Computer animation
Art of creating moving images using computers
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| 2025 | New Line Cinema releases 'The Conjuring: Last Rites', directed by Michael Chaves, continuing the horror franchise |
| 2025 | Scheduled for release are major franchise films such as 'Captain America: Brave New World', 'Thunderbolts', and 'A Minecraft Movie'. |
| 2025 | Marvel Studios releases 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps', directed by Matt Shakman, marking a significant entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase lineup. |
| 2025 | Stranger Things Season 5 released on Netflix |
| 2025 | Frankenstein film directed by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix |
| 2025 | Multiple high-profile film releases planned, including F1, Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Tron: Ares, Predator: Badlands, and Wicked: For Good |
| 2025 | Duster debuts on Max streaming platform |
| 2025 | Severance returns for its second season on Apple TV+ |
| 2025 | Andor returns for its second season on Disney+ |
| 2025 | Light & Magic continues with its second season on Disney+ |
| 2025 | Duster television series premieres on HBO Max |
| 2025 | F1 film directed by Joseph Kosinski, co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Apple Original Films with a budget of $300 million |
| 2025 | Ironheart series debuts on Disney+ |
| 2025 | Predator: Badlands film directed by Dan Trachtenberg for 20th Century Studios |
| 2025 | Tron: Ares film directed by Joachim Rønning for Walt Disney Pictures |
| 2025 | Industrial Light & Magic is planned to work on 'Severance' Season 2 and 'Light & Magic' Season 2 |
| 2025 | Planned visual effects work for upcoming films such as Back in Action, The Electric State, and Thunderbolts. |
| 2025 | Superman film directed by James Gunn for Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 2025 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps film directed by Matt Shakman for Marvel Studios |
| 2025 | Love, Death & Robots Season 4 releases on Netflix |
| 2025 | Lilo & Stitch live-action remake directed by Dean Fleischer Camp for Walt Disney Pictures, with a budget of $150 million |
| 2025 | Jurassic World Rebirth film directed by Gareth Edwards, produced by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment |
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, produced by Paramount Pictures with a budget of $400 million |
| May 17 2025 | Rob Bredow unveiled Star Wars test footage using a text-to-video model to generate fictional creatures, marking ILM's first implementation of generative artificial intelligence. |
| 2025 | Scheduled to work on visual effects for 'Lilo & Stitch', 'How to Train Your Dragon', and 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' |
| 2025 | Upcoming projects include A Minecraft Movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Bad Guys 2, and In Your Dreams |
| 2025 | Framestore is set to work on visual effects for 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' |
| 2024 | Notable projects include 'Dune: Part Two', which grossed $711.8 million, and upcoming Marvel and Sony superhero films. |
| 2024 | Digital Domain worked on Agatha All Along for Disney+. |
| 2024 | Industrial Light & Magic is set to work on 'Echo', 'Masters of the Air', 'Station 19' Season 7, 'Knuckles', 'The Acolyte', 'The Boys' Season 4, 'Time Bandits', 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Season 2, 'Silo' Season 2, and 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' |
| 2024 | Industrial Light & Magic contributed to 'Transformers One', an animated film directed by Josh Cooley and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film had a budget range of $75–147 million and grossed $128.9 million. |
| 2024 | Industrial Light & Magic worked on 'Ultraman: Rising', a film directed by Shannon Tindle and distributed by Netflix. |
| 2024 | Continued work on high-profile films including Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. |
| 2024 | Dead & Company: Dead Forever Live concert series to be held at Sphere in Paradise, Nevada |
| 2024 | Planned films include Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Red One |
| 2024 | Framestore is scheduled to provide visual effects for 'Deadpool & Wolverine' and 'Wicked' |
| 2023 | Digital Domain began production on Citadel for Amazon Prime Video. |
| 2023 | Digital Domain continued visual effects work on Marvel films like 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' and DC films like 'Blue Beetle'. |
| 2023 | ILM provided visual effects for major franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and The Marvels. |
| 2023 | U2:UV Achtung Baby Live concert series starts at Sphere in Paradise, Nevada |
| 2023 | Industrial Light & Magic continued their work on 'The Mandalorian' Season 3, 'Life on Our Planet', 'All the Light We Cannot See', 'Ahsoka', 'Loki' Season 2, 'The Santa Clauses' Season 2, and 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' Season 1 |
| 2023 | Created visual effects for 'Barbie' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' |
| 2023 | Continued diverse film production with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Marvels |
| 2023 | Framestore contributed visual effects to the hit film 'Barbie'. |
| 2023 | Multiple studios release computer-animated films, including The Super Mario Bros. Movie by Illumination and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken by DreamWorks Animation, demonstrating the continued growth of the computer animation industry. |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie is released by Illumination, demonstrating the continued evolution and popularity of computer-animated films. |
| October 6 2023 | Reported as the animation service for DreamWorks Animation's unannounced sequel (The Bad Guys 2), set to use a mixed production model for the 2025 film. |
| August 2023 | Lucasfilm announced the closure of the ILM studio in Singapore, affecting 340 jobs, with Disney offering assistance to relocate employees to other ILM studios. |
| June 2023 | Vulture published an article revealing that multiple animators quit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse due to unstable working conditions at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The Animation Guild noted that despite being associated with Sony Pictures Animation, Imageworks remains a non-union workplace. |
| May 2023 | ILMxLAB was rebranded as ILM Immersive. |
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