Fox Animation Studios
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| Fate | Foreclosure |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 [1] |
| Defunct | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Key people | Don Bluth Gary Goldman |
| Industry | Animation |
| Products | Animated features |
Fox Animation Studios was a short-lived traditional animation production company, a division of 20th Century Fox, headed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Fox Animation Studios was located at 2747 East Camelback Road in Phoenix, Arizona (85016). Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E. are the only films produced by the company.
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[edit] History
[edit] Founding
The department was designed to compete with Walt Disney Feature Animation, which had phenomenal success in the 1990s with the releases of films such as Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). Walt Disney Pictures veterans Bluth and Goldman came to Fox from Sullivan Bluth Studios, which had produced An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and both All Dogs Go To Heaven and Rock-a-Doodle, among other films.
Before Don Bluth came to Fox, the studio released three animated features during the 1990s which were produced by outside studios - FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and The Pagemaster, all of which did poorly at the box office. Even before, Fox distributed two Ralph Bakshi features, Wizards and Fire and Ice and Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure by Richard Williams.
[edit] Productions and closure
The studio's films were not as successful as Disney's animated movies were. Only one of its two theatrical releases, Anastasia (1997), turned a profit. Its other theatrical release Titan A.E. made only USD $9,376,845 in its opening weekend, with an estimated production budget of $75,000,000, and the studio was shut down as a result. The last film set to be made was going to be an adaptation of Wayne Barlowe's illustrated novel Barlowe's Inferno; it was set to be done with near complete CGI.
Fox Animation Studios' only other production was a direct-to-video sequel to Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent. The studio also did credited clean-up animation on DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt. Bluth and Goldman were considered to produce Ice Age as a CGI animated film, but passed on the script.
Today, Blue Sky Studios serves as the animation producer for 20th Century Fox. Blue Sky's films have included success films such as the Ice Age films, Robots, and Horton Hears a Who!
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