Eric Brevig Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Second Unit Director, Special Effects, Supervisor/Manager, Special Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Supervisor

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem, Josh Hutcherson

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Eric Brevig makes his feature directorial debut with this adaptation of the classic Jules Verne fantasy starring Brendan Fraser. When an ambitious science professor (Fraser) develops a decidedly unconventional hypothesis, the mere mention of his name is Read More

7/11/08
The Island

Crew: Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan

Synopsis: Blockbuster action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st century, Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet Read More

7/22/05
The Day After Tomorrow

Crew: Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather Read More

5/28/04
Twisted

Crew: Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong

Synopsis: Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter Read More

2/27/04
Signs

Crew: Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense (1999) and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable (2000), directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs, another paranormal outing for the Read More

8/2/02
Pearl Harbor

Crew: Second Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio. Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his Read More

5/25/01
Wild Wild West

Crew: Second Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Yet another TV series is revived for the big screen, as Will Smith and Kevin Kline join forces as James T. West and Artemus Gordon, the most sophisticated government agents of the 1860's, in the film adaptation of The Wild Wild West. West and Gordon represent two opposite ends of the personality Read More

6/30/99
Snake Eyes

Crew: Special Effects Supervisor

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Brian DePalma directed this taut thriller, set in Atlantic City, where a corrupt cop investigates a political assassination. Outside an Atlantic City arena-hotel-casino, a TV news reporter stands in a pre-hurricane storm to report on the heavyweight boxing match about to begin inside. A transition Read More

1998
Men in Black

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn

Synopsis: For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York Read More

1997
Xena: Warrior Princess - The Titans

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Mark Rafferty, Amanda Tollemache, Edward Campbell

Synopsis: Reading an ancient scroll at the behest of some villagers, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) inadvertently released the three long-dormant Titans, parents of the Olympian Gods. Though Gabrielle is able to keep two of the Titans under control, the third, Hyperion (Mark Rafferty), has resumed his campaign Read More

1995
The Indian in the Cupboard

Crew: Supervisor/Manager

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rishi Bhat, Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Based on the popular children's book by Lynne Reid Banks, this fantasy concerns a young boy who discovers that his toys are developing lives of their own -- which presents him with unexpected responsibilities. Omri (Hal Scardino), a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of Read More

1995
Disclosure

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton's novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at DigiCom, a leading computer software firm. DigiCom is about to launch a new virtual reality-based data storage system that is expected to Read More

1994
Hook

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

12/11/91
Total Recall

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a Read More

6/1/90
Moonwalker

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Michael Jackson, Sean Lennon, Brandon Adams, Joe Pesci

Synopsis: Even non-fans of Michael Jackson will be caught up in the exuberance and virtuosity of Moonwalker. This 84-minute music video casts The Gloved One as host of a futuristic TV special. Highlights include an extended Claymation sequence and a 3-D vignette put together by the Disney Company. The most Read More

1988