C.O.R.E.
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio based in Toronto, and founded at the end of March 1994. Its productions included fully animated television series and feature films.
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Type | Privately held company |
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Industry | CGI animation |
Founded | March 31, 1994 |
Founder | William Shatner Bob Munroe John Mariella Kyle Menzies |
Defunct | March 15, 2010 |
Fate | Closed |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
C.O.R.E. signed a production partnership deal with Radar Pictures.[1]
History
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was started in 1994 by John Mariella, Kyle Menzies, Bob Munroe and William Shatner.[1]
Its first and only animated feature film, The Wild, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.[1] It met with unfavorable critical and commercial reaction.
As with most Canadian F/X firms, a rising exchange rate, coupled with a decline in employment due to the economic downturn, would take a negative toll on C.O.R.E. After failing to secure a loan guarantee from the provincial government of Ontario, C.O.R.E. ceased operations on March 15, 2010.[1]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
- Killshot (Weinstein Co./Film Colony/A Band Apart/Lawrence Bender Prods.)
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Walt Disney Pictures)
- Firehouse Dog (New Regency Prods/Twentieth Century Fox)
- Silent Hill (Davis Films / Wander Star / TriStar Pictures / Columbia)
- Lucky Number Slevin (Ascendant Pictures / Weinstein Co.)
- Saw 2 (Evolution Entertainment / Twisted Pictures)
- Hotel for Dogs (DreamWorks Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Screen Gems/Davis Films/Impact)
- Siblings (Canadian Film Centre)
- Duma (Warner Bros.)
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Senator Films/New Line Cinema)
- New York Minute (Warner Bros.)
- My Baby's Daddy (Miramax Films)
- Malibu's Most Wanted (Warner Bros.)
- Nothing (49th Parallel)
- Against the Ropes (Cort-Madden Productions/Paramount Pictures)
- They (Radar Pictures)
- Cypher (Pandora/Miramax Films)
- Blade II (New Line Cinema)
- The Time Machine (DreamWorks Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)
- S1M0NE (New Line Cinema)
- Who Is Cletis Tout? (Fireworks / Paramount Classics)
- Glitter (Columbia Pictures)
- Caveman's Velentine (Franchise Pictures / Jersey Films / Universal Studios)
- Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures)
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (Universal Pictures)
- X-Men (Marvel Entertainment Group/Twentieth Century Fox)
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Gullane Pictures / Destination Films)
- Knockaround Guys (New Line Cinema)
- Snow Day (Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
- A Walk on the Moon (Punch Productions / Miramax Films)
- Dr. Dolittle (Twentieth Century Fox)
- The Big Hit (Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures)
- The Mighty (Alliance/Miramax)
- Flubber (Disney)
- Mimic (Dimension Films/Miramax)
- Spawn (New Line Cinema)
- Cube (Canadian Film Centre)
- Fly Away Home (Columbia Pictures)
- Johnny Mnemonic (Tristar Pictures)
- The Spine (National Film Board of Canada)[2][3]
Television
Series, unless mentioned otherwise.
- The Tudors[1]
- National Aboriginal Achievement Awards National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
- Code Breakers - MOW Orly Adelson Productions/ESPN Original Entertainment
- Kevin Hill Kevin Hill Prods. Inc./ABC, Inc.
- Anonymous Rex - Pilot Fox Television/ Sci-Fi
- Wonderfalls - Pilot and Series, Fox Television
- Dead Aviators – MOW Temple Street/Showtime/CBC
- The Music Man - MOW The Disney Channel
- Spinning Boris - MOW Dufferin Gate Productions/ Showtime
- Salem Witch Trials - MOW Alliance Atlantis Communications/Spring Creek Productions
- Tru Confessions (The Disney Channel, MOW)
- The Zack Files (Decode Entertainment for Fox Family/Channel 4)
- The Rats (Cort-Madden Productions/Fox Television, MOW)
- Prancer Returns (USA Studios, MOW)
- The Feast of All Saints (Dufferin Gate/Showtime, miniseries)
- Jett Jackson: The Movie (Alliance/Atlantis & The Disney Channel, MOW)
- The Four Seasons (MOW)
- Don Giovanni: Leporello's Revenge (Rhombus Media/CBC, MOW)
- Model Behavior (Disney Telefilms/The Wonderful World of Disney, MOW)
- PSI Factor (Atlantis/Alliance/CTV, Seasons I, II, III & IV)
- Sandy Bottom Orchestra (Dufferin Gate Productions/Showtime, MOW)
- Dead Aviators (Temple Street/Showtime/CBC, MOW)
- Sea People (Temple Street/Showtime, MOW)
- John Woo's Once a Thief (Alliance Communications)
- LEXX (TiMe Film/Salter Street Films)
- Shock Treatment (Alliance/CBS, pilot)
- Government of Playhouse (cancelled pitch pilot)
- Tek War (Atlantis Films)
Games
- Midnight Club 3 (Rockstar Games, intro sequence)
C.O.R.E. Toons
- Dudson (Decode Entertainment)
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends ( Nelvana/AbsoluteDigital Pictures/Callaway Arts)
- Prehistonic Planet (Taffy Entertainment/Mike Young Productions/Sixteen South/HIT Entertainment/Blueprint Entertainment/DQ Entertainment/Telegael Teoranta/TG4/Star Utsav/CBC Television/CBeebies/Discovery Kids)
- The Naughty Naughty Pets (Decode Entertainment/CBC)
- The Save-Ums! (Decode Entertainment/Discovery Kids/CBC/The Dan Clark Company)
- Franny's Feet (Decode Entertainment/Family Channel/PBS)
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues (PorchLight/FOX/Kristin/PBS)
- The Hoobs (Decode Entertainment/Jim Henson Productions/Sesame Workshop/Hit Entertainment/PBS Kids Sprout Originals)
- Angela Anaconda (Decode/Fox Family/Teletoon)
- Brats of the Lost Nebula (Decode Entertainment/Jim Henson Productions/Kids' WB)
- Iggy Arbuckle (Blueprint Entertainment/National Geographic Kids/Teletoon)
- Planet Sketch (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Teletoon)
- Planet Sheen (Nickelodeon/Omation)
- Chop Socky Chooks (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Cartoon Network Studios)
- Paws & Tales (Providential Pictures)
- Urban Vermin (Decode Entertainment)
- Super Why! (Decode Entertainment/Out Of The Blue Enterprises/PBS)
Animated films
- The Wild (C.O.R.E. / Walt Disney Pictures) (production company)[1]
References
- Vlessing, Etan (March 16, 2010). "Toronto FX giant C.O.R.E. Digital shuts down". The Hollywood Reporter. AP. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- "The Spine". Official website. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- Desowitz, Bill (9 June 2009). "Chris Landreth Talks The Spine" (Interview). Animation World Network. Retrieved 12 March 2011.