C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Canadian animation studio
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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television animation and 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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| Company type | Private |
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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 |
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| Website | www.coredp.com (archived 2007-06-24) |
C.O.R.E. signed a production collaboration agreement 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 only animated feature film, The Wild, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (United States).[1] It met with unfavorable critical and commercial reaction.
As with most Canadian VFX 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] [2]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
- Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures)
- Killshot (The Weinstein Company / Film Colony / A Band Apart / Lawrence Bender Productions)
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Walt Disney Pictures)
- Firehouse Dog (New Regency Productions / Twentieth Century Fox)
- Silent Hill (Davis Films / Wander Star / TriStar Pictures / Columbia)
- Lucky Number Slevin (Ascendant Pictures / The Weinstein Company)
- Hotel for Dogs (DreamWorks Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Screen Gems / Davis Films / Impact)
- Siblings (Canadian Film Centre)
- Duma (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Senator Films / New Line Cinema)
- New York Minute (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- My Baby's Daddy (Miramax Films)
- Malibu's Most Wanted (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- 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 Pictures)
- S1M0NE (New Line Cinema)
- Who Is Cletis Tout? (Fireworks / Paramount Classics)
- Glitter (Columbia Pictures)
- The Caveman's Valentine (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)[3][4]
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
- 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)
- The Naughty Naughty Pets (Decode Entertainment / CBC)
- The Save-Ums! (Decode Entertainment / Discovery Kids / CBC / The Dan Clark Company)
- Angela Anaconda (Decode Entertainment / Teletoon)
- Brats of the Lost Nebula (Decode Entertainment (pilot only) / Jim Henson Productions / Kids' WB)
- Iggy Arbuckle (Blueprint Entertainment / National Geographic Kids / Teletoon)
- Planet Sketch (Decode Entertainment / Aardman Animations / Teletoon)
- Planet Sheen (Nickelodeon / Nickelodeon Animation Studio / Omation Animation Studio)
- Chop Socky Chooks (Decode Entertainment / Aardman Animations / Cartoon Network UK / Teletoon)
- Paws & Tales (Providential Pictures)
- Franny's Feet[5] [6] (Decode Entertainment / Family Channel / WNET New York (PBS airings))
- Urban Vermin (Decode Entertainment)
- Super Why! (Decode Entertainment / Out of the Blue Enterprises / PBS Kids / CBC Kids)
C.O.R.E. Feature Animation
- Valiant (2005) (Vanguard Animation / Entertainment Film Distributors / Walt Disney Pictures / Odyssey Entertainment)
- The Wild (2006) (Walt Disney Pictures / Contrafilm)[1]
- Happily N'Ever After (2007) (Lionsgate / Vanguard Animation / Odyssey Entertainment)