ImageMovers
Image Movers is an American production company for feature films, which was originally founded in 1998 by Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke. In 2007, the studio was purchased by the Walt Disney Company and refounded as Image Movers Digital.
History
Cast Away - Lost and What Lies Beneath were the first film projects from Image Movers. Together with Amblin Entertainment, a film company owned by Steven Spielberg, produced to the thriller Monster House. One of the most successful movies of the studio was The Polar Express in 2004, which was completely computer animated by motion capture. As a result, the Walt Disney Company became aware of Zemeckis and negotiated a contract with him on several film projects. The contract provided to close Image Movers, which was done in 2007. Instead, the Walt Disney Company founded the new studio Image Movers Digital.
Image Movers Digital specializes in three-dimensional animated films, such as 2009, produced in the performance capture process film Disney's A Christmas Carol was published.
On March 12, 2010 Image Movers Digital announced in 2011 to cease operation. According to Alan Bergman, the current president of Walt Disney Studios, Image Movers Digital no longer fits into the business model of Walt Disney Company. After the previous film, Mars Needs Moms, was flopped, Disney introduced in March 2011, production of the last project, a Yellow Submarine remake, a.
In October 2011, the last time being Image Movers movie Real Steel, a co-production with DreamWorks and the members of the Disney Company Touchstone Pictures should appear. On August 2, 2011, announced that Image Movers has negotiated a contract with Universal Studios. At the book film adaptation How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack Image Movers are to participate as a production company.