This issue features FX coverage of several upcoming films, including: Charlotte’s Web the film adaptation of E.B. White’s beloved children’s book — about a spider who befriends a young girl and attempts to save a barnyard pig by weaving messages into her web; Casino Royale sets a darker tone for the latest James Bond adventure, which, though set in the present, rewinds to ‘zero’ with the story of Bond’s first mission as a double-O agent; Veteran visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier moves to the director’s chair with the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s best-selling fantasy novel, Eragon, about a young boy who rears a hatchling dragon and later, as a dragon-mounted warrior, does battle with an evil monarch! Plus: A Q&A with Oscar-winning visual effects innovator Rob Legato, and Overview articles on Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, about a pair of rival 19th-century stage magicians, and Tony Bill’s Flyboys, an action-packed World War I aviation film.