Industrial Light & Magic

American visual effects studio

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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 Ironheart series debuts on Disney+
2025 Love, Death & Robots Season 4 releases on Netflix
2025 Duster television series premieres on HBO Max
2025 Industrial Light & Magic is planned to work on 'Severance' Season 2 and 'Light & Magic' Season 2
2025 Lilo & Stitch live-action remake directed by Dean Fleischer Camp for Walt Disney Pictures, with a budget of $150 million
2025 Predator: Badlands film directed by Dan Trachtenberg for 20th Century Studios
2025 Superman film directed by James Gunn for Warner Bros. Pictures
2025 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, produced by Paramount Pictures with a budget of $400 million
2025 Wicked: For Good film directed by Jon M. Chu for Universal Pictures, with a budget of $150–165 million
2025 The Fantastic Four: First Steps film directed by Matt Shakman for Marvel Studios
2025 Tron: Ares film directed by Joachim Rønning for Walt Disney Pictures
2025 F1 film directed by Joseph Kosinski, co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Apple Original Films with a budget of $300 million
2025 Jurassic World Rebirth film directed by Gareth Edwards, produced by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
2025 Planned visual effects work for upcoming films such as Back in Action, The Electric State, and Thunderbolts.
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.
2024 Dead & Company: Dead Forever Live concert series to be held at Sphere in Paradise, Nevada
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.
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 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.
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.
May 2023 ILMxLAB was rebranded as ILM Immersive.
2022 Produced a commercial for Walt Disney Pictures
2022 ABBA Voyage concert residency begins at ABBA Arena in London, United Kingdom
2022 Industrial Light & Magic produced 'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' for Disney+ streaming platform
2022 Industrial Light & Magic created visual effects for 'Obi-Wan Kenobi', 'The Old Man', 'Light & Magic' Season 1, 'The Sandman' Season 1, 'Lost Ollie', 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Season 1, 'Andor' Season 1, and 'Willow'
2022 Notable visual effects work included The Batman, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Jurassic World Dominion, and Avatar: The Way of Water.
October 2022 ILM opened a new studio in Mumbai.
2021 Industrial Light & Magic expanded their work to include TV series like 'WandaVision', 'Hawkeye', 'The Witcher' Season 2, 'Y: The Last Man', 'The Book of Boba Fett', and 'Loki' Season 1
2021 Industrial Light & Magic was involved in the production of 'Wish Dragon', an animated film directed by Chris Appelhans and distributed by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Netflix. The film had a budget of $25 million and grossed $25.9 million.
2021 ILM contributed visual effects to numerous blockbuster films, including A Quiet Place Part II, F9, Black Widow, and No Time to Die.
2020 Industrial Light & Magic worked on multiple TV series including 'Brave New World', 'The Boys' Season 2, 'The Mandalorian' Season 2, and 'The Stand'
2020 Industrial Light & Magic worked on multiple films for Netflix, including Mank, We Can Be Heroes, and The Midnight Sky.
2019 Industrial Light & Magic worked on visual effects for the science fiction TV series Krypton (Season 2) which aired on Syfy network
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was released by Lucasfilm Ltd., concluding the Skywalker saga with a budget of $275 million and gross of $1.077 billion.
2019 Avengers: Endgame, produced by Marvel Studios, became a massive box office success, grossing $2.799 billion with a budget of $356 million.
2019 ILM used real-time rendering with Unreal Engine and digital LED displays as a virtual set (StageCraft/The Volume) for the first time in The Mandalorian.
July 2019 ILM announced the opening of a new facility in Sydney, Australia, and introduced StageCraft (The Volume) technology, first used in The Mandalorian.
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story was released, marking a Star Wars film produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. with a budget of $275 million and gross of $392.9 million.
2018 Industrial Light & Magic worked on multiple blockbuster films, including Black Panther, which grossed $1.349 billion, and Avengers: Infinity War, which grossed $2.052 billion.

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