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OCTOBER 2009
 
   
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G.I. Joe:
The Rise of the Cobra
  
Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen
    
         
Director Stephen Summers delivers an action-packed adventure involving a secret military unit assigned to stop a reign of terror launched by a rogue international arms dealer. Visual effects supervisor Boyd Shermis oversees an effects team comprised of Digital Domain, MPC, Framestore, CIS, CaféFX, Pacific Title, Frantic Films, Pixel Playground, Quantum Effects, Oblivion and Stan Winston Studio.
  
Director Michael Bay returns with a second installment in the Transformers saga, in which Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBoeuf) becomes embroiled once again in a titanic battle pitting the benevolent Autobots and their human allies against the deadly Decepticons. Visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain, Asylum and Kerner Optical.
 
 
     
         
District 9
  
Harry Potter
and the Half Blood Prince
    
         
Producer Peter Jackson, teams with South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp to realize a gritty, documentary-style account of a race of extraterrestrials living on earth, contained under martial law in a Johannesburg ghetto. Weta Workshop supplies creature effects, while Weta Digital provides visual effects, along with The Embassy Visual Effects and Image Engine Design.
  
Novelist J.K. Rowling's teenage wizards confront the emotional turmoil of adolescence while seeking out the origins of Harry Potter’s arch nemesis, Lord Voldemort. Visual effects supervisor Tim Burke rejoins director David Yates, together with special effects supervisor John Richardson and makeup effects supervisor Nick Dudman, and visual effects artists at Industrial Light & Magic, MPC, Double Negative, Cinesite, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures and Luma Pictures.
  
         
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