https://shotonwhat.com/vfx-facilities/framestore-vfx-facility The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:29:12 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:34:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-resurrections-2021 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:21:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-resurrections-2021
Director: Lana Wachowski
Cinematographer: Daniele Massaccesi, John Toll
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:16:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. ]]> 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/beauty-and-the-beast-3-2017 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:30:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beauty-and-the-beast-3-2017
Director: Bill Condon
Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler
A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/darkest-hour-2-2017 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:29:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/darkest-hour-2-2017
Director: Joe Wright
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. ]]> 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/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/quantum-of-solace-2008 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:32:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/quantum-of-solace-2008
Director: Marc Forster
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. ]]> 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/thor-ragnarok-2017 Sun, 26 May 2024 23:25:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thor-ragnarok-2017
Director: Taika Waititi
Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe
Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/paddington-2-2017 Tue, 21 May 2024 18:12:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/paddington-2-2017
Director: Paul King
Cinematographer: Erik Wilson
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017
Director: Dean Devlin
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alien-covenant-2017 Tue, 14 May 2024 17:32:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alien-covenant-2017
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/roma-2018 Mon, 13 May 2024 17:37:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/roma-2018
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cinematographer: Alfonso Cuarón
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rrr-2022 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:29:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rrr-2022
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cinematographer: KK Senthil Kumar
A fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/glass-onion-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:42:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/glass-onion-2022
Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ready-player-one-2018 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:36:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ready-player-one-2018
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-aeronauts-2019 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:34:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-aeronauts-2019
Director: Tom Harper
Cinematographer: George Steel
Balloon pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-2049-2017 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:23:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-2049-2017
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-2016 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:55:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-2016
Director: David Yates
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/christopher-robin-2018 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:28:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/christopher-robin-2018
Director: Marc Forster
Cinematographer: Matthias Koenigswieser
A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. ]]> 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/knights-of-the-roundtable-king-arthur-2017 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:27:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/knights-of-the-roundtable-king-arthur-2017
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy - whether he likes it or not. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-2017 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:24:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-2017
Director: James Gunn
Cinematographer: Henry Braham
The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father the ambitious celestial being Ego. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-tarzan-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:24:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-tarzan-2016
Director: David Yates
Cinematographer: Henry Braham
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-martian-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:50:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-martian-2015
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pan-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:23:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pan-2015
Director: Joe Wright
Cinematographer: John Mathieson, Seamus McGarvey
Twelve-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be for ever known as Peter Pan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dirty-pretty-things-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:02:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dirty-pretty-things-2002
Director: Stephen Frears
Cinematographer: Chris Menges
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/paddington-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:49:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/paddington-2014
Director: Paul King
Cinematographer: Erik Wilson
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dracula-untold-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:39:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dracula-untold-2014
Director: Gary Shore
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winters-tale-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:25:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winters-tale-2014
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her. ]]> 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/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/lincoln-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:38:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lincoln-2012
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/47-ronin-2013 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:29:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/47-ronin-2013
Director: Carl Rinsch
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gravity-2013 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:29:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gravity-2013
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space. ]]> 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/the-reader-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:09:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-reader-2008
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:17:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-2008
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nanny-mcphee-returns-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:02:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nanny-mcphee-returns-2010
Director: Susanna White
Cinematographer: Mike Eley
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tyrannosaur-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:07:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tyrannosaur-2011
Director: Paddy Considine
Cinematographer: Erik Wilson
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. ]]> 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/sherlock-holmes-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:55:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sherlock-holmes-2009
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wrath-of-the-titans-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:17:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wrath-of-the-titans-2012
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:23:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-2011
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/harry-brown-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:11:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/harry-brown-2009
Director: Daniel Barber
Cinematographer: Martin Ruhe
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. ]]>