C.O.R.E.
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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 | Suspended operations |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio, which branched out into fully animated television series and feature films. On March 15, 2010, the company announced it was suspending operations, and shut down.
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 unfavourable critical and commercial reaction. With 400 temporary employees, The Wild had the largest production crew for a film made in Canada.
With a rising exchange rate as with most Canadian animation firms, C.O.R.E. was getting fewer jobs from America. So in March 2010, C.O.R.E. stopped operating and laid off their employees.[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 / 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 Studio/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
- 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.
- Planet Sheen Nickelodeon/Omation Animation Studio (now produced by Bardel Entertainment) (O Entertainment)
- 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)
- (Rhombus Media/CBC, MOW)
- Model Behavior (Disney Telefilms/The Wonderful World of Disney, MOW)
- PSI Factor (Atlantis/Alliance/CTV, Seasons I, II, III & IV)
- (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)
- (Decode Entertainment for PBS Kids)
- Tek War (Atlantis Films)
Games[]
- Midnight Club 3 (Rock Star Games, intro sequence)
C.O.R.E. Toons[]
- (Decode Entertainment)
- Dragon Tales (CBC/Sesame Workshop/Sony Pictures Television/Decode Entertainment/PBS)
- The Naughty Naughty Pets (Decode Entertainment/CBC)
- The Save-Ums! (Decode Entertainment/Discovery Kids/CBC/The Dan Clark Company)
- The Ren & Stimpy Show (Decode Entertainment/Spümco/Nickelodeon)
- 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/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/Scholastic Entertainment/South Carolina ETV/Teletoon/Cartoon Network)
- Planet Sketch (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Teletoon)
- Planet Sheen (Nickelodeon/Omation/Cookie Jar Entertainment)
- 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)
- ToddWorld (Taffy Entertainment/Mike Young Productions/HOT Animation/HIT Entertainment/Nerd Corps Entertainment/EKA Productions/DQ Entertainment/Telegael Teoranta/TG4/Star Utsav/TVOKids/CBeebies/Discovery Kids)
Animated films[]
- The Wild (C.O.R.E. / Walt Disney Pictures) (production company)[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f 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.
External links[]
- Canadian animation studios
- Companies based in Toronto
- Mass media companies established in 1994
- Mass media companies disestablished in 2010
- Defunct film and television production companies of Canada
- Digital media