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Films shot in Los Angeles

  • Blade RunnerPhilip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? sat on a shelf for years before anyone could make it into a movie.
  • The Avengers (2012 film)In April 2005, Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch to begin developing a film based on the Avengers. Avi Arad, the CEO of Marvel Studios…
  • The TerminatorIn Rome, Italy, during the release of Piranha II: The Spawning in 1982, director James Cameron fell ill and experienced a vivid dream.
  • Jaws (film)Principal photography began on the 2nd of May 1974, on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The production team faced immediate logistical…
  • Deadpool & WolverineDevelopment on a third Deadpool film began at 20th Century Fox by November 2016. David Leitch was hired to direct Deadpool 2 in November 2016 after Tim…
  • Transformers: Dark of the MoonParamount Pictures announced a third Transformers film on the 16th of March 2009. Director Michael Bay initially thought the release date of the 1st of July…
  • A.I. Artificial IntelligenceStanley Kubrick acquired the rights to Brian Aldiss's 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" in the early 1970s.
  • Thor (film)Sam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation based on Thor in 1991. He met Thor co-creator Stan Lee and pitched the idea to 20th Century Fox…
  • Fight ClubFox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin purchased the rights to Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club for ten thousand dollars in 1996.
  • Everything Everywhere All at OnceEvelyn Quan Wang stands in a laundromat in Simi Valley, California, staring at an IRS audit notice that threatens to destroy her family's life.
  • Men in Black 3Barry Sonnenfeld received the initial premise for Men in Black 3 from Will Smith during filming of the second movie in 2002.
  • Groundhog Day (film)In 1990, screenwriter Danny Rubin sat in a theater lobby reading Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. He began musing about vampiric immortality and what one…
  • Barbie (film)The concept of a live-action Barbie film first emerged in the mid-1980s at Cannon Films, but nothing came to fruition. Renewed development began in September…
  • I Heart HuckabeesI Heart Huckabees arrived in cinemas on the 1st of October 2004, opening in limited release with just $292,177 at the box office and ranking 24th for the…