ImageMovers
Sign in to saveImageMovers, L.L.C. (IM) (formerly known as South Side Amusement Company), is an American production company founded by filmmaker Robert Zemeckis in 1984. The company produces CGI animation, motion-capture, live-action films and television shows and is known for producing such films as Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000) (both distributed by 20th Century Fox (US distribution of Cast Away and International distribution of What Lies Beneath) and DreamWorks Pictures (US distribution for What Lies Beneath and International distribution of Cast Away)), The Polar Express (2004), Monster House
Key facts
- Company.name
- ImageMovers Digital
- Company.former_name
- South Side Amusement Company (1984–1997) ImageMovers Digital (2007–2011)
- Company.type
- Joint venture
- Company.logo
- ImageMovers Digital logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 245
- Company.founded
- (as South Side Amusement Company; in-name only) (officially registered as ImageMovers, L.L.C.)
- Company.founders
- Robert Zemeckis
- Company.location
- Novato, California, U.S.
- Company.key_people
- Robert Zemeckis
- Company.num_employees
- 450
- Company.industry
- Motion pictures, motion-capture & Computer animation
- Company.products
- Motion pictures
- Company.divisions
- Compari Entertainment
- Company.owners
- ImageMoversThe Walt Disney Company
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film production company
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Robert Zemeckis
- Headquarters
- Novato
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- inception
- 1997-01-01
- product or material produced
- feature film
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- South Side Amusement Company (1984–1997)
- Early years as ImageMovers (1997–2007)
- Disney/ImageMovers Digital (2007–2011)
- Universal Pictures (2011–present)
- Filmography
- Feature films
- Television series (Compari Entertainment)
- Unreleased projects
- ''[[Yellow Submarine (film)#Cancelled CGI remake|Yellow Submarine]]''
- ''Calling All Robots''
- [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit#Proposed sequel|''Roger Rabbit'' sequel]]
- ''The Nutcracker''
- ''How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack''
- ''Tooned Out''
- References
ImageMovers, L.L.C. (IM) (formerly known as South Side Amusement Company), is an American production company founded by filmmaker Robert Zemeckis in 1984. The company produces CGI animation, motion-capture, live-action films and television shows and is known for producing such films as Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000) (both distributed by 20th Century Fox (US distribution of Cast Away and International distribution of What Lies Beneath) and DreamWorks Pictures (US distribution for What Lies Beneath and International distribution of Cast Away)), The Polar Express (2004), Monster House (2006), and Beowulf (2007).
From 2007 to 2011, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers founded a joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital which produced two motion-captured CGI-animated films: A Christmas Carol (2009) and Mars Needs Moms (2011) for Walt Disney Pictures, neither of which were financially successful. This eventually caused the company to cut ties with Disney and scrapped both a live-action Yellow Submarine remake and a Roger Rabbit sequel, which were in development at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ImageMovers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.