| Method Studios | |
| Foundation: | 1998 |
| Location City: | Los Angeles, California |
| 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 |
| Parent: | Framestore |
| Homepage: | www.methodstudios.com |
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]
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]
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]
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]
| Year | Films | Director(s) | Studio(s) andDistributor(s) | Budget | Gross |
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| 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 |
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) andDistributor(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 |
| 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 | |
| Matthew Vaughn | Marvel Entertainment 20th Century Fox | $140-160 million | $353.6 million | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 PicturesSony Pictures Animation | $55 million | $123 million | |
| Wrath of the Titans | Jonathan Liebesman | Warner Bros. | $150 million | $302 million | |
| Dark Shadows | Tim Burton | Warner Bros.Roadshow Entertainment | $150 million | $245.5 million | |
| Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | Columbia PicturesSony Pictures | $215-225 million | $654.2 million | |
| 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 | |||
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| 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 | ||
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| Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | Marvel Studios | $million | $million | |
| Hercules | $million | $million | |||
| Into the Storm | $million | $million | |||
| The Maze Runner | $million | $million | |||
| Shawn Levy | $million | $million | |||
| 2015 | Jupiter Ascending | $million | $million | ||
| Paul Tibbitt Mike Mitchell | $million | $million | |||
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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| Okja | $million | $million | |||
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| (Iloura) | Jon Watts | $million | $million | ||
| Blade Runner 2049 | $million | $million | |||
| (Iloura) | Taika Waititi | $million | $million | ||
| (Iloura) | Jake Kasdan | $million | $million | ||
| Bright (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| 2018 | Black Panther | $million | $million | ||
| A Wrinkle in Time | $million | $million | |||
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| Tomb Raider (Iloura) | $million | $million | |||
| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Godzilla: King of the Monsters | $million | $million | |||
| Rim of the World | $million | $million | |||
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| Jon Watts | $million | $million | |||
| Ad Astra | $million | $million | |||
| Ford v Ferrari | $million | $million | |||
| The Laundromat | $million | $million | |||
| It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | $million | $million | ||
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| Doctor Sleep | $million | $million | |||
| Jake Kasdan | $million | $million |
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) andDistributor(s) | Budget | Gross | |
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| 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 | ||||
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| Wonder Woman 1984 | $million | $million | ||||
| A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting | $million | $million | ||||
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $million | $million | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Taika Waititi | Marvel Studios | $250 million | $760.9 million | |||
| Elvis | $million | $million | ||||
| 2023 |
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 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]
London International Awards[11]
Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF Awards)
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards[12]
CICLOPE Awards[13]