maVen

Background

maVen were a film release group from October 2005 until the summer of 2006. Releases from maVen stopped when the FBI caught Gérémi Adam, one of its key members. The 27-year-old Montreal resident has been sentenced to two and a half months in prison and was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service. He pleaded guilty to distributing two major motion pictures: Invincible and How to Eat Fried Worms. After the bust, releases ceased until another group called maVenssupplieR immediately took up the slack. In April 2010, the 28-year-old Gérémi Adam died of a drug overdose at the Pointe-aux-Trembles home he shared with his girlfriend, Cynthia Laporte.

mVs (Maven Supplier) released a workprint of Halloween three days before its official release on August 27, 2007.

(2005-2006?)

Logo: Over a 3D area of what appears to be a museum with machines, we pan up and zoom into one of the laboratory and we see movie clips from it inside the lab, mostly movie trailers. Then we pan up to see a lab with the text "MaVen" in a futuristic font over a sky blue rectangle.

Technique: 3D computer animation.

Music/Sounds: An excerpt of the Jason Nevins remix to "Rockstar" by N.E.R.D..

Availability: Known to have appeared on a bootleg DVD of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.