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  Screen Gems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Screen Gems is an American subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.
Screen Gems is also notable for being, in an attempt to keep costs low, the last American animation studio to stop producing fl and white cartoons.
The most-successful Screen Gems film commercially as of 2006 was The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which grossed $136,661,432 in international box office receipts.
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 jsf3
Shown on the above screen is the logo for Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, that was used from 1965 to 1974.
While this was happening, the words "SCREEN GEMS'" came forward between the S and the bottom of the screen.
After 1974 the Sceen Gems shows mentioned above had newer Columbia or syndicator's logo replacing the S. Current motion pictiures by Screen Gems are using a new version of the S logo, the same design but now silver with a blue reflection on a fl background..
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 Screen gems - theage.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Electron rays create the image you see on the screen - the rays are fast and produce an even spread of light and colour across the display.
Television, film and computer screens work on that principle and while LCD monitors are capable of drawing images quickly, those images tend to stay on the screen too long.
A 17-inch CRT monitor gives you only 15.9 inches of diagonal viewing area because the size is measured from the edges of the tube, not the edges of the image.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/11/1049567869184.html   (1040 words)

  
 Screen Gems - Home
Screen Gems is all about highlighting the brilliance of narrative film and television - drama or comedy, tragedy or musical.
The heart of each installment will be; one Feature Film; or one episode of a TV series (or mini series); or in fact a complete series; or a ‘collection’ of works belonging to a common theme whether that theme is related to a particular filmmalker, genre or period.
Sure, along the journey, you should laugh, cry, squirm and drool, but one should always walk away from a good narrative having felt that their life is richer.
www.rhythmicpulsar.com /screen.htm   (508 words)

  
 Screen Gems: genre movies sparkle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Screen Gems, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, scored big this year with three out of its four films.
Unfortunately, though, that fourth film happened to star Jamie Foxx, leaving Screen Gems with the dubious distinction of releasing the one movie with the red-hot actor that did not hit it big this year.
Screen Gems' biggest film of the year was its last release.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000747435   (230 words)

  
 SCREEN GEMS?
Between 1988 and 2000, the number of movie screens in the United States rose from 23,129 to 37,185, a 61% increase, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) in North Hollywood, Calif. Unfortunately, the audiences did not grow at the same rate.
In general, the theaters the chains closed were smaller and older, with fewer than 10 screens and sloped, rather than stadium, seating.
As evidence of the trend toward greater screens per theater, in 1995 NATO calculates there were 26,995 screens and 7,151 U.S. cinema sites (excluding drive-ins), a ratio of 3.77 screens per theater.
retailtrafficmag.com /development/trends/retail_screen_gems/index.html   (2396 words)

  
 EUE Screen Gems Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Basically, his job is to strengthen the multi-faceted profile of EUE Screen Gems Ltd. He works closely with George and Chris Cooney on a range of issues from marketing and finance to sales and production.
He was an executive producer with The Director’s Chair, one of the EUE Screen Gems Ltd companies, before leaving for a similar gig at Edge Films.
He went on to establish his own rep and consulting business, which he operated for 6 years before returning to EUE Screen Gems Ltd. Doug is a graduate of Old Dominion University in Virginia with a BS in Marketing.
www.euescreengems.com /documents/dwedeck.html   (137 words)

  
 EUE Screen Gems Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maybe not by the EUE Screen Gems Ltd name, but by the ever-expanding list of things we do in the world of entertainment.
The EUE Screen Gems Studios have also been used in recent motion pictures, Black Knight with Martin Lawrence, Domestic Disturbance, with John Travolta and Summer Catch, with Freddy Prince Jr.
At EUE Screen Gems Ltd we try to use effective and proven methods of the past, great people resources and the latest in technology and take our best shot at creating, producing and distributing new and unique content.
www.euescreengems.com /documents/aboutus.html   (502 words)

  
 Silk Screening, Custom TShirt Printing, T Shirts, Teams, Logos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Screen Gems Silk Screening Company is a family owned and operated business providing quality and timely service to the community since 1985.
Screen Gems Silkscreening Company is your source for all types of shirts and inks including organic cotton tees, organic hemp tees, water based inks and PVC free plastisol inks.
Screen Gems Has provided environmentally friendly custom printing to Patagonia for years and we are pleased to offer the same services to you online.
www.teesource.com   (197 words)

  
 Macworld: Mac Gems: Screen Refresh
Screen Cleaner Pro works by altering the gamma of your monitor to compensate for for the aging process.
I used Screen Cleaner Pro on a number of monitors, from a 6-year-old 15” Apple Studio Display to a 5-month-old Dell LCD, and the improvements were significant.
Ambrosia could have made the process of implementing the new display calibration boring; for example, the screen could have simply changed in a flash as the new calibration was applied.
www.macworld.com /weblogs/macgems/2005/04/screencleanerpro/index.php   (622 words)

  
 SCREEN GEMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This year has seen demand for the long deleted album reach new heights, at the start of the year copies could be found for £60, after Reborn and a surge in Elkie's popularity copies were going for £110.
If there's one thing about Elkies fans it is their almost cult like desire to buy everything she has ever recorded, and from this point on the one album they could not obtain on the now essential CD format was Screen Gems.
Several factors have come together to make this album so sought after, the fact she has never recorded anything in the same vein, the limited amount of CD versions available and the increasing demand from newly converted fans to acquire her full back catalogue.
www.elkie-brooks.com /screen-gems.htm   (629 words)

  
 The Columbia Crow's Nest - A Look at the Cartoons of Charles Mintz, Screen Gems, and UPA
Probably the most successful characters to emerge from the "Screen Gems" period were the Fox and the Crow, a duo consisting of a refined, sophisticated Fox and a chiseling, street-wise Crow.
The "Screen Gems" studio closed in 1946 and Columbia was soon looking for new talent.
This off-beat short is one of the most historical cartoons from the Screen Gems period.
columbia.goldenagecartoons.com   (549 words)

  
 Screen Gems on target   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Culpepper was named president of Screen Gems only last month, promoted from his post as executive vp acquisitions and production.
Although Culpepper is loath to refer to Screen Gems as a "genre" company, this year's slate has its share of such titles, though the genre lines are a bit blurred.
Although only five Screen Gems titles were released last year, Culpepper said the studio's goal is to release six to eight pictures a year.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /hollywoodreporter/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1234941   (410 words)

  
 Screen Gems Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
Screen Gems mines for movie diamonds among the genre rough.
A division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Screen Gems produces and distributes films (mostly thrillers and horror movies) that don't have a big enough budget to be produced by sister studio Columbia Pictures, yet aren't small enough for indie label Sony Pictures Classics.
Screen Gems' films include Ghosts of Mars, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and The Cave.
www.hoovers.com /screen-gems/--ID__107084--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (405 words)

  
 Past Exhibitions | 2001 | Bruce Yonemoto: Screen Gems
Courtesy of the artist and Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, CA Bruce Yonemoto's self-reflexive, multimedia works of art in the deftly titled exhibition Screen Gems (a reference to the 1950s movie magazine with the same title) investigate how race, ethnicity, identity, time, and meaning are constituted through the apparatus of film, Hollywood, and the media.
Working with screens, monitors, imagery, objects, footage, and ideas from video, film, television, and popular culture, Yonemoto examines personal, cultural, and social memory and their roles in the construction of identity.
Opposite these screens, a small television monitor plays a montage of 1950s television commercials that aired during Yonemoto's childhood.
www.kemperart.org /exhibits/CatalogEssays/yonemotobruce1.asp   (791 words)

  
 Screen Gems: UCLA Film & Television Archive - Feature - UCLA Magazine Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Working with a modest budget, less than half of which comes from the state, “we do a lot with very little,” notes Timothy Kittleson, the archive director.
The archive exposes public audiences to a stunningly rich array of work in venues like the James Bridges Theater on campus and elsewhere: naughty pre-Code films; inventive work from Iranian filmmakers; and obscure gems from Belgium to Bangladesh.
The archive’s preservationists rescue classics as well as little known films that might otherwise succumb to the ravages of time.
www.magazine.ucla.edu /features/screen_gems   (531 words)

  
 Screen gems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A package of Canadian shorts from the Toronto Film Festival will be screened next weekend, as will short films by students from Florida State University and the Ringling School of Art and Design.
The documentary section includes "Derailroaded," a journey through the mind of a paranoid-schizophrenic; "Occupation: Dreamland," a portrait of a squad of U.S. soldiers in Iraq; and "Landless Dreams," Sarasota resident Wilson McCourtney's report from the front lines of the agrarian reform movement in Brazil.
Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" was regarded as a failure in 1980 and came to represent Hollywood excess.
www.heraldtribune.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/FEATURES/511040532/1376   (557 words)

  
 Bel Canto Society's Mission: Screen Gems
It was, of course, silent, but that little inconvenience didn’t stop film-makers from turning out more than a hundred operas during the silent era.
Paradoxically, it promptly turned its back on the genre and when opera stars were signed up, initially to add a bit of class to musicals, it was almost exclusively in vehicles where they might get to sing an aria or two but that was all.
During the 30s, 40s and 50s it was left to European film-makers to explore the possibilities of opera on the screen and many of the great singers were lured into the film studios.
www.belcantosociety.org /pages/gemscart.html   (1286 words)

  
 Screen Gems
There is an announcer who says, "This has been a Screen Gems Film Presentation/Production from (the Hollywood studios of) Columbia Pictures".
Logo: Two parallelograms come from the top and bottom of the screen, and the upper one is at a distance while the lower is closer.
When shown in Black and White, the standard scheme seems to be a light gray screen and fl S and words.
members.fortunecity.com /teamfx2000/Sony/screengems.htm   (942 words)

  
 Screen Gems with Kennie Bass: Eyewitness News Newsroom
I've been in love with the silver screen ever since I was a little kid, when my mom and dad would take my sister Cathy and me to the old Valley Drive-Inn Theater in St. Albans.
Sitting on the hood or the trunk of the car, watching the world unfold in front of me, munching on popcorn and listening to the tinny little speakers is one of my best memories.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
www.wvah.com /newsroom/screengems   (209 words)

  
 Sony Pictures/Screen Gems 2006 Movie Preview
It may be another year before Sony can boast another 'Spider-Man' to boost their box office totals, but Sony/Screen Gems has a big slate of movies coming in 2006, much of it with a horror focus.
But their biggest movie is something a little more controversial, a big screen version of the popular novel 'The Da Vinci Code'.
Screen Gems presents: 'When a Stranger Calls', starring Camilla Belle as Jill Johnson, Tommy Flanagan as the Stranger, Tessa Thompson as Scarlet, Katie Cassidy as Tiffany, and Brian Geraghty as Bobby.
movies.monstersandcritics.com /features/article_1072747.php/Sony_Pictures_Screen_Gems_2006_Movie_Preview   (1486 words)

  
 Screen Gems to Film The Resurrection - ComingSoon.net
The Hollywood Reporter says that Screen Gems is angling for an Eastertime release of a feature film tentatively titled The Resurrection.
Using the Bible for its source material, the film will tell the story of Jesus Christ beginning the day he died on the cross and ending about 40 days later with his ascension into heaven.
Screen Gems, headed by Clint Culpepper, commissioned a script several months ago from Lionel Chetwynd, the veteran screenwriter, producer and director whose credits include The Hanoi Hilton for the big screen and the Emmy-nominated TV movie Ike: Countdown to D-Day.
comingsoon.net /news/movienews.php?id=14904   (130 words)

  
 Lions Gate and Screen Gems Visit HOSTEL
Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing, the film is rife with explicit sex and brutal violence that is sure to delight hard core genre fans, and prove difficult to stomach for general audiences.
About Screen Gems Sony Pictures' Screen Gems is the genre production division which was created to finance and produce moderately budgeted films that are marketed to targeted audiences.
Recent Screen Gems releases include Scott Derrickson's THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson and THE GOSPEL starring Boris Kodjoe and Idris Elba.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-26-2005/0004195710&EDATE=   (602 words)

  
 Fast Talk: Screen Gems
Then there's the adrenaline rush I get when I go to a screening, and by the time it's finished, I think, I love that movie, I want to buy that movie, I want us to distribute that movie.
But all three of us cried during this screening; we've never agreed so vehemently about a film.
We saw the movie in the morning, made our first bid in the afternoon, and reached a deal by 3 a.m.
www.fastcompany.com /magazine/92/fasttalk.html   (1514 words)

  
 Vampires thrills for Screen Gems
Sony subsidiary Screen Gems sent out three releases in 2003, all genre standbys: a martial arts film, a Gothic vampire thriller and an erotic pulp mystery adaptation.
Says the Screen Gems team: "The film was a brave undertaking by Jane Campion and Meg Ryan that was not received as well as some of us might have liked.
Upcoming films on Screen Gems' slate include an "Underworld" sequel as well as another chapter in its "Resident Evil" franchise; the Sundance Film Festival entry "D.E.B.S."; writer-helmer Chris Stokes' "You Got Served"; and the Milla Jovovich vehicle "Ultraviolet."
www.vnuemedia.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2062343   (430 words)

  
 BW Online | June 18, 2002 | Tomorrow's Paper-Thin Screen Gems
The screens that could make all of this come true already exist (though they can't yet be folded or rolled).
They're also more energy-efficient than today's displays because, thanks to their technology, which imprints a picture on the material the screens are made of, they don't require a bulky back light to show an image.
And, because the text is imprinted in the material, these displays can retain text for days on their screens.
www.businessweek.com /technology/content/jun2002/tc20020617_5587.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Screen Gems Planning Resurrection - Movie News - Empire Movies
Sony's Screen Gems is planning to bring The Resurrection to the big screen for an Easter 2007 release.
According to the Bible, women who visited the tomb of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion found it empty, and his disciples and other acquaintances, including Mary Magdalene, encountered him postresurrection on various occasions during a 40-day period.
Screen Gems commissioned a script several months ago from Lionel Chetwynd.
www.empiremovies.com /index.php?id=11468   (214 words)

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