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ImageMovers Digital is a State of the Art digital film studio run by director, Robert Zemeckis and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Originally founded in 1997 as ImageMovers, the studio released such films as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express, and Beowulf, the latter two films using a kind of motion capture animation technique known as performance capture. Disney acquired the studio in 2007, when the name was changed to ImageMovers Digital.

On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released A Christmas Carol, a performance capture film starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, and Cary Elwes, each in multiple roles.

[edit] History

In 1997, by producer-writer-director Robert Zemeckis, along with partners Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey formed the production company ImageMovers. Among ImageMovers' productions were What Lies Beneath (with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer), Cast Away (with Tom Hanks), The Polar Express (also with Tom Hanks), and its last film, the mo-cap Beowulf (with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Angelina Jolie).

In 2007, ImageMovers was shut down and was renamed ImageMovers Digital after the company was bought by The Walt Disney Company.

[edit] Films

[edit] As ImageMovers

• What Lies Beneath (2000)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Matchstick Men (2003)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
• Last Holiday (2006)
• Monster House (2006)
• Beowulf (2007)

[edit] As ImageMovers Digital

• A Christmas Carol (2009)

Upcoming

• Mars Needs Moms!^{[citation needed]} (2010)
• Airman^{[citation needed]} (2011)
• Yellow Submarine^[1] (2012)
• Roger Rabbit 2^[2] (2012)
• Treasure Island (2013)
• The Nutcracker^[3] (TBA)

[edit] External links

• ImageMovers at the Internet Movie Database
• ImageMovers Digital

[edit] Notes

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