Background: ImageMovers was founded in 1997 by Robert Zemeckis. However, it was fully established in 2000 with its first two films, What Lies Beneath and Cast Away. In 2007, ImageMovers was bought by Disney, and was renamed to "ImageMovers Digital". ImageMovers Digital only released two films in that time: Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) and Mars Needs Moms, before Disney closed the studio in May 2011. However, in August 2011, plans to re-open the studio were announced, with a two-year deal with Universal Pictures following. The first film released under the newly revived ImageMovers roster was Real Steel.
ImageMovers[]
(July 21, 2000-)
Nicknames: "Filmstrip Train"
Logo: On a black background, a light shines through the lower-middle-left of the screen. It later dies down, revealing a train that moves forward, with the text "IMAGEMOVERS" slowly swinging in and stretching underneath the train. When the train gets fully to the screen, the screen flashes, and the text appears fully underneath the train in gold-silver, as the train becomes a still image and has the back trains on it turning into filmstrips. The logo slowly zooms out when it is completed.
Variants:
- A still version appears at the end of Matchstick Men, The Borgias, and Welcome to Marwen.
- On The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, the logo cuts off early.
- Beginning with Here, the animation is redone by DNEG.
Print Logo Variants:
- At the end of The Polar Express, the logo is smaller and tinted in gold (like the preceding closing credits). Same goes with the following still Playtone logo.
- At the end of The Walk, the print logo scrolls up with the rest of the credits.
FX/SFX: The train. Done by Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1998.
Music/Sounds: A dramatic fanfare with some train sounds.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- The still version is silent.
- On Monster House, the last bit of the music echoes into the Amblin Entertainment logo.
- On The Walk, the closing theme plays underneath.
Availability: Extremely rare. Debuted on What Lies Beneath. Sometimes, like on Last Holiday, Beowulf and Real Steel, it is absent.
ImageMovers Digital[]
(November 6, 2009-March 11, 2011)
Nicknames: "IMD", "Red Sphere"
Logo: A red sphere quickly zooms in, with a building reflected in it. Then two steel pillars coming from beyond, making the sphere between them. More pillars come in various angles, pass over and place themselves like a ladder, where are four steps referred as "IM", and a polygon block below, resembling the letter "D". The sphere appears to be above "D". The gray name "IMAGEMOVERSDIGITAL" fades in with a line above it.
Variant:
- On the publicity material and at the end, it is still.
- At the beginning of Mars Needs Moms, the red sphere is replaced by Mars.
FX/SFX: Moving sphere and pillar steps.
Music/Sounds: The opening theme.
Availability: Uncommon, It only appears on A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms.