https://shotonwhat.com/vfx-facilities/lola-vfx-facility The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:28:47 -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/blade-runner-1982 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:03:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/trap-2024 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:28:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/trap-2024
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-2023 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:18:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-2023
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematographer: Fraser Taggart
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. ]]> 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/ad-astra-2019 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:32:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ad-astra-2019
Director: James Gray
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe. ]]> 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/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/top-gun-maverick-2022 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:01:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/top-gun-maverick-2022
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-fallout-2018 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:08:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-fallout-2018
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematographer: Rob Hardy
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mid90s-2018 Fri, 24 May 2024 00:48:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mid90s-2018
Director: Jonah Hill
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-post-2017 Tue, 14 May 2024 17:03:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-post-2017
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baywatch-2017 Mon, 13 May 2024 19:12:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baywatch-2017
Director: Seth Gordon
Cinematographer: Eric Steelberg
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyscraper-2018 Mon, 13 May 2024 18:16:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyscraper-2018
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/destroyer-2018 Sun, 12 May 2024 14:32:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/destroyer-2018
Director: Karyn Kusama
Cinematographer: Julie Kirkwood
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales-2017 Sat, 11 May 2024 20:19:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales-2017
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cinematographer: Paul Cameron
Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably Jack. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-greatest-showman-2017 Sat, 11 May 2024 04:51:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-greatest-showman-2017
Director: Michael Gracey
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/battle-of-the-sexes-2017 Fri, 10 May 2024 15:02:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/battle-of-the-sexes-2017
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. ]]> 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/black-panther-2018 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 21:42:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-panther-2018
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison
T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past. ]]> 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/a-star-is-born-2018 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 08:59:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-star-is-born-2018
Director: Bradley Cooper
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. ]]> 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/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/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/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/ride-along-2-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:23:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ride-along-2-2016
Director: Tim Story
Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen
As his wedding day approaches, Ben heads to Miami with his soon-to-be brother-in-law James to bring down a drug dealer who's supplying the dealers of Atlanta with product. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/straight-outta-compton-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:59:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/straight-outta-compton-2015
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/joy-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:51:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/joy-2015
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. ]]> 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/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/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/american-sniper-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:19:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/american-sniper-2014
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:45:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-2015
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cinematographer: Jo Willems
Katniss and a team of rebels from District 13 prepare for the final battle that will decide the future of Panem. ]]> 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/american-hustle-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:45:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/american-hustle-2013
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:50:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-2014
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bullet-to-the-head-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:49:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bullet-to-the-head-2012
Director: Walter Hill
Cinematographer: Lloyd Ahern II
After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington, D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/movie-43-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:45:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/movie-43-2013
Director: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken, Bob Odenkirk
Cinematographer: Mattian Anderssonn Rudh, Frank G. DeMarco, Steve Gainer, Matthew F. Leonetti, Daryn Okada, William Rexer, Eric Scherbarth, Newton Thomas Sigel, Tim Suhrstedt
A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. ]]> 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/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:12:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-2009
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cinematographer: Nicola Pecorini
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. ]]>