Screen Gems

Screen Gems was an animation studio, then television production arm of Columbia Pictures, and now is a genre film imprint of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The name "Screen Gems" was derived the Columbia Pictures slogan "Gems of the Screen," itself a takeoff on 1843 candidate for the American national anthem: "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." As an animation studio, it was the home of Charles Mintz's Color Rhapsody, Krazy Kat, and Scrappy cartoons, but didn't see as much success compared to Disney, Warner Bros. and MGM. It later saw success as a television subsidiary, producing and distributing shows such as Bewitched, Dennis the Menace, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees, and The Flintstones. As an imprint of Sony Pictures, it is now home to mainly horror and low-budget films including the Resident Evil film series, the Underworld franchise, Attack the Block, and Easy A.