https://shotonwhat.com/vfx-tools/nvidia-mental-ray The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:29:08 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/blades-of-glory-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:28:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blades-of-glory-2007
Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky
In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jack-and-jill-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:34:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jack-and-jill-2011
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his fraternal twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave. ]]> 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/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:20:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-2011
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Amir Mokri
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/speed-racer-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:14:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/speed-racer-2008
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. ]]> 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/vantage-point-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:01:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vantage-point-2008
Director: Pete Travis
Cinematographer: Amir Mokri
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. ]]> 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/contagion-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:31:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/contagion-2011
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cinematographer: Steven Soderbergh
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a worldwide epidemic as the CDC works to find a cure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-airbender-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:39:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-airbender-2010
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tropic-thunder-2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:43:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tropic-thunder-2008
Director: Ben Stiller
Cinematographer: John Toll
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. ]]> 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/gullivers-travels-2010 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:52:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gullivers-travels-2010
Director: Rob Letterman
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/race-to-witch-mountain-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:08:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/race-to-witch-mountain-2009
Director: Andy Fickman
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
A Las Vegas cabbie enlists the help of a UFO expert to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans. ]]> 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/dredd-2012 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:13:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dredd-2012
Director: Pete Travis
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/limitless-2011 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:01:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/limitless-2011
Director: Neil Burger
Cinematographer: Jo Willems
With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access one hundred percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer-2007 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:11:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer-2007
Director: Tim Story
Cinematographer: Larry Blanford
The Fantastic Four learn that they aren't the only super-powered beings in the universe when they square off against the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/underworld-rise-of-the-lycans-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:51:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/underworld-rise-of-the-lycans-2009
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Cinematographer: Ross Emery
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. ]]>