Archive for Fantasy

Director: Gerald McMorrow
Writer: Gerald McMorrow
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill, Richard Coyle, Art Malik, Kika Markham, Susannah York

Plot: The story of four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is no separation between Church and State.

Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller

Release Date: TBA 2009

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis, Keong Sim

Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a ten year old successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: July 2, 2010

Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Linda Woolverton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman

Plot: The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: March 5, 2010

Director: Chris Weitz
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lafevre, Billy Burke, Charlie Bewley, Jamie Campbell Bower, Daniel Cudmore, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dakota Fanning, Cameron Bright, Noot Seer, Michael Sheen, Graham Greene, Tinsel Korey

Plot: After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in Bella’s blood being shed, a sight that proves too intense for the Cullens, who decide to leave the town of Forks, Washington for Bella and Edward’s sake. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Danger in different forms awaits.

Genre: Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller

Release Date: November 20, 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: Spike Jonze
Writers: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers
Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker

Plot: An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: October 16, 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

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Director: Shane Acker
Writer: Pamela Pettler
Cast: Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer

Plot: A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War

Release Date: September 9, 2009

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writers: Hayao Miyazaki, Melissa Mathison
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Betty White

Plot: An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Release Date: August 14, 2009

Director: John Schultz
Writers: Mark Burton, Adam F. Goldberg
Cast: Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Boettcher, Henri Young, Regan Young, Tim Meadows, Gillian Vigman, Kevin Nealon

Plot: When Tom, Jake, and friends discover that the Aliens mind control guns do not work on kids, it is up to them to save their parents and the rest of the world from the invasion all before bed time.

Genre: Adventure | Fantasy

Release Date: July 31, 2009