https://shotonwhat.com/vfx-facilities/industrial-light-magic-vfx-facility The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Thu, 09 May 2024 00:32:37 -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/minority-report-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:41:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. ]]> 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/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/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:23:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Cinematographer: Alan Hume, Alec Mills
After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. ]]> 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/the-bfg-2016 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:07:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-bfg-2016
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:59:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:56:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:56:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
Three decades after the Empire's defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Defected stormtrooper Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance's search for the missing Luke Skywalker. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-2019 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:52:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-2019
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again in the conclusion of the Skywalker saga. ]]> 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/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/12-strong-2018 Sun, 26 May 2024 23:21:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/12-strong-2018
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
Cinematographer: Rasmus Videbæk
12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mummy-2-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:37:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mummy-2-2017
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Cinematographer: Ben Seresin
An ancient Egyptian princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wall%c2%b7e-2008 Wed, 15 May 2024 01:33:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wall%c2%b7e-2008
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cinematographer: Martin Rosenberg
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/napoleon-3-2023 Thu, 09 May 2024 00:32:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/napoleon-3-2023
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cats-2019 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:33:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cats-2019
Director: Tom Hooper
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-day-after-tomorrow-2004 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:15:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-day-after-tomorrow-2004
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Ueli Steiger
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age. ]]> 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/the-mask-1994 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:05:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mask-1994
Director: Chuck Russell
Cinematographer: John R. Leonetti
Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/snake-eyes-1998 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:35:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/snake-eyes-1998
Director: Brian De Palma
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino. ]]> 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/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/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:04:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/solo-a-star-wars-story-2018 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:43:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/solo-a-star-wars-story-2018
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematographer: Bradford Young
During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/deconstructing-harry-1997 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:18:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/deconstructing-harry-1997
Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma
Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:31:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Frank Griebe, John Toll
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/van-helsing-2004 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:44:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/van-helsing-2004
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cinematographer: Allen Daviau
The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-park-1993 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 03:32:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-park-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-short-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:50:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-short-2015
Director: Adam McKay
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. ]]> 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/tomorrowland-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:22:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrowland-2015
Director: Brad Bird
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-world-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:42:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-world-2015
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:39:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-2015
Director: Joss Whedon
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/selma-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:34:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/selma-2014
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cinematographer: Bradford Young
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rango-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:21:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rango-2011
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:36:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2014
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cinematographer: Lula Carvalho
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lucy-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:29:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lucy-2014
Director: Luc Besson
Cinematographer: Thierry Arbogast
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/unbroken-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:23:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/unbroken-2014
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. ]]> 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/lone-survivor-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:15:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lone-survivor-2013
Director: Peter Berg
Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler
Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-age-of-extinction-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:22:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-age-of-extinction-2014
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Amir Mokri
When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/noah-2-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:57:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/noah-2-2014
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
Noah (Russell Crowe) is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world. ]]>