History of Screen Gems

Screen Gems

Screen Gems originally started out in the year 1940 as an animation studio, which then changed in 1946. Screen Gems then became a television subsidiary in 1948 to 1974 which helped in TV shows such as; Dennis the menace, Top Cat and The Jetsons. It then became the speciality film studio of the modern day in 1999 to 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, comedy and urban genres.


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.