Tampa film, video production firm grabs spotlight thanks to work on Nic Cage film

Vū Technologies, a fast-growing, Tampa-based company that specializes in virtual production technology for TV and movie shoots, is riding high thanks to its contributions to Sympathy for the Devil, a new psychological thriller starring Nicholas Cage and Joel Kinnaman that debuted last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

According to a news release, about half of the feature-length film was shot at Vū’s 40,000 square-foot virtual production studio in Las Vegas. The high-tech space provides next-generation content rendering capabilities via photo-realistic virtual environments in a LED studio, as opposed to production crews having to film on location, which significantly cuts the costs and time required to shoot a movie.