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Open Doors Animation is an American independent animation studio founded by Joshua McCoy in 1993, and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Their films can be co-produced and distributed by any studio, but mostly by Paramount and Warner Bros.

History
Open Doors was founded on July 15, 1993 by Joshua McCoy. For its launch, the studio signed with Paramount Pictures a three-picture deal to produce traditionally-animated films for the studio. Their feature debut was Insects of Destruction, which was released on October 17, 1996, and it was a critical and financial success. The studio released two more traditionally-animated films, which are both are successful with critics and the box office as well. But then on August 3, 2001, Open Doors released an adaptation of Lord of the Flies, and it was a box office bomb with mixed reviews. On New Years Day 2002, the studio departured from hand-drawn animation to produce computer animated features, both in the likes of Pixar, and after seeing the success of Blue Sky's Ice Age, which lays off some of their traditional animators, and oppertunes them to hire some new CG animators to make their films.

Almost two years later in December 2003, they signed with Warner Bros. Pictures a five-picture deal to produce their CGI movies, as a response to the shutdown of Warner Bros. Feature Animation. The first fully computer-animated Open Doors film, which was Crazy Teens, was released on July 30, 2004, and met with critical acclaim and box office success. The two studios produced three more original computer-animated features before their 2004 film launched the studio's first franchise, with a sequel released four years after the original.

In 2009, Open Doors went back to Paramount to co-produce and release Vira: Adventure with the Memes on August 16, which met with critical acclaim and box office success, and launched a franchise just like Crazy Teens. Paramount and Open Doors went ahead and produced 2 more movies since their recollaboration, such as an original Cryptzoology film released on May 6, 2011, and a loose adaptation of Holes, which were released in 2011 and 2012 respectively. The former was met with mixed reviews from critics, but still made enough money in theaters to launch Open Doors' third franchise, while the latter was considered better than the live action Disney film of the same name, and may be a box office success, but was left stand-alone.

The animation studio went back to Warner Bros. to co-produce the third and final Crazy Teens film, which was released 9 years after the first, and 4 years after the second at the same time on May 31, 2013. Critics and audiences considered A Graduate Ending, not only the best Crazy Teens film, but the greatest non-Disney animated sequel, which made Crazy Teens the second animated legendary trilogy after Toy Story, and the box office gross is also a connection to their third installment by grossing over $1 billion, which is the first time for a non-Disney animated feature to do so. Warner Bros. and Open Doors produced one more animated feature, which is a video game-themed parody of Monster High released in summer 2015, over a year after The LEGO Movie, a film from Warner Bros.' own animation division, the Warner Animation Group, that made another $1 billion for the animation studio, launching a fourth franchise for Open Doors, before they made second installments of their last two franchises, released in 2016 and 2018, their first adaptation since 2001, released in 2017, and a new original film, released in 2019, all with Paramount respectively. All four movies were box office hits, despite half of them getting good reviews, and the other half were mixed to critics and audiences.

The same year that the studio's fourth sequel was released, Open Doors signed a deal with Mattel and Universal to produce a shared universe of animated films based on their franchises besides Barbie, Hot Wheels, and their preschool franchises like Barney, Thomas the Tank Engine, and Bob the Builder. This shared universe will be the first time that the animation studio will produce movies outside of Paramount and Warner Bros. A year and a half earlier, they decided to collaborate with Nintendo and Sony Pictures Animation to develop a film based on the Super Smash Bros. games. They also announced a trilogy of computer-animated films based on the object community, with each one having a different distributor.

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