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'''Sony Pictures Animation''' is an American animation studio owned by [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. Most of the studio's films are distributed worldwide by [[Sony Pictures Releasing]] under their [[Columbia Pictures]] label (with the exception of ''Fixed'', which will be co-distributed by [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] through [[New Line Cinema]]), while all direct-to-video releases are released by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]. In 2001, Sony Pictures considered selling off its visual effects facility [[Sony Pictures Imageworks]] but after failing to find a suitable buyer, having been impressed with the CGI sequences of ''Stuart Little 2'' and seeing the box office successes of [[DreamWorks Animation]]'s ''Shrek'' and [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]/[[Pixar Animation Studios|Pixar]]'s ''Monsters, Inc.'', SPI was reconfigured to become an animation studio. In 2002, Sony Pictures Animation was established to develop characters, stories and movies with SPI taking over the digital production while maintaining its visual effects production.