Screen Gems

American film studio

This article is about the animation/television/feature film production company owned by Sony. For the New York company, see EUE/Screen Gems. For the album by Elkie Brooks, see Screen Gems (album).

Screen Gems

Product type| Animation (1921–1946)
Television (1948–1974)
Film (1998–present)
Owner| M. J. Winkler Productions (1921–1933)
Columbia Pictures (1933–1974)
Sony Pictures Entertainment (1998–present)
Country| United States
Introduced| 1921; 104 years ago (1921) (animation division)
November 1948; 76 years ago (1948-11) (television division)
December 8, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-12-08) (film division)
Discontinued| 1946; 79 years ago (1946) (animation division)
May 6, 1974; 51 years ago (1974-05-06) (television division)

Screen Gems is an American film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation.[1] Screen Gems has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation, initially as a cartoon studio, then a television studio, and later on as a film studio. Screen Gems currently serves as a Sony's film production division that specializes in genre films, mainly horror.[2]

Screen Gems is currently one of the five live-action labels of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, alongside Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and 3000 Pictures.

## Animation studio (1921–1946)

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Screen GemsFormerly| M.J. Winkler Pictures (1921–1926)
Winkler Pictures (1926–1931)
The Charles Mintz Studio (1931–1933)

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Industry| Animation
Founded| 1921; 104 years ago (1921)
Founder| Margaret J. Winkler
Defunct| 1946; 79 years ago (1946)
Successor| Sony Pictures Animation (theatrical shorts)
Headquarters|

New York City, New York (1921–1931)
Los Angeles, California (1931-1946)

United States

Key people

| Margaret J. Winkler
Charles Mintz
Frank Tashlin
Dave Fleischer
Henry Binder
Ray Katz
Products| Short films

Production output

| Animation
Parent| Columbia Pictures (1931-1946)

### Early years (1921–1933)

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When producer Pat Sullivan came to Harry Warner to sign a contract with him on his and Otto Messmer's series Felix the Cat, he declined and instead told his soon-to-be former secretary Margaret J. Winkler that she should form her own company and take control of the distribution of the series. Winkler formed M.J. Winkler Productions and soon also took control of Max and Dave Fleischer's series Out of the Inkwell. By 1923 she and Sullivan were arguing, and that same year the Fleischer Brothers formed their own distribution company named Red Seal. Winkler saw an unreleased short called Alice's Wonderland, a cartoon produced and directed by Walt Disney, and became impressed with the short. The two agreed to make a series about the cartoon. In 1924, Charles Mintz married Winkler, and the latter's career began to decline. Mintz quickly assumed Winkler's role in the company, later rebranding it Winkler Pictures.

In 1925 Winkler's renewal contract for the Felix shorts was written, yet Winkler declined to renew due to her dispute with Sullivan. The following year the Alice Comedies stopped being distributed by Winkler. After Mintz become involved with the progress it was clear that Disney was unhappy with the production costs on cartoons, and he asked Disney and Ub Iwerks to develop a new character. The result was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the first animated character for Universal Pictures.[3] In February 1928, when the character proved more successful than expected, Disney sought to meet with Mintz over the budget, wanting to spend more on the cartoons. Mintz refused, and hired away all of Walt Disney Studios's animators except Iwerks, Les Clark, and Johnny Cannon, who all refused to leave Disney. He moved the production of the Oswald cartoons to Winkler Pictures, along with Margaret Winkler's brother, George. After losing the Oswald contract to Walter Lantz, Mintz focused on Krazy Kat (a character from a comic strip by cartoonist George Herriman), which was the output of a Winkler-distributed property.

M.J. Winkler Productions became known as Winkler Pictures after Mintz took over in 1926 and partnered with Columbia Pictures for distribution in 1929. In 1931, when the studio moved from New York to California, it was renamed The Charles Mintz Studio.[4]

### Becoming Screen Gems (1933–1942)

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The Charles Mintz studio became known as Screen Gems in 1933. The name was originally used in 1933, when Columbia Pictures acquired a stake in Charles Mintz's animation studio.[5] The name was derived from an early Columbia Pictures slogan, "Gems of the Screen"; itself a takeoff on the song "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean".[6] Mintz was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject. His first nomination was in 1935 for Holiday Land, and he was nominated again in 1937 for The Little Match Girl. For about a decade, Charles Mintz produced Krazy Kat, Scrappy, and the Color Rhapsody animated short series Columbia Pictures. Also, between 1936 to 1940, several Color Rhapsody films were subcontracted to Ub Iwerks with the use of his own animation studio.

The studio's color cartoons were well received, while some other cartoons were not, mainly the later Krazy Kat and Scrappy shorts. Animator Isidore Klein was particularly frustrated with the Krazy Kat cartoons as it bear little resemblance to Herriman's comic strip by the mid-1930s (despite attempting to make a more faithful cartoon with the 1936 short Lil' Ainjil, which Klein was disappointed by the final product).[7] Furthermore, Columbia gave Mintz strict financial obligations where they advance a certain amount of money, resulting Mintz repeatedly running into cost overruns.[8] In 1939, after becoming indebted to Columbia and suffering from declining health, Mintz relinquished ownership of his studio and the Screen Gems name to Columbia to settle longstanding financial problems.[9] He would later pass away on December 30, 1939, from a heart attack. Both Krazy Kat and Scrappy’s series ended that year and were replaced by the Phantasy and Fable cartoons in which they were both featured in.

By 1940, Columbia would oversee management of the studio following ownership. The studio's production manager, Jimmy Bronis, became the studio head but was shortly replaced by Mintz's brother-in-law, George Winkler. The following year, Columbia decided to hire Frank Tashlin, previously a writer for Walt Disney Productions and director for Leon Schlesinger Productions, as the studio head instead.[10] Tashlin had a profound effect to the studio as he planned to revitalize it to greater heights. There, he would hire many displaced animators from the 1941 Disney animators' strike, as well as making the decision of firing the bulk of their initial in-house staff (including Arthur Davis, Manny Gould, Lou Lilly, Ben Harrison and Winkler). He would also direct the short The Fox and the Grapes. Based on the Aesop fable of the same name, the short would inadvertently spawn Columbia's most successful characters with The Fox and the Crow, a comic duo of a refined Fox and a street-wise Crow. Tashlin was later replaced by Ben Schwalb as producer in April 1942, but continued to work there as a creative supervisor.[11]

### Decline and closure (1942–1946)

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Tashlin proved to be very influential to his staff, as he allowed and encouraged them to pursue the wildest of ideas under his supervision. However, his stay at Screen Gems would be short-lived, as he would later leave the studio in June following an argument with Columbia higher-ups.[11][12] When interviewed by Michael Barrier, he said that the management "can't stay happy long when things are going well, so we ended up in another fracas and I left."[10] He was replaced by Dave Fleischer (first credited as producer on the 1942 WWII short Song of Victory under Tashlin's supervision), previously the co-founder and head supervisor of Fleischer Studios. John Hubley described Fleischer as being very detached from his employees, calling him "one of the world's intellectual lightweights". He was also known for editing completed cartoons in a way that broke continuity.[13] He was later fired and succeeded by a revolving door of producers, including musician Paul Worth, Three Stooges producer Hugh McCollum and ex-Schlesinger assistants Ray Katz and Henry Binder. The studio would also create several more recurring characters around this time, including Tito and His Burrito, Flippy, Flop the Cat, Igor Puzzlewitz, Willoughby Wren, and an adaptation of Al Capp's comic series Li'l Abner, with varying levels of success.

Tashlin's departure had an immediate effect to the studio in a direction standpoint, with animation historians noting that the quality of there cartoons had declined soon after. Film historian Leonard Maltin claimed that after Tashlin left, the studio "tried to maintain some spirit on-screen, with varying results. Screen Gems cartoons of the 1940s feature some of the least endearing cartoon characters ever created, and suffer from misguided story direction," which was seen in shorts such as Mass Mouse Meeting (1943) and Giddy-Yapping (1944).[14] Hubley, who went on to direct Professor Tall and Mr. Small, He Can't Make It Stick and The Rocky Road to Ruin (all 1943) with Paul Sommer, said to have disliked his work at the studio, and that Columbia "hated" the cartoons they were making.[13] Capp was also reportedly displeased with the quality of the Li'l Abner cartoons, which was discontinued after five cartoons,[15] and the shorts produced by Katz and Binder were criticized for being "pale carbons of the Warner Brothers shorts,"[16] to the point of creating characters strikingly similar in appearance to Sylvester the Cat and Daffy Duck.[17]

In addition to Tashlin's departure, many of the ex-Disney animators that he hired also left for other studios; the inability to hire and maintain more experienced directors and storymen, as well as Columbia's mismanagement were also argued as other key factors to the studios diminished quality. Some staff members during this period included Bob Wickersham, Alec Geiss, Sid Marcus (one of the few pre-Tashlin artists who stayed in the studio), Howard Swift and Alex Lovy. Bob Clampett was also brought in as a gag writer before setting up his own brief animation studio for Republic Pictures, while Looney Tune writers Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce were said to have moonlighted for a few cartoons.[18][19]

Screen Gems was, 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, Columbia, still dissatisfied with the studio's output, decided to shut its doors for good, continuing to release the remaining shorts until 1949.[20] The studio name was later repurposed for a television division, while the former Seward Street facility, which Screen Gems occupied since 1940, was taken over by Walter Lantz Productions in 1947.[21]

### Legacy

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The Screen Gems cartoons were regarded as ones of varying quality, comparable to those produced by Famous Studios and Terrytoons. In spite of the studio's internal affairs, the Screen Gems' cartoons were still moderately successful, with three more cartoons achieving Academy Awards nominations. The cartoons produced and supervised by Tashlin were also praised for his attempts at revitalizing the studio. However, Screen Gems never achieved a level of success comparable to Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walter Lantz Productions and the MGM Cartoon Studio. 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. Following UPA, a deal with Hanna-Barbera was made in 1957, which lasted until 1967.

In 1999, Columbia TriStar International Television produced Totally Tooned In\- a syndicated TV package showcasing Columbia's classic cartoon library. With the aid of animation historian Jerry Beck, Columbia restored and remastered the majority of the color Screen Gems cartoons (as well as all the UPA cartoons) from their original 35mm elements. The show aired in several international markets before making its American television debut on Antenna TV on January 8, 2011. They would later be aired on Toon In With Me on the MeTV Network in November 2021.[22] Despite these restoration efforts, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has no current plans to release these shorts on DVD or Blu-ray. Since CPE Holdings, Inc. became dormant on May 9, 2024, Sony Pictures Releasing now owns the theatrical distribution on behalf of Columbia Pictures, while Sony Pictures Television owns the television distribution on behalf of CPT Holdings, Inc. to the majority of the color Screen Gems cartoons (as well as all the UPA cartoons) library.

### Theatrical short film series

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All series were distributed by Columbia unless otherwise noted.[23]

* Krazy Kat (1925–39) (Inherited from Bray Productions)
* Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1928–29) (moved from Disney then moved to Walter Lantz)
* Toby the Pup (1930–31) (Distributed by RKO)
* Scrappy (1931–39)
* Color Rhapsodies (1934–49)
* Barney Google (1935–36)
* Fables (1939–42)
* Phantasies (1939–48)
* The Fox and the Crow (1943–46)
* Li'l Abner (1944)
* Flippy (1946–47)

## Television subsidiary (1948–1974)

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Screen Gems Television

Final logo, used from 1965 to 1974. This logo was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar.[24]

Company type| Subsidiary
Industry| Television production
Television syndication
Predecessor| Pioneer Telefilms (1947–1948)
Founded| November 1948; 76 years ago (1948-11)
Founder| Ralph Cohn
Defunct| May 6, 1974; 51 years ago (1974-05-06)
Fate| Renamed as Columbia Pictures Television
Successors| Studio:
Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001)
Library:
NBCUniversal Syndication Studios
(pre-1948 Universal Pictures library only)
Warner Bros. Television Studios
(pre-1969 Hanna-Barbera library only)
Headquarters|

New York City, Los Angeles, California

United States

Area served

| Worldwide
Parent| Columbia Pictures

### Early years (1948–1954)

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Ralph Cohn, the son of Columbia co-founder Jack Cohn and nephew of Columbia head Harry Cohn, founded Pioneer Telefilms, a television commercial production company, in 1947. Ralph later wrote a 50-page memo arguing that Columbia should be the first major film studio to move into television. Although Harry wasn't convinced by the suggestion, Columbia invested $50,000 acquiring Pioneer and reorganized it as Screen Gems.[25] The studio started its new business in New York on April 15, 1949.[26]

By 1951, Screen Gems became a full-fledged television studio by producing and syndicating several popular shows (see below). Within a few months, Ralph Cohn had sold a half-hour dramatic anthology concept to the Ford Motor Company which became Ford Theatre, which was one of the first times a major Hollywood movie studio had produced content for television. They also produced seven episodes of the first season of Cavalcade of America.[27][28]

The name "Screen Gems," at the time, was used to hide the fact that the film studio was entering television production and distribution. Many film studios saw television as a threat to their business, thus it was expected that they would shun the medium. However, Columbia was one of a few studios who branched out to television under a pseudonym to conceal the true ownership of the television arm. That is until 1955, when Columbia decided to use the woman from its logo under the Screen Gems banner, officially billing itself as a part of "the Hollywood studios of Columbia Pictures", as spoken in announcements at the end of some Screen Gems series.

By 1952, the studio had produced a series of about 100 film-record coordinated releases for television under the brand "TV Disk Jockey Toons" in which the films "synchronize perfectly with the records".[29]

### Rising success (1954–1968)

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In 1954, the studio started producing Father Knows Best on CBS and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin on ABC, which became their biggest successes at the time.[25]

On July 1, 1956, studio veteran Irving Briskin stepped down as stage manager of Columbia Pictures and formed his own production company Briskin Productions, Inc. to release series through Screen Gems and supervise all of its productions.[30] On December 10, 1956, Screen Gems expanded into television syndication by acquiring Hygo Television Films (a.k.a. Serials Inc.) and its affiliated company United Television Films, Inc. Hygo Television Films was founded in 1951 by Jerome Hyams, who also acquired United Television Films in 1955 that was founded by Archie Mayers.[31]

During that year, the studio began syndicating Columbia Pictures' theatrical film library to television, including the series of two-reel short subjects starring The Three Stooges in 1957. Earlier on August 2, 1957, they also acquired syndication rights to "Shock Theater", a package of Universal Pictures horror films (later shifted to MCA TV), which was enormously successful in reviving that genre.[32] The company also distributed Universal Pictures' other films (pre-1948 sound films) around that time.[33]

From 1958 to 1974, under President John H. Mitchell and Vice President of Production Harry Ackerman, Screen Gems delivered TV shows and sitcoms: 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, The Girl with Something Extra and The Partridge Family.

It was also the first distributor for Hanna-Barbera Productions, an animation studio founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was also the distributor of the Soupy Sales show. The company also entered a co-production deal with Canada's CTV Television Network and produced several shows, many of which were filmed or taped in Toronto for distribution to Canadian stations (Showdown, The Pierre Berton Show).[citation needed] The company even expanded as far as Australia, opening Screen Gems Australia to produce shows for that country's networks, including The Graham Kennedy Show for the Nine Network.[34]

In the late 1950s, Screen Gems also entered into ownership and operation of television stations. Stations owned by Screen Gems over the years included KCPX (Salt Lake City; now KTVX, owned by Nexstar Media Group), WVUE-DT (New Orleans; now owned by Gray Television), WAPA-TV (San Juan; now owned by the Hemisphere Media Group), WNJU (Linden, NJ; now Telemundo/NBCUniversal O&O), and several radio stations as well, including 50,000-watt clear channel WWVA (Wheeling, WV; now owned by iHeartMedia). As a result, in funding its acquisitions, 18% of Screen Gems' shares was spun off from Columbia and it became a publicly traded company on the NYSE until 1968. Screen Gems also provided technical assistance and partial control of a private television station in Venezuela, Canal 11 Televisión, which existed from 1966 to 1968.[35][36]

In 1963, William Dozier, who was one of the top Screen Gems employees, and senior vice president of production left to start out Greenway Productions, with a non-exclusive agreement with the studio for joint distribution of its TV productions.[37] Even though none of Greenway's shows went to SG, Greenway immediately struck out a deal with rival television producer 20th Century-Fox Television in 1964.[38]

In 1963, Screen Gens entered music publishing with the purchase of Don Kirshner's Aldon Music with Kirshner named head of the Columbia-Screen Gems music division. Four years later, he departed Screen Gems after coming into conflict with The Monkees over their desire to play on their records. Lester Sill replaced Kirshner, and remained head of music publishing until 1985. Screen Gems-Columbia Music was sold to EMI for $23.5 million in 1976.

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.

For the 1965–1966 season, Screen Gems announced that they would sign three big creative programmers to develop new series, which was announced in June 1964. Among them was writer Sidney Sheldon, director Hy Averback, and writer David Swift.[39]

In 1965, Columbia Pictures acquired a fifty per cent interest in the New York-based commercial production company EUE, which was incorporated into Screen Gems and renamed EUE/Screen Gems. The studios were sold in 1982 to longtime Columbia Pictures executive George Cooney shortly after Columbia Pictures was sold to The Coca-Cola Company.

### Merger with Columbia Pictures and reincorporation as Columbia Pictures Television (1968–1974)

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On December 23, 1968, Screen Gems merged with its parent company Columbia Pictures Corporation and became part of the newly formed Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. for $24.5 million.[40]

In the following year, former ABC vice president of programming Leonard Goldberg joined Screen Gems, displacing Jackie Cooper as vice president of program development.[41] Goldberg failed to receive the same level of success as Cooper. His shows all tanked after one season, with the exception of The Partridge Family, and he abruptly left after three years, with the most notable other production of Goldberg's tenure at Screen Gems being the 1971 television movie Brian's Song. He then formed a production company with producer Aaron Spelling.[42]

In 1971, Douglas S. Cramer, former executive VP in charge of production at Paramount Television, set up a SG-affiliated production firm, The Douglas S. Cramer Company, to produce projects for feature films and TV projects via Columbia Pictures.[43] In 1972, David Gerber, who had left 20th Century Fox Television, set up a SG-affiliated production company to produce his own projects with that company. The most notable of these productions was Police Story, an NBC police crime drama.[42] In 1973, Allan Blye and Chris Bearde via Blye-Bearde Productions signed an independent production agreement with Screen Gems to develop their own projects.[44] Also that year, Harry Ackerman, who was vice president of production left the studio to start his own production company to be affiliated with Paramount Television.[45]

On May 6, 1974, Screen Gems was renamed to Columbia Pictures Television as suggested by then-studio president David Gerber, who succeeded Art Frankel as his studio president.[46] The final notable production from this incarnation of Screen Gems before the name change was the 1974 miniseries QB VII. Columbia was, technically, the last major studio to enter television by name.

### Later years and aftermath

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Changes in corporate ownership of Columbia came in 1982, when Coca-Cola 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 January 2, 1988, when it and Tri-Star Television were merged under the CPT name.[47] Columbia also ran Colex Enterprises, a joint venture with LBS Communications to distribute most of the Screen Gems library, which ended in 1987.[48] In 1985, the name was brought back by Columbia Pictures Television to distribute classic television series from its vaults to first-run syndication.[49]

On December 18, 1987, Coca-Cola spun off its entertainment holdings and sold it to Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. for $3.1 billion. It was renamed as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc., also creating Columbia/Tri-Star by merging Columbia and Tri-Star. Both studios continued to produce and distribute films under their separate names.[50] In 1989, Sony Corporation of Japan purchased Columbia Pictures Entertainment. On August 11, 1991, Columbia Pictures Entertainment was renamed as Sony Pictures Entertainment as a film production-distribution subsidiary and subsequently combined CPT with a revived TriStar Television on February 21, 1994 to form Columbia TriStar Television. The name "Screen Gems" was also utilized for a syndicated hour-long program for classic television called Screen Gems Network that first aired in 1999 and ran until 2002.[51]

The television division is presently known as Sony Pictures Television.

### Television series

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Television programs produced and/or syndicated by Screen Gems:

* The Ford Television Theatre (1948–1957)[27][52][53]
* Cavalcade of America[27]
* The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (syndicated reruns of filmed episodes from 1952 to 1958)
* Art Linkletter's House Party (produced by John Guedel, 1952–1969)
* Captain Midnight [later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando] (1954–1956)
* The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (produced by Herbert B. Leonard, 1954–1959)
* Father Knows Best (1954–1960; Sony surrendered the rights to the estate of Robert Young) (CBS (1954–1955, 1958–1960)/NBC (1955–1958))
* Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–1957)
* Treasure Hunt (1956–1959)
* Playhouse 90 (selected filmed episodes, 1956–1960)
* Celebrity Playhouse (1955–1956)
* Jungle Jim (1955–1956)
* Ranch Party (1957–1958)
* Jefferson Drum (produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions) (1958)
* The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966; Sony surrendered the rights to the estate of Donna Reed) (ABC)
* Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
* Naked City (produced by Herbert B. Leonard) (1958–1963; Sony surrendered the rights to the estate of Herbert B. Leonard; produced by Shelle Productions) (ABC)
* Behind Closed Doors (1958–1959) (NBC)
* Tightrope (1959–1960) (CBS)
* Dennis the Menace (1959–1963) (CBS)
* The Three Stooges [190 two-reel short films produced 1934–1958] (1959–1974; distributed thereafter by other Columbia/Sony divisions)
* Two Faces West (1960–1961); syndicated
* My Sister Eileen (1960–1961)(CBS)
* Route 66 (produced by Herbert B. Leonard) (1960–1964; Sony surrendered the rights to the estate of Herbert B. Leonard; produced by Lancer-Edling Productions) (CBS)
* Hazel (1961–1966) (NBC (1961-1965), CBS (1965-1966))
* Shannon (1961-1962) (Syndication)
* Line 'em Up (1962-1963) (CTV)
* Empire (1962–1963; produced by Wilrich Productions) (NBC)
* Our Man Higgins (1962–1963; produced by The First Company of Writers) (ABC)
* Grindl (1963–1964; produced by David Swift Productions)
* The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966; Based on the 1947 movie produced by RKO Pictures) (ABC)
* Bewitched (1964–1972; produced by Ashmont Productions 1971–1972)
* Days of Our Lives (produced by Corday Productions 1965–1974; produced thereafter by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television)
* Camp Runamuck (1965–1966)
* Gidget (1965–1966)
* The Soupy Sales Show (1965–1966; produced by WNEW-TV in New York City)
* I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970; produced by Sidney Sheldon Productions) (NBC)
* Morning Star (1965–1966; in conjunction with Corday Productions)
* The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965–1966)
* Hawk (1966)
* Love on a Rooftop (1966–1967)
* The Monkees (1966–1968; produced by Raybert Productions; currently owned by Warner Music Group through Rhino Entertainment, with Sony Pictures Television retaining syndication distribution)
* Adventures of the Seaspray (1967; produced by Pacific Films)
* Everybody's Talking (1967)
* The Flying Nun (1967–1970)
* The Second Hundred Years (1967–1968)
* Here Come the Brides (1968–1970)
* The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968–1969)
* The Johnny Cash Show (1969–1970)
* Playboy After Dark (1969–1970; produced by Playboy Enterprises)
* Nancy (1970–1971; produced by Sidney Sheldon Productions)
* The Partridge Family (1970–1974)
* The Young Rebels (1970–1971; produced by Aaron Spelling)
* Getting Together (1971–1972)
* The Good Life (1971–1972; produced by Lorimar Television)
* Bridget Loves Bernie (1972–1973)
* Ghost Story (1972–1973; produced by William Castle Productions)
* The Paul Lynde Show (1972–1973; produced by Ashmont Productions)
* Temperatures Rising (1972–1973; produced by Ashmont Productions)
* Needles and Pins (1973)
* The New Temperatures Rising Show (1973–1974; produced by Ashmont Productions)
* The Young and the Restless (produced by Bell Dramatic Serial Company and Corday Productions 1973–1974; produced thereafter by Columbia Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television)
* Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973–1974)
* Police Story (produced by David Gerber Productions 1973–1974; produced thereafter by Columbia Pictures Television from 1974 to 1977)
* The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974)
* Sale of the Century (1973–1974)
* That's My Mama (1974–1975; Slated to be a Screen Gems production but produced by its successor; Columbia Pictures Television)[46]
* Nakia (1974–1975; Slated to be a Screen Gems production but produced by its successor; Columbia Pictures Television)[54]
* Police Woman (1974–1978; Slated to be a Screen Gems production but produced by its successor; Columbia Pictures Television)[54]
* Born Free (1974–1975; Slated to be a Screen Gems production but produced by its successor; Columbia Pictures Television)[54]

### Films

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* Head (1968; based on The Monkees)

### Hanna-Barbera Productions

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#### TV series / specials

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Note: (*)= Currently owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros.

* The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957–1960)*
* The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958–1961)*
* The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959–1961)*
* The Flintstones (1960–1966)*
* The Yogi Bear Show (1961–1962)*
* Top Cat (1961–1962)*
* The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962–1963)*
* The Jetsons (1962–1963)*
* The Magilla Gorilla Show (1964–1967)*
* Jonny Quest (1964–1965)*
* The Peter Potamus Show (1964–1966)*
* The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (1965–1967)*
* Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966)*
* Space Ghost and Dino Boy (1966–1967)*
* The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-1972)*
* The Flintstone Comedy Hour/The Flintstone Comedy Show (1972-1974)*
* Yogi's Ark Lark (1972)*
* Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (1972)
* Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family (1972)
* Jeannie (1973)
* Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (1974)

#### Theatrical shorts and films

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Note: (*) = Currently owned by Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros.

* Loopy De Loop (1959–1964; theatrical shorts)*
* Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964; feature film based on The Yogi Bear Show)*
* The Man Called Flintstone (1966; feature film based on The Flintstones)*

### Briskin Productions

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* Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
* Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
* Casey Jones (1958)
* The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966; full rights belong to the estate of Donna Reed since 2008)
* Manhunt (1959–1961)

## Specialty feature film studio (1998–present)

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Screen Gems, Inc.

Logo and byline used since 1999 and 2014, respectively

Company type| Division[1]
Industry| Film
Predecessor| Triumph Films
Founded| December 8, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-12-08)[55]
Headquarters| 10202 West Washington Boulevard,

Culver City, California

United States

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Ashley Brucks (President)
Parent| Sony Pictures Entertainment
Subsidiaries| Scream Gems

On December 8, 1998, Screen Gems was resurrected as a fourth speciality film-producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. It was created after Triumph Films closed.[55] Screen Gems produces and releases "films that fall between the wide-release films traditionally developed and distributed by Columbia Pictures and those released by Sony Pictures Classics".[56] Many of its releases are of the horror,[2] thriller, action, drama, comedy and urban genres, making the unit similar to Dimension Films (part of Lantern Entertainment), Hollywood Pictures and Searchlight Pictures (divisions of The Walt Disney Company), and Rogue Pictures (when it was formally owned by Relativity Media and before that, Universal Pictures).

As of 2023, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) is Screen Gems' highest-grossing film with over $300 million dollars worldwide in box office earnings.

### Film library

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Main article: List of Screen Gems films

## References

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1. ^ a b "Divisions". Sony Pictures. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
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* Archive of Screen Gems President John H. Mitchell[usurped]
* The Columbia Crow's Nest – site dedicated to the Screen Gems animation studio.

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* t
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Sony

History

Founders|

* Masaru Ibuka
* Akio Morita

Primary businesses|

* Sony Corporation
* Sony Semiconductor Solutions
* Sony Entertainment
* Sony Music Group
* Entertainment
* Publishing
* Sony Pictures
* Sony Financial Group
* Sony Life
* Sony Bank
* Sony Interactive Entertainment
* PlayStation
* Sony Music Entertainment Japan
* Aniplex
* A-1 Pictures
* CloverWorks
* Hayate Inc.

Technologies
and brands|

* α (Alpha)
* Archival Disc
* Betacam
* Bionz
* Blu-ray
* Bravia
* CD
* Cell
* Cyber-shot
* Dash
* Dream Machine
* DVD
* Exmor
* FeliCa
* Handycam
* HDCAM/HDCAM-SR
* HMZ-T1
* Inzone
* LocationFree
* Memory Stick
* MiniDisc
* MiniDV
* MicroMV
* mylo
* PlayNow
* PlayStation
* Reader
* S/PDIF
* SDDS
* 8 channel films
* Sony Entertainment Network
* SXRD
* Sony Tablet
* Tunnel diode
* TransferJet
* UMD
* Vaio
* Video8/Hi8/Digital8
* Vision-S
* Walkman
* XDCAM
* Xperia

Historical products|

* AIBO
* CV-2000
* DAT
* Betamax
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* Discman
* Jumbotron
* Lissa
* Mavica
* NEWS
* Optiarc
* PVM-4300
* Qualia
* Rolly
* TR-55
* Trinitron
* FD series
* 1 inch Type C
* U-matic
* Vaio
* Watchman
* WEGA

Electronics|

* Sony Creative Software
* FeliCa Networks (57%)

Online distribution
platforms|

* PlayStation Network
* PlayStation Plus
* PlayStation Store
* Sony Pictures Core
* SonyLIV
* Crunchyroll
* mora
* Great American Pure Flix (joint venture with Great American Media)

| Former/Defunct|

* Sony Entertainment Network
* Sony Connect
* PlayNow
* PlayStation Now
* PlayStation Video
* PlayStation Vue
* Anime Digital Network
* Anime on Demand
* AnimeLab
* Crackle
* Minisodes
* Funimation
* PressPlay
* VRV
* Wakanim

|

Other businesses|

* Sony DADC
* Sony Network Communications
* Sony Professional Solutions
* Sony Honda Mobility (50%)
* M3 (39.4%)
* Vaio (4.9%)

Other assets|

* Sony Corporation of America (umbrella company in the US)
* Other subsidiaries
* List of acquisitions
* List of libraries

Nonprofit organizations|

* Sony Institute of Higher Education Shohoku College

Other|

* Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor
* Sony timer

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Sony Pictures

Key personnel|

* Tony Vinciquerra
* Tom Rothman

Motion
Picture Group|

* Columbia Pictures
* Ghost Corps
* TriStar Pictures
* TriStar Productions
* Screen Gems
* Classics
* Imageworks
* Animation
* Worldwide Acquisitions
* Destination Films
* Stage 6 Films
* Affirm Films
* Great American Pure Flix
* Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* Sony Pictures Kids Zone

Television|

| U.S. production|

* Embassy Row
* Great American Pure Flix

|

International production|

* Bad Wolf
* Eleven
* Left Bank Pictures
* Curio Pictures
* Sony Pictures Television Kids
* Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction
* The Intellectual Property Corporation
* 19 Entertainment
* Sharp Entertainment
* Stellify Media
* Stolen Picture
* Teleset

* v
* t
* e

Sony Pictures TV channels

Sony Channel|

* United States
* Sony Movies
* Cine Sony
* Latin America

AXN|

* Brazil
* Latin America
* Portugal
* AXN White
* AXN Movies
* AXN Now
* Spain
* AXN Movies
* AXN Now

Others|

* Game Show Network
* Get

Former|

| Sony Channel|

* Baltics
* Sony Sci-Fi
* Sony Turbo
* Germany
* Sony AXN
* Russia
* Sony Sci-Fi
* Sony Turbo
* Turkey
* Sony Çocuk
* Sony Max (Hungary)
* Sony Movie Channel (Hungary)
* Sony One

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Others|

* Animax
* Japan
* Middle East
* Southeast Asia
* Taiwan
* AXN
* Adria
* Hungary
* Southeast Asia
* Taiwan
* AXN Black
* CEE
* AXN White
* CEE
* AXN Now
* Hungary
* AXN Spin
* Crackle
* Film1
* Film1 Action
* Film1 Drama
* Film1 Family
* Film1 Premiere
* Gem
* Hollywood Suite
* Kids Station
* Planet Mutfak
* Planet Türk
* Viasat Hungary
* Viasat 3
* Viasat 6

Defunct|

* 3net
* Animax
* CEE
* Germany
* Latin America
* Portugal
* South Africa
* Spain
* AXN
* Israel
* Italy
* AXN Beyond
* AXN Black
* Portugal
* AXN Crime
* AXN Sci-Fi
* CEE
* Italy
* Cine Sony
* Italy
* BeTV
* Fearnet
* Film1 Festival
* Film1 Sundance
* Hooq
* Locomotion
* Pop (Italy)
* Sony Channel
* Southeast Asia
* Sony Max
* Sony Spin

* v
* t
* e

Sony Pictures Networks

Hindi|

* Sony Entertainment Television
* Sony Max
* Sony Max 2
* Sony Pal
* Sony Sab
* Sony Wah

English|

* Sony Pix

Bengali|

* Sony Aath

Marathi|

* Sony Marathi

Sports|

* Sony Sports Ten
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5

Children's|

* Sony Yay

Factual|

* Sony BBC Earth (50%; Joint venture with BBC Studios)

Online VOD|

* Sony LIV

International channels|

* Sony Kal

Former|

* Animax
* AXN
* Sony ESPN (50%; joint venture with ESPN Inc.)
* Sony Le Plex HD
* Sony Mix
* Sony Rox HD
* TEN Cricket International

* v
* t
* e

Television channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland operated by Sony Pictures Television

Currently broadcasting but sold to another company|

Narrative Capital Partners LLC

Great! TV
Great! Movies
Great! Action
Great! Romance
Pop
Tiny Pop

Former|

Bliss
Flava
More Than Movies
Movies4Men
Movies4Men 2
Pop Girl
Scuzz
Sony Crime Channel
True Crime
True Drama
True Entertainment
True Movies
True Movies 2
TruTV

Sold and later closed|

Pop Max
Starz TV
Trace Hits
Trace Latina
Trace Vault

Miscellaneous|

* Sony Pictures Television
* CSC Media Group
* animaxtv.co.uk (VOD, defunct)
* Funimation

Other|

* Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
* Crunchyroll, LLC (with Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex)
* Crunchyroll
* Crunchyroll EMEA
* Crunchyroll SAS
* Crunchyroll SA
* Crunchyroll GmbH
* Crunchyroll Films
* Crunchyroll Games LLC
* Crunchyroll Studios
* Crunchyroll Store Australia
* Crunchyroll UK and Ireland
* Nozomi Entertainment
* Digital
* Mobile
* Entertainment Japan
* Studios
* Madison Gate Records

Defunct/Former|

* 2waytraffic
* Adelaide Productions
* AnimeLab
* Anime on Demand
* Columbia Pictures Television
* Columbia TriStar Television
* Crackle
* The Minisode Network
* Culver Entertainment
* ELP Communications
* Funimation
* Jim Henson Pictures
* Kazé
* Merv Griffin Enterprises
* Right Stuf
* Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group
* TriStar Television
* Triumph Films
* VRV
* Wakanim

* v
* t
* e

Columbia Pictures

A division of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group.

Predecessors|

* Independent Moving Pictures
* CBC Film Sales Corporation

Film subsidiaries|

* Ghost Corps

Defunct/former assets|

* Screen Gems
* Gottlieb
* Colpix Records
* Colgems Records
* Bell Records
* Arista Records

People|

* Sanford Panitch

See also|

* Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc.
* Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung
* Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
* Columbia Pictures Television
* Columbia TriStar Television
* Sony Pictures
* Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
* Sony Pictures Releasing
* Sony Pictures Television

List of films
Film serials
1922–39
1940–49
1950–59
1960–69
1970–79
1980–89
1990–99
2000–09
2010–19
2020–29

* v
* t
* e

Film studios in the United States and Canada

Majors|

| Universal Studios|

* Universal Pictures
* Focus Features
* Carnival Films
* Working Title Films
* United International Pictures (50%)
* Amblin Partners (20%)
* Amblin Entertainment
* DreamWorks Pictures

|

Paramount Skydance Corporation|

* Paramount Pictures
* Paramount Players
* Republic Pictures
* Miramax (49%)
* Awesomeness Films
* BET Films
* MTV Entertainment Studios
* Nickelodeon Movies
* Skydance Media
* United International Pictures (50%)
* Viacom18 Studios (13.01%)

|

Walt Disney Studios|

* Walt Disney Pictures
* 20th Century Studios
* 20th Century Family
* Marvel Studios
* Lucasfilm
* Star Studios
* Regency Enterprises (20%)
* Searchlight Pictures
* Disneynature
* ESPN Films (80%)
* National Geographic Partners (73%)
* A&E Networks (50%)
* Vice Media (16%)
* Hulu

|

Warner Bros.|

* Warner Bros. Pictures
* New Line Cinema
* Castle Rock Entertainment
* CNN Films
* DC Studios
* Flagship Entertainment Group (49%)
* HBO Films
* HBO Documentary Films
* Spyglass Media Group (minority)

|

Sony Pictures|

* Columbia Pictures
* TriStar Pictures
* Sony Pictures Releasing
* 3000 Pictures
* PlayStation Productions
* Screen Gems
* Sony Pictures Classics
* TriStar Productions
* Worldwide Acquisitions
* Affirm Films
* Destination Films
* Stage 6 Films
* Ghost Corps
* Sony Pictures Kids Zone
* Left Bank Pictures
* Silvergate Media

|

Mini-majors|

| Amazon MGM Studios|

* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
* United Artists
* Orion Pictures
* Orion Classics
* American International Pictures
* Lightworkers Media

|

Lionsgate Studios|

* Lionsgate Films
* Lionsgate Premiere
* Summit Entertainment
* Lionsgate Canada
* eOne Films
* Roadside Attractions (43%)
* Pantelion Films (50%)
* Good Universe
* 3 Arts Entertainment (majority)
* Spyglass Media Group (18.9%)
* Amblin Partners (minority)
* Amblin Entertainment
* DreamWorks Pictures

|

A24|

* 2AM (backing)

|

Horizontal
production/
distribution
companies|

* Apple Studios
* Condé Nast Entertainment
* Dark Horse Entertainment
* Hasbro Entertainment
* Mattel Films
* Netflix
* Random House Studio
* Roku
* Scholastic Corporation
* Square Enix
* Ubisoft Film & Television

Slate
partners|

* AGC Studios
* Atlas Entertainment
* Black Bear Pictures
* Black Label Media
* Black List
* Bron
* Mad Solar
* Escape Artists
* Endeavor
* FilmNation Entertainment
* Gotham Group
* Grosvenor Park
* H Collective
* ICM Partners
* Ingenious Media
* LAMF
* Lantern Entertainment
* Legendary Pictures
* MRC
* New Republic Pictures
* PalmStar Media
* Prospect Park
* TSG Entertainment
* Village Roadshow Pictures
* Voltage Pictures

Production/
distribution
companies|

* 2929 Entertainment
* Magnolia Pictures
* Truly Indie
* Allied Artists Film Group
* American Zoetrope
* Angel Studios
* Annapurna Pictures
* Anonymous Content
* The Asylum
* Artemis Rising Foundation
* BayView Entertainment
* Beacon Pictures
* Berlanti Productions
* Bleecker Street
* Blue Fox Entertainment
* Blumhouse Productions
* Bold Films
* Brainstorm Media
* Brillstein Entertainment
* Broadway Video
* Brookstreet Pictures
* Chicken & Egg Pictures
* Cinelou Films
* CineTel Films
* Darius Films
* Dark Castle Entertainment
* Dolphin Entertainment
* Drafthouse Films
* Decal
* Elevation Pictures
* Emmett/Furla Oasis
* Entertainment Studios
* Freestyle Releasing
* Film Arcade
* Fork Films
* FotoKem
* Fox Entertainment
* MarVista Entertainment
* Giant Pictures
* Good Deed Entertainment
* Gunpowder & Sky
* IFC Films
* Indican Pictures
* Impact Partners
* Jim Henson Company
* Lakeshore Entertainment
* LD Entertainment
* levelFILM
* Likely Story
* Louverture Films
* Mandalay Pictures
* Mandeville Films
* Maximum Effort
* Millennium Media
* Morgan Creek Entertainment
* Motion Picture Corporation of America
* Myriad Pictures
* Neon
* Open Road Films
* Oscilloscope
* Picturehouse
* Quiver Distribution
* RadicalMedia
* Relativity Media
* Rogue Pictures
* Revolution Studios
* RKO Pictures
* Saban Films
* Samuel Goldwyn Films
* Screen Media
* Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
* Silver Pictures
* Shout! Studios
* Solstice Studios
* Strand Releasing
* STX Entertainment
* Sycamore Pictures
* TLA Releasing
* Topic Studios
* Utopia
* Vertical
* Virgin Produced
* Walden Media
* Wolfe Video
* WWE Studios
* XTR
* XYZ Films
* 21 Laps Entertainment
* 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
* 87North
* 1492 Pictures
* A Very Good Production
* Abso Lutely
* After Dark Films
* AGBO
* Alcon Entertainment
* Apatow
* Appian Way
* Atomic Monster
* Bad Hat Harry Productions
* Bad Robot
* Bazelevs Company
* Bedford Falls Productions
* Big Beach
* Blinding Edge Pictures
* Brandywine
* Brownstone
* Bubble Factory
* Centropolis
* Cha Cha Cha Films
* Chernin Entertainment
* Cheyenne Enterprises
* Color Force
* Cross Creek Pictures
* Crystal Sky Pictures
* Cube Vision
* Darko Entertainment
* Davis Entertainment
* Di Bonaventura Pictures
* District
* Donners' Company
* Double R Productions
* Echo Films
* Electric
* Evolution Entertainment
* Twisted Pictures
* Excellent Cadaver
* Flower Films
* Freckle Films
* Fruit Tree
* Fuzzy Door
* Gary Sanchez
* Gloria Sanchez
* Genre Films
* Ghost House Pictures
* GK Films
* Gracie Films
* Happy Madison
* Haxan Films
* Hello Sunshine
* Hoorae Media
* Icon
* Identity Films
* ImageMovers
* Imagine
* Jax Media
* Indian Paintbrush
* Infinitum Nihil
* Intrepid Pictures
* Jerry Bruckheimer Films
* Judgmental Films
* KatzSmith
* Kennedy/Marshall Company
* Ketchup Entertainment
* Killer Films
* Kingdom Story Company
* Lightstorm Entertainment
* LuckyChap Entertainment
* Malpaso
* Marv
* Monkeypaw
* Montecito Picture Company
* Mr. Mudd
* Music Box
* Mutant Enemy
* MWM
* Nine Stories
* One Race Films
* Original Film
* Our Stories Films
* Outerbanks Entertainment
* Overbrook Entertainment
* Paper Kite
* Phoenix Pictures
* Picture Company
* Plan B Entertainment
* Platinum Dunes
* Playtone
* Point Grey Pictures
* Protozoa Pictures
* Red Hour Films
* Rideback
* Roth/Kirschenbaum Films
* Scott Free
* Seven Bucks
* Shangri-La Entertainment
* Shondaland
* Smokehouse Pictures
* Stone Quarry
* Studio 8
* Story Syndicate
* Sunday Night
* Syncopy Inc.
* Tango Entertainment
* Team Downey
* Temple Hill
* The Daily Wire
* The Hideaway Entertainment
* Thunder Road Films
* Tim Burton
* Tyler Perry Studios
* Valhalla Entertainment
* Vertigo Entertainment
* View Askew
* SModcast Pictures
* Vinyl Films
* WingNut Films
* 30West
* Wonderland Sound and Vision
* Watermelon Pictures
* 1-2 Special

Defunct/former|

| Disney|

* Caravan Pictures
* Cinergi Pictures
* Fox 2000 Pictures
* Fox Atomic
* Fox Faith
* Fox Film
* Hollywood Pictures
* New World Pictures
* Selznick International Pictures
* Touchstone Pictures
* Twentieth Century Pictures
* UTV Motion Pictures

|

Lionsgate|

* Anchor Bay Films
* Artisan Entertainment
* Christal Films
* Mandate Pictures
* Maple Pictures
* Momentum Pictures
* Overture Films
* Trimark Pictures
* Vestron Pictures

MGM|

* 21st Century Film Corporation
* Atlantic Entertainment Group
* Cannon Films
* Cinecom
* Dimension Pictures (1970s)
* Epic Productions
* Filmways
* G2 Pictures
* Goldwyn Pictures
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Island Pictures
* Louis B. Mayer Pictures
* Metro Pictures Corporation
* Mirisch Company
* Samuel Goldwyn Company
* Samuel Goldwyn Productions
* Trans World Entertainment
* United Artists Releasing

Universal|

* FilmDistrict
* Good Machine
* Gramercy Pictures
* Independent Moving Pictures
* Interscope Communications
* Propaganda Films
* Savoy Pictures

Paramount|

* CBS Theatrical Films
* Cinema Center Films
* Comedy Central Films
* Commonwealth United Entertainment
* Famous Players Film Company
* Famous Players–Lasky
* Go Fish Pictures
* Liberty Films
* Mascot Pictures
* Paramount Famous Productions
* Paramount Vantage
* Rysher Entertainment
* Sunn Classic Pictures
* United States Pictures

Sony|

* Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation
* Embassy Pictures
* Empire International Pictures
* First Independent Films
* Triumph Films

Warner Bros.|

* Fine Line Features
* First National Pictures
* Lorimar Film Entertainment
* Monogram Pictures
* National General Pictures
* Nelson Entertainment
* Rooster Teeth
* Seven Arts Productions
* Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
* Warner Independent Pictures

Others|

* Alchemy
* American Film Manufacturing Company
* Art Star Scene Studios
* Astor Pictures
* Aviron Pictures
* Aurora Productions
* Biograph Company
* Bison Film Company
* Bluebird Photoplays
* Boxoffice International Pictures
* Bryanston Pictures
* C2 Pictures
* Calvin Company
* Carolco Pictures
* Castle Hill Productions
* Centaur Film Company
* Champion Film Company
* Christie Film Company
* Cinemation Industries
* Cinerama Releasing Corporation
* Compass International Pictures
* Crown International Pictures
* De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
* DEJ Productions
* Distributors Corporation of America
* Eaco Films
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Edison Studios
* Educational Pictures
* Essanay Studios
* Dramatic Feature Films
* Fireworks Entertainment
* First Look Studios
* Franchise Pictures
* Geffen Film Company
* Global Road Entertainment
* Grand National Pictures
* Hal Roach Studios
* Hasbro Entertainment
* Allspark
* Jensen Farley Pictures
* Ladd Company
* Largo Entertainment
* Lippert Pictures
* Lubin Manufacturing Company
* Madison 23 Productions
* Manson International
* Newmarket Films
* OddLot Entertainment
* Pacific International Enterprises
* Participant
* PM Entertainment
* Producers Releasing Corporation
* RatPac Entertainment
* Red Granite Pictures
* Regent Releasing
* Schneider's Bakery
* Scotti Bros. Pictures
* Section Eight Productions
* Seed Productions
* Strike Entertainment
* ThinkFilm
* This Is That Productions
* Virtual Studios
* Weinstein Company
* Dimension Films
* Weintraub Entertainment Group

List of American animation studios

* v
* t
* e

Animation industry in the United States

Companies and studios

| Active|

| Majors|

| Universal Studios|

* DreamWorks Animation
* DreamWorks Animation Television
* DreamWorks Classics
* Big Idea Entertainment
* Harvey Films
* Illumination
* Universal Animation Studios

|

Paramount Pictures|

* CBS Eye Animation Productions
* Late Night Cartoons
* MTV Animation
* Nickelodeon Animation Studio
* Nickelodeon Digital
* Nickelodeon Movies
* Paramount Animation
* Miramax Animation Studios
* Skydance Animation

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Walt Disney Studios|

* 20th Century Animation
* 20th Television Animation
* Disney Television Animation
* Lucasfilm Animation
* Industrial Light & Magic
* Marvel Animation
* Marvel Studios Animation
* Pixar Animation Studios
* Walt Disney Animation Studios

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Warner Bros.|

* Cartoon Network Studios
* Warner Bros. Animation
* Warner Bros. Pictures Animation
* Warner Bros. Television Animation
* Williams Street

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Sony Pictures|

* Aniplex of America
* Crunchyroll
* Sony Pictures Animation
* Sony Pictures Imageworks

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* 41 Entertainment
* AMC Networks
* Sentai Filmworks
* Section23 Films
* Augenblick Studios
* Awesome Inc
* Fox Corporation
* Bento Box Entertainment
* Bandera Entertainment
* Bang Zoom!
* Billionfold Inc.
* Blur Studio
* Cartuna
* CHRLX
* Cloudco Entertainment
* CMCC Cartoons
* DNEG
* Digital Domain
* Floyd County Productions
* Fred Wolf Films
* Fuzzy Door Productions
* Hasbro Entertainment
* Jay Ward Productions
* Joe Murray Productions
* Kanbar Animation
* Kartoon Studios
* Wow Unlimited Media
* Bolder Media
* Frederator Studios
* Kinofilm
* Klasky Csupo
* Kurtz & Friends
* Laika, LLC
* Lee Mendelson Films
* Lionsgate
* Lionsgate Canada
* Melendez Films
* Man of Action Entertainment
* Mattel Television
* Media Blasters
* Mexopolis
* Mondo Media
* 6 Point Harness
* Netflix Animation
* Noble
* NYAV Post
* Parallax Studio
* Powerhouse Animation Studios
* Psyop
* Reel FX Animation
* Renegade Animation
* Rough Draft Studios
* Rovio Animation
* Screen Novelties
* Scholastic
* Weston Woods Studios
* SD Entertainment
* ShadowMachine
* Snee-Oosh, Inc.
* SpindleHorse Toons
* Splash Entertainment
* Sprite Animation Studios
* Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
* Stretch Films
* Studiopolis
* Tau Films
* Threshold Entertainment
* Titmouse, Inc.
* The Kerner Entertainment Company
* The ULULU Company
* Toei Animation Inc.
* United Plankton Pictures
* Vanguard Animation
* Wild Canary Animation
* World Events Productions
* Worker Studio
* WWE Studios
* Walden Media

Former|

* 4Kids Entertainment
* 70/30 Productions
* Adelaide Productions
* Adventure Cartoon Productions
* Allspark
* Amblimation
* Animation Collective
* Animation Lab
* Animation Magic
* Blue Sky Studios
* BVS Entertainment
* Cartoon Pizza
* Chorion
* Circle 7 Animation
* Cookie Jar
* Crest Animation Productions
* Curious Pictures
* DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
* DIC Entertainment
* Disneytoon Studios
* DNA Productions
* Famous Studios
* Filmation
* Film Roman

* Phil Roman Entertainment

* Fleischer Studios
* Format Films
* Fox Animation Studios
* Frederator Films
* Golden Films
* Hanna-Barbera
* HIT Entertainment
* Jetlag Productions
* Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions!
* Kroyer Films
* Laugh-O-Gram Studio
* Little Airplane Productions
* Marvel Productions
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
* MGM Animation/Visual Arts
* MGM Cartoons
* Mirari Films
* MoonScoop
* O Entertainment
* Omation Animation Studio
* Pacific Data Images
* PorchLight Entertainment
* Prana Studios
* Radical Axis
* Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
* Rhythm and Hues Studios
* Rooster Teeth
* Ruby-Spears
* Screen Gems
* Skellington Productions
* Soup2Nuts
* Spümcø
* Storyboard, Inc./Hubley Studios
* Sullivan Bluth Studios
* Sunbow Entertainment
* Terrytoons
* Total Television
* United Productions of America
* Van Beuren Studios
* Walter Lantz Productions
* Warner Bros. Cartoons
* Wētā FX
* Wildbrain Entertainment
* Will Vinton Studios
* Zodiac Entertainment

Industry associations

* The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839
* ASIFA-Hollywood

Other topics

| Awards|

* Academy Awards
* Best Animated Feature
* Annie Awards
* Emmy Awards
* Children's and Family
* Primetime
* Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
* Favorite Cartoon
* Animated Movie
* NAACP Image Awards
* Motion Picture
* Series
* GLAAD Media Awards
* Kids and Family Programming (Animated)
* Writers Guild of America Awards
* Television Animation

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History|

* Silent era
* Golden age
* World War II
* Television era
* Modern era

Related|

* Animated sitcom
* American comics
* History of American comics
* Tijuana bible
* Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
* Flash animation
* Labor strikes
* Fleischer Studios (1937)
* Disney (1941)
* Multiple studios (1982)

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Sony Pictures Animation

Part of Sony Pictures (Sony)

Feature films|

* Open Season (2006)
* Surf's Up (2007)
* Open Season 2 (2008)
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
* Open Season 3 (2010)
* The Smurfs (2011) LA
* Arthur Christmas (2011)
* The Pirates: Band of Misfits (2012)
* Hotel Transylvania (2012)
* The Smurfs 2 (2013) LA
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
* Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
* Goosebumps (2015) LA
* Open Season: Scared Silly (2015)
* Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017)
* Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
* The Emoji Movie (2017)
* The Star (2017)
* Peter Rabbit (2018) LA
* Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
* Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) LA
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
* The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
* The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
* Wish Dragon (2021)
* Vivo (2021)
* Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
* KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
* Fixed (2025)

| Upcoming|

* Goat (2026)
* Buds (2027)
* Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)

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Television series|

| 2010s debuts|

* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017–18)
* Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017–20)
* GO! Cartoons (2017–18)

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2020s debuts|

* Agent Elvis (2023)
* Young Love (2023)
* Open Season: Call of Nature (2023–24)

Upcoming|

* Motel Transylvania (2025)
* Untitled Ghostbusters series (TBA)
* Superbago! (TBA)

Short films|

* Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run (2007)
* The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas (2007)
* The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011)
* So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012)
* Goodnight Mr. Foot (2012)
* The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
* Super Manny (2013)
* Earl Scouts (2013)
* Steve's First Bath (2014)
* Attack of the 50-Foot Gummi Bear (2014)
* Puppy! (2017)
* Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham (2019)
* Hair Love (2019)
* Live Stream (2019)
* Monster Pets (2021)
* Dog Cop 7: The Final Chapter (2021)
* The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story (2023)

Franchises|

* Open Season (since 2006)
* Surf's Up (2007–2017)
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–2018)
* The Smurfs (2011–2017)
* Hotel Transylvania (since 2012)
* Goosebumps (2015–2018)
* Spider-Verse (since 2018)

Associated productions|

* The ChubbChubbs! (2002)
* Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
* Early Bloomer (2003)
* Monster House (2006)
* Planet 51 (2009)
* The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
* The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
* Sausage Party (2016)
* Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)
* Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
* The Garfield Movie (2024)
* Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
* Paddington in Peru (2025)

See also|

* Sony Pictures Imageworks
* Unproduced projects
* Sony Pictures Television Kids
* Adelaide Productions
* Screen Gems Cartoons
* United Productions of America
* List of Sony theatrical animated feature films

* Category

* LA Produced in live-action

* v
* t
* e

Adelaide Productions

1990s|

* Jumanji (1996–1999)
* Project G.e.e.K.e.R. (1996)
* Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
* Men in Black: The Series (1997–2001)
* Channel Umptee-3 (1997–1998)
* Godzilla: The Series (1998–2000)
* Dilbert (1999–2000)
* Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999–2000)
* Dragon Tales (1999–2005)
* Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999–2001)

2000s|

* Max Steel (2000–2002)
* Sammy (2000)
* Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005)
* Heavy Gear (2001–2002)
* Harold and the Purple Crayon (2001–2002)
* Phantom Investigators (2002)
* Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl (2002)
* Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
* Stuart Little (2003)
* Astro Boy (2003–2004)
* The Boondocks (2005–2014)
* The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009)
* Sit Down, Shut Up (2009)

See also|

* Sony Pictures Television
* Sony Pictures Animation
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
* Silvergate Media
* Screen Gems Cartoons
* United Productions of America

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Israel
* Catalonia

Other|

* Yale LUX

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