Mark and Aron Jaszberenyi, the Hungarian brothers who pioneered
industry-leading colour manipulation systems used on Hollywood
blockbusters including The Lord of The Rings trilogy, King Kong, and
the Harry Potter films, have opened Colorfront (www.colorfront.com) -
a multi-million dollar digital post production company for motion
picture and broadcast productions, in Budapest, Hungary.
Colorfront harnesses the Jaszberenyi's ten-year experience in
digital post production, and offers state-of-the-art services to
international filmmakers. The facility opens as Hungary becomes
increasingly popular as a production destination. It will service
these productions and offer its facilities worldwide.
"Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, has an amazing filmic
history with leading directors, producers, cinematographers and
technicians coming from here," said Colorfront MD Aron Jaszberenyi. "A
modern facility in Budapest keeps that tradition going, and fills a
gap in the market too. With skills and competitive pricing encouraging
more producers to shoot in Hungary, Colorfront is well-placed to
service all broadcast and motion picture projects."
Colorfront is one of the most advanced companies in Europe. Its
end-to-end digital pipeline includes film scanning and recording,
Digital Intermediate (DI) colour grading, conforming, digital dailies,
editing, VFX, cinema sound mixing, mastering and deliverables.
The Jaszberenyis made cinema history in 2001, pioneering the first
DI grading system as used on Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring. They also developed Lustre, now the
market-leading DI system, used on features including Apocalypto, The
da Vinci Code and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,
and advised many companies worldwide about advanced digital post
production.
"We are perfectly equipped to support the everyday requirements of
productions shooting here," commented Mark Jaszberenyi. "But we have
much more firepower than that, and will extend our services
internationally."
Hungary is now one of the world's most movie-friendly locations.
The $127million Korda Studio, near Budapest, is Europe's newest
production facility. A new corporate-tax-based programme offers
financial reimbursement of 20% of production costs, including post
production.
Recent productions shooting in Hungary include Eragon (20th
Century Fox), Einstein and Eddington (Company Pictures/HBO-BBC), Good
(Good Films/Miromar Entertainment), The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
(Buena Vista/Miramax), Nutcracker: The Untold Story (Odyssey
Entertainment), Robin Hood (BBC) and Hellboy 2 (Universal).
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