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9 unusual facts about Screen Gems


A Groovy Kind of Love

"A Groovy Kind of Love" is a pop song written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager and published by the Screen Gems music publishing company.

Aaron Norris

In 2009, he produced the Sony/Screen Gems film, Not Easily Broken, and currently is the "president of development and production" of ALN, formerly The American Life Network.

Board Up the House Remixes Volume 3

Danny Lohner's remix is also featured on the official soundtrack of Screen Gems' 2009 movie, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans under his alias Renholder.

Cam Gigandet

In August 2008, Gigandet signed on to the Screen Gems supernatural horror film The Unborn, portraying the role of the protagonist's love interest.

Danneel Harris

In May 2009 Harris was announced to have been cast in the Screen Gems Thriller film The Roommate.

Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted

This caused consternation with the studio and the record company, where the heads of both Bell Records and Screen Gems got involved.

Jessica Stroup

Also in April 2008, Stroup played the role of Claire in Screen Gems remake Prom Night.

Lang Jeffries

The Screen Gems program offered heart-warming accounts of difficult rescues completed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

The Quick Draw McGraw Show

Screen Gems originally syndicated the series, followed later by Rhodes Productions, Taft H-B Program Sales, Worldvision Enterprises, then Turner Broadcasting, and now Warner Bros. Television (through their 1996 purchase of Turner).


Benson Lee

In 2011, Lee directed the 3D Hollywood adaptation of Planet B-Boy titled Battle of the Year for Sony Pictures / Screen Gems, which stars Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, and Chris Brown.

Eric Siday

Among his other contributions to the use of electro-acoustic music in television were numerous station IDs and commercials, including that of the National Educational Television network (the forerunner to PBS), the 1966 CBS "in color" bumper, the news sounder for the ABC Radio Networks, and the 1965–1976 Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television logos.

Screen Gems Network

SGN was the first broadcast-based service airing classic shows from the Columbia Pictures Television vault airing shows with an unprecedented resource base of 58,000 episodes of 350 television series from the 1950s to 1980s from those by Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television, Tandem Productions, TAT Communications, TOY Productions, Embassy Television and Embassy Communications.

The Man Called Flintstone

However, owing to licensing complications between Warner Bros. (current owners of the Flintstones property) and Sony (current owners of then-Flintstones distributor Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems), only a Canadian release occurred; a United States release was canceled and would not be rescheduled until the rights issue was cleared in August 2008.


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Harry Ackerman

From 1958 through 1974, under the command of Ackerman as Vice President of Production, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Bachelor Father, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family.

Shaimus

Band members Cam Brousseau, Evan Brown, and Johannes Raassina filmed scenes for the Screen Gems film The Roommate in spring of 2009.