zone” aerial flight sequence.
“We’ll work with any studio,” Sandrew says. “Paramount has been wonderful. We worked with them on Transformers and now Top Gun, and they’ve been great to work with.” He minimized the financial risk of sinking money into such partnerships, saying, “The movies we’re talking about are already proven entities, They’re iconic films like ‘Top Gun,’ and they still make money. When you do ‘Top Gun,’ there’s not much of a risk.”
With its new business initiative, Sandrew says he also expects Legend3D to expand the workforce at its San Diego headquarters, where the company currently employs 240 or so. “I’m not certain what our needs are yet,” Sandrew says.
At the same time, the company plans to continue working with studios on new film projects. For example, Sandrew says Legend3D helped to create some of the key sequences in “Hugo,” Martin Scorcese’s recently released fantasy adventure film.
Legend3D says its clients include Bay Films, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Walt Disney Studios, and Lionsgate. The company has completed 2D to 3D conversions of a variety of recent motion pictures, including “Hugo,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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