Industry | Motion pictures, performance capture & CGI animation |
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Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Novato, California, U.S. |
Key people
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Robert Zemeckis, Doug Chiang, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke |
Products | Motion pictures |
Owner | Independent |
ImageMovers is an American film studio run by director Robert Zemeckis. Founded in 1997, the studio is known for producing such films as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, and The Polar Express. From 2007 to 2010, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers ran a joint animation facility, ImageMovers Digital, which produced two performance captured animated films, A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms, for The Walt Disney Studios.
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 Beowulf (with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Angelina Jolie).