The animation studio is behind many big animated hits for 20th Century. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Its been revealed that Disney is going to be closing down Blue Sky Studios in April. The 2002 comedy grossed $383 million at the global box office, including $176 million in the U.S. As a visual effects house, Blue Sky worked on films including "Joe’s Apartment" (1996), "A Simple Wish" (1997), "Alien Resurrection" (1997) and "Fight Club" (1999), according to its website.Īfter being purchased by 20th Century Fox in 1999, the company established itself as a player in the feature animation space with the release of "Ice Age," featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary as prehistoric animals. The studio was founded in 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael. The company has also cut its own brands, recently closing down its influential children's radio networks, Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country, and laid off 36 full- and part-time employees.īlue Sky, based in Greenwich, Conn., was founded in 1987 by Alison Brown, David Brown, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy and Chris Wedge after their previous employer, MAGI, which did animation work on Disney's "Tron," closed shop. Originally a production of Blue Sky Studios, a former subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, best known for creating the Ice Age and Rio franchises, it was originally set to be directed by Patrick Osborne, with an initial release date of 2020. was an American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on Februby Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, MAGI, one of the visual effects studios behind Tron (1982), shut down. A year ago, Disney sold mobile video game unit FoxNext Games Los Angeles to L.A.-based game studio Scopely. is an American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut that has been owned by 20th Century Fox since 1997. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight were rebranded as 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, respectively. 50 Fox has had much more success with the studio, with the box office receipts of their films becoming competitive with the likes of Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. Since buying Fox assets, Disney has cut, rebranded or pared down some of the brands that were part of Rupert Murdoch's entertainment empire. From 1997 until 2021, Fox owned Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company known for the Ice Age franchise.
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