Post | Color | Film Restoration
Featured Project: The Gorge
Skydance and Crooked Highway collab on genre-mixing thriller The Gorge for Apple TV. Cinelicious was tapped to create a beat-up, archival 16mm film print that the main characters (played by Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) discover in a long-forgotten WWII-era laboratory. The physical film reel was used as a prop on set and actually projected while filming the scene, providing a key plot point to unlock the mysteries of The Gorge. See short sample clip (no spoilers).
Featured Project: The Black Phone
Continuing the collaboration that began with director Scott Derrickson’s 2012 film Sinister – Cinelicious again provides HDR Super 8mm film scanning for Blumhouse / Universal horror pic The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawk as The Grabber. The Super 8mm was used to create an unsettling feeling to Gwynne’s (Madeleine McGraw) psychic dream sequences.
Featured Restortation: Following (1999)
Christopher Nolan needed flawless 4K scans of the original B/W A-B negative of his first feature Following for a high-profile restoration and Criterion release. But every major post house he tried delivered scans with blurred frames around the splices—until one of his reps asked us to take a shot. We love a good technical challenge, and this one paid off: we solved the issue, landed the project, and earned Nolan’s praise—“Cinelicious provided the best 4K 16mm film scans I’ve ever seen.” Thanks, Chris—for the kind words and for always championing the art of shooting on film.
Featured Spot: FOX Sports for NFL feat. Michael B Jordan
FOX Sports was shooting a commercial for the NFC Championship starring Michael B Jordan. They wanted to honor the NFLs historical use of film and analog formats but needed modern, digitally-acquired images printed on to 35mm and 120mm medium format positive and negative films for use in commercial. Cinelicious stepped in and created these various analog ephemera photographed beautifully in the spot.
What’s Fresh: Remote Color Grading for Wynn Las Vegas
Cinelicious has recently launched our Remote Color Grading services allowing clients to experience final color sessions from anywhere in the world. Wynn Las Vegas has an extremely talented in-house production team. From camera & cinematography to vfx and editorial they produce much of their promotional materials entirely in-house. One area that they needed help with was final color so when a producer from Wynn called saying they needed help on a golf spot we were a perfect fit.
