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Greg Strause

  • Visual Effects
  • Director
  • Producer
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Greg Strause
A group of friends fight to survive as a mysterious light source causes people to vanish into the air.
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Skyline (2010)
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Greg Strause grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Greg and his brother Colin Strause began experimenting with visual effects in their early teens. In 1995, Greg moved to Los Angeles and started working on the special effects for The X-Files (1993). From there he moved on to big-budget hits such as The Nutty Professor (1996), Volcano (1997), and the iceberg sequence of the Academy Award-winning Titanic (1997). He then broke into the music video and commercial arena, handling the special effects for artists such as U2, Britney Spears, and Aerosmith as well as spots for Nike, Jeep, and Pepsi. In 2000, Colin won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' video, "Californication." This led the brothers to start directing under the moniker "The Brothers Strause," and their Linkin Park clip "Crawling" was nominated for Best Direction and Best Rock Video at the 2001 VMAs. Other artists they have directed for include A Perfect Circle, Nickelback, Disturbed, and Staind.

Their visual effects company [Hydraulx] is at the forefront of the Industry delivering ground-breaking work on the blockbusters Fantastic Four (2005), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), for which Greg won a British Academy Award (BAFTA).

The Brothers have recently directed spots for Coca Cola, Ford, The United States Marine Corps, Toyota, Universal Studios and Sony PlayStation's "God of War." Their latest music video for A Perfect Circle's "Passive" marked their second collaboration with the band. The video was shot almost entirely with thermal cameras and featured on the Constantine soundtrack and DVD.
BornJanuary 16, 1975
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BornJanuary 16, 1975
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  • Won 1 BAFTA Award

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Colin Strause and Greg Strause in Skyline (2010)
Eric Balfour, Colin Strause, Greg Strause, and Scottie Thompson in Skyline (2010)
Greg Strause
Usher 'Love in This Club'
Greg Strause
Greg Strause
Colin Strause, Greg Strause, and Francis Lawrence
Colin Strause, Greg Strause, and Francis Lawrence
Greg Strause
Colin Strause and Greg Strause in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
Eric Balfour, Colin Strause, and Greg Strause
Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Colin Strause, and Greg Strause

Known for

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow
6.4
  • Visual Effects(Hydraulx)
  • 2004
Eric Balfour and Donald Faison in Skyline (2010)
Skyline
4.5
  • Visual Effects
  • 2010
Tom Woodruff Jr. and Ian Whyte in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
4.6
  • Visual Effects
  • 2007
Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, and Tova Stewart in Take Shelter (2011)
Take Shelter
7.3
  • Producer
  • 2011

Credits

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Visual Effects

  • Spin (2021)
    Spin
    • (uncredited)
  • Colin Ford in Daybreak (2019)
    Daybreak
  • Marley Shelton, Malin Akerman, P.J. Byrne, Matt Gerald, Naomie Harris, Dwayne Johnson, Joe Manganiello, Demetrius Grosse, Allyssa Brooke, Urijah Faber, Breanne Hill, Jake Lacy, Jack Quaid, Bruce Blackshear, and Laura Distin in Rampage (2018)
    Rampage
  • Winona Ryder, Tom Wlaschiha, David Harbour, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, Natalia Dyer, Joseph Quinn, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Priah Ferguson, and Eduardo Franco in Stranger Things (2016)
    Stranger Things
  • Nat Wolff in Death Note (2017)
    Death Note
  • Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Zac Efron, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jon Bass, and Kelly Rohrbach in Baywatch (2017)
    Baywatch
  • League of Gods (2016)
    League of Gods
  • Bonnie Aarons in The Conjuring 2 (2016)
    The Conjuring 2
    • (uncredited)
  • Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Evan Peters, Olivia Munn, Jennifer Lawrence, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, and Ben Hardy in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
    X-Men: Apocalypse
  • Jaeden Martell in Midnight Special (2016)
    Midnight Special
  • Hardcore Henry (2015)
    Hardcore Henry
  • Dwayne Johnson in San Andreas (2015)
    San Andreas
  • Into the Storm (2014)
    Into the Storm
  • Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Elliot Page, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Cudmore, Bingbing Fan, and Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
    X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Director

  • Eric Balfour and Donald Faison in Skyline (2010)
    Skyline
    • (as The Brothers Strause)
  • Usher: Love in This Club (2008)
    Usher: Love in This Club
  • 50 Cent: Get Up (2008)
    50 Cent: Get Up
  • Usher: Moving Mountains (2008)
    Usher: Moving Mountains
    • (as Brothers Strause)
  • Tom Woodruff Jr. and Ian Whyte in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
    • (as The Brothers Strause)
  • A Perfect Circle: Passive (2005)
    A Perfect Circle: Passive
  • Photo Album: The Videos (2005)
    Photo Album: The Videos
  • 16mm Mystery
    • (as The Brothers Strause)
  • Mute (2003)
    Mute
  • Download It: Behind the Scenes Video
  • Nickelback: The Videos (2003)
    Nickelback: The Videos
    • (video How You Remind Me, as The Brothers Strause)
  • Disturbed: Prayer (2002)
    Disturbed: Prayer
  • Godsmack: I Stand Alone (2002)
    Godsmack: I Stand Alone
    • (as The Brothers Strause)
  • Nickelback: How You Remind Me (2001)
    Nickelback: How You Remind Me
    • (as Brothers Strause)
  • Linkin Park in Linkin Park: Crawling (2001)
    Linkin Park: Crawling

Producer

  • Daniel Bernhardt, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Jonathan Howard, and Lindsey Morgan in Skylines (2020)
    Skylines
  • Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, and Yayan Ruhian in Beyond Skyline (2017)
    Beyond Skyline
    • (produced by)
  • The Bay (2012)
    The Bay
  • Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, and Tova Stewart in Take Shelter (2011)
    Take Shelter
  • Eric Balfour and Donald Faison in Skyline (2010)
    Skyline
    • (as The Brothers Strause)
  • Badass Thieves (2010)
    Badass Thieves
  • Chimera
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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Skyline
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Skyline

Personal details

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    • Visual Effects Company
    • January 16, 1975
    • Waukegan, Illinois, USA
  • Other works
    Co-directed commercials "Imagination" and "Sunglasses" for Toyota. (2001)
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    Co-directs with his brother Colin Strause.

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