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Following the film's struggles, Square Pictures did not make any more films and is now a consolidated subsidiary of Square Enix as Visual Works.
This sentence conflates two different things. Square Pictures did produce another film project after The Spirits Within, and Square Enix describes Visual Works as a separate division, not as Square Pictures under a new name.
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There are two factual problems here.
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Square Pictures did make another film project after The Spirits Within. A retrospective from Inverse notes that after Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within flopped, Square Pictures still "held on long enough to be hired by the Wachowskis to make Final Flight of the Osiris." That directly contradicts the claim that Square Pictures "did not make any more films."
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Square Enix’s own materials do not describe Visual Works as the same entity as Square Pictures. In a 2021 official Square Enix announcement, the company says it was "newly establishing SQUARE ENIX Image Studio Division" through the integration of its Visual Works Division and Image Arts Division. That identifies Visual Works as a division of Square Enix, not as Square Pictures under a new name. Separately, Square Enix annual reports list SQUARE PICTURES, INC. among the company’s consolidated subsidiaries, showing that Square Pictures and Visual Works were treated as distinct entities in Square Enix’s own corporate materials.
So the sentence is inaccurate both in saying Square Pictures made no further films and in equating Square Pictures with Visual Works.
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- 20 Years Ago, The Matrix Gave Sci-fi Fans a Treat - and Changed Hollywood Forever
It took four years and $150 million to produce a box office bomb that killed Square Pictures, but the famous game developer's filmmaking wing held on long enough to be hired by the Wachowskis to make 'Final Flight of the Osiris.'
- Combining Visual Works Division and Image Arts Division to newly form SQUARE ENIX Image Studio Division | SQUARE ENIX
Square Enix Co., Ltd. ... is newly establishing SQUARE ENIX Image Studio Division today through the integration of its Visual Works Division and Image Arts Division.
- Square Enix Holdings Annual Report 2019
Among the Company’s consolidated subsidiaries, the fiscal years of SQUARE ENIX (China) CO., LTD., HUANG LONG CO., LTD., and SQUARE PICTURES, INC. end on December 31.