CINEFEX #86

This issue takes a look at Pearl Harbor, a human drama on an epic scale that re-enacts the events leading up to day of infamy that drew the United States into World War II. With cutting-edge visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay present the calamitous Japanese sneak attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor on a scale never before attempted. In Evolution, his first major visual effects production since the Ghostbusters films, director Ivan Reitman explores the comedic consequences when single-celled organisms from outer space crash to earth on a meteor and begin evolving at an accelerated rate. Creation of the rapidly changing creatures fell to Phil Tippett and his Tippett Studio digital team. Also included in the issue will be shorter features on the creation of turn-of-the-century Paris for director Baz Luhrmann's stylish and stylized Moulin Rouge, the effects-enhanced thrills and danger of world-class auto racing in Renny Harlin's high-impact Drive, and the latest developments in photo real computer generated humans in Final Fantasy.