Cinefex (1980-2021) comic books

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Dubbed "the journal of cinematic illusions," Cinefex is the magazine for special effects enthusiasts. Issue #12 includes: Low-tech effects of the movie "The Right Stuff", Unique special effects production of the movie "Brainstorm", and "Twilight Zone - The Movie". Edited and Published by Don Shay. 9-in. x 8-in., FC, 71 pgs. Cover price $4.75.

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This issue includes info on the X-Men ? the popular Marvel Comics series about a team of mutant humans, outcasts from society, who use their singular superpowers to oppose a team of evildoers with comparable skills, comes to the screen in an action/fantasy film from director Bryan Singer. Effects for the film are being produced by Oscar-winning Digital Domain and others. Also covers the Hollow Man ? when a scientist's experiment on himself renders him invisible, the process makes him mentally unhinged in director Paul Verhoeven's high-tech updating of the Invisible Man story. Visual effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks are abundant throughout this science-fiction thriller, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Shue! Also included in this issue are shorter features on director John Woo's hyperkinetic Mission: Impossible II, director Robert Zemeckis's supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath, and the Mel Gibson Revolutionary-War epic, The Patriot. Cover price $9.50.

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In this issue, in-depth coverage of The Hulk! Read about Ang Lee's silver screen adaptation of the classic Marvel Comic anti-hero, with exclusive special effects coverage of how the Hulk was created! Professor Xavier's mutant freedom fighters, the X-Men, band together with new recruits to battle Magneto in X-Men 2. Director Bryan Singer and visual effects supervisor Michael Fink reunite to instill the mutants, both good and bad, with extraordinary powers. In The Core, when unknown forces cause Earth's inner core to stop rotating?disrupting the planet's magnetic field and causing the atmosphere to deteriorate with catastrophic consequences? a team of scientists journey to the center of the Earth in an experimental craft to correct the problem with nuclear detonation. Visual effects supervisor Greg McMurry and a cadre of effects houses wreak havoc on Rome and the Golden Gate Bridge, and depict the terranaut's passage to the fiery core of the Earth. (Cinefex) Magazine$9.50 Cover price $9.50.

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This issue takes a look at director Michael Bay's summer blockbuster Transformers and how F/X studios Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain took the classic cartoon characters and rendered them in a live-action spectacular. Also, this summer's two fantasy films -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Neil Gaiman's Stardust -- receive attention with articles that look at how effects artists put the magic into the big-screen adaptations of these best-selling fantasy novels. Plus: Overview articles on director Danny Boyle's apocalyptic science fiction drama, Sunshine, and Resident Evil: Extinction. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

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In this issue: Cinefex goes behind the scenes of three of this winter's biggest genre films! For Will Smith's adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic novel, I Am Legend, discover how artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks created vast expanses of New York City, devoid of life and activity, as well as the mutant creatures designed by Patrick Tatopoulos. Veteran visual effects supervisor Mike Fink oversaw the massive effects effort for New Line's adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, handled principally by Framestore CFC, Cinesite and Rhythm & Hues. Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis envisioned the Old English epic poem Beowulf as an opportunity to expand upon the motion capture animation technology developed for The Polar Express and Monster House -- this time applied to near-photoreal characters in a story with adult themes. Plus: Overview articles on Enchanted and The Mist. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.

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In this issue: Cinefex takes readers behind-the-scenes on the productions of major genre films! Learn from visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett how the effects were created for The Spiderwick Chronicles. Then, director Roland Emmerich transports audiences to 10,000 B.C. for an epic tale of a young hunter on a perilous quest through mammoth and cat infested lands. And director Mike Nichols' film Charlie Wilson's War -- starring Tom Hanks -- and its special effects by 4Ward Productions is covered. Plus: Cloverfield, and Overview articles on Jumper and Sweeney Todd. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 122 pages, full color. Cover price $12.50.