This book provides instructions for how to make your own science fiction movie, including using special effects and other techniques to create your own on-screen world.

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years.

When a bolt of lightning brings an experimental military robot to life, it escapes and finds companionship and danger.

Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...

RoboCop is designed to stop a crimewave which is spreading all across America. The cyborg, created from the body of a slain Detroit police officer, is programmed to serve the public trust, uphold the law and protect the innocent. All goes well at first and Robocop stops every sleaze ball he encounters, but there are forces which will stop at nothing to see him eliminated.

Go behind the scenes and experience the epic and dramatic story of the making of the original Star Wars trilogy, from the earliest versions of the script to the release of "Return of the Jedi" in 1983. In "Empire of Dreams", the most comprehensive documentary ever created on the making of the movies, explore the creation of the trilogy. Three new featurettes explore the unique contributions of the Star Wars films, from the characters to the lightsaber...

In their makeshift laboratory, three young boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.

An aging superhero is called on to help train a new batch of young superhero recruits from a private academy, who are needed to help save the world.

After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate, MJ....