Genius teenage inventor Riri Williams creates the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
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A rookie FBI agent seeking revenge. A reckless getaway driver looking for justice. And a case involving the FBI, the CIA, the Russians and God knows who else.
From executive producers J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, starring Josh Holloway, Rachel Hilson and Keith David, don’t miss the new Max Original series Duster, now streaming on Max.
After a fateful reunion with his family, Dream of the Endless (Tom Sturridge) must face one impossible decision after another as he attempts to save himself, his kingdom, and the waking world from the epic fallout of his past misdeeds. To make amends, Dream must confront longtime friends and foes, gods, monsters, and mortals. But the path to forgiveness is full of unexpected twists and turns, and true absolution may cost Dream everything. Based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series, the second season of THE SANDMAN will tell Dream’s story arc in full to its thrilling conclusion.
Inspired by the true events of the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, and based on Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, The Lost Bus is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno.
ILM’s work largely took part in the film’s second half, using what ILM visual effects supervisor David Zaretti described as an almost two-hour-long “megaclip” of reference material to bring their effects to life. From there, ILM was tasked with creating large scale assets like building out seven different types of fire assets, including small, medium, and large sizes, traveling fire, and various types of smoke depending on what (i.e. vegetation, homes, etc) was burning. The team also built out substantial environments, such as Roe Road and the Skyway, where they added digital cars to the preexisting vehicles to give the claustrophobic appearance of the cars crowding together during their attempt to escape. Their environment work earned them a VES Award nomination for Outstanding Environment in a Photoreal Feature for their work on Roe Road specifically.
Though a lot of ILM’s work was focused on the terrifying inferno and the immense environments, a lot of their work on the film also consisted of invisible effects. One sequence in particular was when McConaughey’s character exits the bus to examine their fiery surroundings, the scene needed to be windy, but there wasn’t a wind machine on set at the time of filming. ILM worked their magic and rotoscoped the curls in McConaughey’s hair and added a comp shake to suggest the wind was stronger than it was.
Led by ILM visual effects supervisor David Zaretti, visual effects executive producer Stefan Drury and visual effects producer Jordan Harding, ILM’s visual effects work was led by our London studio with additional support from the teams in Sydney. Their work received numerous VES Award nominations, a BAFTA nomination, and an Academy Award nomination.
The Lost Bus is now available to watch on Apple TV.
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Rendering a Rescue: ILM’s Dave Zaretti on the Visual Effects of ‘The Lost Bus’
The new season will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. Season Two will premiere this December exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), and Frances Turner (The Boys).
Fallout is produced by Kilter Films, with executive producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Athena Wickham. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners. Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios, executive produces along with James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
Project Hail Mary follows the story of science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), who wakes up on a spaceship light-years away from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction…but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
ILM’s work on the film consisted of several hundred visual effects shots, bringing to life the film’s interstellar environments, spacecraft, and extraterrestrial worldbuilding, including creating a stunningly accurate version of the solar system that the film is set in. Using data from the European Space Agency, ILM created over 1 billion stars rendered within 10cm of their actual coordinates to construct the most accurate rendition of the star system ever committed to film.
The ILM team also worked on three of the largest assets in the film that appeared in almost every shot, including the Hail Mary, Rocky’s ship, and the planet Adrian. Working closely with the filmmakers Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, ILM developed a fully realized digital asset of the Hail Mary that was capable of holding up in both intimate close-ups and wide interstellar vistas.
Led by ILM visual effects supervisor Tristan Myles in collaboration with production visual effects supervisor Paul Lamberti and visual effects executive producer Adele Jones-Venables and visual effects producer Karen Clarke, ILM’s visual effects work was led in our Vancouver studio with additional support from the teams in London and San Francisco.
Avatar: Fire and Ash. Get ready to journey back to Pandora, in cinemas 19 December 2025
