Cinefex (1980-2021) comic books 2012

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.