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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within had a final production and marketing cost of $137 million, which included roughly $30 million spent on marketing by Columbia Pictures and $45 million on constructing Square's Hawaii studio. The film grossed only $85 million worldwide, resulting in estimated losses exceeding $94 million.
Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy video game franchise, directed the film. It was co-directed by Motonori Sakakibara, with Jun Aida and Chris Lee serving as producers.
The Spirits Within was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film ever released. Square Pictures rendered the film's 141,964 frames using a custom farm of 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations, with each frame taking an average of 90 minutes to render.
Elliot Goldenthal composed the entire score. The London Symphony Orchestra performed the music, conducted by Dirk Brossé, and it was recorded at the Watford Colosseum and the London AIR Lyndhurst Hall.
Square Pictures closed in late January 2002 largely due to the commercial failure of The Spirits Within. The film's losses also delayed the merger between Square and Enix, as Enix was hesitant to join a company that had just sustained such substantial financial losses.
The film holds a 44% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 144 reviews and a score of 49 out of 100 on Metacritic. Critics widely praised its visual realism, particularly the rendering of Aki Ross, but found the story dull and emotionally distant.