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Sony Pictures Animation Award-nominated film "Surf's Up", the Golden Raspberry Award-winner "The Emoji Movie", and the Golden Globe-nominated film, "". In 2001, Sony Pictures considered selling off its visual effects facility Sony Pictures Imageworks. After failing to find a suitable buyer, having been impressed with the CGI sequences created for "Stuart Little 2", and seeing the box office success of DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek" and Disney/Pixar's "Monsters, Inc.", SPI was reconfigured to become an animation studio. "Astro Boy", which had been in development at Sony since 1997 as a live-action film, was set to be SPI's first all-CGI film. On May 9, 2002, Sony
Pokémon: The First Movie Pokémon: The First Movie Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back, commonly referred to as Pokémon: The First Movie, originally released as , is a 1998 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, the chief director of the "Pokémon" television series. It is the first theatrical release in the "Pokémon" franchise. It was first released in Japan on July 18, 1998. On July 8, 1999, a Complete Version (完全版 "kanzenban") of the film was aired in Japanese television. In addition to an added prologue, the updated version included new animation and CGI graphics. The English-language adaptation, produced by Nintendo and