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- The project stalled after about 6 months of development and Amblimation then shifted its focus to the animated dog film Balto, which became a box office disaster. A few years later they attempted to get Cats into production with a 1997 release planned, but again the project fell apart and Amblimation was shuttered later in 1997.
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Dec 16, 2019 · Amblimation folded in 1997, a rare failure from one of Hollywood’s top money-spinners. Cats died with it. Concept art by Luc Desmarchelier for Amblimation’s unmade animated version of...
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The plot would presumably be the same as the musical, but with extra musicals written exclusively for the film.
Balto was a box office failure in theaters in 1995, losing to Pixar's first movie Toy Storyat the box office.The failure of Baltocaused Amblimation to cease its operations.The Amblimation version was permanently cancelled.Twenty two years later, Universal Pictures made a live-action film based on Catsin 2019. However, the film received nearly universally negative reception from critics and audiences alike and was a...After Amblimation ceased production, Steven Spielberg decided to continue his career at DreamWorks among with other studios.Dec 18, 2019 · In the 90s, Steven Spielberg was in talks to do an animated film version of Cats through Amblimation, the defunct animation arm of his Amblin Entertainment studio. The project stalled and...
However, Amblimation ended up closing in 1997 and the project was thus cancelled for the final time, and the majority of the animation team employed by Amblimation joined DreamWorks. The 1998 Cats film as we know it then went into production instead after the second preproduction cancellation.
Although Spielberg later brought in some screenwriters from Disney’s Toy Story to revise Stoppard’s script for Cats, Amblimation closed its doors in 1997.
Jan 26, 2020 · Steven Spielberg’s Amblin production outfit had an animation offshoot called Amblimation which was formed in 1989 and they optioned the rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats in 1990. The project stalled after about 6 months of development and Amblimation then shifted its focus to the animated dog film Balto , which became a box office disaster.
Dec 18, 2019 · In 1994, The Los Angeles Times reported that his animation studio, Amblimation, would begin production on an adaptation — with a screenplay by none other than Tom Stoppard. It was scheduled for...
