Square Pictures

== 1997–2002 ==
Square Pictures was a Honolulu-based animation studio owned by Japanese video games company Square (via it subsidiary Square USA) founded in May 1997, in order to produce the fully CGI feature-length movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, released in partnership with Columbia Pictures.
Due the box office financial failure of the movie, and thus, giving a massive negative impact on Square's revenues, the studio was closed on March 31, 2002. Square USA morphs Honolulu studio shut Afterwards, the company was a consolidated subsidiary of Square Enix's Visual Works, but in recent years, it was put on liquidation, and unlisted from the company's subsidiaries. Square Enix 2020 Annual Report, p. 52
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Category:Defunct movie studios
Category:Defunct animation studios
Category:Square Enix
Category:Final Fantasy
Category:United States
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Category:Hawaii
Category:Animation studios