Method Studios
Method Studios is a visual effects company launched in 1999 in Los Angeles, California with facilities in New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, Montreal, and Pune. The company provides production and post-production services including conceptual design, look development, on-set supervision, 3D animation/CGI, matte painting, AR/VR, compositing and finishing.[1]
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| Founded | 1998 |
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| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
Number of locations | New York City, USA San Francisco, USA Atlanta, USA Vancouver, Canada Montreal, Canada Melbourne, Australia Pune, India |
Key people | Ed Ulbrich – President and General Manager, Visual Effects and VR Eric Combrie – COO Erika Burton – EVP, Global Features VFX |
| Services | Visual Effects |
| Parent | Framestore |
| Website | www.methodstudios.com |
Some commercial and feature projects produced by Method Studios have been recognized by award bodies such as the Visual Effects Society (VES) and Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP).[2][3] Some Method staff have been invited to speak at industry conferences such as SIGGRAPH, NAB, Collider and the VES Production Summit.[4][5]
Affiliations
In late 2010, Method Studios was acquired by Deluxe to form part of the Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. This group includes other companies specializing in post-production such as Company 3 (color grading), Encore (TV post-production and visual effects), and Beast (editorial). Method Studios co-locate with both Company 3 and Beast in Atlanta, share facility space with Company 3 in Los Angeles and New York, and share facility space with Encore in Vancouver.[6] In 2018 Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. acquired the award-winning VFX studio Atomic Fiction, and joined it with Method Studios.[7]
In November 2020 it was announced that Method Studios, along with Company 3 and several of Deluxe's other creative businesses, would be acquired by Framestore.[8]
Clients
Method Studios has collaborated on feature films with many top studios such as Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Studios and Paramount. In terms of commercial production, the company maintains working relationships with many award-winning directors such as Noam Murro, Tom Kuntz, Jake Scott, Nicolai Fuglsig and Mark Romanek. Commercial clients include Verizon, DirecTV, Kia Motors, Microsoft, Bridgestone, Chrysler and Canon through agencies David&Goliath, Grey, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Twofifteen and TBWA/Chiat Day and many more.[9]
Filmography
2000s
| Year | Films | Director(s) | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Changeling | Clint Eastwood | Universal Studios | $55 million | $113.4 million |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | Warner Bros. Pictures Paramount Pictures |
$130–138 million | $185.3 million |
| Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Sony Pictures | $150 million | $485.9 million | |
| Invictus | Clint Eastwood | Spyglass Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures |
$50–60 million | $122.2 million |
2010s
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | I'm Here | Spike Jonze | Absolut Vodka | N/A | N/A |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Samuel Bayer | Platinum Dunes Warner Bros. |
$35 million | $117.7 million | |
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Jon Turteltaub | Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Pictures |
$150 million | $215.3 million | |
| Salt | Philip Noyce | Di Bonaventura Pictures Sony Pictures |
$110–130 million | $295.3 million | |
| Let Me In | Matt Reeves | Relativity Media Paramount Pictures |
$20 million | $24.1 million | |
| Red | Robert Schwentke | Di Bonaventura Pictures Summit Entertainment |
$60 million | $199 million | |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Michael Gondry | Original Film Sony Pictures |
$120 million | $229.2 million |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Rob Marshall | Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Pictures |
$410.6 million | $1.046 billion | |
| The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | River Road Entertainment Fox Searchlight Pictures |
$32 million | $61.7 million | |
| X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | Marvel Entertainment 20th Century Fox |
$140-160 million | $353.6 million | |
| Captain America: The First Avenger | Joe Johnston | Marvel Studios Paramount Pictures |
$140 million | $370.6 million | |
| The Ides of March | George Clooney | Sony Pictures | $12.5 million | $76.3 million | |
| Contagion | Steven Soderbergh | Warner Bros. | $60 million | $136.5 million | |
| Tower Heist | Brett Ratner | Universal Pictures | $75-85 million | $152.9 million | |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 | Bill Condon | Summit Entertainment | $127 million | $712.2 million | |
| J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros. | $35 million | $84.9 million | |
| Jack and Jill | Dennis Dugan | Happy Madison Productions Sony Pictures |
$79 million | $149 million | |
| New Years Eve | Garry Marshall | Warner Bros. | $56 million | $142 million | |
| Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor |
Marvel Entertainment Sony Pictures |
$57-75 million | $132.6 million | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | Sony Pictures | $90 million | $239.3 million | |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Stephen Daldry | Warner Bros. | $40 million | $55.2 million | |
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | Summit Entertainment | $42 million | $47.6 million |
| This Means War | McG | 20th Century Fox | $65 million | $156.5 million | |
| The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Peter Lord | Aardman AnimationColumbia Pictures | $55 million | $123 million | |
| Wrath of the Titans | Jonathan Liebesman | Warner Bros. | $150 million | $302 million | |
| Dark Shadows | Tim Burton | Warner Bros. | $150 million | $245.5 million | |
| Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures |
$215-225 million | $654.2 million | |
| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Timur Bekmambetov | $million | $million | ||
| Ted | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Looper | $million | $million | |||
| Argo (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Cloud Atlas | $million | $million | |||
| Flight | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | $million | $million | ||
| A Good Day to Die Hard | $million | $million | |||
| Iron Man 3 | $million | $million | |||
| After Earth (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| White House Down | $million | $million | |||
| The Wolverine (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Riddick | $million | $million | |||
| Thor: The Dark World | $million | $million | |||
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $million | $million | |||
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | $million | $million | ||
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | $million | $million | ||
| Robocop | $million | $million | |||
| Divergent | $million | $million | |||
| A Million Ways to Die in the West (Iloura) | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | $million | $million | |||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | |
| Hercules | $million | $million | |||
| Into the Storm | $million | $million | |||
| The Maze Runner | $million | $million | |||
| Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Shawn Levy | $million | $million | ||
| 2015 | Jupiter Ascending | $million | $million | ||
| The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Paul Tibbitt Mike Mitchell |
$million | $million | ||
| Mad Max: Fury Road | $million | $million | |||
| San Andreas | $million | $million | |||
| Ted 2 | Seth MacFarlane | $million | $million | ||
| Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | |
| The Walk | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| 2016 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | $million | $million | |
| Captain America: Civil War | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | ||
| Star Trek Beyond | $million | $million | |||
| Ghostbusters | Paul Feig | $million | $million | ||
| Voyage of Time | $million | $million | |||
| Deepwater Horizon | $million | $million | |||
| Doctor Strange | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | ||
| Allied | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $million | $million | |||
| 2017 | Ghost in the Shell | $million | $million | ||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | James Gunn | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | |
| King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | $million | $million | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | $million | $million | |||
| Okja | $million | $million | |||
| Transformers: The Last Knight | $million | $million | |||
| Spider-Man: Homecoming (Iloura) | Jon Watts | $million | $million | ||
| Blade Runner 2049 | $million | $million | |||
| Thor: Ragnarok (Iloura) | Taika Waititi | $million | $million | ||
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Iloura) | Jake Kasdan | $million | $million | ||
| Bright (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| 2018 | Black Panther | $million | $million | ||
| A Wrinkle in Time | $million | $million | |||
| Pacific Rim: Uprising | $million | $million | |||
| Tomb Raider (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Avengers: Infinity War | Anthony and Joe Russo | $million | $million | ||
| Deadpool 2 | $million | $million | |||
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | $million | $million | |||
| Skyscraper (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Christopher Robin (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| Crazy Rich Asians (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| A.X.L. (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| The Predator | $million | $million | |||
| Outlaw King | $million | $million | |||
| Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | $million | $million | |||
| The Christmas Chronicles | Clay Kaytis | $million | $million | ||
| Aquaman | $million | $million | |||
| Welcome to Marwen | Robert Zemeckis | $million | $million | ||
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Netflix | $million | $million | |
| Triple Frontier | $million | $million | |||
| John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | $million | $million | |||
| Godzilla: King of the Monsters | $million | $million | |||
| Rim of the World | $million | $million | |||
| Men in Black: International | $million | $million | |||
| Spider-Man: Far From Home | Jon Watts | $million | $million | ||
| Ad Astra | $million | $million | |||
| Ford v Ferrari | $million | $million | |||
| The Laundromat | $million | $million | |||
| It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | $million | $million | ||
| Terminator: Dark Fate | $million | $million | |||
| Doctor Sleep | $million | $million | |||
| Jumanji: The Next Level | Jake Kasdan | $million | $million |
2020s
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Birds of Prey | $million | $million | ||
| Downhill | $million | $million | |||
| Bloodshot | $million | $million | |||
| The New Mutants | $million | $million | |||
| Extraction | $million | $million | |||
| The One and Only Ivan | $million | $million | |||
| The Witches | $million | $million | |||
| The Babysitter: Killer Queen | $million | $million | |||
| Wonder Woman 1984 | $million | $million | |||
| A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting | $million | $million | |||
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $million | $million | ||
| The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | $million | $million | |||
| The Tomorrow War | $million | $million | |||
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Destin Daniel Cretton | Marvel Studios | $150-200 million | $432.2 million | |
| Eternals | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | ||
| Thunder Force | $million | $million | |||
| Candyman | $million | $million | |||
| 2022 | RRR | $million | $million | ||
| K.G.F: Chapter 2 | $million | $million | |||
| Top Gun: Maverick | $million | $million | |||
| Thor: Love and Thunder | Taika Waititi | Marvel Studios | $250 million | $760.9 million | |
| Elvis | $million | $million | |||
| 2023 | Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms |
Commercials
Commercial visual effects work produced by Method Studios includes Justin Timberlake's Filthy, Microsoft Surface: Combo, The Battle of Evony, Ford: Be the Guardian of Your Galaxy, and Nature Valley: Swimmer. They also did commercials for Fox NFL Sunday featuring Cleatus.
Method Design
Method Design is a design arm of Method Studios located within their Los Angeles and New York offices. This group has completed main titles and design for feature films and episodic shows including Godless, American Horror Story, The Night Of, and El Chapo. In addition to the film and trailer markets, Method Design has also done extensive commercial design work with Method Studios' commercial visual effects and finishing teams around the world.[10]
Awards won
- 2013, Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial - Chevy '2012 Silverado'
- 2011, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Commercial - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
- 2014, VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination'
- 2013, Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2011, VFX - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
- 2014, Silver winner for VFX - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Gold winner for VFX - Jameson 'Fire'
- 2007, Gold winner for VFX – Adidas ‘Carry’
- 2005, Silver winner for VFX – Sears ‘Arboretum’
London International Awards[11]
- 2013, Bronze for Music Video VFX - Deadmau5 'Professional Greifers'
- 2013, Bronze for Commercial Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Silver for VFX - Kia 'Share Some Soul'
- 2011, Gold for VFX - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF Awards)
- 2013, Commercial Animation - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2013, Idents & Stings - SBS 'Fresh History'
- 2013, Music Videos - Deadmau5 'Professional Greifers'
- 2012, Commercial Animation - Kia 'Share Some Soul'
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards[12]
- 2014, VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination
- 2012, Compositing - Chevy '2012 Silverado'
- 2011, Compositing - Jameson 'Fire'
CICLOPE Awards[13]
- 2014, Gold for Live Action VFX - GE 'Childlike Imagination
- 2013, Bronze for Live Action VFX - DirecTV 'Troll'
- 2012, Silver for Live Action VFX - Halo 4 'The Commissioning'
- 2011, Best use of CG in Advertising - Halo Reach 'Deliver Hope'
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