The Mill

The Mill is a post-production and visual effects company launched in 1990 with offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Until 2013, they were the company most usually credited with visual effects on official BBC DWU productions since The Curse of Fatal Death. They also designed the Doctor Who title sequence introduced in the TV story Rose. (DWM 353)

The Mill's Film special effects subsidiary, Mill Film, won an Oscar for its work on the film Gladiator. The Mill was the first UK-based post-production company to set up offices in New York. The Mill is respected for high-end visual effects and is usually well represented at the numerous Advertising and Visual Effects awards ceremonies world-wide each year. The film unit closed in 2003, but as of 2009 has been reopened due to the success of its work on television commercials and music videos. Some of its major advertising campaigns include Sony, Nike, Levis, Honda and Adidas.

The Mill has also produced visual effects for several television dramas, including the BBC Wales productions, Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as Merlin and Demons.

The Mill also owns online advertising approval, archiving and distribution site, BEAM.TV.

According to its annual report, in 2005 The Mill had revenue of £32.5 million and operating profit of £5.2 million. In February 2007, The Mill was acquired by Private equity firm The Carlyle Group, in a deal rumoured to be worth £60 million.

In 2010, the Mill won a Royal Television Society Award for their work on The Pandorica Opens.

Several former members of The Mill's television department went on to work for the visual effects company Milk VFX, which took over VFX work for Doctor Who in 2013.

Credits

• 42
• Adam
• Adrift
• The Age of Steel
• Aliens of London
• The Almost People
• The Angels Take Manhattan
• Army of Ghosts
• Asylum of the Daleks
• Attack of the Graske
• Bad Wolf
• The Beast Below
• The Bells of Saint John
• Blink
• Boom Town
• Captain Jack Harkness
• Children of Earth: Day Five
• Children of Earth: Day Four
• Children of Earth: Day One
• Children of Earth: Day Three
• Children of Earth: Day Two
• A Christmas Carol
• The Christmas Invasion
• Closing Time
• Cold Blood
• Cold War
• Combat
• Countrycide
• The Crimson Horror
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• Cyberwoman
• Dalek
• Daleks in Manhattan
• Day One
• A Day in the Death
• Day of the Moon
• Dead Man Walking
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• The Doctor Dances
• The Doctor's Daughter
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Doomsday
• The Eleventh Hour
• The Empty Child
• End of Days
• The End of Time
• The End of the World
• Enemy of the Bane
• Everything Changes
• Evolution of the Daleks
• Exit Wounds
• Eye of the Gorgon
• The Family of Blood
• Father's Day
• Fear Her
• The Fires of Pompeii
• Forest of the Dead
• Fragments
• From Out of the Rain
• Ghost Machine
• The Girl Who Waited
• The Girl in the Fireplace
• A Good Man Goes to War
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Gridlock
• Hide
• Human Nature
• The Hungry Earth
• The Idiot's Lantern
• The Impossible Astronaut
• The Impossible Planet
• Invasion of the Bane
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• Journey's End
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• The Last Sontaran
• Last of the Time Lords
• The Lazarus Experiment
• Let's Kill Hitler
• The Long Game
• The Lost Boy
• Love & Monsters
• Meat
• Midnight
• User:Mini-mitch/Sandbox Four
• New Earth
• The Next Doctor
• Night Terrors
• Out of Time
• The Parting of the Ways
• Partners in Crime
• Planet of the Dead
• Planet of the Ood
• The Poison Sky
• The Power of Three
• Random Shoes
• The Rebel Flesh
• Reset
• Revenge of the Slitheen
• The Rings of Akhaten
• Rise of the Cybermen
• Rose
• The Runaway Bride
• The Satan Pit
• School Reunion
• The Shakespeare Code
• Silence in the Library
• Sleeper
• Small Worlds
• Smith and Jones
• The Snowmen
• Something Borrowed
• The Sontaran Stratagem
• The Sound of Drums
• The Stolen Earth
• User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 9
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• The Time of Angels
• To the Last Man
• Tooth and Claw
• Turn Left
• The Unicorn and the Wasp
• The Unquiet Dead
• Utopia
• The Vampires of Venice
• Victory of the Daleks
• Vincent and the Doctor
• Voyage of the Damned
• Warriors of Kudlak
• The Waters of Mars
• The Wedding of River Song
• Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
• World War Three

External links

• The Mill at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website