ImageMovers
ImageMovers is an American feature film production company originally founded in 1998 by Robert Zemeckis , Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke . In 2007 the studio was bought by the Walt Disney Company and re-established as ImageMovers Digital .
history
Cast Away and Shadow of Truth were ImageMovers' first film projects. Together with Amblin Entertainment , a film company owned by Steven Spielberg , they produced the thriller Monster House . One of the studio's most successful films was Der Polarexpress from 2004, which wascompletely computer-animated using motion capture . As a result, the Walt Disney Company became aware of Zemeckis and negotiated a contract with him for several film projects. The contract called for ImageMovers to be closed, which it did in 2007. Instead, the Walt Disney Company founded the new studio ImageMovers Digital.
ImageMovers Digital specializes in three-dimensional animated films, for example, in 2009, the film Disney's A Christmas Story , produced using the performance capture process, was released.
On March 12, 2010, ImageMovers Digital announced that it would cease operations in 2011. According to Alan Bergman , the current president of Walt Disney Studios, ImageMovers Digital no longer fits into the business model of the Walt Disney Company. After the previous film, Milo and Mars , flopped, Disney stopped production of the last project, a Yellow Submarine remake, in March 2011 .
In October 2011, the last ImageMovers film for the time being, Real Steel , a co-production with DreamWorks and Touchstone Pictures, which belongs to the Disney Company, should appear. On August 2, 2011, it was announced that ImageMovers had negotiated a contract with Universal Studios . ImageMovers will work as a production company on the book adaptation How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack . Between 2011 and 2013 ImageMovers was involved in the production of The Borgias . In 2015 Zemeckis' film The Walk with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead role was released.
Movies
| year | Movie | Co-producer / distributor | budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Shadow of truth |
DreamWorks 20th Century Fox |
$ 100 million |
| Cast Away | $ 90 million | ||
| 2003 | Tricks | Warner bros. | $ 62 million |
| 2004 | The polar express | $ 165 million | |
| 2005 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | DreamWorks | $ 12 million |
| 2006 | Holidays again | Paramount Pictures | $ 45 million |
| Monster House |
Columbia Pictures Amblin Entertainment |
$ 75 million | |
| 2007 | The legend of Beowulf | Paramount Pictures | $ 150 million |
| 2009 | Disney's A Christmas Story | Walt Disney Pictures | $ 175-200 million |
| 2011 | Milo and Mars | $ 150 million | |
| 2011 | Real Steel |
DreamWorks Touchstone Pictures |
$ 110 million |
| 2012 | Flight | Paramount Pictures | $ 31 million |
| 2015 | The Walk | Sony Pictures Entertainment | $ 35-45 million |
| 2016 | Allied - familiar strangers | Paramount Pictures | $ 85-113 million |
| 2018 | Welcome to Marwen | Universal Studios | $ 39-50 million |
| 2019 | Mess walking | Lions Gate Entertainment | $ 90-100 million |
| 2020 | Bios | Universal Studios |
Web links
- Image Movers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reuters: "Disney," Polar Express "director in animation deal" of February 5, 2007. Accessed December 11, 2011.
- ^ Finke, Nikki: “Disney Closing Zemeckis' Digital Studio” In: Deadline.com on March 12, 2010. Accessed December 11, 2011.
- ↑ Kit, Borys: Disney torpedoes Zemeckis' "Yellow Submarine" In: Reuters.com on March 14, 2011. Accessed October 6, 2011
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kit, Borys; Belloni, Matthew: Robert Zemeckis In Talks to Re-Launch Imagemovers at Universal In: hollywoodreporter.com on August 2, 2011. Accessed October 6, 2011
- ↑ Robert Zemeckis gives tips: "How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack" on Filmstarts.de from April 15, 2011 - Accessed October 7, 2011
- ^ Robert Zemeckis' Next Officially Titled The Walk, Wraps Production on ComingSoon.net on August 6, 2014 - Accessed September 11, 2014
- ↑ Film News Roundup: Tom Hanks' Sci-Fi Movie 'Bios' Dated for 2020 Release. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
