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PIX System
PIX provides film professionals with secure access to production content on mobile devices, laptops, or TVs from offices, homes or while in transit and won an Oscar for their technology in 2019. In November 2019, PIX and CODEX announced that the two companies are to be brought under a single unified brand identity with the establishment of the X2X Media Group. History Founder and CEO Eric Dachs created PIX System in 2003. Dachs thought of the idea for PIX while working as an assistant to sound designer Ren Klyce on the 2002 film ''Panic Room.'' PIX System has been used in the production of more than 5,000 movies including '' A Star Is Born, Black Panther, First Man, Green Book, Roma,'' and '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse.'' In 2019, PIX won a Technical Achievement Award for its digital rights management (DRM) system at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Scientific and Technical Awards presentation. In February, the founders of PIX System received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Digital
Codex Digital is a company that creates digital production workflow tools for motion pictures, commercials, independent films, and TV productions. Codex products include recorders and media processing systems, as well as tools for color, dailies creation, archiving, review and digital asset management. Codex is based in London, UK, with offices in Los Angeles, CA and Wellington, NZ. In April, 2019, Codex was acquired by PIX System - designer of the PIX app for online collaboration and based in San Francisco, California. Products Codex was founded in 2005, and its first product was the Codex Studio recorder. It was introduced in 2005 and was used as the capture device for early digital cameras such as the Dalsa Origin, Thomson Viper, Panavision Genesis, and Sony F23 & F35. This was followed in 2007 by the Codex Portable Recorder, and by the Codex Onboard Recorder in 2010. Codex continued to work on miniaturizing its technology, partnering with ARRI to deliver its recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Klyce
Ren Klyce is a Japanese-American sound designer and sound mixer. Career He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards; six for Best Sound and three for Best Sound Editing. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director David Fincher, having been the primary sound designer on every one of his films since ''Seven'', including ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Jonze and films by Pixar Animation Studios. Klyce was born in Kyoto, Japan, and moved to California at a young age, where he grew up in Mill Valley. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Filmography * '' Se7en'' (1995) - Sound Designer/Effect Supervisor * '' The Game'' (1997) - Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor * '' Fight Club'' (1999) - Best Sound Editing * ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999) - Sound Designer * '' Panic Room'' (2002) - Sound Designer * ''Zodiac'' (2006) - Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer/Supervisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic Room
''Panic Room'' is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film stars Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as a mother and daughter whose new home is invaded by burglars, played by Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam. The script was written by David Koepp, whose screenplay was inspired by news coverage in 2000 about panic rooms. The film was Fincher's fifth feature film, following '' Fight Club'' (1999). Fincher and Koepp brought together a crew of people with whom each had worked with before. The house and its panic room were built on a Raleigh Studios lot. Nicole Kidman was originally cast as the mother, but she left after aggravating a previous injury. Her departure threatened the completion of the film, but Foster quickly replaced Kidman. The filmmakers used computer-generated imagery to create the illusion of the film camera moving through the house's rooms. Foster became pregnant during the shooting schedule, so filming was suspended un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Star Is Born (2018 Film)
''A Star Is Born'' is a 2018 American musical romantic drama produced and directed by Bradley Cooper (in his directorial debut) with a screenplay by Cooper, Eric Roth and Will Fetters. It stars Cooper and Lady Gaga in lead roles, with Dave Chappelle, Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Elliott in supporting roles. It follows an alcoholic musician (Cooper) who discovers and falls in love with a young singer (Gaga). It is the fourth American movie made of the story, after the original 1937 romantic drama and its 1954 and 1976 remakes. Principal photography began at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2017. ''A Star Is Born'' premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 5, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It emerged as a major critical and commercial success, grossing over $436million worldwide and receiving widespread critical acclaim for Cooper, Gaga, and Elliott's perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Panther (film)
''Black Panther'' is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Black Panther (character), of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films, the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, and it stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa (Marvel Cinematic Universe), T'Challa / Black Panther alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In ''Black Panther'', T'Challa is crowned king of Wakanda (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Wakanda following his father's death, but he is challenged by Killmonger (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Killmonger (Jordan), who plans to abandon the country's isolationist policies and begin a global revolution. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Man (film)
''First Man'' is a 2018 American biographical film, biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle from a screenplay by Josh Singer, based on the First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, 2005 book by James R. Hansen. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbott, and Ciarán Hinds, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969. The project was originally announced in 2003, with Clint Eastwood slated to direct. After that rendition fell through, Chazelle, Gosling and Singer all signed on by 2015, and principal photography began in Atlanta in November 2017. ''First Man'' had its premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2018, and was released in the United States on October 12, by Universal Pictures. The film received critical acclaim, particularly regarding the direction, Gosling and Foy's performances, musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Book (film)
''Green Book'' is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African-American pianist Don Shirley and Italian-American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard. Written by Farrelly alongside Lip's son Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie, the film is based on interviews with Lip and Shirley, as well as letters Lip wrote to his wife. It is named after '' The Negro Motorist Green Book'', a guide book for African-American travelers founded by Victor Hugo Green in 1936 and published until 1966. ''Green Book'' had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2018, where it won the People's Choice Award. It was then theatrically released in the United States on November 16, 2018, by Universal Pictures, and grossed $321 million worldwide. The fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma (2018 Film)
''Roma'' is a 2018 historical drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also produced, shot, and co-edited it. Set in 1970 and 1971, ''Roma'' follows the life of a live-in Indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous (Mixtec people, Mixteco) housekeeper of an upper-middle-class Mexican family. It is a semi-autobiographical take on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City's Colonia Roma neighborhood. The film stars Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira. It is an Co-production (media), international co-production between Cinema of Mexico, Mexico and the Cinema of the United States, United States. ''Roma'' premiered on 30 August 2018 at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It began a limited theatrical run in the United States on 21 November 2018, before streaming on Netflix in the U.S. and other territories starting on 14 December 2018. ''Roma'' received List of accolades received by Roma, a number of accolades, with ten nominations at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Spider-Verse
''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' is a 2018 American animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the first animated film in the ''Spider-Man'' franchise and the first film in the ''Spider-Verse'' franchise, which is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the "Spider-Verse". Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it stars Shameik Moore as Morales, alongside the voices of Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Vélez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber. The film's story follows Miles as he becomes the new Spider-Man and joins other Spider-People from various parallel universes who team up to save New York City fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
