Archive for Animation

Directors: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
Writer: Fabrice Ziolkowski
Plot: Adventure, action and danger await 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. Brendan is hard at work with his uncle, helping to strengthen the abbey walls as protection against the Viking raids. But a new life of adventure begins with the arrival of Brother Aidan, a celebrated master illuminator who initiates Brendan into the art of illumination, awakening his hidden, but extraordinary talents. In order to finish the magnificent book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest that will take him for the first time ever, beyond the abbeys walls into the enchanted forest where dangerous mythical creatures hide.

Genre: Animation

Release Date: TBA

Directors: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Writers: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement, Julie Andrews

Plot: A trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon.

Genre: Animation | Family

Release Date: July 9, 2010

Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson, Michael Keaton

Plot: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family

Release Date: June 18, 2010

Directors: John Musker, Ron Clements
Writers: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, John Musker, Jason Oremland
Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman, Bruno Campos

Plot: A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age.

Genre: Animation | Family | Musical | Romance

Release Date: December 25, 2009

Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler

Plot: David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville’s surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. The sequel movie introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes.

Genre: Animation | Comedy | Family

Release Date: December 25, 2009

Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Writer: Joe Stillman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese

Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: November 20, 2009

Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Roman Coppola

Plot: Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.

Genre: Adventure | Animation | Comedy

Release Date: November 13, 2009

Director: David Bowers
Writer: Timothy Harris
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Freddie Highmore

Plot: When a scientist’s young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot child to replace him, however the robot uses it’s incredible powers to become a world famous super-hero, and faces his biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth.

Genre: Action | Animation | Sci-Fi

Release Date: October 23, 2009

Director: John Lasseter
Writers: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Cast: Tom Hanks; Tim Allen; Don Rickles; Jim Varney; Wallace Shawn

Plot: A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy’s room.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: November 22, 1995

Directors: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Writers: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Cast: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Andy Samberg, Mr. T, Tracy Morgan

Plot: A scientist trying to solve world hunger encounters a problem of global proportions, as food begins to fall from the sky.

Genre: Animation | Family

Release Date: September 18, 2009