This issue features in-depth articles on Disney's John Carter, the first live-action collaboration between Pixar and Disney; Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Pixar's Brad Bird directs the fourth and most ambitious of the M:I films; The Adventures of Tintin - Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson present a animated take on the classic graphic novels of Belgian creator Georges Remi - aka Hergé - 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 WW2, realized in convincing and dynamic visual effects shots by Industrial Light & Magic.