A look back at Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, a box office bomb that destroyed a movie studio after making only one movie, but whose pioneering motion capture technology eventually changed film forever. What was the drive behind making this film? What caused it to fail? And what is the lasting legacy of The Spirits Within?
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