Go Fish Pictures was an American film production and distribution company and a division of
DreamWorks SKG DreamWorks may refer to:
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,
The company was founded in 2000 in order to produce and release
arthouse,
independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independe ...
and foreign films. The division was initially successful with the
anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...
films ''
Millennium Actress
is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse. Loosely based on the lives of actresses Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine, it tells the story of two documentary filmmakers investigating t ...
''
and ''
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence'' in 2003 and 2004 respectively. This led to venturing into live-action films with the releases of ''
The Chumscrubber'' and ''
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio''.
However, following the critical and commercial failure of ''
Chumscrubber'', DreamWorks shut down the division in 2007 shortly after the release of the Japanese film ''
Casshern''.
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Entertainment companies established in 2000
Entertainment companies disestablished in 2007
Film distributors of the United States
2000 establishments in California
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Entertainment companies based in California
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Paramount Pictures
Former Viacom subsidiaries
Universal Pictures
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