‘Interstellar’ VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin Joins BeloFX

Veteran visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who won Oscars for his work on Christopher Nolan films “Interstellar” and “Inception,” has joined VFX and technology company beloFX as creative director.

Earlier, he spent 25 years at VFX giant DNEG, the company he co-founded in 1998. In joining beloFX, he’s reuniting with fellow DNEG co-founders Matt Holben and Alex Hope.

Holben and Hope co-founded beloFX in 2021 with COO Ellen Walder and CTO Graham Jack, with backing from investor Elisabeth Murdoch. The company operates out of three studios in Canada, the U.K. and India.

Franklin, a long-time collaborator of Nolan, supervised the visual effects for the three films in the “Dark Knight” trilogy. His credits also include “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Venom” and more recently “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”

“His unwavering commitment to pushing visual effects to new heights is exactly the type of forward-thinking approach that defines our mission at beloFX. I couldn’t be prouder to welcome him to the team, and I look forward to this exciting new chapter for us all,” Hope said.

BeloFX’s credits include “Disclaimer,” “Wolfs,” “The Acolyte,” “My Lady Jane,”and “Madame Web,” as well as upcoming “Ballerina” and “Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two.”

“I am very excited to be joining the fantastically talented team at beloFX,” Franklin said. “I am looking forward to hitting the ground running and helping shape the future of our industry.”