Codex Pictures

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Codex Pictures Ltd
Company typePrivate Limited Company
Industry Animation
Founded10 October 2008 (2008-10-10)
Defunct10 March 2013 (2013-03-10)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Vanessa Chapman
(Managing Director)
David Kerney
(Head of Production)
Bob Thompson
(CEO of Good Story Productions – Strategic Partner)
ProductsMotion pictures
Website http://www.codexpictures.com

Codex Pictures Limited was a British film production company. Codex Pictures was a private limited company founded in 2008 and dissolved in 2013. [1]

Contents

Codex Pictures produced Ultramarines under licence from Games Workshop, working in association with Good Story Productions Ltd. [2] and Montreal based POP6 Studios. [3]

Productions

Production of Ultramarines was announced at the 2009 Games Day at the Birmingham NEC. [4]

Ultramarines is a 70-minute sci-fi thriller CGI movie set in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe and based around the Ultramarines Chapter of Space Marines. The screenplay was written by Black Library author Dan Abnett.

Notes

  1. Company listing on Companies House
  2. Good Story Productions Ltd website
  3. "Pop6 Studios website". Archived from the original on September 20, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  4. Announcement of Ultramarines movie on the official site


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