Screen Gems is an American film production label of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. Screen Gems has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation, initially as a television studio that was active from November 1948 to May 6, 1974, and later on as a film studio that was founded on December 8, 1998. Screen Gems serves as a film production division of Sony that specializes in genre films, mainly horror.