Company:Scanline VFX
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| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Visual effects |
| Founded | 1989, in Munich, Germany |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of employees | 1,200+ (2021) |
| Parent | Netflix |
| Website | www |
Scanline VFX is a global visual effects and animation company founded 1989 in Munich. The studio is led by VFX Supervisor Stephan Trojansky. The company has 7 locations including Munich, Stuttgart, Los Angeles , Vancouver , Montreal , London, and Seoul.[1]
Scanline has recently completed work on films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) such as Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals (all 2021), and films based on DC Comics such as Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Suicide Squad (both 2021) and The Batman (2022). They have also worked on Terminator: Dark Fate, Gemini Man (both 2019), Godzilla vs. Kong, Free Guy and Don't Look Up (all 2021).
In terms of television, Scanline has worked on Game of Thrones season eight (2019), Shadow and Bone (2021-), Foundation (2021-), Cowboy Bebop (2021) and Stranger Things season four (2022).
In November 2021, Netflix announced that it would acquire Scanline with plans for it to operate as a standalone business working with a variety of clients.[2][3] The acquisition closed in the first quarter of 2022.[4]
Accolades
Scanline is responsible for the development of its proprietary fluid effects software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award for the software.[5]
In 2010, Scanline was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, for which it was the sole visual effects vendor.[6]
Scanline received a BAFTA nomination for Best Special Visual Effects in 2010 for its work on Iron Man 3[7] as well as a second Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects in 2014, for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[8]
In 2010, Scanline won its first Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture for Hereafter.[9] Scanline has two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Visual Effects to its credit for its work on Season Four[10] and Season Eight[11] of Game of Thrones as well as an HPA Award for Outstanding Visual Effects[12] and a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment for episode The Iron Throne.[13]
| Year | Project | Award | For | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Game of Thrones - The Iron Throne | VES Award | Outstanding Created Environment | Won |
| 2019 | Game of Thrones - The Bells | Emmy Award | Special Visual Effects | Won |
| HPA Award | Outstanding Visual Effects - Episodic | Won | ||
| 2010 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | VES Award | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture | Won |
Completed projects
- 300
- 2012
- 300: Rise of an Empire
- 6 Underground
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- American Renegades
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Aquaman
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Battleship
- Ben-Hur
- Between Two Ferns: The Movie
- Bird Box
- Black Panther
- Black Widow
- Blackhat
- Bumblebee
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Captain Marvel
- Charlie's Angels
- Cosmos: Possible Worlds
- Divergent
- Exodus: Gods and Kings
- Eternals
- Furious 7
- Game of Thrones
- Gemini Man
- Geostorm
- Godzilla
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Gulliver's Travels
- Hereafter
- Hotel Lux
- Immortals
- In the Fade
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- Into the Storm
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 3
- Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
- Joker
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Justice League
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
- Kong: Skull Island
- Looper
- Luther
- Man of Steel
- Midway
- Moonfall
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Pan
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Point Break
- Pompeii
- Poseidon
- Power Rangers
- Rampage
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- San Andreas
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Stranger Things
- Suicide Squad
- The Suicide Squad
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Super 8
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- The 5th Wave
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Apparition
- The Avengers
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- The Cut
- The First
- The Ghost Writer
- The Golden Glove
- The Goldfish
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
- The Invasion
- The Last Airbender
- The Manny
- The Meg
- The Most Beautiful Day
- The Promise
- The Rescue
- The Shallows
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Tomb Raider
- Transformers: The Last Knight
- Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods
- Vicky the Viking
- Welcome to Germany
- When Santa Fell to Earth (film) (de)
- White House Down
- Who Am I
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Filmography
2000s
| Year | Films | Directors | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 300 | Zack Snyder | Legendary Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures |
$60–65 million | $456.1 million |
| Poseidon | Wolfgang Petersen | Warner Bros. Pictures | $160 million | $181.7 million | |
| 2007 | The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Village Roadshow Pictures
Vertigo Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures |
$65–80 million | $40.2 million |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Jon Favreau | Marvel Studios
Paramount Pictures |
$140 million | $585.8 million |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Andrew Adamson | Walt Disney Pictures
Walden Media Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
$225 million | $419.7 million | |
| 2009 | Vicky the Viking | Michael Herbig | Constantin Film | €8 million | $56.7 million |
| 2012 | Roland Emmerich | Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Releasing |
$200 million | $791.2 million |
2010s
| Year | Films | Directors | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | StudioCanal | $45 million | $60.2 million |
| Hanni & Nanni | Christine Hartmann | UFA GmbH
Universal Pictures International |
N/A | $7.1 million | |
| The Last Airbender | M. Night Shyamalan | Nickelodeon Movies
Paramount Pictures |
$150 million | $319.7 million | |
| Hereafter | Clint Eastwood | The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Amblin Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures |
$50 million | $107 million | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Rob Letterman | Dune Entertainment
20th Century Fox |
$112 million | $237.4 million | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Rob Marshall | Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Walt Disney Studios |
$410.6 million | $1.046 billion |
| Super 8 | J. J. Abrams | Bad Robot Productions
Amblin Entertainment Paramount Pictures |
$50 million | $260.1 million | |
| Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods | Christian Ditter | Constantin Film | $11 million | $20.8 million | |
| Hotel Lux | Leander Haußmann | Bavaria Film | $11 million | $1.6 million | |
| Immortals | Tarsem Singh | Relativity Media
Universal Pictures |
$75 million | $226.9 million | |
| When Santa Fell to Earth (film) (de) | |||||
| 2012 | Battleship | ||||
| Looper | |||||
| The Avengers | |||||
| The Amazing Spider-Man | |||||
| Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | |||||
| The Apparition | |||||
| Cloud Atlas | |||||
| Hanni & Nanni 2 (de) | |||||
| Zettl (film) (de) | |||||
| 2013 | White House Down | ||||
| Iron Man 3 | |||||
| Man of Steel | |||||
| The Wolf of Wall Street | |||||
| A Good Day to Die Hard | |||||
| Snowpiercer | |||||
| Don Jon | |||||
| The Almost Perfect Man | |||||
| Hanni & Nanni 3 (de) | |||||
| Girl on a Bicycle | |||||
| 2014 | Who Am I | ||||
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | |||||
| 300: Rise of an Empire | |||||
| Godzilla | |||||
| Captain America: The Winter Soldier | |||||
| Divergent | |||||
| Exodus: Gods and Kings | |||||
| Pompeii | |||||
| Into the Storm | |||||
| The Cut | |||||
| Big Game | |||||
| Beauty and the Beast | |||||
| Joy of Fatherhood | |||||
| 2015 | Furious 7 | ||||
| San Andreas | |||||
| In the Heart of the Sea | |||||
| Point Break | |||||
| Blackhat | |||||
| Pan | |||||
| The Manny | |||||
| Macho Man (2015 film) (de) | |||||
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | ||||
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | |||||
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | |||||
| Suicide Squad | |||||
| The 5th Wave | |||||
| The Shallows | |||||
| Ben-Hur | |||||
| Independence Day: Resurgence | |||||
| The Most Beautiful Day | |||||
| The Promise | |||||
| Welcome to Germany | |||||
| The Wild Soccer Bunch 6 | |||||
| Seitenwechsel (de) | |||||
| Antonio, in Wonderland! | |||||
| Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians (de) | |||||
| Friend Request | |||||
| 2017 | Power Rangers | ||||
| Geostorm | |||||
| Kong: Skull Island | |||||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | |||||
| American Renegades | |||||
| Justice League | |||||
| King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | |||||
| Transformers: The Last Knight | |||||
| Teenosaurus Rex (de) | |||||
| Bullyparade: The Film | |||||
| In the Fade | |||||
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | ||||
| The Meg | |||||
| Black Panther | |||||
| Aquaman | |||||
| Ant-Man and the Wasp | |||||
| Rampage | |||||
| Bird Box | |||||
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | |||||
| Balloon | |||||
| Bumblebee | |||||
| Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (film) (de) | |||||
| Hot Dog | |||||
| 2019 | X-Men: Dark Phoenix | ||||
| 6 Underground | |||||
| Captain Marvel | |||||
| Gemini Man | |||||
| Spider-Man: Far From Home | |||||
| Joker | |||||
| Terminator: Dark Fate | |||||
| Midway | |||||
| Between Two Ferns: The Movie | |||||
| The Golden Glove | |||||
| Charlie's Angels | |||||
| The Goldfish |
2020s
| Year | Films | Directors | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | NightLife | ||||
| Jim Button and the Wild 13 | |||||
| The Wrong Missy | |||||
| The Rescue | |||||
| 2021 | Black Widow | ||||
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | |||||
| The Suicide Squad | |||||
| Godzilla vs. Kong | |||||
| Eternals | |||||
| Don't Look Up | |||||
| Tides | |||||
| Reminiscence | |||||
| Blood Red Sky | |||||
| Free Guy | |||||
| The Battle at Lake Changjin | |||||
| 2022 | Moonfall | ||||
| The Gray Man | |||||
| The Adam Project | |||||
| The Batman | |||||
| Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | |||||
| Slumberland | |||||
| Black Adam | |||||
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | ||||
| The Flash | |||||
| Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms |
Upcoming Projects
| Year | Films | Directors | Studio(s) and
Distributor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | ||
| Rheingold | |||
| 1000 Zeilen |
TV Series
| Year(s) | Name of Series | Network |
|---|---|---|
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| Stranger Things | Netflix | |
| 2018 | The First | Hulu, Channel 4 |
| Lisey's Story | ||
| Shadow and Bone | ||
| The Nevers | ||
| Cosmos: Possible Worlds | ||
| Line of Separation | ||
| Foundation | ||
| 2021 | Cowboy Bebop | Netflix |
| Blackout | ||
| Kitz | ||
| Moby Dick |
Upcoming Projects
| Year(s) | Name of Series | Network |
|---|---|---|
| Yu Yu Hakusho | ||
| Andor |
References
- ↑ "About". scanlinevfx.com. http://scanlinevfx.com/about. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "Netflix to Acquire Scanline VFX, Effects Studio That Has Worked on Stranger Things, Cowboy Bebop, Eternals and More". Variety. 22 November 2021. https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/netflix-acquires-scanline-vfx-stranger-things-1235116974/.
- ↑ "Bringing More VFX Magic to Our Members With the Acquisition of Scanline VFX". https://about.netflix.com/en/news/bringing-more-vfx-magic-to-our-members-with-scanline-vfx.
- ↑ "Netflix Q1 2022 SEC filing". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000144/ex991_q122.htm.
- ↑ "The 80th Scientific & Technical Awards 2008". oscars.org. https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech/ceremonies/2008. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "The 83rd Academy Awards 2011". oscars.org. https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2011. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "Film | Special Visual Effects in 2014". awards.bafta.org. http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/film/special-visual-effects. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "The 86th Academy Awards 2014". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2014. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "9th Annual VES Awards". visualeffectssociety.com. https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/portfolio-items/2010-9th-annual-ves-awards/?portfolioCats=29. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "66th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". emmys.com. https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2014/outstanding-special-visual-effects. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "71st Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". emmys.com. https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2019/outstanding-special-visual-effects. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "2019 HPA Awards". hpaonline.com. https://hpaonline.com/nominees-and-winners/2019-hpa-awards/. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ↑ "18th Annual VES Awards". visualeffectssociety.com. https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/portfolio-items/2019-18th-annual-ves-awards/?portfolioCats=29. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
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