12861Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12862Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12863Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12864Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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!.
12865Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12866Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12867Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
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.
12868Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
In this issue: After a 10-year absence from feature filmmaking, James Cameron returns with Avatar, an epic science-fiction adventure in 3D, about an ex-Marine who, as an avatar, inhabits the mind of an alien lifeform indigenous to a distant planet whose natural resources are being pillaged by man. Weta Digital is creating a host of creatures and an entire alien world, abetted by artists at Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Hydraulx, Weta Workshop and Legacy Effects. Roland Emmerich sets his destructive sights on 2012, about a global cataclysm that brings about the end of the world. And Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road, is brought to the screen in an uncompromising film by director John Hillcoat.
12869Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
In this issue: David Fincher adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt. Born an old man, Benjamin ages in reverse, becoming younger with each passing year, requiring state-of-the-art visual effects. Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, seeking revenge for the death of a former lover while on the trail of intrigue and corruption in Italy, Austria and South America in Quantum of Solace. Also, coverage of The Day the Earth Stood Still, an updated remake of the 1951 classic, starring Keanu Reeves as an intergalactic emissary with a warning for Earth's leaders, and City of Ember round out the issue.
12870Cinefex (1980-2021) : the journal of cinematic illusions
Features on The Incredible Hulk, Get Smart, Speed Racer, Iron Man, and Prince Caspian.