It seems that Disney is putting more eggs into the digital animation basket here in the Bay Area: they're setting up a studio in our neighbors to the north, Novato. Teaming with director Robert Zemeckis (the genius behind Back to the Future and now the Angelina Jolie animated nudie flick, Beowulf), the pair is forming ImageMovers Digital—a digital animation studio focused on the "Is that really
animation or isn't it?" type of filmmaking.

Disney & Co. will be setting up shop at Hamilton Landing, where they will convert two aircraft hangars leftover from its Air Force base days. According to the Chron, next year ImageMovers Digital will "film" A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge.

We just want to know where they were while filming Angelina Jolie's scenes for Beowulf and why (why?) wasn't that here in Novato? We thought it would've been fun to feed her something since she's so skinny (organic, of course) and pal around San Francisco, gabbing about Brad and the kids, becoming BFFs forever. Sigh. Another dream down the crapper. -- Dianne de Guzman