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Michael Seresin

Born July 17, 1942 · Wellington, New Zealand (age 84)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Stephen Seresin, ONZM, (born 17 July 1942) is a New Zealand cinematographer, best known for several collaborations with the British director Alan Parker. As a film director, Seresin directed the Mickey Rourke film Homeboy. In addition to his work in film, Seresin is a winemaker, having founded Seresin Estate in Marlborough in 1992. Description abov…

Known For

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · 2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

MovieAdventureFantasy

Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes · 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

MovieScience FictionAction

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

War for the Planet of the Apes

War for the Planet of the Apes · 2017

War for the Planet of the Apes

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Gravity

Gravity · 2013

MovieScience FictionThriller

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle · 2018

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

MovieAdventureDrama

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale · 2003

The Life of David Gale

MovieDramaThriller

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake · 2021

Gunpowder Milkshake

MovieActionCrime

To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

Step Up

Step Up · 2006

MovieMusicDrama

Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

Filmography

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · 2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

MovieAdventureFantasy

Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.

Director of Photography

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes · 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

MovieScience FictionAction

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Director of Photography

War for the Planet of the Apes

War for the Planet of the Apes · 2017

War for the Planet of the Apes

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Director of Photography

Gravity

Gravity · 2013

MovieScience FictionThriller

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

Additional Photography

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle · 2018

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

MovieAdventureDrama

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

Director of Photography

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale · 2003

The Life of David Gale

MovieDramaThriller

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Director of Photography

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake · 2021

Gunpowder Milkshake

MovieActionCrime

To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

Director of Photography

Step Up

Step Up · 2006

MovieMusicDrama

Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

Director of Photography

Midnight Express

Midnight Express · 1978

Midnight Express

MovieDramaCrime

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Director of Photography

Angel Heart

Angel Heart · 1987

MovieHorrorMystery

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

Director of Photography

Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising · 1998

MovieActionCrime

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.

Director of Photography

All Good Things

All Good Things · 2010

All Good Things

MovieMysteryThriller

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.

Director of Photography

City Hall

City Hall · 1996

MovieDramaThriller

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Director of Photography

Paris Je T'aime

Paris Je T'aime · 2006

Paris Je T'aime

MovieDramaRomance

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Director of Photography

Fame

MovieDramaMusic

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Director of Photography

Domestic Disturbance

Domestic Disturbance · 2001

Domestic Disturbance

MovieThrillerCrime

Frank Morrison is a divorced father with a 12-year-old son, Danny. His ex-wife Susan and son Danny now live with Rick Barnes, Susan's new husband. Danny, who has a reputation for telling lies, accuses his stepfather of committing a murder. Initially, no one believes his accusations, but then Frank becomes convinced and is the only one who believes him. Now, the father Danny trusts must protect him from the stepfather he fears.

Director of Photography

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes · 1999

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Director of Photography

Birdy

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

Director of Photography

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone · 1976

MovieDramaAction

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.

Director of Photography

Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise · 1990

Come See the Paradise

MovieDramaRomance

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Director of Photography

Tattoo

MovieThrillerDrama

Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.

Director of Photography

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs · 1978

MovieActionDrama

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

Director of Photography

Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon · 1982

MovieDramaRomance

After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

Director of Photography

Foxes

MovieDramaThriller

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

Associate Producer