MGM-British Studios Meanwhile, Amalgamated Studios Ltd constructed a large studio on the north side of Elstree Way between 1935 and 1937. A January 1937 deal for eight films to be made for the American studio Columbia Pictures soon collapsed. The company was unable to meet the cost of building work, and sold the facility to the Rank Organisation, which was not interested in using the studios itself, but wanted to stop John Maxwell's rival British International Pictures (BIP) from being able to compete more effectively with its own new Pinewood Studios. During the war, the studios were leased from Rank by the
Open Season 3 animated at Reel FX Creative Studios, which also did animation for "Open Season 2" along with Sony Pictures Imageworks. A teaser trailer for the sequel was released on January 5, 2010, on the "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" DVD. Like "the second film" and , Open Season 3 was released theatrically in different countries: The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and UMD Video in the United States on January 25, 2011, by Columbia Pictures. DVD Verdict gave the film a negative review, saying: "This tiresomely predictable tale exemplifies everything that's wrong about straight-to-DVD animated sequels to big-budget mainstream