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Film Production

Special Effects:
2005  The Island

Special Effects Coordinator:
2005  The Island
2009  Fired Up!
2012  Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
2013  Beneath
2013  Saving Mr. Banks
2014  Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2014  Earth to Echo
2015  Ted 2
2016  Mojave

Special Effects Supervisor:
2005  The Island
2009  Fired Up!
2012  Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
2013  Beneath
2013  Saving Mr. Banks
2014  Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2014  Earth to Echo
2014  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2015  Ted 2
2016  Mojave
2016  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2017  The Fate of the Furious
2018  First Man
2018  Instant Family
2018  Rampage
2019  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2021  Fear Street: 1978
2021  Fear Street: 1994
2021  Jungle Cruise
2022  Black Adam
2022  Bullet Train
2022  Devotion
2023  Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2024  Civil War

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TV Production

Special Effects Supervisor:
2016  Atlanta

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About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.