Mountainhead

Mountainhead is a 2025 HBO original film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, which premiered May 31, 2025, on HBO and Max. The satirical comedy-drama — the Emmy winner’s feature directorial debut — centers on four tech billionaires: Randall (Steve Carell), Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and Jeff (Ramy Youssef), who convene at a luxurious mountain retreat amid a global economic crisis. As the world teeters on collapse, tensions rise when Venis’s controversial tech platform is implicated in spreading deepfakes and destabilizing markets.

Filmed in Park City, Utah, the story unfolds in a multimillion-dollar ski lodge that serves as both a symbol of opulence and a potential survival bunker. SCANable supported the production’s visual effects with 3D scanning and aerial photogrammetry, capturing location data used for camera tracking, CG set extensions, and background environments.