Incidentally, the star did few TV interviews as he promoted his World War II tank film, which opened last week.
The 35-acre site includes a 75 metre square tank for filming exterior water scenes.
" While watching a movie like Life of Pi say "I heard the tiger almost drowned in the water tank while filming this" (which actually happened).
The scenes involving the cloning tank were filmed in a Welsh shampoo factory and reused a prop from "The Fires of Pompeii" as the tank which contained the clone.
T70I homozygous mutants and WT animals were imaged ten at a time in a tank and filmed simultaneously.
Also on Thursday, thousands attended the funeral in Gaza of a Reuters cameraman, Fadel Shana, 23, who was killed by an Israeli tank shell while filming the hostilities on Wednesday.
After studying the patterns of exploding stars, including NASA's supernova animation from earlier this year, along with the appearance of nebula and how ink flows in water, Vanz and his team dropped different colored liquids into a lit tank and began filming them.
The studios now include nine sound stages, a 100 acre back-lot and one of the largest underwater filming tanks in Europe.
The Dominican Republic studios, which has a unique Horizon Tank facility used for filming water-based scenes, are part of Pinewood's ambition to expand in the Spanish-language film sector.
The water tank was instrumental in filming scenes set at Briny Beach, Lake Lachrymose, Damocles Dock and Curdled Cave.
