Threshold Entertainment
{{Short description|Digital animation studio}}
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1993|04|24|df=y}}
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| founder = Larry Kasanoff
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| location = Santa Monica, California, United States
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| key_people = Larry Kasanoff (CEO)
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Traditional animation
Puppetry
CGI
Stop motion
Flash animation
Live action
VFX
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| homepage = {{URL|http://www.thresholdentertainment.com/}}
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Threshold Entertainment Group, also known as Threshold Entertainment, is an intellectual property company.{{cite web|title=Threshold Entertainment|url=http://www.thresholdentertainment.com/|publisher=Threshold Entertainment|access-date=17 May 2012|author=Staff|year=2012}} Its animation subsidiary, Threshold Animation Studios, produces films.{{cite news|last1=Rossen|first1=Jake|title=Placing Products? Try Casting Them|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/movies/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-computer-animated-foodfight.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=4 August 2014|work=New York Times|date=9 August 2013|quote=The company’s chief executive and chairman, Larry Kasanoff, proclaimed the project, featuring a voice cast led by Charlie Sheen and Eva Longoria, would help make Threshold’s animation arm 'the next-generation Pixar'.}} Larry Kasanoff is the company's chief executive officer (CEO) after previously serving as president for Lightstorm Entertainment, a company he co-founded with entrepreneur and filmmaker James Cameron.{{cite web|title=Mortal Kombat Producers Acquire 'Ninja Scroll' for Next Martial Arts Franchise|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mortal-kombat-producers-acquire-ninja-scroll-for-next-martial-arts-franchise-76433252.html|work=PR Newswire – United Business Media|publisher=PR Newswire Association LLC|access-date=17 May 2012|author=PRNewswire|format=Press release|date=13 March 2002}}
Threshold Animation Studios
Threshold Animation Studios has produced several CGI projects:
=Theme park films=
- DC Comics' Justice League (still in production)
- Star Trek 4D – Las Vegas Hilton
- Armageddon – Les Effets Speciaux – Disneyland Paris
- Mission: Space – Epcot's Walt Disney World Resort
- Hershey's Really Big 3D Show – Hershey's Chocolate World
- Bob the Builder 4D – Legoland
- Marvel Super Heroes 4D – Madame Tussauds
- Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D – animations for the amusement ride at Warner Bros. Movie World{{cite news|last=Mayné|first=François|title=New Sally Corporation 3D interactive dark ride set for Warner Bros. Movie World in Australia|url=http://www.newsparcs.com/en/article/00005848-new_sally_corporation_3d_interactive_dark_ride_set_for_warner_bros_movie_world_in_australia|access-date=27 June 2012|newspaper=NewsParcs|date=26 June 2012}}
=Television specials=
- Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out – Cartoon Network
- Lego: Atlantis – Cartoon Network
- The Afterlife – animated comedy pilot for Fox
=Films=
- Bobbleheads: The Movie – released on home video by Universal Studios in December 2020.
- Foodfight! – released on DVD in the United States on May 7, 2013.
- Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers – released by Universal Studios in 2010.
- Bionicle: The Legend Reborn – released on home video by Universal Studios in September 2009.
- Hero Factory's Rise of the Rookies – premiered on Nickelodeon, released on DVD by Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.
- Beowulf - premiered by Dimension Films in the United States on March 31, 1999, released on home video by Paramount Home Entertainment on July 27, 2021 (as Threshold Entertainment Group).
- Mortal Kombat Annihilation – released in the United States on November 21, 1997 (as Threshold Entertainment Group).
- Mortal Kombat – released in the United States on August 18, 1995 (as Threshold Entertainment Group).
=Unreleased Films=
- Arcade - An animated film about video game characters. A similar film Wreck-It Ralph would be made by Disney in 2012.
- Mascots - An animated film about sports mascot characters.
- Ninja Scroll - A live action film adaptation of the 1993 anime of the same name.{{cite press release |title=Mortal Kombat Producers Acquire 'Ninja Scroll' for Next Martial Arts Franchise|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mortal-kombat-producers-acquire-ninja-scroll-for-next-martial-arts-franchise-76433252.html|work=PR Newswire |publisher=PR Newswire Association LLC|access-date=17 May 2012|date=13 March 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001031253/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mortal-kombat-producers-acquire-ninja-scroll-for-next-martial-arts-franchise-76433252.html|archive-date=2011-10-01 |url-status=dead}}
- Sunday Comics Capers - An animated film about comic strip characters.
=Contributions to other media=
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
- Scary Movie
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
- The Faculty
- Dogma
- Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Highlander: Endgame
- Gen Y Cops
- Impostor
- The Weight of Water
- From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
- The Producer
- Where Are The Toons Now
- United Artists logo (1994–2000)
- Fox Searchlight Pictures logo (1996–2011)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.thresholdentertainment.com}}
{{Animation industry in the United States}}
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Category:American animation studios
Category:Mass media companies of the United States
Category:Visual effects companies
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