Screen Gems is an American film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. Started out as animation studio from 1921 to 1949 doing theatrical animated shorts for Columbia Pictures, then becomes a television studio after Columbia acquiring a very short-lived television commercial production company, Pioneer Telefilm (1947-1948) and reorganized to Screen Gems in 1948 before Screen Gems eventually stop doing theatrical animated shorts in 1949. Screen Gems was rebranded as Columbia Pictures Television in May 6, 1974. On December 8, 1998, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia's parent company since 1989) relaunched the "Screen Gems" brand as a film production division that specializes in genre films, mainly horror.
During Screen Gems' television studio years, it was the original distributor of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones, especially owning 18% of the animation studio from 1957 to 1966. But Screen Gems did distributed The Flintstone Comedy Hour in 1970, four years after its partnership with Hanna-Barbera Productions eventually ended and Screen Gems (especially after being rebranded as Columbia Pictures Television in 1974) still has the distribution rights to the original Flintstones TV series until 1987.
Screen Gems is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
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- In the episode, Dino Goes Hollyrock, the television studio, Screen Rocks Productions is a parody of Screen Gems.