Reel FX Creative Studios

Reel FX

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Type	Private
Industry	Entertainment Commercial Post-production Production
Genre	Various
Predecessor	Radium/Reel FX
Founded	1993
Founder	Dale Carman David Needham
Headquarters	301 North Crowdus Street, Dallas, Texas, United States
Number of locations	2115 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California, United States
Area served	2
Key people	Steve O'Brien (CEO, Chairman) David Ross (President) Aron Warner (President of Animation)
Products	Feature films Commercials Special Attractions
Services	CG Animation Visual Effects Motion design Editorial Audio
Number of employees	350 (2013)
Website	www.reelfx.com

Reel FX is an American design, visual effects, animation and entertainment studio based in Dallas, Texas and Santa Monica, California.

History

In March 2007, Reel FX merged with Radium, a California-based digital studio that was founded in 1996 by Jonathan Keeton and Simon Mowbray. As part of the merge, the studio re-branded itself in 2010 to Radium/Reel FX, and in February 2012 to Reel FX.

Since 2007, Reel FX has been presenting the Texas Avery Animation Award, created by the studio to "celebrate career achievement in animation." The award, which is named after the Texas-born animator and cartoonist Tex Avery, is awarded each year at Dallas International Film Festival in a form of a bronze casting of Avery's Wolf character.

On December 2010, it was announced that Reel FX produced an untitled 3D film with producer Andrew Adamson and Cirque du Soleil. In January 2012, it was announced by Paramount Pictures that it had acquired worldwide rights to the film, now titled Worlds Away directed by Adamson and executive-produced by James Cameron. In October 2012, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Reel FX's connection to the 2012 feature film, Rise of the Guardians. The film is based on Reel FX's short film, The Man in the Moon, directed by William Joyce. It is also based on Joyce's book series, The Guardians of Childhood.

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Beginning with Free Birds in 2013, all Reel FX's in-house feature films are released under its Reel FX Animation Studios banner

From 2009 to 2013, Reel FX completed its first animated feature film Free Birds. Originally titled Turkeys and scheduled for the release of 2014, but it is pulled back to November 1, 2013. Jimmy Hayward directed the film, which tells a story about two turkeys who travel back in time to prevent their species from being the traditional Thanksgiving meal.

In February 2012, the studio announced a new CG-animated film, The Book of Life. Its 2014 release is directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez and produced by Guillermo del Toro. It is described as a "Romeo and Juliet-style love story set against a Mexican Day of the Dead backdrop." In December 2012, it was reported that the studio has partnered with 20th Century Fox Animation to produce the film, and scheduled for October 3, 2014, but it is pushed back to October 17.

A CG-animated feature film adaptation of Beasts of Burden is set to be produced by Andrew Adamson.

In February 2015, Reel FX and Jorge Gutierrez announced a multi-year, multi-picture deal. The terms and lengths of it were not immediately disclosed, but the first of the new films was announced as the Untitled Kung Fu Space Western.

Filmography

Own productions

Released films

#	Title	Release date	Budget	Gross	RT	MC
1	Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away	December 21, 2012	$25 million	$34.2 million	47%	51
2	Free Birds	November 1, 2013	$55 million	$110.4 million	18%	38
3	The Book of Life	October 17, 2014	$50 million	$97.4 million	82%	67

Films in development

Title	Refs.
Beasts of Burden
Honeymoon with Dad
Monument 14
W.I.S.H. Police
Untitled Kung Fu Space Western
Monster On The Hill
Giant Girl

Short films

• The Adventures of Chuy (2015)

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Contract work

Feature films

• Rock Dog (2016)

Direct-to-video films

• G.I. Joe: Spy Troops (2003)
• G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom (2004)
• Action Man: X Missions – The Movie (2005)
• Boz: Colors and Shapes (2006)
• Boz: Adventures in Imagination (2006)
• The Very First Noel (2006)
• Thank You God for B-O-Zs and 1-2-3s! (2007)
• Start Singing with Boz (2008)
• Open Season 2 (2009)
• Tales of the Black Freighter (2009)
• Open Season 3 (2011)

Specials

• Halloweentown High (2004)

Short films

• The Man in the Moon (2005)
• Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)
• The Simpsons Ride (2008; co-animated with Blur Studio)
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts:
  • Rabid Rider (2010)
  • Fur of Flying (2010)
  • Coyote Falls (2010)
• I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (2011)
• Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)
• Daffy's Rhapsody (2012)
• Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem (2012)
• Flash in the Pain (2015)

Virtual worlds

• Webosaurs
• Baby Bottle Pop

Collaborations

• Mass Animation - Live Music

External links

• Official website
• Reel FX Creative Studios at the Internet Movie Database