ImageMovers Digital is a digital film studio run by director Robert Zemeckis and originally owned by The Walt Disney Company, later Universal Studios. Founded in 1997 as ImageMovers, the studio released such films as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express, and Monster House, the latter two films using a motion capture animation technique known as performance capture. Disney acquired the studio in 2007, when the name was changed to ImageMovers Digital. On March 12, 2010, Robert Zemeckis announced that he was closing ImageMovers Digital. Disney officially closed the studio in May of... that year. On August 3, 2011, it was announced that ImageMovers will re-open under ownership of Universal 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 , Cast Away , The Polar Express , and its last film, Beowulf .
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