Cinefex (1980-2021) comic books 2012-2014

In this issue, you'll find Real Steel set in the near-future world of professional robot boxing, and Giant Studios motion-captured professional boxers to provide visual effects supervisor Erik Nash and his crew at Digital Domain with raw data for their animated CG robots. For Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the filmmakers generated digital apes based on performances captured on-location. Hugo, the film adaptation of Brian Selznick's illustrated children's novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, stars Ben Kingsley as filmmaking pioneer Georges Melies in stereoscopic 3D. And rounding out the issue is The Tree of Life. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

This issue features in-depth articles on Disney's John Carter, the first live-action collaboration between Pixar and Disney; Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, as Pixar's Brad Bird directs the fourth and most ambitious of the M:I films; The Adventures of Tintin, as Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson present an animated take on the classic graphic novels of Belgian creator Georges Remi -- a.k.a. Herge -- combining several Tintin tales into an origin story realized by performers on motion capture stages, and then brought to life in stereographic computer animation by Weta Digital and Giant Studios. Plus: Red Tails, producer and co-writer George Lucas' dream project dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII, realized in convincing and dynamic visual effects shots by Industrial Light & Magic. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Direct Edition. Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of the coming months. Ridley Scott returns to the science fiction genre in Prometheus. Joss Whedon directs the first-ever film adaptation of a classic Marvel comic in The Avengers. Peter Berg directs Battleship, an ocean-going sci-fi war film in which a young naval lieutenant and a grizzled admiral confront malevolent extraterrestrial spacecraft that rise from hiding places on the ocean floor to wreak widespread havoc. Finally, Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth star in the newest cinematic take on the classic "Snow White" fairy tale in Snow White and the Huntsman. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Newsstand Edition. Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of the coming months. Ridley Scott returns to the science fiction genre in Prometheus. Joss Whedon directs the first-ever film adaptation of a classic Marvel comic in The Avengers. Peter Berg directs Battleship, an ocean-going sci-fi war film in which a young naval lieutenant and a grizzled admiral confront malevolent extraterrestrial spacecraft that rise from hiding places on the ocean floor to wreak widespread havoc. Finally, Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth star in the newest cinematic take on the classic "Snow White" fairy tale in Snow White and the Huntsman. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Director Christopher Nolan completes his "Dark Knight Trilogy" with The Dark Knight Rises. Special effects veteran Chris Corbould orchestrated a range of spectacular effects sequences for the film, while Double Negative contributed equally stunning visual effects to realize Batman's complex world. Also, Sony reboots Marvel's Spider-Man franchise with director Marc Webb stepping in with an all-new cast for The Amazing Spider-Man. Sony Imageworks reprises its role as lead visual effects house, guided by senior visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen, on-set supervisor Jim Rygiel and animation supervisor Randall William Cook. Plus: Total Recall and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Director Peter Jackson returns to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel story of young hobbit Bilbo Baggins' quest to reclaim a lost dwarf kingdom and his fateful meeting with Gollum. As he did for the epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the New Zealand-based Jackson collaborated closely with the visual effects team at Weta Digital and the practical effects wizards at Weta Workshop to bring the beloved 1937 fantasy novel to the screen, the first of a planned trilogy of films devoted to Tolkien's dense and intricate narrative. Also covered: Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Director Sam Mendes has James Bond hunting a sinister cyber-terrorist through Istanbul, Shanghai, Macau, London and the Scottish highlands in Skyfall. Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould collaborated with visual effects supervisor Steven Begg to energize the film with a brawny blend of practical, miniature and digital effects. Plus: Jack the Giant Slayer, Oz: The Great and Powerful and Les Miserables. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 130 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Star Trek Into Darkness - J.J. Abrams returns with cast and crew for a second tour of duty aboard the starship Enterprise, reprising characters from Gene Roddenberry's beloved television series, and this time tasking Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) with an intergalactic manhunt of an enigmatic villain (Benedict Cumberbatch); Iron Man 3 - director Shane Black deftly picks up the reins to deliver a third film in Marvel Studios' popular franchise; Oblivion - Tom Cruise stars as court-martialled soldier Jack Harper, sent to destroy an alien race on a distant planet; White House Down; and HENRi. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 130 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Man of Steel - producer Christopher Nolan and director Zack Snyder bring to the screen the first major retelling of the Superman origin tale since Richard Donner's classic 1978 Superman; Elysium - in his follow-up to District 9, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp presents another dystopian future, when Earth's cities have degenerated into giant slums patrolled by robot militia, and droid repairman Max De Costa (Matt Damon) attempts to escape to Elysium, a gleaming orbital space station; World War Z - Brad Pitt stars as a United Nations worker who combats a zombie invasion in this long-anticipated film from director Marc Forster; and Pacific Rim - giant monsters, known as Kaiju, emerge from a subterranean crevice beneath the Pacific Ocean in director Guillermo del Toro's new sci-fi thriller. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Gravity - astronauts Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) and Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) struggle to survive when a debris strike sends them careening into space. Visual effects supervisor Timothy Webber and artists at Framestore worked with director Alfonso Cuaron for three years to bring the space-bound scenes to life with frightening realism. Also in this issue: Thor: The Dark World; Ron Howard's '70s racing film Rush; and the 2013 remake of Carrie. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - filmmaker Peter Jackson continues his epic trilogy, following plucky hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) to his fateful encounter with Smaug the Terrible (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch), an ancient dragon that resides in the fallen dwarf kingdom of Erebor. Special effects supervisor Steve Ingram, Weta Workshop creature designer Richard Taylor, senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri and crews at Weta Digital return to the Middle-earth of J.R.R. Tolkien, creating skin-shifter Beorn, giant arachnid denizens of Mirkwood, elven woodland realms, the Lake-town of Esgaroth and the subterranean terrors of the Lonely Mountain! Also in this issue: HBO's Game of Thrones; RoboCop (2014); and Ben Stiller's remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Marvel Studios revisits its all-American superhero with the story of World War II-era Steve Rogers -- a.k.a. Captain America (Chris Evans) -- acclimating to the 21st century as he battles against the threat of a mysterious Soviet agent known as "The Winter Soldier." Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the sequel features hundreds of spectacular visual effects delivered by Industrial Light & Magic, Luma Pictures and Scanline VFX, with practical, on-set contributions by Legacy Effects, Quantum Creation FX and special effects supervisor Daniel Sudick. Other films examined in this issue include: Disney's Maleficent (starring Angelina Jolie); The Amazing Spider-Man 2; and Gareth Edward's Godzilla. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., full color. Cover price $12.50.

In this issue: Edge of Tomorrow - director Doug Liman's futuristic war film, based on the novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and starring Tom Cruise as a slick public relations spokesman for the military, who is suddenly thrown onto the front lines of an existential battle with alien creatures, and finds himself re-living the same day over and over again, and always ending with his death! Other films profiled in this issue include: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; X-Men: Days of Future Past; and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., full color. Cover price $12.50.