Prime Focus Group strengthens global offering
Prime Focus Group, the holding company of Prime Focus London and blue, has continued to strengthen its offering and capabilities with the addition of four leading post businesses; Post Logic in Los Angeles and New York, Frantic Films in Los Angeles and Canada, and Machine Effects Ltd and Simon Clarke in London. These acquisitions position the Prime Focus Group as one of the largest film, advertising and television post-production and visual effects companies in the world. The group is now able to offer global access to some of the finest creative talents, services and facilities across the major markets of North America, India and the UK. Post Logic is a leading US post-production facility known for delivering high level digital intermediate, colour science and post production services to independent and studio feature clientele. Recent projects include Halloween, American Gangster, Phoebe in Wonderland and Smart People. Frantic Films, based in both Canada and the US, is an award winning visual effects company. Frantic is world renowned, having worked on some of Hollywood's biggest films with recent credits including Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Grindhouse, Superman Returns, X-Men 3, and Poseidon. Machine Effects is a leading UK visual effects business offering a full range of services to film and broadcast and complements VTR's current visual effects offering in the UK. Machine includes amongst its impressive list of credits 10,000 BC, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In securing the business interests of Clarke Associates London Limited, Prime Focus can now draw upon over 13 years of industry experience of Simon Clarke, its award winning Creative Director. Simon has worked for a number of flagship programmes and series for the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery and Channel 4. Work has included Mega Structures (National Geographic) and Superstorm (BBC). Namit Malhotra, Managing Director Prime Focus Group comments, "I am confident that with these acquisitions the Prime Focus Group will have an unrivalled position in the world's largest entertainment markets of the US, UK and India. With this incredible talent pool and technology we can easily deliver the best creative and technical services for content companies all over the globe."