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Lightstorm Entertainment

Manhattan Beach, California(approximate location)

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Founded1990Wikidata
Founded byJames Cameron, Larry KasanoffWikidata
LocationManhattan Beach, California
Websitelightstormstudio.com
Phone(310) 727-2500
Statusactive2031 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.9IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

14 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars20of20nominations100%
Emmys0of1nominations0%

389 wins from 907 nominations across all awards

Box office
$2.9bn

Combined US gross, 9 of 19 titles

Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster
Highest rated
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
8.61,282,391 votes
True Lies poster
Lowest rated
True Lies
2023
5.25,438 votes
Mostly
action, adventure, drama
Active
1991–2031
Rotten Tomatoes
74%
Best known for
Avatar

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 17 of 19 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
33 seasons

2023–2025

Networks
  • Disney+1
  • CBS1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 15 episodes.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits20 of 24

18 films · 2 TV titles

Showing 20 of 24 titles on record.

Titles per year16 titles · busiest 2023 with 3

16 titles across 30 years, averaging 0.5 a year. The last five years average 1.6 a year, above their long-run rate. 19 of those 30 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time11 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 7.9200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 7.4 across 4 titles. The 6 titles since 2016 average 7.2, 0.5 below their 7.7 overall. 2 of 11 rated titles sit above their 7.7 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • James Cameron8
Writers
  • James Cameron10
  • Rick Jaffa2
  • Amanda Silver2
Notable cast
  • Zoe Saldaña5
  • Sam Worthington4
  • Stephen Lang3
  • Sigourney Weaver3
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger3
Genres
  • Action10 of 18
  • Adventure9 of 18
  • Drama4 of 18
  • Documentary4 of 18
  • Sci-Fi4 of 18

Names appearing on two or more of Lightstorm Entertainment’s produced titles, across the 18 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with11 companies

Companies that appear alongside Lightstorm Entertainment on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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