Rise FX

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Rise FX
Company type Private
Industry Visual effects
Founded2007
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.

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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]

Film and TV projects

History

Rise FX was founded in 2007 by Sven Pannicke, Robert Pinnow, Markus Degen, and Florian Gellinger. [5] International breakthrough happened after their work on This Is Love when Marvel Studios contacted them. [6]

Rise Pictures

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]

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  3. "RISE Visual Effects Studios - Client & Contact Info | IMDbPro".
  4. ""Richard the Stork" Making-of". December 2017.
  5. "VFX aus deutschen Landen: Zehn Jahre Rise". 5 September 2017.
  6. Fehrenbach, Achim (23 February 2018). "Kreuzberger lassen den Blockbuster "Black Panther" glänzen". Der Tagesspiegel Online.
  7. "Home". risepx.com.
  8. "Dragon Rider". IMDb .
  9. "Berlin: Rise Visual Effects' Features Arm Seeks More Co-Productions". 18 February 2018.