

Mars Needs Moms ended up being a catastrophic box-office failure, forcing Disney to pull the plug on the other projects involving ImageMovers Digital. Soon after, Disney announced the closure of ImageMovers Digital in 2010, shortly after finishing up production on Mars Needs Moms. It also wasn't the biggest hit with critics. However, due to it's high production and marketing budget, the film ended up costing Disney $50-$100 million. The film did fairly well at the box office. The first film released by ImageMovers Digital was A Christmas Carol, a motion-capture animated version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, starring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. Robert Zemeckis directed two popular motion-capture animated films, The Polar Express and Beowulf, before the formation of ImageMovers Digital in 2007. Unfortunately, ImageMovers Digital ended up being a failed project for both Zemeckis and Disney. The remake would have been a collaborative effort between Disney and ImageMovers Digital, a film studio formed by Disney and Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Studio. The film opened to great reviews from both fans and critics and still holds a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yellow Submarine is an animated film whose impact can still be seen today. Yellow Submarine features a large soundtrack of music from the band combined with lots of mind-bending imagery. This leads to The Beatles (Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison) going on a musical journey as they return to Pepperland to defeat the Blue Meanies and bring music back to Pepperland. The film centers around Pepperland, a joyous, music-loving paradise that becomes overrun by the Blue Meanies, a group of music-hating villains who take all of the color and happiness from Pepperland. It's very colorful, creative, and contains some bizarre imagery that does a good job at visualizing the musical stylings of The Beatles. The film was praised for its rather trippy animation as it came out in the midst of the psychedelic pop culture era of the 1960's. The animation looks rough as it was in early stages, but it does give a glimpse of what The Beatles may have looked like in this version.įor those who are unaware, Yellow Submarine is an animated film from 1968. The second segment sees an animated version The Beatles performing, with a lone guitarist wearing a motion-capture suit underneath. The video is only 20 seconds and opens with a scene of The Beatles talking with their animated counterparts above them for comparison. But it’s a case of John and Paul combining two imdividual fragments. The video shows an unfinished version of the motion-capture animation. ‘Yellow Submarine’ a children’s song with a touch of stoner influence, which Ringo still wows audiences with to this day.
