Prime Focus Share Discussion Threads

[tara7] 23/1/2012 10:04

RNS due from the company within the next 8 days.

Is it going to be a buyout or stay listed and get rerated towards a quid.?

One thing is for sure sellers have not shown up, thus 75% to win any vote is miles off.!!

[tara7] 22/1/2012 20:50

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Prime Focus contributes services to 5 of the 10 VFX Oscar® contenders
Los Angeles, January 2012 – With the shortlist for the Visual Effects Oscar® for the 84th Academy Awards® announced last week, Prime Focus is proud to have contributed to five of the ten films that are in the running. The work ranged from creating complex VFX shots for Tree of Life and X-Men: First Class, to being lead 3D conversion facility on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, to completing 3D conversion and delivering stereoscopic VFX shots for Transformers: Dark of the Moon and supplying on-set equipment for Hugo.

The Tree of Life was the highly anticipated return of acclaimed director Terrence Malick and saw Prime Focus deliver a number of detailed sequences including the creation of stunningly realistic dinosaurs. The film, which was based on Malick's original screenplay, is an impressionistic story of a 1950's mid-Western American family. It explores difficult human issues, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

The majority of the visual effects in the film come in the opening creation sequence, which features subtle images from the prehistoric era and, astronomy. The 50-strong Prime Focus team, spanning facilities in Los Angeles and Vancouver, worked closely with VFX Supervisor Dan Glass to determine the species of dinosaurs they would create as well as the environment around them. A huge amount of research was undertaken with specialist biologists and paleontologists brought in.

The final outcome is a hugely impressive piece of filmmaking by Malick, a storyteller at the peak of his powers. The film picked up the prestigious Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and is expected to fare well in the upcoming awards season.

Elsewhere Prime Focus was called in to provide VFX shots for Matthew Vaughn's superhero adventure 'X-Men: First Class', with work on the Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox film being completed in London, Vancouver and Mumbai, using the Prime Focus Global Digital Pipeline. Up against a tight deadline, having this span of resources available enabled the team to deliver a number of high quality shots in a short amount of time, proving that a company with a global reach can offer significant advantages.

Regarded as a leader in the 3D space, Prime Focus delivered stereoscopic 3D visual effects and converted 230 shots into 3D for Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Working closely with Stereographer Corey Turner, the creative control afforded through View-D™, Prime Focus' proprietary conversion process, gave the film's Producers and Supervisors the freedom to design and sculpt the 3D according to their vision. It would go on to be the fourth highest grossing film of all time and the second highest grossing of the year, taking in over $1.12 billion.

2011's highest grossing film was the final installment of Warner Bros' incredibly successful Harry Potter franchise - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Prime Focus was the lead vendor in the 3D conversion of this film, and working closely with director David Yates and studio stereographer Hugh Murray, the teams in London, LA and India took on the conversion of some of the biggest and most challenging VFX sequences in the movie, delivering 400 3D shots overall. Upon completion, Yates said "Prime Focus delivered on every level and helped make our 3D conversion all that we could have hoped for and more."

As a global entertainment services group, Prime Focus offers a variety of services to filmmakers. Its London-based team were on hand to supply the Hugo production team with on-set equipment including a Baselight 8 grading system that was temporarily installed at Shepperton Studios during production.

The 84th Academy Awards® nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, with the Awards ceremony taking place on Sunday February 26 at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Prime Focus would like to congratulate everyone involved with these exceptional projects and wish them the best of luck with their

[tara7] 20/1/2012 17:00

Looks like todays buyer was only given 10,000 shares [trade showed up at 4.50PM]

Was the full order 100k.??

[littleredrooster] 19/1/2012 22:21

I meant what's the end of the article? Something is missing. You should perhaps post the links.

[tara7] 19/1/2012 22:20

Littlredrooster, do not worry i will post more news as it shows.

Next main event is the Star wars film in 3D out soon.

[littleredrooster] 19/1/2012 22:15

"the system lets facility owners make changes to their audio suites without the fear of incurring the high bills associated with ...."

Oh, when's the next episode? Please don't leave us in suspense!

[tara7] 19/1/2012 21:12

Good luck with evn .

PFO is making huge profits, and growing very fast.

[double6] 19/1/2012 21:06

EVN GM next week voting on de-listing - per last RNS it appears as though it could fail to get through the vote ... another 100% er ++ ??

[tara7] 19/1/2012 13:50

In the last few days Prime focus Indian stock has shot up.!!!!

PFO London with its huge profits about to be re rated as well.??

[tara7] 19/1/2012 13:48

..Prime Focus in Trinnov UK first
19 January, 2012 | By George Bevir

Prime Focus has become the first UK post house to install Trinnov's MC Processor, a loudspeaker system that tailors the acoustics of a mixing room to imitate a range of environments.


Prime Focus head of audio Ben Hooper (pictured, left) said it had helped the Soho post house to use one audio room for a range of mixes, with the facility creating different presets for TV, DVD and cinema audio work.

"It won't turn a bathroom into a mixing suite, but it can make a good room sound amazing," Hooper told Broadcast.

"If we are working on a feature for cinema that needs a Dolby licence, we can mix with the confidence that the balance and tonality will be reproduced in a cinema-sized room [for the final mix].

"If the mix is for 5.1 transmissions in the home, we can adjust the acoustics of our suite to cater for that."

Hooper said the processor improved the phase relationship of a suite's speakers and that it was "light years" ahead of the benefits that can be gained by tweaking the frequency response of a room.

The MC's audio is processed at 24 bit and can operate from 44.1 to 192 kHz. The maximum audio I/O configuration is 24 at 48 KHz with the MADI MC configuration.

Emerging is Trinnov's UK distributor, and managing director Paul Mortimer said the system lets facility owners make changes to their audio suites without the fear of incurring the high bills associated with

[tara7] 17/1/2012 21:11

The market takes an age, that is why investors on these BB have the edge.!!

PFO is dirt cheap.!!

[tradeit4] 17/1/2012 20:42

I received an interesting email yesterday from the shareholder action group. It suggests that if PFO London was valued on the same basis as PFO India. Then the value of the London subsidiary should be around 100p a share.
This and the financial analysis above, says to me this share massively undervalued.
Why can't the market see this?

[tara7] 17/1/2012 12:35

Up she goes again, on a pe of under two you can understand why.

Star Wars in 3D out next month.

[tara7] 17/1/2012 12:04

Will trade show up at 4.30pm.??

[tara7] 17/1/2012 09:20

PFO India has jumped from 40 to 60 in the last week or two.

PFO London is dirt cheap[but not for long]

[tara7] 06/1/2012 18:03

More news today.!!

Sherlock

Hartswood Films / BBC One


Prime Focus has completed post production on the second series of 'Sherlock', the BBC's critically acclaimed modern-day drama based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's much loved detective stories. The three new episodes from Hartswood Films are based on 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' and 'The Final Problem', with the first episode broadcast on New Year's Day and the series continuing this weekend in BBC One's primetime Sunday evening slot.

Prime Focus contributed conform and grade as well as the creation of a large number of visual effects and graphics. The series was shot on ALEXA cameras, with high speed elements shot on the Phantom and additional footage from the Canon 5D. Significant hardware and software upgrades were made by Prime Focus to enhance the post production workflow. According to Post Technical Supervisor Kate Robson, the upgrades allowed "a more efficient translation of effects from the offline through final post, and much faster processing - something that is important when you are dealing with shows as complex as these." It also enabled the effective continuation of the workflows that Kate had set up for data management and ingest on set in Wales.

Read More about our work on sherlock

[tara7] 06/1/2012 10:54

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China's accounting issues increase India's opportunity

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A problem for Chinese companies is turning out to be an opportunity for Indian ones. The recent controversy over accounting standards of Chinese firms listed in the US is forcing investor pools which traditionally invested in these, to capitalise on their high growth, to look at similar investment opportunities in India.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the market regulator in America, is conducting a review of accounting problems in dozens of China-based companies after they began disclosing auditor resignations or book-keeping irregularities.

For example, one of the 'Big Four' accounting firms resigned as auditor of a Chinese software company in May, saying it had found falsified financial records and bank balance confirmations. Investment banks based in Singapore and the US, which had helped the Chinese companies list on Western exchanges, have begun to set up shop in India. "We have received at least six queries in the last couple of weeks from our investor base about good Indian stories," said Jeffrey O Friedland, managing director, Friedland Global Capital.

The US-based investment bank had primarily operated in China, helping at least nine companies list on the US and Canadian exchanges in recent years.
Friedland said there is a huge India interest in his investor base, which comprises family groups, family offices and high net worth investors. The typical ticket size ranges between $500,000 and $2.5 million. These investors are looking at high growth in emerging market opportunities that are better than the near-zero interest rates back home and, at the same time, without governance issues. "China is out for them for at least 18 months now," he added.

Indian merchant bankers which concentrate on mid-sized companies in tier-II and tier-III centres are keen to tap this. These companies are usually neglected by the bulge-bracket investment bankers. Bankers say in such a situation, a foreign listing, which can raise up to $10-15 mn, will be a godsend for these companies. It also opens the possibility of future fund raising at higher valuations.

India has been trying to get its own small companies market, the SME Exchange, up and running for several years but with little success. Many foreign stock exchanges are keen to fill this vacuum.

In another first, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange recently held a road show in Mumbai to woo Indian companies to list on it.

The exchange positioned itself as a prospective destination for Indian engineering firms.Friedland said exchanges such as Frankfurt, Toronto and the NYSE were the most likely destinations for Indian firms

Companies have to follow the holding company route, since direct listings in foreign bourses are not allowed under Indian laws. More than a dozen Indian companies, many in the energy segment, are already listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.

India is also a hot destination for investment bankers looking at mid-size merger deals. Last month, around 250 of them, from 40 countries, were in Mumbai at a first-of-its kind speed networking conference. Bankers and advisors from a number of European countries such as Germany, Spain and Britain met entrepreneurs and promoters of mid-sized Indian companies.

[tara7] 06/1/2012 10:46

Far from being a worry, to me a takeover is just as good for shareholders[at the right price], as is a re rating that might take a tad longer.!!!

[tara7] 06/1/2012 10:44

Yep, I can see your point of view.

Now the great thing is this.

First:

If we see a bid for our stock it will only go through if their is something in it for both parties.

Second: a bid would fail if the price offered is to low.

Third: a outside party [company advisors?] could do a fair valuation which would be the basis of any bid.

Fourth:

Prime focus India would want to buy the last 35% of our stock cheaper than its own, thus if PFO India is on a pe of say 10 then we might get a pe of 7 [other things also come into it inc debt.]

For the first time in 6 years long term shareholders here look like they will see a real return on their holdings.

[ashtree2] 06/1/2012 10:29

tradeit....thanks for your posts,you sound as if you know what you are talking about.I am of the opinion a buy out by the Indians would be both beneficial to the parent company and ourselves as long as London shareholders get a fair valuation ie at least 35p plus a premium depending on the valuation.

[tara7] 06/1/2012 07:55

Well done, now your main worry is the listing, well if the want to de list they need an extra 10% of the stock, so thats a non starter.From Jan the 14th new rules in India will let PFO india offer shares to UK holders and as its paper it costs India zero.

PFO India is a very very big company with 4,000 workers, London shareholders will no doubt be offered a very good price for our stock.

Last big trade was 35p so 50p knockout might be about right.

The point being is Indain shares have great prospects and have tens of thousands of pounds of trades each day.

[joe say] 06/1/2012 07:35

Tara/tradeit - my apologies - you are spot on and I hadn't appreciated the structure

having looked again, my principle concern now is the listing point - when the RNS is released it will essentially boil down to remaining listed (in any guise such as an RTO) or it will not.

I presume a massive share price swing either way, but are there examples people know of where we can estimate the materiality of that announcement. JCR was a recent delisting I can think of, but who else ?

[tara7] 05/1/2012 20:40

Joe say, what you say to that.???