{"id":372902,"date":"2026-10-14T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372902\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:00:06","slug":"proof-expands-to-new-york-lands-ari-asters-next-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372902\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof Expands To New York, Lands Ari Aster&#8217;s Next Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Previs studio Proof Inc. has opened a new permanent office in New York City, with Ari Aster\u2019s next feature serving as the location\u2019s first project.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came Wednesday at View Conference in Turin, Italy, where founder Ron Frankel will join a panel on the future of filmmaking later this afternoon. Proof\u2019s global head of business development, Benjamin Riehl, also presented on the company\u2019s work on Masters of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Proof provides previsualization, postvisualization, technical visualization, and other production planning services for film and television. Its credits include Avatar: Fire and Ash, Stranger Things, the Jurassic World franchise, and the upcoming Harry Potter television series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Frankel will oversee the New York operation while continuing to work out of the company\u2019s Los Angeles headquarters. Proof also maintains operations in London and Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The expansion marks a return to New York for Frankel, who began working in previsualization in Manhattan in the late 1990s at Pixel Liberation Front, an early specialist in CG production planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Proof has previously assembled New York-based teams for productions including Across the Universe, I Am Legend, and Salt, but this is its first permanent studio in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previs studio Proof Inc. has opened a new permanent office in New York City, with Ari Aster\u2019s next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-372902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}