https://shotonwhat.com/optical-effects/matte-painting The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:19:31 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/venus-effect-2024 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:19:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/venus-effect-2024
Director: Andrew Burn
Cinematographer: Andrew Burn
After a mysterious event, a small community of neighbors erupt into chaos as they suspect hostile aliens are invading. Leo, the reluctant HOA president takes the lead and guides his fellow neighbors on a quest for answers. However... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:27:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014
Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/big-miracle-2012 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:16:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/big-miracle-2012
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cinematographer: John Bailey
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:21:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancee in response. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/promised-a-true-story-2021 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:05:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/promised-a-true-story-2021
Director: Yitzchok Zev Weisz
Cinematographer: Duvid Steinberg
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:02:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:22:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cinematographer: Gayne Rescher
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-deux-mondes-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:56:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-deux-mondes-2007
Director: Daniel Cohen
Cinematographer: Laurent Dailland
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/2012-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:55:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/2012-2009
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/elf-man-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:44:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/elf-man-2012
Director: Ethan Wiley
Cinematographer: John Grove II
An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as the kids help the Elf discover his special powers and true identity as a budding superhero. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/warm-bodies-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:30:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/warm-bodies-2013
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/zero-dark-thirty-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:52:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zero-dark-thirty-2012
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-miserables-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:52:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-miserables-2012
Director: Tom Hooper
Cinematographer: Danny Cohen
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mama-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:44:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mama-2013
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cinematographer: Antonio Riestra
A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched itself to their family. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/boardwalk-empire-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:05:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/boardwalk-empire-2014
Director: Timothy Van Patten, Allen Coulter, Jeremy Podeswa, Ed Bianchi, Brad Anderson, Alik Sakharov, Jake Paltrow, Simon Cellan Jones, Brian Kirk, Martin Scorsese, Alan Taylor, David Petrarca, Susanna White, Kari Skogland
Cinematographer: William Coleman, David Franco, Jonathan Freeman, Kramer Morgenthau, Stuart Dryburgh, Eric Moynier
An Atlantic City, New Jersey politician plays both sides of the law, conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gangster-squad-2013 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:30:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gangster-squad-2013
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
It's 1949 Los Angeles, the city is run by gangsters and a malicious mobster, Mickey Cohen. Determined to end the corruption, John O'Mara assembles a team of cops, ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the city. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:41:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-2009
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Ben Seresin
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:28:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011
Director: Joe Johnston
Cinematographer: Shelly Johnson
Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist organization. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/terminator-salvation-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:27:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/terminator-salvation-2009
Director: McG
Cinematographer: Shane Hurlbut
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/national-treasure-book-of-secrets-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:34:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/national-treasure-book-of-secrets-2007
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cinematographer: Amir Mokri, John Schwartzman
Benjamin Gates must follow a clue left in John Wilkes Booth's diary to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/your-highness-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:36:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/your-highness-2011
Director: David Gordon Green
Cinematographer: Tim Orr
When Prince Fabious's bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her... accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lockout-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:22:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lockout-2012
Director: James Mather, Steve Saint Leger
Cinematographer: James Mather
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-samurai-2003 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:24:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-samurai-2003
Director: Edward Zwick
Cinematographer: John Toll
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/zombieland-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:47:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zombieland-2009
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cinematographer: Michael Bonvillain
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/aeon-flux-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:07:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/aeon-flux-2005
Director: Karyn Kusama
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alex-cross-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:09:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alex-cross-2012
Director: Rob Cohen
Cinematographer: Ricardo Della Rosa
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/looper-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:29:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/looper-2012
Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/night-at-the-museum-battle-of-the-smithsonian-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:17:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/night-at-the-museum-battle-of-the-smithsonian-2009
Director: Shawn Levy
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:14:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008
Director: Mark Waters
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/knowing-2-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:31:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/knowing-2-2009
Director: Alex Proyas
Cinematographer: Simon Duggan
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/land-of-the-lost-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:09:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/land-of-the-lost-2009
Director: Brad Silberling
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-legend-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:07:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-legend-2007
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/changeling-2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 21:33:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/changeling-2008
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/public-enemies-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:36:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/public-enemies-2009
Director: Michael Mann
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/anna-karenina-2012 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:00:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/anna-karenina-2012
Director: Joe Wright
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/leap-year-2010 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:27:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/leap-year-2010
Director: Anand Tucker
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose marriage to her boyfriend Jeremy on Leap Day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-2010 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:17:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-2010
Director: Michael Apted
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army-2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:56:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army-2008
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro
The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-origins-wolverine-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:22:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-origins-wolverine-2009
Director: Gavin Hood
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
The early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the special forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/living-hell-2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:45:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/living-hell-2008
Director: Richard Jefferies
Cinematographer: Eric Leach
A mild-mannered teacher and a hazmat specialist have to figure out how to stop an unstoppable creature who feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, before it destroys everything in its path. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/scream-4-2011 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:37:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/scream-4-2011
Director: Wes Craven
Cinematographer: Peter Deming
Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer. ]]>