name | Screen Gems |
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type | Subsidiary of Sony Pictures |
foundation | 1940 (as animation studio)1948 (as television subsidiary)1999 (as film studio) |
location city | Culver City, California |
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locations | |
key people | Clint Culpepper (President) |
industry | Film |
products | Motion pictures |
owner | Sony |
parent | Columbia Pictures (1940-1974)Sony Pictures Entertainment (1999-present) |
homepage | sonypictures.com |
intl | }} |
Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.
The studio had several characters on their roster. These included ''Flippity and Flop'', ''Willoughby Wren'', and ''Tito and his Burrito''. However, the most successful characters the studio had were ''The Fox and the Crow'', 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 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, Warner Bros., and MGM. The studio's purpose was assumed by an outside producer, United Productions of America (UPA), whose cartoons, including ''Gerald McBoing Boing'' and the ''Mr. Magoo'' series, were major critical and commercial successes. Today UPA owns the rights to the Screen Gems cartoon library.
From 1958 through 1974, under President John H. Mitchell and Vice President of Production Harry Ackerman, Screen Gems delivered classic TV shows and sitcoms: ''Father Knows Best'', ''Dennis the Menace'', ''The Donna Reed Show'', ''Hazel'', ''Here Come the Brides'', ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'', ''Gidget'', ''Bewitched'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''The Flying Nun'', ''The Monkees'', and ''The Partridge Family''. It was also the original distributor for Hanna-Barbera Productions, an animation studio founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera 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 (New Orleans), WAPA (San Juan), WNJU (Linden, NJ), and several radio stations as well, including 50,000-watt clear channel WWVA (Wheeling WV). As a result in funding its acquisitions, 18% of Screen Gems' was spun off from Columbia and it became a publicly traded company in NYSE until 1969.
From 1964 to 1969, former child star Jackie Cooper was Vice President of Program Development. He was responsible for packaging series (such as ''Bewitched'') and other projects and selling them to the networks.
In 1974, Screen Gems was renamed Columbia Pictures Television. The final notable production from this incarnation of Screen Gems before the name change was the 1974 mini-series ''QB VII''. Columbia was the last major studio to enter television by name.
Changes in corporate ownership of Columbia came in 1982, when The Coca-Cola Company 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 were reunited under the CPT name.
In 1987, Coca-Cola spun off its entertainment holdings into a separate company called Columbia Pictures Entertainment. In 1989 Columbia Pictures was purchased by Sony Corporation of Japan. In 1991, Columbia Pictures Entertainment was renamed to Sony Pictures Entertainment as a film production-distribution subsidiary, and subsequently combined CPT with a revived TriStar Television in 1994 to form Columbia TriStar Television.
The television division today is presently known as Sony Pictures Television.
==Specialty feature film studio, 1999–present== On September 16, 2002, Columbia TriStar Television became Sony Pictures Television, while three years earlier, in 1999, Screen Gems was resurrected as a fourth specialty film producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, after Sony Pictures Classics, Triumph Films and Destination Films. Screen Gems produces and releases "films that fall between the wide-release movies traditionally developed and distributed by Columbia Pictures and those released by Sony Pictures Classics." Many of its releases are of the horror, thriller, action, and comedy genres, making the unit similar to Dimension Films (part of The Weinstein Company), Hollywood Pictures (part of the Walt Disney Company), and Rogue Pictures (currently owned by Relativity Media, but distributed by former owners Universal Studios).
The most-successful Screen Gems film commercially as of November 2010 was ''Resident Evil: Afterlife'', which grossed $296,221,566 in international box office receipts.
Title | ! Release Date | ! Notes |
''Limbo (film) | Limbo'' | June 4, 1999 |
''Arlington Road'' | July 9, 1999 | |
''Black and White (1999 film) | Black and White'' | April 5, 2000 |
''Timecode (film) | Timecode'' | April 28, 2000 |
''Girlfight'' | September 29, 2000 | |
''The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy'' | September 29, 2000 | |
''Snatch (film) | Snatch'' | January 19, 2001 |
''The Brothers (2001 film) | The Brothers | March 23, 2001 |
''The Forsaken (film) | The Forsaken'' | April 27, 2001 |
''Ghosts of Mars'' | August 24, 2001 | |
''Two Can Play That Game'' | September 7, 2001 | |
''The Mothman Prophecies (film) | The Mothman Prophecies'' | January 25, 2002 |
''Slackers (film) | Slackers'' | February 1, 2002 |
''Resident Evil (film) | Resident Evil'' | March 15, 2002 |
''Swept Away (2002 film) | Swept Away'' | October 11, 2002 |
''The 51st State'' | October 18, 2002 | |
''Half Past Dead'' | November 15, 2002 | |
''The Medallion'' | August 22, 2003 | |
''Underworld (2003 film) | Underworld'' | September 19, 2003 |
''In the Cut'' | October 31, 2003 | |
''You Got Served'' | January 30, 2004 | |
''Breakin' All the Rules'' | May 14, 2004 | |
''Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' | August 27, 2004 | |
''Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' | September 10, 2004 | |
''Boogeyman (film) | Boogeyman'' | February 4, 2005 |
''The Cave (film) | The Cave'' | August 26, 2005 |
''The Exorcism of Emily Rose'' | September 9, 2005 | |
''The Gospel (film) | The Gospel'' | October 7, 2005 |
''Underworld: Evolution'' | January 20, 2006 | |
''When a Stranger Calls (2006 film) | When a Stranger Calls'' | February 3, 2006 |
''Ultraviolet (film) | Ultraviolet'' | March 3, 2006 |
''The Covenant (film) | The Covenant'' | September 8, 2006 |
''Stomp the Yard'' | January 12, 2007 | |
''The Messengers (film) | The Messengers'' | February 2, 2007 |
''Vacancy (film) | Vacancy'' | April 20, 2007 |
''Hostel Part II | Hostel Part 2'' | June 8, 2007 |
''The Brothers Solomon'' | September 7, 2007 | |
''Resident Evil: Extinction '' | September 21, 2007 | |
''This Christmas (film) | This Christmas'' | November 21, 2007 |
''First Sunday'' | January 11, 2008 | |
''Untraceable'' | January 25, 2008 | |
''Outpost (2008 film) | Outpost'' | March 11, 2008 |
''Prom Night (2008 film) | Prom Night'' | April 11, 2008 |
''Wieners (film) | Wieners'' | June 3, 2008 |
''Lakeview Terrace'' | September 19, 2008 | |
''Quarantine (2008 film) | Quarantine'' | October 10, 2008 |
''Not Easily Broken'' | January 9, 2009 | |
''Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'' | January 23, 2009 | |
''Fired Up (film) | Fired Up'' | February 20, 2009 |
''Obsessed (2009 film) | Obsessed'' | April 24, 2009 |
''The Stepfather (2009 film) | The Stepfather'' | October 16, 2009 |
''Armored (film) | Armored'' | December 4, 2009 |
''Legion (2010 film) | Legion'' | January 22, 2010 |
''Dear John (2010 film) | Dear John'' | February 5, 2010 |
''Death at a Funeral (2010 film) | Death at a Funeral'' | April 16, 2010 |
''Takers'' | August 27, 2010 | |
''Resident Evil: Afterlife'' | September 10, 2010 | |
''Easy A'' | September 17, 2010 | |
''Burlesque (film) | Burlesque'' | November 24, 2010 |
''Country Strong'' | December 22, 2010 (limited); January 7, 2011 (wide) | |
''The Roommate'' | February 4, 2011 | |
''Priest (2011 film) | Priest'' | May 13, 2011 |
''Friends with Benefits (film) | Friends with Benefits'' | July 22, 2011 |
''Attack the Block'' | July 29, 2011 |
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