Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks / Reliance Entertainment presents, W/Huahua Media / Shanghai Film Group, a Arad / Start Motion Pictures Production a film by Rupert Sanders Scarlett Johansson "Ghost in the Shell" Pilou Asbæk, 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Carmen Pitt, music by Lorne Balfe & Clint Mansell, director of photography: Jess Hall, based on the comic "The Ghost in the Shell" by Shirow Masamune, screenplay by Jamie Moss & William Wheeler & Ehren Kruger, directed by Rupert Sanders, SFX: Weta Workshop, VFX: MPC,Method Studios, Atomic Fiction, Territory Studio, Technicoror VFX, Framestore, environment td, Iloura, Pixomondo, Clear Angle Studios, Mill+ 3D Conversion: Prime Focus World pre-vis: Halon Entertainment