Company:Threshold Entertainment

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Short description: Digital animation studio
Threshold Entertainment Group
IndustryFilm industry
Traditional animation
CGI
Stop motion
VFX
FoundedApril 24, 1993
FounderLarry Kasanoff
HeadquartersSanta Monica, California , United States
Key people
Larry Kasanoff (CEO)
Websitewww.thresholdentertainment.com

Threshold Entertainment Group, also known as Threshold Entertainment, is an intellectual property company.[1] Its animation subsidiary, Threshold Animation Studios, produces films.[2] 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.[3]

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[4]

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 Home Video.
  • Mortal Kombat Annihilation – released in the United States on November 21, 1997.
  • Mortal Kombat – released in the United States on August 18, 1995.

Contributions to other media

  • Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
  • Mortal Kombat Annihilation
  • 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 'til Dawn 3
  • The Producer
  • Where Are The Toons Now

References

  1. Staff (2012). "Threshold Entertainment". Threshold Entertainment. http://www.thresholdentertainment.com/. 
  2. Rossen, Jake (9 August 2013). "Placing Products? Try Casting Them". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/movies/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-computer-animated-foodfight.html?pagewanted=all. "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'." 
  3. PRNewswire (13 March 2002). "Mortal Kombat Producers Acquire 'Ninja Scroll' for Next Martial Arts Franchise" (Press release). PR Newswire – United Business Media. PR Newswire Association LLC. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mortal-kombat-producers-acquire-ninja-scroll-for-next-martial-arts-franchise-76433252.html. 
  4. Mayné, François (26 June 2012). "New Sally Corporation 3D interactive dark ride set for Warner Bros. Movie World in Australia". NewsParcs. http://www.newsparcs.com/en/article/00005848-new_sally_corporation_3d_interactive_dark_ride_set_for_warner_bros_movie_world_in_australia. 

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