Company type | Private |
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Industry | Visual effects |
Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
Number of employees | 100-200 (2018) [1] |
Website | www.risefx.com |
Rise FX is a German visual effects company with offices in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, and London.
Rise FX has worked on several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe like Avengers: Endgame , Captain Marvel , Ant-Man and the Wasp , Avengers: Infinity War , Black Panther , Doctor Strange , Captain America: Civil War , Avengers: Age of Ultron , Guardians of the Galaxy , Captain America: The Winter Soldier , and Iron Man 3 . [2] [3]
Past credits include The King's Man , Doctor Sleep , Hobbs & Shaw , Hellboy , Shazam! , Dumbo , The Fate of the Furious , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , X-Men: First Class , Cloud Atlas , A Cure for Wellness , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , A Hologram for the King , Richard the Stork , [4] Sleeping Sickness , and This Is Love . Work on TV shows includes Stranger Things , Borgia , Dark , Babylon Berlin , and Sense8 . [2]
Rise FX was founded in 2007 by Sven Pannicke, Robert Pinnow, Markus Degen, and Florian Gellinger. [5] International breakthrough happened after their work on German drama film This Is Love (2009) when Marvel Studios contacted them. [6]
Rise Pictures (Rise PX) is Rise FX's production unit, [7] currently[ as of? ] co-producing Dragon Rider [8] (an adaptation of Cornelia Funke's Dragon Rider ) with Constantin Film. [9]