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44-467: The first film by Zemeckis' production company ImageMovers , What Lies Beneath was theatrically released by DreamWorks Pictures in North America and 20th Century Fox internationally on July 21, 2000. While it received generally mixed reviews from critics who praised Pfeiffer's performance and criticized the screenplay, the film was a box office success, grossing $ 291.4 million worldwide against

88-810: A joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital , based in Marin County -based film company where Zemeckis would produce and direct 3D animated films using CGI performance-capture technology. On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released their first CGI film A Christmas Carol , a CGI performance capture film based on the Charles Dickens book of the same name and starring Jim Carrey , Gary Oldman , Colin Firth and Cary Elwes . On March 12, 2010, Disney and ImageMovers announced that ImageMovers Digital would close operations by January 2011 after movie production on Mars Needs Moms

132-478: A budget of $ 100 million and becoming the 10th highest-grossing film of the year. What Lies Beneath was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film at the 27th Saturn Awards , in addition to nominations for Zemeckis ( Best Director ) and Pfeiffer ( Best Actress ). At the 7th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards , Ford won Favorite Actor – Suspense, Pfeiffer won Favorite Actress – Suspense, and Scarwid

176-935: A deal with Warner Bros. , but they ultimately failed. After the Warner Bros. deal collapsed, ImageMovers reupped a first-look deal with DreamWorks to produce more films from that time. ImageMovers' first eight films under the name were What Lies Beneath (with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer ), Cast Away (with Tom Hanks ), Matchstick Men (with Nicolas Cage ), The Polar Express (also with Tom Hanks ), The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (with Julianne Moore ), Last Holiday (with Queen Latifah ), Monster House (with Mitchel Musso , Sam Lerner , Spencer Locke , and Steve Buscemi ), and Beowulf (with Ray Winstone , Anthony Hopkins , John Malkovich , Robin Wright Penn , and Angelina Jolie ). In 2007, ImageMovers and The Walt Disney Company set up

220-408: A little slow." The Los Angeles Times called it "spooky with a polished kind of creepiness added in... What Lies Beneath nevertheless feels more planned than passionate, scary at points but unconvincing overall." Time Out thought that "after a slow build that at times makes every hair stand on end – Zemeckis rolls out every thriller cliché there is. A pity, because until then it's

264-401: A missing woman named Madison Elizabeth Frank. She visits Madison's mother and steals a lock of Madison's hair, as well as noticing a photo of Madison wearing an unusual necklace. Following a ritual from a book, Claire attempts to conjure Madison. Seemingly possessed by her spirit, Claire aggressively seduces Norman, shocking him by speaking as Madison until she drops the lock of hair, which ends

308-469: A particular style of writing in Hollywood. She commented in an interview with Salon : Since then, she has been primarily a screenwriter for such films as Dancers (1987); Impromptu (1991), the debut film directed by her husband James Lapine with a script she characterized as "maybe the best thing that I will ever do"; Sommersby (1993); wrote and directed The Hairy Bird (1998); co-wrote

352-401: A rewrite from actor-writer Clark Gregg . This script was delivered in 1998 by Steven Spielberg to his director friend Robert Zemeckis , who had signed a deal for DreamWorks to distribute the films of newly founded production company ImageMovers , and announced interest in doing a thriller film. Harrison Ford then signed on to star in the film, even agreeing to clear room in his schedule for

396-448: A screenwriter came with the film 9½ Weeks (1986). She followed that film with the script for Dancers (1987), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed by Herbert Ross , which chronicled the backstage drama of a ballet company (played by American Ballet Theatre dancers) and their director during the staging of the ballet Giselle . By the time she was brought in to work on the film Sommersby (1993), she had become known for

440-435: A smart, realistically staged, adult-oriented and extraordinarily effective domestic chiller." Empire wrote "The biggest surprise is, perhaps, that what emerges is no masterpiece, but a semi-sophisticated shocker, playfully homaging Hitchcock like a mechanical masterclass in doing 'genre'. The first hour is great fun... It's an enjoyably giddy ride, certainly, but once you're back from the edge of your seat, you realise most of

484-459: A year earlier, and died from pneumonia in 2014. Marshall confirmed that the film would be a prequel, similar to earlier drafts, and that the writing was almost complete. During an interview at the premiere of Flight , Zemeckis stated that the sequel was still possible, despite Hoskins' absence, and the script for the sequel was sent to Disney for approval from studio executives. On November 26, 2009, Zemeckis had signed on to produce and direct

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528-693: Is an American production company which produces CGI animation, motion-capture, live-action films and television shows. The company is known for producing such films as Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Monster House (2006), and Beowulf (2007). From 2007 to 2011, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers founded a joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital which produced two motion-captured CGI-animated films: A Christmas Carol (2009) and Mars Needs Moms (2011) for Walt Disney Pictures , neither of which were financially successful. On March 1, 1984, Robert Zemeckis incorporated and founded

572-513: Is an American documentarian, film director, screenwriter and novelist. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including two Academy Awards ( Documentary Feature for Marjoe in 1973 and Documentary Short Subject for Thoth in 2002) Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), a UNESCO consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan , a Columbia Law School professor. Her maternal grandfather

616-483: Is unable to salvage an uncompelling and unoriginal film." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. The New York Times wrote that "at the start, [Zemeckis] zaps us with quick, glib scares, just to show he still knows how, but his heart isn't in this kind of material anymore. His reflexes are

660-409: Is unseen for several days, Claire suspects Warren may have killed her. Claire believes she sees a woman's body in the lake and senses a presence in the house. A framed article about Norman falls off his desk and shatters, leading Claire to discover an odd key. She finds the bathtub mysteriously filled and sees another woman's reflection in the water. Claire and her friend Jody hold a séance . She finds

704-476: The 1968 Beatles film was developed by Robert Zemeckis . Disney canceled the project due to the box office failure of the Zemeckis-produced motion capture film Mars Needs Moms and aesthetic concerns about the technology. After its cancellation at Disney, Zemeckis then tried to pitch the film to other studios, before eventually losing interest in the project. On March 26, 2008, Michael Dougherty

748-400: The bathtub filled again, sees a message stating "you know" on the foggy bathroom mirror, and her computer inexplicably types the initials "MEF". Convinced Mary's ghost is haunting her, Claire publicly confronts Warren, only for Mary to appear next to him. She later learns that Mary went to her mother's house after the couple had a fight. On the back of Norman's article, Claire finds a story about

792-520: The box-office failure of Mars Needs Moms . In August 2011, it was announced that ImageMovers has entered a two-year first-look producing deal with Universal Pictures . ImageMovers' first foray into television production was The Borgias , which aired on Showtime from 2011 to 2013. On August 25, 2016, Compari Entertainment, the company's television division, was founded, with NBC 's Manifest , which premiered on September 24, 2018, as their first television series. This motion capture remake of

836-609: The café in Adamant, where she sees the same necklace and jewelry box at a nearby shop. Recovering the box from the lake and unlocking it with the key from Norman's office, she finds Madison's necklace inside. She confronts Norman, who says that he came home to find Madison had killed herself; in desperation, he pushed her car into the lake with her body inside. Norman agrees to confess and call the police, but instead distracts and paralyzes Claire with halothane . Norman admits to murdering Madison when she threatened to expose their affair to

880-516: The company as South Side Amusement Company. The company was in-name only from the beginning. In the early 1990s, Zemeckis signed a production deal with Universal Pictures , to release films under the South Side Amusement Company banner. There, it is one of the producers of Death Becomes Her , Trespass , The Public Eye , The Frighteners and Contact . In 1997, it was announced that South Side Amusement Company

924-501: The creaks and groans are from the decomposing script." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four. He praised Michelle Pfeiffer's performance, calling her "convincing and sympathetic", but commented, "Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary. Along

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968-487: The dean. He places Claire in the bathtub, filling it with water to stage her suicide. As he removes Madison's necklace from Claire, her face contorts into that of Madison's corpse. A startled Norman hits his head on the sink and knocks himself out. As the drug wears off, Claire barely escapes drowning. She flees in Norman's truck, but he climbs on it and attacks her. The truck crashes into the lake, dislodging Madison's body from

1012-526: The film was released in the United States on August 21, 2015. Currently, Kernochan is developing the musical Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor as librettist, along with composer Alan Menken, lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director James Lapine. In 1977, Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle ( ISBN   0-688-03149-8 in hard cover, ISBN   0-425-03661-8 in paperback) was published. It

1056-545: The live-action/animated hybrid film adaptation of Chuck Sambuchino's book How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack along with The Gotham Group and Sony Pictures Animation . In November that year, Chad Damiani and JP Lavin were hired to write the script. On October 29, 2019, at the HBO Max launch event, it was announced that a live-action/animated hybrid TV series featuring Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera , and Cartoon Network characters to be produced by Warner Bros. Animation ,

1100-464: The motion capture animated film adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann ’s The Nutcracker through ImageMovers Digital for Walt Disney Pictures . On July 21, 2016, Universal Pictures revived the adaptation, which may or may not use motion capture, with Zemeckis only set to produce the film and Evan Spiliotopoulos was hired to write the script. There has been no information since. On April 14, 2011, Zemeckis had signed on to produce and potentially direct

1144-435: The number one spot at the box office upon opening, beating X-Men . The film ended up earning $ 155,464,351 domestically and $ 135,956,000 internationally for a total of $ 291,420,351 worldwide, close to triple its production budget of $ 100 million. On Rotten Tomatoes , What Lies Beneath holds an approval rating of 47% based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 5.50/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Robert Zemeckis

1188-418: The possession. Claire recalls a repressed memory about Norman's affair with a student named Madison, which happened during a rough patch in their marriage. Claire leaves to spend the night with Jody, who reveals that she saw Norman arguing with a woman at a café in the nearby town of Adamant a year earlier. Returning home, Claire finds Norman unconscious in the bathtub, along with a hairdryer, which he assures her

1232-426: The project, and the animated characters would be in traditional two-dimensional, while the rest would be in motion capture . However, in 2010, Zemeckis said that the sequel would remain hand-drawn animated and live-action sequences will be filmed, just like in the original film, but the lighting effects on the cartoon characters and some of the props that the toons handle will be done digitally. Also in 2010, Hahn, who

1276-429: The project. Michelle Pfeiffer then followed as DreamWorks started to negotiate with 20th Century Fox regarding the film's distribution. Ford and Pfeiffer were Zemeckis' first and only choices for the lead roles. Fox agreed to distribute both What Lies Beneath and Zemeckis' other project Cast Away , with the thriller having DreamWorks doing the domestic distribution and Fox the international one. What Lies Beneath

1320-474: The puzzle pieces of a former life, groping her way through the past and the present simultaneously. Sarah is also a singer, lyricist and composer. During the next two years after the release of Marjoe , she released two albums on RCA Records as a singer-songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush . Kernochan released her third album as a singer-songwriter, Decades of Demos , in 2013. She also wrote

1364-478: The series was in development after it was announced as Tooned Out , to be released on the then upcoming WarnerMedia streaming service. Zemeckis teamed up with Jared Stern to write the series. There have been no new updates since until July 2024. Sarah Kernochan Hobart Chatfield-Taylor (great-grandfather) Rose Chatfield-Taylor (great-grandmother) Sarah Marshall Kernochan ( / ˈ k ɜːr n ə k ɛ n / KUR -nə-ken ; born December 30, 1947)

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1408-468: The story for What Lies Beneath (2000); and directed Thoth (2002) and wrote Learning to Drive (2014). Her second documentary, Thoth , also won an Academy Award in 2002, this time for Best Documentary Short Subject . She has taught screenwriting at Emerson College . In August 2014, her feature script Learning to Drive , based on a New Yorker story by Katha Pollitt , went before cameras. Starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson ,

1452-420: The sunken car. As Norman tries to drown Claire, Madison grabs him. Claire escapes as Norman drowns and Madison's ghost drifts away. Later that winter, Claire places a rose on Madison's grave. Documentary filmmaker Sarah Kernochan had adapted a personal experience with the paranormal as a script treatment featuring a retirement aged couple dealing with restless but compassionate spirits. DreamWorks commissioned

1496-622: The way, yes, there are some good moments." He also stated that he felt the problem with Zemeckis' desire to direct a Hitchcockian film ( What Lies Beneath contains several musical, visual and plot references to Psycho and Vertigo , among other Hitchcock films) was Zemeckis' decision to involve the supernatural, a device Ebert felt Alfred Hitchcock never would have done. The film was unofficially remade in India as Raaz and released in 2002. ImageMovers ImageMovers, L.L.C. ( IM ) (formerly known as South Side Amusement Company ),

1540-533: Was Wayne Chatfield-Taylor , Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Her maternal great-grandparents included writers Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and Anna De Koven. Her great-great-grandfather was Illinois Senator and XIT Ranch owner Charles B. Farwell . Her paternal grandfather was composer Marshall Kernochan. She graduated from Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in 1965, where Kernochan

1584-427: Was an accident. He says an unstable Madison confronted him at home when he ended their affair, but denies killing her. Standing on the lakeside dock with Madison's hair, Claire is pulled into the water by an unseen force; while underwater, she sees a jewelry box matching Madison's necklace in the photo. Norman pulls Claire to safety and they burn the lock of hair. Claire's suspicions return when Norman claims not to know

1628-524: Was classmates with Glenn Close , and attended Sarah Lawrence College in 1966. After Sarah Lawrence, she worked as a ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year. After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary film-making and soon gained national prominence in the United States as co-director and co-producer with Howard Smith of the film Marjoe ( 1972 ) (about evangelist Marjoe Gortner ), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature . Kernochan's first screen credit as

1672-500: Was completed. Resulting in a lay-off of approximately 450 employees, Walt Disney Studios president Alan Bergman said, "...given today's economic realities, we need to find alternative ways to bring creative content to audiences and IMD no longer fits into our business model." The company had previously been reported to have Calling All Robots , a remake of Yellow Submarine , a Roger Rabbit sequel and The Nutcracker in development. Disney dropped all of these projects following

1716-522: Was filmed while production of Cast Away took a hiatus to allow Tom Hanks to lose weight and grow a beard. As Gregg had to remain with production for rewrites, he had to decline an offer to read for a major role in Sports Night ; Aaron Sorkin later created a minor role in the final episodes of the series for Gregg. What Lies Beneath opened in 2,813 theaters in North America and grossed $ 29,702,959 for an average of $ 10,559 per theater. It reached

1760-483: Was nominated for Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense. Claire Spencer and her husband Norman, an accomplished scientist and professor, live a quiet life at their lakeside home in Vermont . The Spencers' relationship is strained, especially after Caitlin, Claire's daughter and Norman's stepdaughter, leaves for college. Claire notices that their new neighbors, Mary and Warren Feur, have a volatile relationship. After Mary

1804-428: Was rebranded as ImageMovers, and hired Creative Artists Agency employee Jack Rapke and producer Steve Starkey (who was a producer on Zemeckis' films he's directing since his stint as associate producer on 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit ) came on board to join the company. It was also announced that ImageMovers signed a non-exclusive feature film deal with DreamWorks Pictures . In 2001, ImageMovers tried to sign

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1848-517: Was reprinted as an ebook in 2011. In June 2011, Kernochan released her first novel in over 35 years entitled Jane Was Here ( ISBN   0980037727 ). A mysterious young woman, calling herself Jane, arrives in the small rundown community of Graynier, Massachusetts. She can point out the house where she grew up, though she has never been to Graynier in her life. Jane carries with her the fragmentary memory of her former life, and refuses to adjust to her new identity. Thus begins Jane's mission, to retrieve

1892-457: Was set to direct the animated sci-fi adventure film Calling All Robots with Zemeckis producing the film through ImageMovers Digital for Walt Disney Pictures . In December 2007, Marshall stated that he was still "open" to the idea, and in April 2009, Zemeckis revealed he was still interested. According to a 2009 MTV News story, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were writing a new script for

1936-453: Was the film's original associate producer, confirmed the sequel's development in an interview with Empire . He stated, "Yeah, I couldn't possibly comment. I deny completely, but yeah... if you're a fan, pretty soon you're going to be very, very, very happy." In 2010, Bob Hoskins stated he was interested in the project, reprising his role as Eddie Valiant. However, he retired from acting in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

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