Established in 1983 and disestablished in 1997. Boss Film Studios was a visual effects studio established by former Industrial Light & Magic employee Richard Edlund. The company's first two projects were Ghostbusters (1984) and 2010: The Year We Make Contact withnote Douglas Trumbull's studio Entertainment Effects Group.
A spin-of studio of Boss, known as Boss Game Studios, have produced video gamesnote for both the PlayStation and the Nintendo 64. Games for both the Virtual Boynote and the Xboxnote were planned, but never released. They closed in 2002, during the production of RacerX.
See also Matte World Digital, Apogee Productions,Visual Concept Engineering and The Orphanage - four other defunct ILM spin-offs.
Other projects worked on by Boss include:
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Air Force One
- Alien³
- Batman Returns
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Cliffhanger
- Desperate Measures (Last film project)
- Die Hard
- Ghost (1990)
- The Hunt for Red October
- Last Action Hero
- Leonard Part 6
- Masters of the Universe
- The Monster Squad
- Multiplicity
- Species
- Starship Troopers
- Tales from the Crypt (Opening)
- True Lies
- Twins (1988)
- Waterworld
