On November 12th at 9pm the cable channel Encore will premier Industrial Light & Magic: Creating The Impossible. The hour long special will take viewers behind the scenes of the magic at IML in a way never seen before. Below is information sent to Movie Prop Collectors by Encore.
The industry’s leading visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic, has created some of the most iconic imagery that cinema going audiences have ever seen. For the past 35 years, their pioneering and breathtaking visual effects have transformed the way we see movies.
The digital era that dominates modern day visual effects was ushered in by ILM, and through the years ILM has given filmmakers the means to achieve anything. Photorealistic characters and fantastic worlds can be created from scratch, such as on Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Iron Man and Avatar. But these high-tech advancements have not come easy, nor have they come overnight.
This is the entertaining and illuminating story of the visual effects house that revolutionized Hollywood. From their earliest days creating the special effects for Star Wars, up to today, director Leslie Iwerks takes audiences on a journey inside the walls and through the years of Industrial Light & Magic, where creating the impossible remains a daily operation. Through the eyes of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Jon Favreau, Robin Williams, and ILM’s top visual effects supervisors and artists, among many others, we see how ILM continues to bring cinema’s impossible ideas to fruition.
October 19, 2010
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I hope they don’t reveal too much, Like a good magic trick, somethings, just weren’t meant to be known.. . . . . That would take away from the “Movie-Magic” we have all come to see when one goes to the movies.