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- Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by Disney, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. Blue Sky was shut down in April 2021 by Disney due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations.
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Feb 9, 2021 · Feb 9, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Disney is shutting down Blue Sky Studios, the animation house responsible for the Ice Age movies, according to Deadline....
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Feb 9, 2021 · Blue Sky Studios — the animation studio behind Ice Age, Rio, and Spies in Disguise — will shutter doors in April, Deadline reports. This comes two years after Disney acquired Blue...
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A subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios was founded in February 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy. It was known for creating computer-animated kids' movies such as Rio, Robots, Ferdinand, Epic, the entire Ice Age franchise, and more. It was one of the visual eff...
Blue Sky Studios' best-reviewed movie was The Peanuts Movie in 2015, with 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, and for the most part, their Rotten Tomatoes average was in the 70's.Ice Age was the studio's most successful franchise, and the third film,Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, was their most successful film both at the domestic and worldwide box office gro...
It all began to crumble the moment Disney Studios bought 21st Century Fox in March 2019. Shortly following that purchase, the pandemic came into view, and after several years of trying to maintain three separate animation studios, the decision to cut Blue Sky Studios was taken. In February 2021, the verdict was made official, and Disney advised tha...
A lot of people were shocked when Disney announced they would be closing Blue Sky Studios, including animator and director Patrick Osbourne and the staff on set for the Nimonamovie, which was already in production as an adaptation of the 2015 independent graphic novels by ND Stevenson. The production was therefore halted, and for a while, there was...
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Feb 9, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Disney is shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the $5.9 billion global-grossing former 20th Century Fox animation division that during its run churned out 13 feature films including the...
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Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by Disney, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. Blue Sky was shut down in April 2021 by Disney due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations.
- February 22, 1987; 36 years ago
- Greenwich American Center, Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
- Animation production, Animated films
Feb 12, 2021 · By Xavier Piedra / Feb. 12, 2021 1:08 pm EST. Blue Sky Studios, an animation company owned by Disney, recently announced that it will be closing its doors this year. Founded in 1987, Blue...
Feb 9, 2021 · Nick Romano. Published on February 9, 2021 01:52PM EST. Another holdout from the 20th Century Fox era is officially closing its doors. The Walt Disney Co. made the decision to shut down Blue...