C.O.R.E. Explained

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Type:	Privately held company
Fate:	Closed
Foundation:	March 31, 1994
Founder:	William Shatner Bob Munroe John Mariella Kyle Menzies
Defunct:	March 15, 2010
Location City:	Toronto, Ontario
Location Country:	Canada
Industry:	CGI animation

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio based in Toronto, and founded at the end of March 1994. Its productions included fully animated television series and feature films.

C.O.R.E. signed a production partnership deal with Radar Pictures.

History

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was started in 1994 by John Mariella, Kyle Menzies, Bob Munroe and William Shatner.^[1]

Its first and only animated feature film, The Wild, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (United States).^[1] It met with unfavourable critical and commercial reaction.

As with most Canadian F/X 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]

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

• Killshot (Weinstein Co./Film Colony/A Band Apart/Lawrence Bender Prods.)
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Walt Disney Pictures)
• Firehouse Dog (New Regency Prods/Twentieth Century Fox)
• Silent Hill (Davis Films / Wander Star / TriStar Pictures / Columbia)
• Lucky Number Slevin (Ascendant Pictures / Weinstein Co.)
• Saw 2 (Evolution Entertainment / Twisted Pictures)
• Hotel for Dogs (DreamWorks Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
• (Screen Gems/Davis Films/Impact)
• Siblings (Canadian Film Centre)
• Duma (Warner Bros.)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Senator Films/New Line Cinema)
• New York Minute (Warner Bros.)
• My Baby's Daddy (Miramax Films)
• Malibu's Most Wanted (Warner Bros.)
• 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)
• 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)
• (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)^{[2] [3]}

Television

Series, unless mentioned otherwise.

• The Tudors
• 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)
• (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)
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (Nelvana/AbsoluteDigital Pictures/Callaway Arts)
• Naughty Naughty Pets (Decode Entertainment/CBC)
• The Save-Ums! (Decode Entertainment/Discovery Kids/CBC/The Dan Clark Company)
• Franny's Feet (Decode Entertainment/Family Channel/PBS)
• The Hoobs (Decode Entertainment/Jim Henson Productions/PBS Kids Sprout (States))
• Angela Anaconda (Decode/Fox Family (States)/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/Omation)
• Chop Socky Chooks (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Cartoon Network Studios)
• Paws & Tales (Providential Pictures)
• Urban Vermin (Decode Entertainment)
• Super Why! (Decode Entertainment/Out Of The Blue Enterprises/PBS)

Animated films

• The Wild (C.O.R.E. / Walt Disney Pictures) (production company)^[1]

Notes and References

1. News: Vlessing. Etan. Toronto FX giant C.O.R.E. Digital shuts down. May 2, 2017. The Hollywood Reporter. AP. March 16, 2010. en.
2. Web site: The Spine. Official website. National Film Board of Canada. 11 March 2011.
3. News: Desowitz. Bill. Chris Landreth Talks The Spine. 12 March 2011. Animation World Network. 9 June 2009. Interview.