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Industrial Light & Magic

Type	Division
Industry	Visual effects, Computer graphics, Feature animation, Television animation
Founded	May 1975; 42 years ago
Founder	George Lucas
Headquarters	Letterman Digital Arts Center, Presidio of San Francisco, California, United States
Key people	Sam Mercer (Head of Studio) John Knoll (Chief Creative Officer) Dennis Muren
Parent	Lucasfilm (The Walt Disney Company)
Divisions	ILMxLab[1]
Subsidiaries	ILM London ILM Singapore ILM Vancouver ILM San Francisco[1][2]
Website	ilm.com

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when Lucas began production of the film Star Wars. It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.
ILM originated in Van Nuys, California, then later moved to San Rafael in 1978, and since 2005 it has been based at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired ILM as part of its purchase of Lucasfilm.^[3]

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Milestones
• 3 Filmography
• 4 Television
• 5 Notable employees and clients
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links

History

Industrial Light & Magic original logo, designed by Drew Struzan

Lucas wanted his 1977 film Star Wars^[4] to include visual effects that had never been seen on film before. After discovering that the in-house effects department at 20th Century Fox was no longer operational, Lucas approached Douglas Trumbull, best known for the effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Trumbull declined as he was already committed to working on Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but suggested his assistant John Dykstra to Lucas. Dykstra brought together a small team of college students, artists, and engineers, and set them up in a warehouse in Van Nuys, California. Lucas named the group Industrial Light and Magic, which became the Special Visual Effects department on Star Wars. Alongside Dykstra, other leading members of the original ILM team were Ken Ralston, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Joe Johnston, Phil Tippett, Steve Gawley, Lorne Peterson, and Paul Huston.
In late 1978, when in pre-production for The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas reformed most of the team into Industrial Light & Magic in Marin County, California. From here on, the company expanded and has since gone on to produce special effects for nearly three hundred films, including the entire Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, the Harry Potter series, the Jurassic Park series, the Back to the Future trilogy, many of the Star Trek films, Ghostbusters II, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Terminator sequels, the Transformers films, the Men in Black series, Marvel Cinematic Universe films, Wild Wild West, most of the Mission: Impossible films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Batteries Not Included, The Abyss, and Flubber, and also provided work for Avatar, alongside Weta Digital.
In addition to their work for George Lucas, ILM also collaborates with Steven Spielberg on most films that he directs, and for many that he produces as well. Dennis Muren has acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on many of these films.
Apart from flashy special effects, the company also works on more subtle effects—such as widening streets, digitally adding more extras to a shot, and inserting the film's actors into preexisting footage—in films including Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Snow Falling on Cedars, Magnolia, and several Woody Allen films.

Parking and building of the first company headquarters of ILM in Van Nuys. Here all the special effects of the first Star Wars movie (1977) were produced.

After the success of the first Star Wars movie, Lucas became interested in using computer graphics on the sequel. So he contacted Triple-I, known for their early computer effects in movies like Westworld (1973) and Futureworld (1976), which ended up making a computer generated test of five X-Wing fighters flying in formation. He found it to be too expensive and returned to handmade models. But the test had showed him it was possible, and he decided he would create his own computer graphics department instead. One of Lucas' employees was given the task to find the right people to hire. His search would lead him to NYIT, where he found Edwin Catmull and his colleagues. Catmull and others accepted Lucas' job offer, and a new computer division at ILM was created in 1979 with the hiring of Ed Catmull as the first NYIT employee who joined Lucasfilm.^[5] John Lasseter, who was hired a few years later, worked on computer animation as part of ILM's contribution to Young Sherlock Holmes. The Graphics Group was later sold to Steve Jobs, named Pixar, and created the first CG animated feature, Toy Story.
In 2000, ILM created the OpenEXR format for high-dynamic-range imaging.^[6]
ILM operated from an inconspicuous property in San Rafael, California until 2005. The company was known to locals as The Kerner Company. In 2005, when Lucas decided to move locations to the Presidio of San Francisco and focus on digital effects, a management-led team bought the five physical and practical effects divisions and formed a new company that included the George Lucas Theater, retained the "Kerner" name as Kerner Technologies, Inc. and provided physical effects for major motion pictures, often working with ILM, until its Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011.
In 2005, ILM extended its operations to Lucasfilm Singapore, which also includes the Singapore arm of Lucasfilm Animation. In 2011, it was announced the company was considering a project-based facility in Vancouver.^[7]
In 2006, ILM invented IMoCap (Image Based Motion Capture Technology).
As of 2016, ILM has received 16 Best Visual Effects Oscars and 40 additional nominations. It has also received 24 Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2012, Disney bought ILM's parent company, Lucasfilm, and acquired ILM in the process. Disney stated that it had no immediate plans to change ILM's operations,^[8] but began to lay off employees by April of the next year.^[9]
ILM is currently the largest visual effects vendor in the motion picture industry, with regards to workforce, with more than 500 artists. It has one of the largest render farms currently available with more than 7500 nodes. Following the restructuring of LucasArts in April 2013, ILM was left overstaffed and the faculty was reduced to serve only ILM's visual effects department.^[10][11]
ILM opened a London studio headquartered in the city's Soho district on October 15, 2014.^[12]

Milestones

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• 1975: Resurrected the use of VistaVision; first use of a motion control camera (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
• 1980: First use of Go motion to animate the Tauntaun creatures of The Empire Strikes Back
• 1982: First in-house completely computer-generated sequence — the "Genesis sequence" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. (Previous computer graphics in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope were done outside of ILM.)
• 1985: First completely computer-generated character, the "stained glass man" in Young Sherlock Holmes
• 1988: First morphing sequence, in Willow
• 1988: First Digital compositing of a full-screen live action image during the final sequence in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• 1989: First computer-generated 3-D character to show emotion, the pseudopod creature in The Abyss
• 1991: First-ever dimensional matte painting — where a traditional matte painting was mapped onto 3D geometry, allowing for camera parallax, in Hook.
• 1991: First partially computer-generated main character, the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 1992: First time the texture of human skin was computer generated, in Death Becomes Her
• 1993: First time digital technology used to create a complete and detailed living creature, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, which earned ILM its thirteenth Oscar
• 1994: First extensive use of digital manipulation of historical and stock footage to integrate characters in Forrest Gump.
• 1995: First fully synthetic speaking computer-generated character, with a distinct personality and emotion, to take a leading role in Casper
• 1995: First computer-generated photo-realistic hair and fur (used for the digital lion and monkeys) in Jumanji
• 1996: First completely computer-generated main character, Draco in Dragonheart
• 1999: First computer generated character to have a full human anatomy, Imhotep in The Mummy
• 2000: Creates OpenEXR imaging format.^[6]
• 2006: Develops iMocap system, which uses computer vision techniques to track live-action performers on set. Used in the creation of Davy Jones and ship's crew in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• 2011: First animated feature produced by ILM, Rango

Filmography

Year	Film	Director(s)	Distributor(s)	Budget	Gross
1977	Star Wars	George Lucas	20th Century Fox	$11 million	$775.4 million
1980s
1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner	20th Century Fox	$33 million	$538.4 million
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	Paramount Pictures	$18 million	$389.9 million
	Dragonslayer	Matthew Robbins	Paramount Pictures Buena Vista Pictures	$18 million	$14 million
1982	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures	$11.2 million	$97 million
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	Universal Studios	$10 million	$792.9 million
	The Dark Crystal	Jim Henson and Frank Oz	Universal Studios	$15 million	$40 million
	Poltergeist	Tobe Hooper	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$10.7 million	$121.7 million
1983	Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand	20th Century Fox	$42.7 million	$572.1 million
	Twice Upon a Time	John Korty and Charles Swenson	Warner Bros.	TBA
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Steven Spielberg	Paramount Pictures	$28.2 million	$333.1 million
	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Leonard Nimoy		$16 million	$87 million
	The NeverEnding Story	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros.	$27 million	$100 million
	Starman	John Carpenter	Columbia Pictures	$24 million	$28.7 million
1985	The Goonies	Richard Donner	Warner Bros.	$19 million	$61.5 million
	Cocoon	Ron Howard	20th Century Fox	$17.5 million	$85.3 million
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	Universal Studios	$19 million	$389.1 million
	Explorers	Joe Dante	Paramount Pictures	$25 million	$9.9 million
	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader	Warner Bros.	$5 million	$502,758
	Young Sherlock Holmes	Barry Levinson	Paramount Pictures	$18 million	$19 million
	Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack	Universal Studios	$28 million	$128.5 million
	Enemy Mine	Wolfgang Petersen	20th Century Fox	$29 million	$12 million
1986	The Money Pit	Richard Benjamin	Universal Studios	$10 million	$54 million
	Labyrinth	Jim Henson	TriStar Pictures	$27.68 million	$11.6 million
	Howard the Duck	Willard Huyck	Universal Studios	$37 million	$38 million
	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Leonard Nimoy	Paramount Pictures	$21 million	$133 million
	The Golden Child	Michael Ritchie		$25 million	$79.8 million
1987	Harry and the Hendersons	William Dear	Universal Studios	$16 million	$49 million
	The Witches of Eastwick	George Miller	Warner Bros.	$22 million	$63.8 million
	Innerspace	Joe Dante		TBA	$25 million
	Empire of the Sun	Steven Spielberg		$35 million	$22.2 million
	Batteries Not Included	Matthew Robbins	Universal Studios	$25 million	$65.1 million
	Spaceballs	Mel Brooks	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$22.7 million	$38.1 million
1988	Willow	Ron Howard	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$35 million	$57.3 million
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Robert Zemeckis	Buena Vista Pictures	$58 million	$329.8 million
	Caddyshack II	Allan Arkush	Warner Bros.	$20 million	$11.8 million
	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$24 million	$19.7 million
	Cocoon: The Return	Daniel Petrie	20th Century Fox	$17.5 million	$25 million
1989	The 'Burbs	Joe Dante	Universal Studios	$18 million	$49 million
	Skin Deep	Blake Edwards	20th Century Fox	$9 million	$19 million
	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Studios TriStar Pictures	$15 million	$84.4 million
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Steven Spielberg	Paramount Pictures	$48 million	$474.2 million
	Ghostbusters II	Ivan Reitman	Columbia Pictures	$37 million	$215.4 million
	The Abyss	James Cameron	20th Century Fox	$70 million	$90 million
	Back to the Future Part II	Robert Zemeckis	Universal Studios	$40 million	$332 million
	Always	Steven Spielberg		$31 million	$74 million
1990s
1990	The Hunt for Red October	John McTiernan	Paramount Pictures	$30 million	$200.5 million
	Joe Versus the Volcano	John Patrick Shanley	Warner Bros.	$25 million	$39 million
	Back to the Future Part III	Robert Zemeckis	Universal Studios	$40 million	$244.5 million
	Total Recall	Paul Verhoeven	TriStar Pictures	$50 million	$300 million
	Die Hard 2	Renny Harlin	20th Century Fox	$70 million	$240 million
	Ghost	Jerry Zucker	Paramount Pictures	$22 million	$505.7 million
	Arachnophobia	Frank Marshall	Buena Vista Pictures	$31 million	$53.2 million
	Dreams	Akira Kurosawa and Ishirō Honda	Warner Bros.	$12 million	TBA
	The Godfather Part III	Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount Pictures	$54 million	$136.8 million
1991	Flight of the Intruder	John Milius		$35 million	$14 million
	The Doors	Oliver Stone	TriStar Pictures	$38 million	$34.4 million
	Switch	Blake Edwards	Warner Bros.	$15 million	TBA
	Backdraft	Ron Howard	Universal Studios	$75 million	$152.3 million
	Hudson Hawk	Renny Harlin	TriStar Pictures	$65 million	$17.2 million
	The Rocketeer	Joe Johnston	Buena Vista Pictures	$40 million	$46.7 million
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	James Cameron	TriStar Pictures	$94 million	$519.8 million
	Hook	Steven Spielberg		$70 million	$300.9 million
	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures	$27 million	$96.9 million
1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	John Carpenter	Warner Bros.	$40 million	$14.4 million
	Death Becomes Her	Robert Zemeckis	Universal Studios	$55 million	$149 million
1993	Alive	Frank Marshall	Buena Vista Pictures United International Pictures	$32 million	$36.7 million
	Fire in the Sky	Robert Lieberman	Paramount Pictures	$15 million	$19.9 million
	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg	Universal Studios	$63 million	$1.029 billion
	Last Action Hero	John McTiernan	Columbia Pictures	$85 million	$137.3 million
	Rising Sun	Philip Kaufman	20th Century Fox	$35 million	$107.2 million
	The Meteor Man	Robert Townsend	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$30 million	$8 million
	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Woody Allen	TriStar Pictures	$13.5 million	$11 million
	Malice	Harold Becker	Columbia Pictures	$20 million	$46 million
	The Nutcracker	Emile Ardolino	Warner Bros.	$19 million	$2 million
	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	Universal Studios	$22 million	$321.2 million
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel and Ethan Coen	Warner Bros. Universal Studios	$25 million	$2.8 million
	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Paramount Pictures	$55 million	$677.9 million
	Maverick	Richard Donner	Warner Bros.	$75 million	$183 million
	The Flintstones	Brian Levant	Universal Studios	$46 million	$341.6 million
	Wolf	Mike Nichols	Columbia Pictures	TBA	$131 million
	Baby's Day Out	Patrick Read Johnson	20th Century Fox	$48 million	$16.8 million
	The Mask	Chuck Russell	New Line Cinema	$23 million	$351.6 million
	Radioland Murders	Mel Smith	Universal Studios	$15 million	$1.3 million
	Disclosure	Barry Levinson	Warner Bros.	$55 million	$214 million
	Star Trek Generations	David Carson	Paramount Pictures	$35 million	$118 million
1995	In the Mouth of Madness	John Carpenter	New Line Cinema	$8 million	$8.9 million
	Village of the Damned		Universal Studios	$22 million	$9.4 million
	Congo	Frank Marshall	Paramount Pictures	$50 million	$152 million
	The Indian in the Cupboard	Frank Oz	Paramount Pictures Columbia Pictures	$45 million	$35 million
	Casper	Brad Silberling	Universal Studios	$55 million	$287.9 million
	Jumanji	Joe Johnston	TriStar Pictures	$65 million	$262.8 million
	The American President	Rob Reiner	Columbia Pictures Universal Studios	$62 million	$107 million
	Sabrina	Sydney Pollack	Paramount Pictures	$50 million	$53 million
1996	Twister	Jan de Bont	Warner Bros. Universal Studios	$92 million	$494.4 million
	Mission: Impossible	Brian De Palma	Paramount Pictures	$80 million	$457.7 million
	Dragonheart	Rob Cohen	Universal Studios	$57 million	$115 million
	Eraser	Chuck Russell	Warner Bros.	$100 million	$242.3 million
	The Trigger Effect	David Koepp	Gramercy Pictures Universal Studios	$8 million	$3 million
	Sleepers	Barry Levinson	Warner Bros. Buena Vista Pictures	$44 million	$165.6 million
	Star Trek: First Contact	Jonathan Frakes	Paramount Pictures	$45 million	$146 million
	101 Dalmatians	Stephen Herek	Buena Vista Pictures	$75 million	$320.6 million
	Daylight	Rob Cohen	Universal Studios	$80 million	$159.2 million
	Mars Attacks!	Tim Burton	Warner Bros.	$70 million	$101.3 million
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg	Universal Studios	$75 million	$618.6 million
	Speed 2: Cruise Control	Jan de Bont	20th Century Fox	$110 million	$164.5 million
	Men in Black	Barry Sonnenfeld	Columbia Pictures	$90 million	$589.4 million
	Contact	Robert Zemeckis	Warner Bros.	$90 million	$171.1 million
	Spawn	Mark A.Z. Dippé	New Line Cinema	$40 million	$87.8 million
	Starship Troopers	Paul Verhoeven	TriStar Pictures Buena Vista Pictures	$105 million	$121.2 million
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Clint Eastwood	Warner Bros.	$30 million	$25.1 million
	Flubber	Les Mayfield	Buena Vista Pictures	$80 million	$177.9 million
	Amistad	Steven Spielberg	DreamWorks Pictures	$36 million	$44.2 million
	Deconstructing Harry	Woody Allen	Fine Line Features Hollywood Pictures	$20 million	$10 million
	Titanic	James Cameron	Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox	$200 million	$2.187 billion
1998	Deep Rising	Stephen Sommers	Buena Vista Pictures Cinergi Pictures	$45 million	$11.2 million
	Mercury Rising	Harold Becker	Universal Studios	$60 million	$93 million
	Deep Impact	Mimi Leder	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures	$80 million	$349.4 million
	Small Soldiers	Joe Dante	DreamWorks Pictures Universal Studios	$40 million	$54.7 million
	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$70 million	$481.8 million
	Snake Eyes	Brian De Palma	Paramount Pictures Buena Vista Pictures	$73 million	$103.8 million
	Reach the Rock	William Ryan	Gramercy Pictures	TBA	$4,960
	Meet Joe Black	Martin Brest	Universal Studios	$90 million	$142 million
	Celebrity	Woody Allen	Miramax Films	$12 million	$5 million
	Jack Frost	Troy Miller	Warner Bros.	$85 million	$34.6 million
	Mighty Joe Young	Ron Underwood	Buena Vista Pictures	$90 million	$50 million
1999	October Sky	Joe Johnston	Universal Studios	$25 million	$34.7 million
	The Mummy	Stephen Sommers		$80 million	$415.9 million
	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	George Lucas	20th Century Fox	$115 million	$1.027 billion
	Wild Wild West	Barry Sonnenfeld	Warner Bros.	$170 million	$222.1 million
	The Haunting	Jan de Bont	DreamWorks Pictures	$80 million	$177.3 million
	Deep Blue Sea	Renny Harlin	Warner Bros.	$60 million	$164.6 million
	Bringing Out the Dead	Martin Scorsese	Paramount Pictures Buena Vista Pictures	$55 million	$16.8 million
	Sleepy Hollow	Tim Burton	Paramount Pictures	$100 million	$206 million
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	Warner Bros.	$60 million	$290.7 million
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	New Line Cinema	$37 million	$48.5 million
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Scott Hicks	Universal Studios	$35 million	$23 million
	Galaxy Quest	Dean Parisot	DreamWorks Pictures	$45 million	$90.7 million
2000s
2000	Sweet and Lowdown	Woody Allen	Sony Pictures Classics	TBA	$4 million
	Mission to Mars	Brian De Palma	Buena Vista Pictures	$100 million	$110.9 million
	The Perfect Storm	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros.	$120 million	$328.7 million
	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Des McAnuff	Universal Studios	$76 million	$35 million
	Space Cowboys	Clint Eastwood	Warner Bros.	$60 million	$128.9 million
	Pollock	Ed Harris	Sony Pictures Classics	TBA	$10 million
	Pay It Forward	Mimi Leder	Warner Bros.	$40 million	$55 million
2001	The Pledge	Sean Penn		$35 million	$29.4 million
	Sweet November	Pat O'Connor		$40 million	$65 million
	The Mummy Returns	Stephen Sommers	Universal Studios	$98 million	$433 million
	Pearl Harbor	Michael Bay	Buena Vista Pictures	$140 million	$449.2 million
	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Steven Spielberg	Warner Bros. DreamWorks Pictures	$100 million	$235.9 million
	Jurassic Park III	Joe Johnston	Universal Studios	$93 million	$368.8 million
	Planet of the Apes	Tim Burton	20th Century Fox	$100 million	$362.2 million
	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Chris Columbus	Warner Bros.	$125 million	$974.8 million
	The Majestic	Frank Darabont		$72 million	$37.3 million
2002	Impostor	Gary Fleder	Dimension Films	$40 million	$8 million
	The Time Machine	Simon Wells	DreamWorks Pictures Warner Bros.	$80 million	$123.7 million
	Big Trouble	Barry Sonnenfeld	Buena Vista Pictures	$40 million	$8.5 million
	Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	George Lucas	20th Century Fox	$115 million	$649.4 million
	The Bourne Identity	Doug Liman	Universal Studios	$60 million	$214 million
	Minority Report	Steven Spielberg	DreamWorks Pictures 20th Century Fox	$102 million	$358.4 million
	Men in Black II	Barry Sonnenfeld	Columbia Pictures	$140 million	$441.8 million
	K-19: The Widowmaker	Kathryn Bigelow	Paramount Pictures	$100 million	$65.7 million
	Signs	M. Night Shyamalan	Buena Vista Pictures	$72 million	$408.2 million
	Blood Work	Clint Eastwood		$50 million	$31 million
	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson	Columbia Pictures	$25 million	$24.7 million
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Chris Columbus	Warner Bros.	$100 million	$879 million
	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	Miramax Films	$97 million	$193.8 million
2003	Tears of the Sun	Antoine Fuqua	Columbia Pictures	$100.5 million	$86.5 million
	The Hunted	William Friedkin	Paramount Pictures Redbus Film Distribution	$55 million	$45 million
	Dreamcatcher	Lawrence Kasdan	Warner Bros.	$68 million	$75.7 million
	Hulk	Ang Lee	Universal Studios	$137 million	$245.4 million
	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	Jonathan Mostow	Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures	$187 million	$433.4 million
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski	Buena Vista Pictures	$140 million	$654.3 million
	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Stephen Norrington	20th Century Fox	$78 million	$179.3 million
	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Robert Rodriguez	Columbia Pictures Dimension Films	$28 million	$98.1 million
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir	20th Century Fox Universal Studios	$150 million	$212 million
	Timeline	Richard Donner	Paramount Pictures	$80 million	$34 million
	Stuck on You	Peter and Robert Farrelly	20th Century Fox	$55 million	$65 million
	Peter Pan	P. J. Hogan	Universal Studios Columbia Pictures	$130 million	$122 million
2004	Along Came Polly	John Hamburg	Universal Studios	$42 million	$171 million
	Twisted	Philip Kaufman	Paramount Pictures	$50 million	$41 million
	Hidalgo	Joe Johnston	Buena Vista Pictures	$40 million	$108.1 million
	Van Helsing	Stephen Sommers	Universal Studios	$160 million	$300.3 million
	The Day After Tomorrow	Roland Emmerich	20th Century Fox	$125 million	$544.3 million
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Alfonso Cuarón	Warner Bros.	$130 million	$796.7 million
	The Chronicles of Riddick	David Twohy	Universal Studios	$105 million	$115.8 million
	The Bourne Supremacy	Paul Greengrass		$75 million	$288.5 million
	The Village	M. Night Shyamalan	Buena Vista Pictures	$60 million	$256.7 million
	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Kerry Conran	Paramount Pictures	$70 million	$58 million
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Brad Silberling	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures	$140 million	$209.1 million
2005	Are We There Yet?	Brian Levant	Columbia Pictures	$32 million	$97 million
	Son of the Mask	Lawrence Guterman	New Line Cinema	$84 million	$57.6 million
	The Pacifier	Adam Shankman	Buena Vista Pictures	$56 million	$198.6 million
	Eros	Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni	Warner Independent Pictures Artificial Eye	TBA	$1 million
	The Amityville Horror	Andrew Douglas	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dimension Films	$19 million	$108 million
	XXX: State of the Union	Lee Tamahori	Columbia Pictures	$87 million	$71 million
	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	George Lucas	20th Century Fox	$113 million	$848.8 million
	The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D	Robert Rodriguez	Dimension Films Columbia Pictures	$50 million	$69.4 million
	Herbie: Fully Loaded	Angela Robinson	Buena Vista Pictures	$50 million	$144.1 million
	War of the Worlds	Steven Spielberg	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures	$132 million	$591.7 million
	The Island	Michael Bay	DreamWorks Pictures Warner Bros.	$126 million	$162.9 million
	Jarhead	Sam Mendes	Universal Studios	$72 million	$96.9 million
	Chicken Little	Mark Dindal	Buena Vista Pictures	$150 million	$314.4 million
	Rent	Chris Columbus	Columbia Pictures	$40 million	$31.6 million
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Mike Newell	Warner Bros.	$150 million	$896.9 million
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Andrew Adamson	Buena Vista Pictures	$180 million	$745 million
	Munich	Steven Spielberg	Universal Studios DreamWorks Pictures	$70 million	$130.4 million
	Cheaper by the Dozen 2	Adam Shankman	20th Century Fox	$60 million	$129.1 million
2006	Eight Below	Frank Marshall	Buena Vista Pictures	$40 million	$120.4 million
	Mission: Impossible III	J. J. Abrams	Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$397.9 million
	Poseidon	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros.	$160 million	$181.7 million
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Gore Verbinski	Buena Vista Pictures	$225 million	$1.066 billion
	Lady in the Water	M. Night Shyamalan	Warner Bros.	$70 million	$72.8 million
	Eragon	Stefen Fangmeier	20th Century Fox	$100 million	$249.5 million
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Gore Verbinski	Buena Vista Pictures	$300 million	$963.4 million
	Evan Almighty	Tom Shadyac	Universal Studios	$175 million	$173.4 million
	Transformers	Michael Bay	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$709.7 million
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	David Yates	Warner Bros.	$150 million	$939.9 million
	Rush Hour 3	Brett Ratner	New Line Cinema	$140 million	$258 million
	Lions for Lambs	Robert Redford	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 20th Century Fox	$35 million	$63.2 million
	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Jon Turteltaub	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$130 million	$457.4 million
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	Paramount Vantage Miramax Films	$25 million	$76.2 million
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mark Waters	Paramount Pictures	$90 million	$162 million
	Iron Man	Jon Favreau		$140 million	$585.2 million
	Speed Racer	The Wachowski Brothers	Warner Bros.	$120 million	$93.9 million
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Steven Spielberg	Paramount Pictures	$185 million	$786.6 million
	The Happening	M. Night Shyamalan	20th Century Fox	$48 million	$163.4 million
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$180 million	$521.3 million
	Miracle at St. Anna	Spike Lee		$45 million	$9.3 million
	The Tale of Despereaux	Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen	Universal Studios	$60 million	$86.9 million
2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic	P. J. Hogan	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	TBA	$108.3 million
	Star Trek	J. J. Abrams	Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$385.7 million
	Terminator Salvation	McG	Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures	$200 million	$371.4 million
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Michael Bay	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$200 million	$836.3 million
	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	David Yates	Warner Bros.	$250 million	$934.4 million
	Avatar	James Cameron	20th Century Fox	$237 million	$2.788 billion
2010s
2010	Iron Man 2	Jon Favreau	Paramount Pictures	$200 million	$623.9 million
	The Last Airbender	M. Night Shyamalan		$150 million	$319.7 million
2011	I Am Number Four	D. J. Caruso	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$50 million	$149.9 million
	Rango	Gore Verbinski	Paramount Pictures	$135 million	$245.7 million
	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Rob Marshall	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$378.5 million	$1.046 billion
	Super 8	J. J. Abrams	Paramount Pictures	$50 million	$260.1 million
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay		$195 million	$1.124 billion
	Cowboys & Aliens	Jon Favreau	Universal Studios Paramount Pictures	$163 million	$174 million
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese	Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$185.8 million
	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Brad Bird		$145 million	$694.7 million
2012	Red Tails	Anthony Hemingway	20th Century Fox	$58 million	$50.4 million
	The Avengers	Joss Whedon	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$220 million	$1.520 billion
	Battleship	Peter Berg	Universal Studios	$220 million	$303 million
	Cloud Atlas	Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski	Warner Bros.	$128.5 million	$130.5 million
2013	Identity Thief	Seth Gordon	Universal Studios	$35 million	$174 million
	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Jon M. Chu	Paramount Pictures	$130 million	$375.7 million
	Pain & Gain	Michael Bay		$26 million	$86.2 million
	The Great Gatsby	Baz Luhrmann	Warner Bros.	$105 million	$351 million
	Star Trek Into Darkness	J. J. Abrams	Paramount Pictures	$185 million	$467.4 million
	Now You See Me	Louis Leterrier	Universal Studios	$75 million	$351.7 million
	The Lone Ranger	Gore Verbinski	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$225 million	$260.5 million
	Pacific Rim	Guillermo del Toro	Warner Bros.	$190 million	$411 million
	RED 2	Dean Parisot	Summit Entertainment	$84 million	$148.1 million
	Elysium	Neill Blomkamp	TriStar Pictures	$115 million	$286.1 million
	Lone Survivor	Peter Berg	Universal Studios	$49 million	$149.3 million
2014	Noah	Darren Aronofsky	Paramount Pictures	$125 million	$362.6 million
	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Anthony and Joe Russo	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$170 million	$714.4 million
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Paramount Pictures	$210 million	$1.104 billion
	Lucy	Luc Besson	Universal Studios	$40 million	$463.4 million
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Jonathan Liebesman	Paramount Pictures	$125 million	$493.3 million
	Unbroken	Angelina Jolie	Universal Studios	$65 million	$163.3 million
2015	Strange Magic	Gary Rydstrom	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	TBA	$13.6 million
	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Joss Whedon		$279.9 million	$1.405 billion
	Tomorrowland	Brad Bird		$190 million	$209.2 million
	Jurassic World	Colin Trevorrow	Universal Studios	$150 million	$1.670 billion
	Terminator Genisys	Alan Taylor	Paramount Pictures	$155 million	$440.6 million
	Ant-Man	Peyton Reed	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$130 million	$519.3 million
	Hitman: Agent 47	Aleksander Bach	20th Century Fox	$35 million	$82.3 million
	The Martian	Ridley Scott		$108 million	$630.2 million
	Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension	Gregory Plotkin	Paramount Pictures	$10 million	$78.1 million
	Spectre	Sam Mendes	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures	$250 million	$880.7 million
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	J. J. Abrams	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$200 million	$2.068 billion
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	20th Century Fox	$135 million	$533 million
	The Big Short	Adam McKay	Paramount Pictures	$28 million	$133.4 million
2016	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	Michael Bay	Paramount Studios	$50 million	$69.4 million
	Captain America: Civil War	Anthony and Joe Russo	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$250 million	$1.153 billion
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Dave Green	Paramount Pictures	$135 million	$245.6 million
	Warcraft	Duncan Jones	Universal Studios	$160 million	$433.7 million
	Deepwater Horizon	Peter Berg	Summit Entertainment	$110 million	$121.7 million
	Doctor Strange	Scott Derrickson	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$165 million	$677.6 million
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Gareth Edwards		$200 million	$1.056 billion
	Silence	Martin Scorsese	Paramount Pictures	$40 million	$23.7 million
2017	The Great Wall	Zhang Yimou	Universal Studios	$150 million	$334 million
	Life	Daniel Espinosa	Sony Pictures	$58 million	$100.5 million
	Kong: Skull Island	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Warner Bros.	$185 million	$566 million
	The Mummy	Alex Kurtzman	Universal Studios	$125 million	$409 million
	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay	Paramount Pictures	$260 million	$605 million
	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Jon Watts	Columbia Pictures	$175 million	$879 million
	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Luc Besson	EuropaCorp	$209 million	$225 million
	Mother!	Darren Aronofsky	Paramount Pictures	$33 million	$41 million
	Only The Brave	Joseph Kosinski	Sony Pictures	$38 million	$2.1 million
2017
	Upcoming
	Thor: Ragnarok	Taika Waititi	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$180 million	TBA
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Rian Johnson		TBA
	Downsizing	Alexander Payne	Paramount Pictures	$76 million	TBA
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	J.A. Bayona	Universal Studios	$260 million	TBA
	Avengers: Infinity War	Anthony and Joe Russo	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	TBA
	Ready Player One	Steven Spielberg	Warner Bros.	TBA
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	TBA
	Monster Hunt 2	Raman Hui	Edko Film/Lionsgate	TBA

Television

Year	Name of television show[13]
1987–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation
2014–2015	Agent Carter[14]

Notable employees and clients

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Photoshop was first used at the Industrial Light & Magic as an image-processing program. Photoshop was created by ILM Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll and his brother Thomas as a summer project. It was used on The Abyss. The Knoll brothers sold the program to Adobe shortly before the film's release.^{[citation needed]}
Adam Savage, Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci of MythBusters fame have all worked at Industrial Light & Magic.^[15]
Industrial Light & Magic is also famous for their commercial work. Their clients include Energizer, Benson & Hedges, Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Budweiser, Nickelodeon and other companies.^{[citation needed]}
Actor Masi Oka worked on several major ILM productions as a programmer, including Revenge of the Sith, before joining the cast of the NBC show Heroes as Hiro Nakamura.^[16]
American film director David Fincher worked at ILM for four years in the early 1980s.^{[citation needed]}
Film director Joe Johnston was a Visual effects artist and an Art Director.
Film Director Mark A.Z. Dippé was a Visual Effects animator who directed Spawn which was released in 1997.

See also

• Digital Domain
• Double Negative (VFX)
• Framestore
• Rhythm and Hues Studios
• Weta Digital

References

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16. Gaudiosi, John (25 October 2006). "Masi Oka: Coder, Actor, Hero". Wired.

External links

• Official website (with detailed information in PDF format)
• Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) on IMDb
• Alternative credits list from the Unofficial ILM site
• Small entry at Lucasfilm's site

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