Moving Picture Company
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The Moving Picture Company(MPC) is a world leading post production facility creating high-end digital visual effects and computer animation for the feature film, advertising, music and television industries. A wholly owned subsidiary of Technicolor, MPC is based in Soho - London, Santa Monica - CA and Yale town - Vancouver. The facilities are centrally located, networked and have a dedicated digital infrastructure designed and built for our future.
MPC works on some of the most exciting commercials in the world today. By mixing fresh talent from different cultures, we’ve built a dynamic team of artists and a diverse creative portfolio. Recent creative work has included spots such as Vernie Yeung’s ‘Sony BraviaDrome’ Traktor’s ‘Love at First Flight’ and Pleix’s fluid simulation driven Bacardi campaign. The team were also instrumental in contemporary classics such as Juan Cabral’s Cadbury’s ‘Gorilla Moments’, Jonathan Glazer’s, Sony Bravia ‘Paint’ and the Volkswagen Golf GTi, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ (N-eo).
International feature film work that MPC is proud to have worked on in the past months includes more than 250 shots for ‘Watchmen’ (Zach Synder) completed by the Vancouver facility. In 2008, the London studio provided the climax sequence for James Bond’s ‘Quantum of Solace’ adventure (Marc Forster), CG Mammoths and Cityscapes for ‘10,000 BC’ (Roland Emmerich) and the major VFX contribution for ‘Narnia, Prince Caspian.’ Examples of other projects completed by MPC in recent years include; Tim Burton’s ‘Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,’ Shekhar Kapur’s ’Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine,’ all of the Harry Potter films to date and Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’
Projects we are currently working on include; ‘Angels and Demons’ (Ron Howard), ‘The Wolfman’ (Joe Johnston), ‘Prince of Persia’ (Mike Newell) ‘GI Joe’ (Stephen Sommers), ‘Clash of the Titans,’ (Louis Leterrier) and ‘The Surrogates’ (Jonathan Mostow, MPC Vancouver)
Digital connectivity means no communication boundaries when working on international projects. Work in progress can be transferred between Clients and MPC for approval and we are proud to offer remote Telecine grades between the MPC bases in London and Santa Monica.
MPC also has a department dedicated to developing CG for TV, most recently they developed idents for the re-brand of the Sky channels, and stunning animated characters and visual effects for Sky One’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Colour of Magic’ and ‘Hogfather’ directed by Vadim Jean which won the VFX BAFTA. They also provided the visual effects for the Killer’s ‘Bones’ promo (Dir. Tim Burton.)
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[edit] Filmography
[edit] Currently In Production
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The Wolfman (2009 film)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)
- The Surrogates (film)
- Dorian Grey (film)
- G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
- Shanghai (2009 film)
[edit] Completed Productions
- [[Angels & Demons (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Watchmen (film)
- Is there anybody there?
- The Other Man
- Quantum of Solace
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Incendiary
- Made of Honor
- 10,000 BC
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Fred Claus
- Sweeney Todd
- Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Rome II
- Casino Royale
- Sunshine
- La Mome
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- Poseidon
- Amazing Grace
- The Banquet
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- Da Vinci Code
- Matchpoint
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Corpse Bride
- Wallace and Gromit
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Batman Begins
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Alexander
- Wimbledon
- Alien vs Predator
- Mickybo and Me
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Troy
- Stage Beauty
- Big Fish
- Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
- Sylvia
- The Medallion
- Calendar Girls
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Die Another Day
- Ali G Indahouse
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- The English Patient
[edit] Awards
2009
- ELAN Award Winner for Best Animated Character; Reepicheep, Narnia 'Prince Caspian'
2008
- BTA Craft Award for Best Colourist, Saab 'Turbo'
- Visual Effects Society Awards Winner for Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series, 'Rome II'
- Escape Awards Nomination for Best Visual Effects in a Film, 'Sunshine'
2007
- EUROBEST Gold Award Winner for Best Visual Effects, Sony 'Paint'
- BAFTA Craft Winner for Best Visual Effects, Sky One 'Hogfather'
- Oscar Nomination for Best Visual Effects, ‘Poseidon’
- BTAA Nomination for Best 60 seconds Commercial, Audi 'Satellite'
- Creative Circle Silver, Best Special FX - Channel 4 Idents 'Tokyo'
2006
- Campaign Magazine for Commercial of the Year, Sony 'Paint'
- Promax Gold for Best Graphics, Channel 4 'Idents'
- Academy Award Nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects, 'Poseidon'
- VES Award Nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects for a TV Programme' - 'Hogfather'
- VES Award Nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects for a music promo, The Killers 'Bones'
