Screen Gems

Screen Gems (in German about "Canvas Jewels ") is a U.S. subsidiary of the Columbia TriStar Film Group, which in turn belongs to Sony Pictures Entertainment. Fulfilling different roles for the parent companies.

• 2.1 produced by Screen Gems films

History

Cartoons studio: 1940-1946

For a full decade Charles B. Mintz drove his animated short films Krazy Kat, Scrappy and Color Rhapsody via Columbia Pictures. 1939 Mintz was so deep at Columbia in debt that he was forced to his studio at Columbia for sale. Under the new management the studio Screen Gems has been renamed. New head of the studio was initially Mintz ' former manager Jimmy Bronislaw, but soon by Mintz ' was replaced in-law George Winkler. As a result, Columbia decided to " clean " the house of the old clique, and sent to the main part of the staff, including Winkler. Instead of cartoon creators Frank Tashlin has been set, which in turn was soon replaced by Dave Fleischer. After various other successors took over Ray Katz and Henry Binder, who came from Warner Bros., this position. One of the animators, directors and writers included Art Davis, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham and later Bob Clampett.

Among the figures of the studio included Flippy, Willoughby Wren and Tito and his Burrito. The most successful was probably the duo The Fox and The Crow, which consisted of a refined fox and a wily crow.

Screen Gems is the American animation studio that produced the longest black -and-white cartoons. In order to keep production costs low, until 1946 no colored cartoons were produced - three years after the last competitor, Famous Studios and Termite Terrace, their last cartoons were produced in black and white. That same year, the studio finally closed its doors, though his cartoons was sold until 1949.

Compared to the cartoons of Disney, Warner Bros. and MGM productions of Screen Gems were only met with moderate success. The role that had taken over the studio within the Group, has been outsourced to the end to United Productions of America ( UPA), which were more successful both in commercial terms and with the critics with cartoon series such as Gerald McBoing - Boing or Mister Magoo.

Subsidiary television shows and television entertainment: 1948-1974

1948 Screen Gems was revived to operate as a subsidiary of Columbia in the television sector. It produced several popular shows and adopted (see below), including the Columbia Pictures ' film archive theater including the successful series The Three Stooges. They also acquired the rights to a parcel horror films from Universal, which gave the genre a huge resurrection. The remarkable final production of this policy by Screen Gems in 1974, was the miniseries QB VII

From 1958 to 1972, under the direction of the Vice President of Production, Harry Ackerman, sales Screen Gems, the classic situation comedies:

• Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show,
• Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun,
• The Monkees, Love, American Style, and The Partridge Family.

Towards the end of the 50's Screen Gems also joined in the broadcast business. Stations as KCPX ( Salt Lake City ), WVUE (New Orleans), WAPA (San Juan ), WNJU ( Linde, NJ) and other radio stations migrated over the years in the possession of Screen Gems.

In 1974, the name of Screen Gems was abandoned and from Columbia subsidiary was Columbia Pictures Television. 1982 came changes in the ownership of Columbia as the Coca -Cola Company, the Company bought out. However, it was operated under the CPT name on. The mid-1980s reorganized Coca -Cola its holdings to create Coca -Cola Television, CPT was merged with the television division of Embassy Communications to Columbia / Embassy Television, although both companies continued to use separate identity until they with TriStar Television under the 1988 CPT- names were reunited. 1989 were purchased by Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation, Japan. 1991 Columbia Pictures Entertainment was renamed to Sony Pictures Entertainment (as a film production sales subsidiary ) and later joined CPT with a revived TriStar Television in 1994 to form Columbia TriStar Television.

The television division is known as Sony Pictures Television today.

Selected TV shows

Television programs were produced by Screen Gems and / or transferred:

• Burns & Allen ( repetition of episodes; acquired by CBS television; 1953-1958 )
• Rin Tin Tin (1954-1959)
• Father Knows Best (1954-1960)
• Casey Jones ( co-production with Briskin Productions, 1957-1958 )
• Rescue 8 (1958-1960)
• Huckleberry Hound and Friends ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1958-1962 )
• The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966)
• Dennis the Menace (1959-1963)
• Quick Draw McGraw ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1959-1962 )
• The Three Stooges (1959-1974, was still on the air and was then by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television, and Sony Pictures Television sold )
• Route 66 (1960-1964)
• The Flintstones ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1960-1966 ) SG took over the series until 1974 and CPT 1974 to the early 80s; later, the series of World Vision and was then taken over by Turner Program Services, Warner Bros. Television is now the distributor
• The Yogi Bear Show ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1960-1963 )
• Top Cat ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1961-1962 )
• The Jetsons ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1962-1963; 1985-1987 were new episodes produced which were then distributed by World Vision )
• Hazel (1961-1966)
• The Farmer 's Daughter (1963-1966)
• Bewitched (1964-1972)
• Jonny Quest ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1964-1965; 1986-1988 were new episodes produced as part of the weekly Funtastic World of Hanna- Barbera and World Vision were expelled )
• Magilla Gorilla ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1964-1966 )
• Peter Potamus ( Produced by Hanna -Barbera Productions, 1964-1966 )
• Days of Our Lives ( Produced by Corday Productions from 1965 to 1974, is still on the air and was then produced by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television, and Sony Pictures Television )
• Camp Runamuck (1965-1966)
• Gidget (1965-1966)
• I Dream of Jeannie ( Produced by Sidney Sheldon Productions, 1965-1970 )
• Love on a Rooftop (1966-1967)
• The Monkees ( Produced by Raybert Productions, 1966-1968 )
• The Flying Nun (1967-1970)
• Love American Style (1969-1970) ( and Paramount Productions )
• The Johnny Cash Show (1969-1970)
• The Partridge Family (1970-1974)
• Bridget Loves Bernie (1972-1973)
• Temperatures Rising ( Produced by Ashmont Productions, 1972-1973 )
• The New Temperatures Rising Show ( Produced by Ashmont Productions, 1973-1974 )
• The Young and the Restless ( Produced by Bell Dramatic Serial Company, from 1973 to 1974, is still on the air and was then produced by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television, and Sony Pictures Television )
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973-1974)
• Police Story (1973-1974; then from 1974-1977 at Columbia Pictures Television)

Feature film production since 1999

Columbia TriStar Television was launched in September 2002, Sony Pictures Television. Three years earlier, in 1999, Screen Gems was revived as a second producer with a specialty in feature films, according to Sony Pictures Classics, Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. Similarly, Dimension Films produced and published Screen Gems affordable science fiction, horror, farce or ethnic movies with much higher target group of viewers than the average productions of Columbia TriStar. Although Screen Gems began as a sister studio, it performed better than Sony Pictures Classics.

The most commercially successful in 2006, Screen Gems movie was: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which grossed 136 661 432 U.S. $ revenue in the international box office.

Produced by Screen Gems films

• Arlington Road (1999)
• Girlfight (2000)
• Snatch - Pigs and Diamonds (2000)
• The Brothers (2001)
• The Forsaken (2001)
• Ghosts of Mars ( 2001)
• Two Can Play That Game ( 2001)
• Formula 51 (2002)
• Love and a Bullet ( 2002)
• When the smoke clears - Limbo (1999)
• The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Carried away by an unusual destiny in the azure sea in August (2002)
• In the Cut (2003)
• The Medallion (2003)
• Underworld (2003)
• Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
• Breakin ' All the Rules (2004)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Into the Sun (2004)
• Street Style ( You Got Served ) (2004 )
• Boogeyman (2005)
• The Cave (2005)
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose ( 2005)

• The Gospel (2005)
• Hostel ( 2006)
• Underworld: Evolution ( 2006)
• When a Stranger Calls (2006)
• Ultraviolet (2006)
• I 'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer ( 2006)
• Curse - The Grudge 2 (2006)
• Zombies (2006)
• The Messengers (2007)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• When a Stranger Calls 2 (2007)
• Motel ( Vacancy ) (2007 )
• The Stepfather (2008)
• Prince of Pistols (2008)
• Prom Night (2008)
• Underworld - Rise of the Lycans (2009)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife - in Digital 3D (2010)
• Easy A (2010)
• Burlesque (2010)
• The Roommate (2011)
• Friends with Benefits (2011)
• Priest ( in 3D converted) (2011)
• Underworld: Awakening ( in 3D) (2011)

EUE / Screen Gems

Screen Gems should not be confused with EUE / Screen Gems, which is the same "S" logo used. EUE / Screen Gems was founded by Frank Capra Jr.. You own film and television production facility in Wilmington, North Carolina and New York, New York. ( The WB drama Dawson 's Creek was filmed in the studio Wilmington and the soap opera Guiding Light has been included for many years in the New York studio until it was moved to the CBS Studio 2005, where it replaced the talk show Rachel Ray ). 1984 Capra bought the estate Screen Gems Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc, but apparently not the name because he was forced to make a slight change in the name of the company (hence the addition EUE). The letters " EW " are no shortcuts and apparently mean nothing.