 Due to the poor performance of the film at the box office, Square  Pictures announced its "retirement" from the film business in  October 2001. The studio did, however, go on to produce the short  film _Final Flight of the Osiris (2003)_ (qv) in a similar realistic  CGI style to Final Fantasy, which played in theaters before  _Dreamcatcher (2003)_ (qv) and was released as the first of a series  of short films set in the Matrix on DVD entitled The Animatrix.