Cinefex (1980-2021) comic books 2010-2012

The premiere magazine of special effects in today's blockbuster films returns with profiles of two of this winter's biggest effects extravaganzas. Universal relaunches The Wolfman with director Joe Johnston and actor Benicio del Toro, and Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) unleashes his latest vision, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, on an unsuspecting world. And in recognition of Tippett Studio's 25th anniversary, Cinefex presents a career retrospective of its renowned founder, Phil Tippett. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of 2010. The effects work on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland comes under scrutiny, as does the remake of Clash of the Titans. Industrial Light & Magic's work on Iron Man 2 is explored, and the creature effects for Splice are revealed. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of 2010. The effects of Prince of Persia are put under the microscope, the mind-bending realities of Christopher Nolan's Inception are explored, M. Night Shyamalan brings the world of The Last Airbender to life thanks to effects wizardry, and Joe Carnahan resurrects the classic 1980's series The A-Team. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

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Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores three of the most anticipated films of the Christmas 2010 season. TRON: Legacy takes audiences back into the cyberspace world of the original Disney classic; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 sets the stage for the climactic battle between Harry Potter and his nemesis, Lord Voldemort; and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader returns audiences to the magical worlds of C.S. Lewis. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of the coming months. Zack Synder presents a hallucinogenic journey in Sucker Punch; Darren Aronofsky charts a descent into madness by a young ballerina (Natalie Portman) in Black Swan; ILM makes its computer animated debut in Rango; and Battle: Los Angeles rounds out the issue. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of the coming months. Stardust director Matthew Vaughn "reboots" Fox's X-Men franchise with X-Men: First Class, which explores the origins of the war between the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. Set in an alternate world in which man and vampires have been warring for centuries, Priest stars Paul Bettany as a man of the cloth who tracks down and kills the vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Filmmaker Duncan Jones returns with the techno-thriller Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a covert operative who uses immersive virtual reality to investigate a repeating time loop of events. And rounding out the issue is Thor. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

Cinefex, the premiere magazine of the special effects that power today's filmmaking, explores four of the most anticipated films of the coming months. Director Jon Favreau brings Cowboys & Aliens to the big screen in a production starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig. Director Roland Emmerich shuns cinematic pyrotechnics in favor of Elizabethan-era political intrigue and literary mystery in Anonymous. For the eighth and last film in the series, boy wizard Harry Potter makes a final stand against his lifelong nemesis, Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. And Marvel Entertainment presents the action-packed origin story of Marvel Comics' 1941 superhero in Captain America: The First Avenger! Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 126 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

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.