Specialty Feature Film Studio, 1999–present
On September 16, 2002, Columbia TriStar Television became Sony Pictures Television, while three years earlier, in 1999, Screen Gems was resurrected as a fourth specialty film producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, after Sony Pictures Classics, Triumph Films and Destination Films. 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." Many of its releases are of the horror, thriller, action, comedy and urban genres, making the unit similar to Dimension Films (part of The Weinstein Company), Hollywood Pictures (part of the Walt Disney Company), and Rogue Pictures (currently owned by Relativity Media, but distributed by former owners Universal Studios).
The most commercially successful Screen Gems film as of November 2010 was Resident Evil: Afterlife, which grossed $296,221,566 in international box office receipts. Despite overall positive results from Screen Gems, its biggest recent flop was Straw Dogs (remake), which fell $15 million below its production costs.
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