinction

    Resident Evil: Extinction or Biohazard: Extinction is a 2007 in film science fiction Action film horror film. It is the third installment in the series of film adaptations based on the Capcom survival horror series Resident Evil....
     - 2007
  • Stomp the Yard
    Stomp the Yard

    Stomp the Yard is a 2007 drama film and dance film film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007....
     - 2007
  • The Brothers Solomon
    The Brothers Solomon

    The Brothers Solomon is a comedy film released on September 7, 2007, starring Will Arnett and Will Forte....
     - 2007 (distributed by TriStar Pictures
    TriStar Pictures

    TriStar Pictures, Inc. is a Film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures....
     and Revolution Studios
    Revolution Studios

    Revolution Studios was a film production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, a former chairman of The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox....
    )
  • Vacancy
    Vacancy (film)

    Vacancy is a 2007 Horror film/Thriller , which stars Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale. It was distributed by Screen Gems and was released to the public on April 20, 2007....
     - 2007
  • Marassa 2: Bloodlust - 2007
  • Hostel Part 2 - 2007 - distributed by Lions Gate - Such titles: Hostel Part Two or Hostel Part Two: The Sequel)
  • Hidden Secret - 2007
  • This Christmas
    This Christmas (film)

    This Christmas is a 2007 in film christmas film comedy film-drama film produced by and distributed by Screen Gems. Written, produced and directed by Preston A....
     - 2007
  • Blonde Ambition
    Blonde Ambition

    Blonde Ambition is a film released in December 2007 and inspired by the theme of the Academy Award-winning movie Working Girl starring singer/actress Jessica Simpson playing the part of a small town girl who moves to New York City and rises up into a career as a business woman....
     - 2007
  • Already Dead - 2007
  • First Sunday
    First Sunday

    First Sunday is a 2008 in film United States Comedy-drama from Screen Gems, directed, written, and produced by David E. Talbert, and is his first feature film....
     - January 11, 2008
  • Love Lies Bleeding (film) - January 15, 2008
  • Faithful Ambition - January 18, 2008
  • Untraceable
    Untraceable

    Untraceable is a 2008 in film thriller starring Diane Lane, Joseph Michael Cross, Billy Burke and Colin Hanks. It was directed by Gregory Hoblit and distributed by Screen Gems....
     - January 25, 2008
  • Saving Anna - March 4, 2008
  • Outpost - March 11, 2008 (co-production with Newmarket Films)
  • Prom Night
    Prom Night (2008 film)

    Prom Night is a slasher film from Screen Gems directed by Nelson McCormick and starring Brittany Snow. The film was released on April 10, 2008 in Australia, and on April 11, 2008 in Canada and the United States, followed by a worldwide release in May....
     - April 11, 2008 (co-production with Alliance Films
    Alliance Films

    Alliance Films is a major motion picture distribution/production company which serves Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Formally known as Motion Picture Distribution LP, it was re branded and relaunched in 2007 due to the collapse of its preceding company, Alliance Atlantis, which was sold off piece by piece to CanWest Global, Goldman_...
    )
  • The Bricks - April 18, 2008 (distributed by TriStar Pictures
    TriStar Pictures

    TriStar Pictures, Inc. is a Film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures....
     and Miramax Films
    Miramax Films

    Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company....
    )
  • Cleaner (film)
    Cleaner (film)

    Cleaner is a 2007 in film thriller film directed by Renny Harlin, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, and Eva Mendes.Synopsis...
     - May 25, 2008
  • Wieners - June 3, 2008
  • Lakeview Terrace
    Lakeview Terrace

    Lakeview Terrace is a 2008 in film thriller film directed by Neil LaBute, produced by Will Smith, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington....
     - September 19, 2008
  • Quarantine - October 17, 2008
  • Safe House - November 14, 2008
  • Extraction Point - December 25, 2008
  • Boogeyman 2
    Boogeyman 2

    Boogeyman 2 is a horror film directed by Jeff Betancourt and starring Danielle Savre, and is the sequel to the 2005 film Boogeyman . The film was released Direct-to-DVD on January 2008....
     - 2008
  • Gabriel
    Gabriel (film)

    Gabriel is a 2007 in film Cinema of Australia supernatural action film set in purgatory. It follows the archangel Gabriel's fight to rid purgatory of the evil Fallen angel and save the souls of its inhabitants....
     - 2008 (independent Australian film, distributed by Screen Gems)
  • Resident Evil: Degeneration
    Resident Evil: Degeneration

    Resident Evil: Degeneration, known in Japan as , is the first Feature film Computer-generated imagery feature based upon Capcom's Resident Evil video game series....
     - 2008 (Distribution only, co-distributed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
  • The Resurrection
    The Resurrection

    The Resurrection is the fifth album by the United States deathrock band, Theatre of Ice.With Mouse Blood selling in record numbers and receiving such high critical acclaim Demented Mind Mill Records convinced Brent and John Johnson to record one more album....
     - 2008
  • The Cottage (film) - 2008
  • Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous - 2008
  • Vacancy 2: The First Cut - 2008 (distributed by Stage 6 Films
    Stage 6 Films

    Stage 6 Films is a label created by Sony Pictures Entertainment in fall 2007 that acquires, produces and distributes 10-15 low budget films and direct-to-DVD releases per year....
    )
  • Boogeyman 3
    Boogeyman 3

    Boogeyman 3 is the third installment of the Boogeyman film series....
     - 2008
  • Not Easily Broken
    Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken is an 2009 in film Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Bill Duke. The movie is written by Brian Bird based on T.D....
     - January 9, 2009
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
    Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

    Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is the third installment in the Gothic Underworld , focusing primarily on the origins of some characters and the events leading to the Vampire-Lycan war....
     - January 23, 2009


Coming Soon in 2009

  • Fired Up (film)
    Fired Up (film)

    Fired Up! is a comedy film. The main plot follows two high school football players who decide to become cheerleaders in order to be around female cheerleaders....
     - February 20, 2009
  • Beyond Secrets - March 13, 2009
  • Obsessed
    Obsessed (2009 film)

    Obsessed is an upcoming thriller directed by Steve Shill and written by David Loughery. It is due to be released in the UK on March 20, 2009, and in the US on April 24, 2009....
     - April 24, 2009
  • District 9
    District 9

    District 9 is an upcoming science fiction movie to be directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film is set for an August 14, 2009 release date. It takes place in Joburg, South Africa....
     - August 14, 2009
  • Max's Mardi Gras - August 28, 2009
  • Armored (film)
    Armored (film)

    Armored is an upcoming American crime thriller film directed by Nimr?d Antal, written by first time screenwriter James V. Simpson, and starring Columbus Short and Matt Dillon....
     - September 18, 2009
  • The Stepfather - October 16, 2009
  • 2012-ish: The Day the Earth Bent Over
  • Dear John
  • Phenom


TBD


  • No Hard Feelings
    No Hard Feelings

    "No Hard Feelings" is the third and final single off The Bloodhound Gang's 2005 album Hefty Fine. It was a radio-only single, making a brief appearance in Germany Top 40 radio stations....
     - (co-production with Front Street Pictures)
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night
  • The Whole Truth
  • Armageddagain: The Day Before Tomorrow
  • Resident Evil: Afterlife - 2010 (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
    The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

    The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. In 2004, a pop-up book adaptation was released, designed by Kees Moerbeek and illustrated by Alan Dingman....
     - 2010


EUE/Screen Gems


Screen Gems should not be confused with EUE/Screen Gems LTD and EUE/Screen Gems Studios.

EUE/Screen Gems LTD owns and operates motion picture and television production facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina and New York, NY. The company owns and operates one of the most successful commercial production companies in the world.

EUE/Screen Gems branded content division collaborates with global brands and advertising agencies for the development, production, marketing and distribution of filmed entertainment for all media – including theatrical feature film, television, and digital content for the Web and mobile platforms.

The CW Network show “One Tree Hill” and over 300 films, commercials and television projects have been shot at the Wilmington studios. The Rachel Ray Show is produced for CBS Productions at the New York facility which has also hosted hundreds of productions since 1965.

EUE/Screen Gems Studios


EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, NC was built by Dino De Laurentiis in 1984. It operated under the name DEG (DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group) until 1990, when it was purchased by Carolco (producers of the Terminator movies).

George Cooney, owner of EUE/Screen Gems, acquired the Wilmington Studios in 1996 and renamed it EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In 1998, the studio built a 9th stage in Wilmington and has recently acquired adjacent for future expansion.

The company and Columbia Pictures


In 1965, Columbia Pictures acquired a fifty percent intent in the New York based commercial production company EUE. At that time Screen Gems was the television production division of Columbia Pictures. The commercial company was incorporated into the television division and renamed EUE/Screen Gems.

In 1982, Columbia was sold to Coca-Cola. EUE/Screen Gems and the New York production facility were sold to long time Columbia Pictures Executive, George Cooney. Mitchell Brill left Lifetime Television and joined Screen Gems.

See also

  • Colgems Records
    Colgems Records

    Colgems Records was a record label which existed from 1966 in music to 1971 in music. It was a joint venture between Columbia Pictures-Screen Gems and RCA Victor, to issue records by The Monkees and other Screen Gems artists....


External links

  • - site dedicated to the Screen Gems animation studio.