Industrial Light & Magic - wikipedia Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic Type Division Industry Visual effects, Computer graphics, Feature animation, Television animation Founded May 1975 ; 42 years ago ( 1975 - 05 ) 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 Subsidiaries ILM London ILM Singapore ILM Vancouver ILM San Francisco 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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, but began to lay off employees by April of the next year. 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. ILM opened a London studio headquartered in the city 's Soho district on October 15, 2014. Milestones This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2012 ) 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1987 -- 1994 Star Trek : The Next Generation 2014 -- 2015 Agent Carter Notable employees and clients This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2015 ) 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. Adam Savage, Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci of MythBusters fame have all worked at Industrial Light & Magic. 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. 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. American film director David Fincher worked at ILM for four years in the early 1980s. 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 ^ Jump up to : `` ILMxLAB ''. Jump up ^ `` Global Locations ''. Jump up ^ `` Disney would acquire a visual effects firm with Lucasfilm deal ''. Los Angeles Times. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012. Jump up ^ `` Industrial Light & Magic : History ''. StarWars.com. LucasFilm. July 15, 1999. Archived from the original on February 16, 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 02 - 01. Jump up ^ 1970 's - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science ^ Jump up to : `` About OpenEXR ''. ILM. Retrieved 5 November 2012. Jump up ^ Lucasfilm 's Industrial Light + Magic Exploring Opening New Facility in Vancouver, The Hollywood Reporter Jump up ^ LATimes ( 31 October 2012 ). `` Disney would acquire a visual effects firm with Lucasfilm deal ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 November 2012. 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Question: who purchased special effects computer group at lucasfilm
Answer: The Walt Disney Company