Chomerk

Chomerk is a 2002 American animated science fiction action-comedy film produced by Rivera Studios for Paramount Pictures. The fourth feature film from Rivera, it was co-written and directed by TjsWorld2011 and co-written and produced by Ntpockets, and was the studio's first independently produced film since Reader Squad (2001). The film follows an amateur technician who invents a makeshift gateway to the computer world, but discovers that his school's computer network is being corrupted from within. He is thus given the task to travel inside the cyberworld and eliminate the cause of the corruption: the leader of an oppressive dictatorship inside it.

The film's concept was envisioned by TjsWorld2011 in 1997 while working on the film Garrett Check. Ntpockets convinced him to pitch their original screenplay for the film to Paramount soon after. Production lasted from March 1999 to July 2000, with recently-founded visual effects company Blur Studio assisting Rivera Studios in creating various cyberworld backgrounds and visual effects. Chomerk also marked Mary Kay Bergman's final film role before her suicide on November 11, 1999, and the film is thus dedicated to her memory.

Chomerk premiered at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills on March 19, 2000, and was released in the United States on March 24, 2000. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, style, and writing, and grossed $102.6 million worldwide against its $27 million budget, making it the sixth highest-grossing animated film of 2000, as well as the forty-ninth highest-grossing film of 2000 overall. It was later released on DVD and VHS on January 23, 2002 and on Blu-ray on August 16, 2011, exactly ten years after its original release.