{"id":631,"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/uncategorized\/disney-movie-studio-behind-avengers-and-star-wars-set-shop-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T01:49:24","slug":"disney-movie-studio-behind-avengers-and-star-wars-set-shop-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/entertainment\/disney-movie-studio-behind-avengers-and-star-wars-set-shop-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney movie studio behind The Avengers and Star Wars to set up shop in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<em><strong>Movie lovers, assemble!<\/strong><\/em>\n\nFilm fanatics \u2013 you\u2019re probably going to need a lightsaber to help you fight off the urge to jump up and down when you hear this news.\n\nAustralia will soon get its own little slice of Hollywood with the major Disney-owned studio responsible for the Marvel films and Star Wars franchise selecting the country as the location for their latest studio.\n\nIn an announcement made by the NSW government last Monday, it was revealed that Visual effects company Industrial Lights &amp; Magic would be setting up shop in Sydney over the coming months.\n\nThe company, which was founded by none-other than the cinematic mastermind George Lucas, has been responsible for big-budget special effects on famous franchises like <em>The Avengers, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park <\/em>and<em> Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>.\n\nTheir filmography also includes much-loved films <em>E.T., Back to the Future Part 2 and 3, Men in Black<\/em>, and so many more we\u2019d need the time stone in order to give us enough time to tell you about them all.\n\nThe new studio will bring in approximately 500 new jobs to the region, and hiring set to start immediately with recruits needed to work on the next Star Wars film that will be released in December 2022.\n\nThey\u2019re also tipped to be working on upcoming Marvel flicks <em>Black Widow, Doctor Strange in the<\/em> <em>Multiverse of Madness<\/em> and <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em>.\n\nThe company will also create what has been called \u201cjedi academy training programs\u201d that will train hundreds of people in post-production visual effects\u2026and would pretty damn cool on a resume.\n\nFind out more about the company <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic\">here<\/a>.\n\nCheck out the available jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.jobvite.com\/lucascompanies\/jobs\/all-jobs\">here<\/a>.\n\n<strong>SEE ALSO:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/articles\/polly-waffle-makes-comeback-aussie-supermarkets\">Polly Waffle makes a comeback in Aussie supermarkets<\/a>\n\nWritten by Kate Stevens\n\nImages: Star Wars","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie lovers, assemble! 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