https://shotonwhat.com/vfx-facilities/cinesite-vfx-facility The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Mon, 27 May 2024 17:26:52 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:42:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-endgame-2019 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:40:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-endgame-2019
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:28:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:25:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:23:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999
Director: Michael Apted
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2006 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:11:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2006
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
Armed with a license to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007, and must defeat a private banker to terrorists in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro, but things are not what they seem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-another-day-2002 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:01:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-another-day-2002
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
A cryptic message from 007's past sends him pitted against a mysterious terrorist organization called Spectre, and learns of its involvement in previous events of his most dangerous missions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/no-time-to-die-2021 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:17:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/no-time-to-die-2021
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/black-panther-wakanda-forever-2022 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:26:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-panther-wakanda-forever-2022
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cinematographer: Autumn Durald Arkapaw
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/overlord-2018 Tue, 21 May 2024 18:31:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/overlord-2018
Director: Julius Avery
Cinematographer: Laurie Rose, Fabian Wagner
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-revenant-2015 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-revenant-2015
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/faceoff-1997 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:28:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/faceoff-1997
Director: John Woo
Cinematographer: Oliver Wood
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/vice-3-2018 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 20:16:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vice-3-2018
Director: Adam McKay
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mary-poppins-returns-2018 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 18:08:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mary-poppins-returns-2018
Director: Rob Marshall
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gods-of-egypt-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:21:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gods-of-egypt-2016
Director: Alex Proyas
Cinematographer: Peter Menzies Jr.
Mortal hero Bek teams with the god Horus in an alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-apocalypse-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:17:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-apocalypse-2016
Director: Bryan Singer
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:26:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-2015
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sicario-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:21:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sicario-2015
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ice-age-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:57:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ice-age-2002
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fifty-percent-grey-2001 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:55:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fifty-percent-grey-2001
Director: Ruairi Robinson
Sergeant wakes up alone with only a widescreen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace and tranquility, for all eternity... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/maggie-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:44:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/maggie-2015
Director: Henry Hobson
Cinematographer: Lukas Ettlin
A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/san-andreas-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:42:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/san-andreas-2015
Director: Brad Peyton
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/night-at-the-museum-secret-of-the-tomb-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:25:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/night-at-the-museum-secret-of-the-tomb-2014
Director: Shawn Levy
Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro
Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-fair-lady-1964 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:53:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-fair-lady-1964
Director: George Cukor
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can make a flower girl presentable in high society. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hercules-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:46:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hercules-2014
Director: Brett Ratner
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-monuments-men-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:04:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-monuments-men-2014
Director: George Clooney
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jack-ryan-shadow-recruit-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:48:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jack-ryan-shadow-recruit-2014
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:45:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2014
Director: Doug Liman
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/into-the-storm-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:32:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/into-the-storm-2014
Director: Steven Quale
Cinematographer: Brian Pearson
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/road-to-perdition-2002 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:29:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/road-to-perdition-2002
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/seabiscuit-2003 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:17:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/seabiscuit-2003
Director: Gary Ross
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:37:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-2008
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ali-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:36:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ali-2001
Director: Michael Mann
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/arn-tempelriddaren-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:47:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/arn-tempelriddaren-2007
Director: Peter Flinth
Cinematographer: Eric Kress
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-2000 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:06:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/x-men-2000
Director: Bryan Singer
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:25:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-2001
Director: Chris Columbus
Cinematographer: John Seale
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:27:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-2010
Director: Mike Newell
Cinematographer: John Seale
A young fugitive Prince and Princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/vanilla-sky-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:44:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vanilla-sky-2001
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cinematographer: John Toll
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/waterworld-1995 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:49:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/waterworld-1995
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/clockstoppers-2002 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:54:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/clockstoppers-2002
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cinematographer: Tim Suhrstedt
A teenager accidentally activates a machine that enables him to speed up his body so that other people seem to be standing still. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-time-machine-2002 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:19:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-time-machine-2002
Director: Simon Wells
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lara-croft-tomb-raider-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:54:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lara-croft-tomb-raider-2001
Director: Simon West
Cinematographer: Peter Menzies Jr.
Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/training-day-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:43:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/training-day-2001
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-rats-tale-1997 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:22:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-rats-tale-1997
Director: Michael F. Huse
Cinematographer: Piotr Lenar
Monty is a young cute rat in a rat world living beneath the streeets of Manhattan. When exterminator Dollart gets a new lethal spray to kill all the rodents, Monty, his friend Isabella and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alex-rider-operation-stormbreaker-2006 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:47:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alex-rider-operation-stormbreaker-2006
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Cinematographer: Chris Seager
After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK's secret intelligence service, MI6, into a mission which will save millions of lives. ]]> 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/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/moulin-rouge-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:39:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/moulin-rouge-2001
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets. ]]>