A Christmas Carol is a 2001 British live action/animated film based on Charles Dickens's classic novella. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.
Initial release: December 7, 2001
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Running time: 81 minutes
Adapted from: A Christmas Carol
Initial DVD release: October 7, 2003
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Simon Callow as Charles Dickens/Ebenezer Scrooge, Kate Winslet as Belle, Nicolas Cage as Jacob Marley, Jane Horrocks as Ghost of Christmas Past, Michael Gambon as Ghost of Christmas Present, Rhys Ifans as Bob Cratchit, Juliet Stevenson as Emily Cratchit, Robert Llewellyn as Old Joe, Beth Winslet as Fan, Colin McFarlane as Albert Fezziwig.
Storyline: This version differs from others, in that Scrooge is given another chance with the love of his life, Belle, who ended their engagement in their youth after he was corrupted by greed; they later meet again after the three spirits have reformed Scrooge and he is now kind and generous, causing Belle to love him again. Both Belle and Old Joe notably have bigger roles in the film. Unlike the book as well as other film adaptations, Belle does not marry and have children with another man. She is a nurse. Old Joe is a henchman of Scrooge who arrests or robs people who owe Scrooge debt but Scrooge fires him after mending his ways. Also in the film Marley's ghost haunts Scrooge before he goes home and Scrooge is notably younger as he has auburn hair and is middle-aged rather than being elderly.
Initial release: February 16, 2001
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Running time: 84 minutes
Adapted from: Recess
Sequel: Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Rickey D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis, James Woods, Paul Willson, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence, Courtland Mead, Melissa Joan Hart, Pamela Segall, Dabney Coleman, April Winchell.
Storyline: After pulling off one last big prank at Third Street Elementary School, T.J. Detweiler and his friends are excited about being done with the school year and starting summer vacation. But TJ's happiness is short-lived, as he finds out that all five of his best friends (and most of their schoolmates) are going to be gone for most of the summer at various summer camps around the state to plan for their futures. T.J. quickly becomes bored and lonely without his friends to hang out with, and even very reluctantly agrees to hang out with the school snitch Randall. On his way there, he notices something going on at the school. T.J. sneaks inside and finds scientists using a tractor beam to levitate a safe. Panicked, he tries to tell his parents and the police, but they do not listen. When he gets Principal Prickly to come to see what's going on, he is electrocuted and dematerialized just as he attempts to unlock and open the door, leaving only his shoes behind as evidence. T.J. is now frustrated because his parents and the police continue to ignore him. He decides he has to round up the gang and uses his sister Becky's diary to blackmail her into driving him to all the camps to pick up his friends.
T.J. and his friends steal a box of documents, but filled with no information. T.J's friends then accuse him of making up an idea just to bring them back. T.J. tells them he really did see Prickly disappear, but Gus points out that Prickly had just got into a car and driven off. The five are about to head back to their camps when they see the tractor beam come out of the school and shoot out a green laser, agreeing with T.J. that something strange is going on in the school. The gang have a stakeout at T.J.'s treehouse and enjoy eating snacks and singing a song Becky taught them the summer after they got done with Kindergarten. The next day, T.J. finds Prickly's golf pants in a dumpster and also sees the bald guy he saw guarding the school pull off a mask of Principal Prickly's face, showing that this was indeed him pretending to be Prickly when Gus pointed out the other Prickly getting into a car.
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time is a 2001 anime film directed by Toshiya Shinohara and written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa. It is the first of four films released in the Inuyasha movie series.
Initial release: December 15, 2001
Director: Toshiya Shinohara
Running time: 104 minutes
Adapted from: Inuyasha
Sequel: Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
Storyline: A group of friends must stop a deadly demon bent on world domination.
InuYasha's father defeated a powerful Chinese moth yōkai named "Hyōga" two centuries ago, but a Shikon Jewel fragment has freed his son, "Menōmaru", who seeks revenge for his father's destruction and to free the tremendously infinite power and strength of his father sealed away with him. Menōmaru and his female minions, "Ruri" and "Hari", begin battling with InuYasha. Miroku and Sango have their hands full dealing with the duo, Ruri having copied Miroku's Wind Tunnel and Hari having stolen and possessed Sango's faithful companion, Kirara. Menōmaru curses Kagome so she turns against InuYasha.
When Menōmaru is finally able to access the tremendous demonic power of his predecessors, sealed away by InuYasha's father, he becomes the new Hyōga and exponentially much, stronger and more powerful as each generation gains the power of all of the preceding generations. Hyōga soon begins to change the essence of time and space as he absorbs the souls of countless people in order to fully merge himself with his family's demonic energy that causes the mind-control that he put on Kagome to awaken and an injured Kaede and search for InuYasha. As he's crossing a bridge, InuYasha thinks he sees Kikyo but instead it's Kagome who is wearing Kikyo's clothes. InuYasha greets her on the bridge while Kagome is trying to tell him to run, but unfortunately cannot be heard. Then walks over to InuYasha and puts her head on his shoulder. He embraces her after which Kagome says "InuYasha... get away.", warning him of her attack. He looks in amazement but is then stabbed by magical "claws" that come from Kagome's hands; afterwards, he realizes what Menōmaru has done. He then is chased by the controlled Kagome to the tree that he was sealed to. Regaining control of herself for a moment, Kagome tells InuYasha to run. After hearing that from everyone, InuYasha gets angry saying that he will not run and leave Kagome alone. It is with that Kagome loses control and shoots InuYasha to the tree (similar to what happen between him and Kikyo fifty years earlier) Kagome manages to break free of this control and tearfully cries out in pain to InuYasha and runs over to her, holding her close in his arms. Kikyo then comes along saying how ironic it was for that to happen, as Kagome is merely her look-alike reincarnation. Then she begins to tell Kagome that this happened because Kagome did not belong in this era that she needs to take the Shikon Jewel fragment and go to her own time. Kikyo then forces Kagome down the Bone Eater's Well to remove her once and for all since through Menomaru's manipulation and control of time, she thought that Kagome would be trapped in the distant future.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira?, lit. Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door), is a 2001 Japaneseanimated Space Western action film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. Multiple staff from the original series worked on the film, including director Shinichirō Watanabe, writer Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, and animation director Hiroshi Osaka, and composer Yoko Kanno. The original English and Japanese voice cast also reprised their roles.
Release date: April 4, 2003 (USA)
Director: Shinichirō Watanabe
Running time: 120 minutes
MPAA rating: R
Initial DVD release: June 24, 2003
Starring (Cast): English voice cast Steven Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Daran Norris, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest, Dave Wittenberg.
Japanese voice cast Kōichi Yamadera, Megumi Hayashibara, Unshō Ishizuka, Aoi Tada, Ai Kobayashi, Tsutomu Isobe, Renji Ishibashi, Mickey Curtis.
Storyline: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, forty-nine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate; Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop; Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters; Edward Wong (Ed for short), a girl with genius computer skills; and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.
Days before Halloween, a man explodes a truck in Mars' capital city, spreading what is assumed to be a new pathogen that kills or injures over three hundred people. In response, the Mars government issues a record bounty of 300 million woolong for the culprit's capture. Faye, who was pursuing Lee Sampson, a hacker that was apparently driving the truck, sees the terrorist and the Bebop crew decide to take on the bounty. Each follows different lines of inquiry. Ed, using a tattoo on the attacker's wrist, manages to identify him as Vincent Volaju, a former member of a military squad apparently killed in the Titan War. In reality, Vincent was the only survivor of a test involving the pathogen, having been immunized with a test vaccine: made an amnesic, he suffers from hallucinations, and his inability to tell dreams from reality eventually drove him insane.
Waking Life is a 2001 American adult animateddocufiction/drama film, directed by Richard Linklater. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and it was the first (and only so far) animated film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.
Release date: October 19, 2001 (USA)
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: Richard Linklater
Language: English
MPAA rating: R
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Eamonn Healy, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Steven Soderbergh, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Steven Prince, Caveh Zahedi, Otto Hofmann, Richard Linklater, Aklilu Gebrewold, David Martinez (filmmaker), Louis H. Mackey, David Sosa, Alex Jones, Robert C. Solomon, Kim Krizan.
Storyline: Waking Life is about an unnamed young man living an ethereal existence that lacks transitions between everyday events and that eventually progresses toward an existential crisis. For most of the film he observes quietly but later participates actively in philosophical discussions involving other characters—ranging from quirky scholars and artists to everyday restaurant-goers and friends—about such issues as metaphysics, free will, social philosophy, and the meaning of life. Other scenes do not even include the protagonist's presence, but rather, focus on a random isolated person, group of people, or couple engaging in such topics from a disembodied perspective. Along the way, the film touches also upon existentialism, situationist politics, posthumanity, the film theory of André Bazin, and lucid dreaming, and makes references to various celebrated intellectual and literary figures by name.
Gradually, the protagonist begins to realize that he is living out a perpetual dream, broken up only by occasional false awakenings. So far he is mostly a passive onlooker, though this changes during a chat with a passing woman who suddenly approaches him. After she greets him and shares her creative ideas with him, he reminds himself that she is a figment of his own dreaming imagination. Afterwards, he starts to converse more openly with other dream characters, but he begins to despair about being trapped in a dream.
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 Americancomputer-animated comic science fiction film based on a few three-minute animated shorts shown on Nickelodeon between the years 1999-2002, and a pilot in 1998. The film was produced by Nickelodeon Movies, O Entertainment, and DNA Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was produced using off-the-shelf software (messiah:studio and LightWave 6) by DNA Productions. The film was released December 21, 2001.
It was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek. It was the only animated Nickelodeon film to ever be nominated in that category until Rango was nominated in 2011 and won.
Initial release: December 9, 2001
Director: John A. Davis
Sequel: Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast
Music composed by: John Debney
Featured songs: Chicken Dance, We Got the Beat, Blitzkrieg Bop, Pop, Leave It Up to Me
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Debi Derryberry as James Issac Neutron/Jimmy Neutron, Frank Welker as Goddard/Worm/Demon/Orthgot/Poultra/Girl Eating Plant/Oyster, Rob Paulsen as Carl Wheezer/Mr. and Mrs. Wheezer/Kid in Classroom, Carolyn Lawrence as Cindy Vortex, Debra Messing as Cindy Vortex's mom, Jeffrey Garcia as Sheen Estevez, Crystal Scales as Libby Folfax, Candi Milo as Nick Dean/Britney/PJ, Patrick Stewart as King Goobot V, Martin Short as Ooblar, David L. Lander as Yolkian Guard/Gus, Megan Cavanagh as Mrs. Judy Neutron/VOX, Mark DeCarlo as Mr. Hugh Neutron/Pilot/Arena Guard/Pilot II, Carlos Alazraqui as Sheen's Dad, Jim Cummings as UltraLord/Mission Control/General Bob, Keith Alcorn as Bobby/Kid/Control Yokian, Kimberly Brooks as Zachery/Reporter/Angie/Libby's Mom, Andrea Martin as Ms. Winfred Fowl, Billy West as Bobby's Twin Brother/Butch/Jailbreak Cop/Old Man Johnson/Robobarber/Flurp Announcer/Yokian Officer/Anchor Boy/Guard, Bob Goen and Mary Hart as Yokian newscasters,
Storyline: The film starts off with a rocket carrying two boys and a robotic dog: Jimmy Neutron (Debi Derryberry), Carl Wheezer (Rob Paulsen) and Goddard (Frank Welker). Jimmy is attempting to launch a communications satellite made out of a toaster, hoping to communicate with an alien species he believes exists somewhere out in the universe. Unfortunately, the pulse rockets fail just after Jimmy launches the probe, causing the rocket to crash land on his roof. He is reprimanded by his parents Mr. Hugh Neutron (Mark DeCarlo) and Mrs. Judy Neutron (Megan Cavanagh), and misses the bus to school as a result. Later, Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen spot a poster for an amusement park called "Retroland." However, Judy Neutron isn't allowed to let Jimmy go because it's a school night.
An alien race called the Yolkians. King Goobot V (Patrick Stewart) and his assistant, Ooblar (Martin Short), watch a pre-recorded message from Jimmy, featuring him introducing himself and explaining about life on Earth. He sets a course for Earth and kidnaps all the parents in the city, leaving fake notes on the refrigerators to tell the kids they've gone to Florida for an "extended vacation".
Osmosis Jones is a 2001 live-action/animated buddy cop comedy film directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon for the animated segments and the Farrelly brothers for the live-action ones. Unusual in this genre, the animated characters are inside the live-action ones. It is set in a fictionalized version of the human body which resembles a large city, where micro-organisms or any being based in organisms are anthropomorphic and centers on Frank Detorre, a slovenly zookeeper. Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell, teams up with Drix, a cold pill, against Thrax, a deadly virus who plans to kill Frank in forty-eight hours and other characters living within him.
Initial release: August 7, 2001
Directors: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Running time: 95 minutes
MPAA rating: PG
Initial DVD release: November 13, 2001
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Chris Rock as Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones, Laurence Fishburne as Thrax, David Hyde Pierce as Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff, Brandy Norwood as Leah Estrogen, William Shatner as Mayor Phlegmming, Ron Howard as Tom Colonic, Joel Silver as the Police Chief.
Storyline: Frank Detorre (Bill Murray) is a widowed slovenly zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island. Much to the frustration of his young daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin), he eats compulsively unhealthy and has minimal concern for germs or disease. While trying to eat a hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise and salt, it is stolen from him by a chimpanzee. He gets it back, but not before it falls into the filth of the chimp's habitat. When Shane is disgusted by him about to eat it he uses the "ten second rule" as a justification for the unsanitary act.
Inside Frank's body, Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones (Chris Rock), an agent of the Frank PD, is an adventure-seeking white blood cell with a good sense of humor. He is a rebel cop, frequently disobeying authority to do what he thinks is right. He is often mocked by his fellow cops due to his rebellious nature. He has been relocated to the mouth to fight against germs entering the body via ingestion after he induced Frank to vomit all over Shane's science and P. E. teacher, Mrs. Boyd (Molly Shannon) at the school's science fair. This was considered a false alarm because he had been the only one to suspect an incoming pathological threat from the raw oyster Frank had eaten from one of the displays. After several newcomer germs, believed to be gingivitis, hijack a "squad car" in the mouth, Osmosis and another officer in an FPD helicopter, are pulled into the lungs by a massive yawn while in pursuit. After the germs evade capture and pass into "Immunity's" jurisdiction, Osmosis disobeys direct orders as he pursues the germ on foot and accidentally triggers a major cramp in Frank's leg.
Frank Detorre (Bill Murray) is a widowed slovenly zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island. Much to the frustration of his young daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin), he eats compulsively unhealthy and has minimal concern for germs or disease. While trying to eat a hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise and salt, it is stolen from him by a chimpanzee. He gets it back, but not before it falls into the filth of the chimp's habitat. When Shane is disgusted by him about to eat it he uses the "ten second rule" as a justification for the unsanitary act.
Inside Frank's body, Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones (Chris Rock), an agent of the Frank PD, is an adventure-seeking white blood cell with a good sense of humor. He is a rebel cop, frequently disobeying authority to do what he thinks is right. He is often mocked by his fellow cops due to his rebellious nature. He has been relocated to the mouth to fight against germs entering the body via ingestion after he induced Frank to vomit all over Shane's science and P. E. teacher, Mrs. Boyd (Molly Shannon) at the school's science fair. This was considered a false alarm because he had been the only one to suspect an incoming pathological threat from the raw oyster Frank had eaten from one of the displays. After several newcomer germs, believed to be gingivitis, hijack a "squad car" in the mouth, Osmosis and another officer in an FPD helicopter, are pulled into the lungs by a massive yawn while in pursuit. After the germs evade capture and pass into "Immunity's" jurisdiction, Osmosis disobeys direct orders as he pursues the germ on foot and accidentally triggers a major cramp in Frank's leg.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 Americancomputer-animatedscience fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and remains the most expensive video game-inspired film of all time.
Release date: July 2, 2001 (USA)
Directors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara
Writers: Hironobu Sakaguchi (story),
Adapted from: Final Fantasy
Sequel: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Budget: 137 million USD
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Donald Sutherland,
Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin.
Storyline: In 2065, Earth is infested by alien life forms known as Phantoms. By physical contact Phantoms consume the Gaia spirit of living beings, killing them instantly, though a minor contact may only result in an infection. The surviving humans live in "barrier cities", areas protected by an energy shield that prevents Phantoms from entering, and are engaged in an ongoing struggle to free the planet. After being infected by a Phantom during one of her experiments, Aki Ross (Ming-Na) and her mentor, Doctor Sid (Donald Sutherland), uncover a means of defeating the Phantoms by gathering eight spirit signatures that, when joined, can negate the Phantoms. Aki is searching for the sixth spirit in the ruins of New York City when she is cornered by Phantoms but is rescued by Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and his squad "Deep Eyes", consisting of Ryan Whittaker (Ving Rhames), Neil Fleming (Steve Buscemi) and Jane Proudfoot (Peri Gilpin). It is revealed that Gray was once romantically involved with Aki.
Upon returning to her barrier city, Aki joins Sid and appears before the leadership council along with General Hein (James Woods), who is determined to use the powerful Zeus space cannon to destroy the Phantoms. Aki is concerned the cannon will damage Earth's Gaia (a spirit representing its ecosystem) and delays the use of it by revealing that she has been infected and the collected spirit signatures are keeping her infection stable, convincing the council that there may be another way to defeat the Phantoms. This revelation incorrectly convinces Hein that she is being controlled by the Phantoms. Aki and the Deep Eyes squad succeed in finding the seventh spirit as Aki's infection begins to worsen and she slips into unconsciousness. Her dream reveals to her that the Phantoms are the spirits of dead aliens brought to Earth on a fragment of their destroyed planet. Sid uses the seventh spirit to bring Aki's infection back under control, reviving her.
Release date: June 3, 2001 (USA)
Directors: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
Sequel: Atlantis: Milo's Return
MPAA rating: PG
Languages: Spanish, French, English
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Michael J. Fox as Milo James Thatch, James Garner as Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Cree Summer as Kidagakash "Kida" Nedakh, Don Novello as Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini, Phil Morris as Doctor Joshua Strongbear Sweet, Claudia Christian as Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair, Jacqueline Obradors as Audrey Rocio Ramirez, Florence Stanley as Wilhelmina Bertha Packard, David Ogden Stiers as Fenton Q. Harcourt, John Mahoney as Preston B. Whitmore, Jim Varney as Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth, Corey Burton as Gaëtan "Mole" Molière, Leonard Nimoy as Kashekim Nedakh.
Storyline: A large tidal wave, triggered by a distant explosion, threatens to drown the island of Atlantis. In the midst of an evacuation from the capital city, the Queen of Atlantis is caught by a strange, hypnotic blue light and lifted up into the "Heart of Atlantis", a powerful crystal protecting the city. The crystal consumes her and creates a dome barrier that protects the city's innermost district. She leaves behind a young daughter, Princess Kida (Cree Summer), and husband, King Kashekim Nedakh (Leonard Nimoy), as the island sinks beneath the ocean.
Nearly nine thousand years later in 1914, Milo Thatch (Michael J. Fox)—a cartographer and linguist at the Smithsonian Institution who is marginalized for his research on Atlantis—believes that he has found the location of The Shepherd's Journal, an ancient manuscript allegedly containing directions to the lost island. After his proposal to search for the Journal is rejected by the museum board, a mysterious woman, Helga Sinclair (Claudia Christian), introduces Milo to Preston B. Whitmore (John Mahoney), an eccentric millionaire. Whitmore has already funded a successful effort to retrieve the Journal as repayment of a debt to Milo's grandfather, and recruits Milo to join an expedition to Atlantis as soon as he deciphers it.
The expedition departs with a team of specialists led by Commander Rourke (James Garner), who also led the Journal recovery expedition. The crew includes Vinny (Don Novello), a demolitions expert; Mole (Corey Burton), a geologist; Dr. Sweet (Phil Morris), a medical officer; Mrs. Packard (Florence Stanley), a radio operator; Audrey (Jacqueline Obradors), a mechanic; and Cookie (Jim Varney), a mess cook. They set out in the Ulysses, a massive submarine, but are soon attacked by the monstrous Leviathan, a robotic lobster-like creature that guards Atlantis' entrance. The Ulysses is destroyed, but Milo, Rourke, and part of the crew escape and make their way to an underground cavern described in the Journal as the entrance to Atlantis.
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton both were the executive producers. The film was co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman and stars the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn and Jennifer Tilly.
Release date: October 28, 2001 (USA)
Directors: Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman
Running time: 92 minutes
Cast: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Pete Docter, More
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, Billy Crystal as Michael "Mike" Wazowski, Mary Gibbs as Mary "Boo", Steve Buscemi as Randall Boggs, James Coburn as Henry J. Waternoose III, Jennifer Tillyas Celia Mae, Bob Peterson as Roz, John Ratzenberger as The Abominable Snowman, Frank Oz as Jeff Fungus, Dan Gerson as Smitty and Needleman, Steve Susskind as Jerry Slugworth, Bonnie Hunt as Ms. Flint, Jeff Pidgeon as Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile, Samuel Lord Black as George Sanderson, Phil Proctor as Charlie, Joe Ranft as Peter "Claws" Ward.
Storyline: The parallel city of Monstropolis is inhabited by monsters and powered by the screams of children in the human world. At the factory of Monsters, Inc., employees called "scarers" venture into children's bedrooms to scare them and collect their screams, using closet doors as portals. This is considered a dangerous task because the monsters believe children are toxic and that touching them would be fatal. However, production is falling as children are becoming harder to scare and the company's chairman Henry J. Waternoose III is determined to find a solution. The top scarer is James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who lives with his friend and assistant Mike Wazowski and has a rivalry with the ever-determined chameleon-like monster Randall Boggs. During an ordinary day's work on what is known as the "Scarefloor", another scarer accidentally brings a child's sock into the factory, causing the Child Detection Agency (CDA) to arrive and cleanse him. Mike is constantly harassed by the company's clerk Roz for never completing his paperwork on time.
While working late at the factory, Sulley discovers that Randall left an activated door on the scarefloor and a young girl (voiced by Mary Gibbs) has entered the factory, much to Sulley's horror. After a few failed attempts to put her back, he places her in his bag and hides when Randall arrives and returns the door to storage. Mike is at a restaurant on a date with his girlfriend Celia when Sulley comes over to him for help, but chaos erupts when the girl is discovered in the restaurant, and the CDA is called. Sulley and Mike escape the CDA and take the girl home, discovering that she isn't toxic after all. Sulley quickly grows attached to the girl and names her "Boo". The next day, they smuggle her into the factory and Mike attempts to return her through her door. Randall discovers that Boo is in the factory after seeing Mike in the newspaper with her. He tries to kidnap Boo, but instead kidnaps Mike by mistake.
Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by PDI/DreamWorks, released by DreamWorks Pictures, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. It is loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, and somewhat serves as a parody film, targeting other films adapted from numerous children's fantasies (mainly animated Disney films). The film made notable use of popular music; the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, Baha Men, and John Cale (covering Leonard Cohen).
Release date: April 22, 2001 (USA)
Directors: Vicky Jenson, Andrew Adamson
Writers: William Steig (book), Ted Elliott (screenplay)
Featured song: I'm a Believer
MPAA rating: PG
Story by: William Steig
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad, Vincent Cassel as "Monsieur" Robin Hood, Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man, Chris Miller as Geppetto/ Magic Mirror, Cody Cameron as Pinocchio / The Three Little Pigs, Simon J. Smith as Three Blind Mice, Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice and Thelonius, Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf, Jim Cummings as Captain of the Guards, Kathleen Freeman as Old Woman (Donkey's ex-owner), Andrew Adamson as Duloc Mascot (a man dressed in a suit that looks like Lord Farquaad), Bobby Block as Baby Bear from the Three Bears, Michael Galasso as Peter Pan, Elisa Gabrielli as additional voices.
Storyline: Shrek, a green ogre who loves the solitude in his swamp, finds his life interrupted when many fairytale characters are exiled there by order of the fairytale-hating Lord Farquaad. Shrek tells them that he will go ask Farquaad to send them back. He brings along a talking Donkey who is the only fairytale creature who knows the way to Duloc.
Farquaad tortures the Gingerbread Man into giving the location of the remaining fairytale creatures until his guards rush in with something he has been searching for: the Magic Mirror. He asks The Mirror if his kingdom is the fairest of them all but is told that he is not even a king. To be a king he must marry a princess and is given three options, from which he chooses Princess Fiona, who is locked in a castle tower guarded by lava and a dragon. The Mirror tries to mention "the little thing that happens at night" but is unsuccessful.
Shrek and Donkey arrive at Farquaad's palace in Duloc, where they end up in a tournament. The winner gets the "privilege" of rescuing Fiona so that Farquaad may marry her. Shrek and Donkey easily defeat the other knights in wrestling-match fashion, and Farquaad accepts his offer to move the fairytale creatures from his swamp if Shrek rescues Fiona.
Shrek and Donkey travel to the castle and split up to find Fiona. Donkey encounters the dragon and sweet-talks the beast before learning that it is female. Dragon takes a liking to him and carries him to her chambers. Shrek finds Fiona, who is appalled at his lack of romanticism. As they leave, Shrek saves Donkey, caught in Dragon's tender clutches, and forces her to chase them out of the castle. At first, Fiona is thrilled to be rescued but is quickly disappointed when Shrek reveals he is an ogre.
As the three journey to Duloc, Fiona urges the two to camp out for the night while she sleeps in a cave. Shrek and Donkey stargaze while Shrek tells stories about great ogres and says that he will build a wall around his swamp when he returns. When Donkey persistently asks why, he says that everyone judges him before knowing him; therefore, he feels he is better off alone, despite Donkey's admission that he did not immediately judge him when they met.
Inside Out is a 2011 crime-drama film directed by Artie Mandelberg. The film features professional wrestler Triple H (credited as Paul "Triple H" Levesque), Michael Rapaport, Parker Posey, Julie White, Michael Cudlitz and Bruce Dern. The project was the cinematic feature film debut for director Artie Mandelberg, whose television credits include Saving Grace and CSI: Miami. The film was released on September 9, 2011.
Release date: September 9, 2011 (USA)
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Written by: Taylor Rummell, Chase Fryday, & Frank Maldonado
Cinematography: Alan Dean
Edited by: Jeremy M. Marrow
Original Music by: Tim Hosman
Sound Design: Alex Ma
Running time: 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
Screenplay: Dylan Schaffer
Starring (Cast): The film stars Paul "Triple H" Levesque as Arlo Jayne (A.J.), Michael Rapaport as Jack Small, Parker Posey as Claire Small, Michael Cudlitz as Detective Calgrove, Julie White as Martha, Bruce Dern as Vic Small, Logan Douglas Smith as Vic Small's Attorney, Jency Griffin as Irena, Juliette Goglia as Pepper Small, Patricia French as Elizabeth, Lance E. Nichols as Tax Man # 3, J.D. Evermore as Baxter, James DuMont as Carlo Genova, Emily D. Haley as Office Accountant, Grant James as Elizabeth's Father, Juli Erikson as Carlo's Mother, Alec Rayme as Goran
Storyline: A.J., an ex-con who served 13 years in Angola for manslaughter, returns home to New Orleans and fights to protect the woman he loves and her young daughter from his dangerous former best friend. In better times, AJ (Triple H) would have done anything to protect his best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport), a two-bit gangster and the son of Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern) -- the city's toughest crime boss. While A.J. is in prison, Jack marries Claire (Parker Posey), the love of AJ's life, and together they raise a daughter, Pepper (Juliette Goglia). Pepper is A.J.'s daughter, a fact known to Jack, but Jack pretends to be her biological father. The day Jack picks up AJ from prison, the short-fused thug gets an itchy trigger finger that could land his buddy right back behind bars. The situation grows increasingly tense as Dr. Vic attempts to handle the situation quietly as he comes under investigation by the Louisiana Tax Board agent Martha (Julie White) for dealing in untaxed cigarettes. When Jack flees and Dr. Vic decides that the only way to get the job done right is to do it himself, A.J. realizes that Claire and Pepper are in mortal danger, and races to their rescue.
Awards & Recognition:-
Nominee: "Best of Fest"- Los Angeles Comedy Festival 2011
Winner: "Best Actor"- Los Angeles Comedy Festival 2011
Winner: "Best Student Film"- Grand Rapids Film Festival 2011
Finalist: "Best Student Film"- Feel Good Film Festival 2011
Finalist: "Best Comedy"- Ovation Short Film Contest 2011
Winner: "Award of Excellence"- Los Angeles Movie Awards 2011
Winner: "Best Original Score"- Los Angeles Movie Awards 2011
Winner: "Golden Ace Award"- Las Vegas Film Festival 2011
Nominee: "Best Director"- Cecil Awards 2011
Nominee: "Best Editing"- Cecil Awards 2011
Nominee: "Best Sound Design"- Cecil Awards 2011
Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp. The screenplay, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, is based on Blomkamp's 2004 short film Tetra Vaal.[3] The film stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, and Watkin Tudor Jones (Ninja) and Yolandi Visser of the South African zef rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The film premiered in New York City on March 4, 2015 and was released in U.S. cinemas on March 6, 2015.
Starring (Cast): Sharlto Copley as CHAPPiE (voice and motion capture), Dev Patel as Deon Wilson, Ninja as Ninja, Yolandi Visser as Yolandi, Jose Pablo Cantillo as Amerika, Sigourney Weaver as Michelle Bradley, Hugh Jackmanas Vincent Moore, Anderson Cooper as himself, Brandon Auret as Hippo.
Storyline: In an effort to combat the high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African police force purchases armour-plated attack robots from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal, which prove successful in reducing crime. The robot's inventor Deon Wilson is praised for Tetravaal's success, while engineer Vincent Moore grows jealous after funding is cut for his own attack robot, MOOSE, which is derided for its reliance on a human operator. At home, Deon creates a prototype artificial intelligence that mimics a human mind to the point of feeling emotions and having opinions, but Tetravaal CEO Michelle Bradley refuses to let him test the A.I. on a police robot. Undeterred, Deon steals a recently damaged robot before it is destroyed and puts it in his van, along with the "guard key" needed to update the robot's software. On his way home, he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, Ninja, Yolandi and Amerika, who threaten to kill him unless he reprograms a police robot to fight for them. Deon installs the new software into the damaged robot, which responds with childlike terror upon powering up. Deon and Yolandi calm the robot, teaching it words and naming it "Chappie". Despite Deon wanting to stay with the robot, Ninja forces him out of their hideout.
Terminator: Genisys is an upcoming 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Alan Taylor and written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. It is the fifth installment in the Terminator series and will serve as a retcon sequel to the series.
Release date: July 1, 2015 (USA)
Director: Alan Taylor
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier
Music composed by: Christophe Beck
Production company: Skydance Productions
Screenplay: Laeta Kalogridis, James Cameron, Patrick Lussier, Gale Anne Hurd
Starring (Cast): The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator (original T-800 model), Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke as John Connor, Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, Matt Smith, Lee Byung-hun as the T-1000, Dayo Okeniyi as Danny Dyson, Courtney B. Vance as Miles Dyson, J. K. Simmons as Detective O'Brien, Gregory Alan Williams as Detective Harding, Sandrine Holt, Douglas Smith, Michael Gladis as Lieutenant Matias, Aaron V. Williamson as The Terminator (young T-800 model), Nolan Gross as Skynet, Griff Furst as Burke.
Storyline: In 2029, John Connor, leader of the Resistance, continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when John is notified by his army unit, Tech-Com, that Skynet will attack him from two fronts, past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
On the verge of winning the war against Skynet, Connor sends his trusted lieutenant Kyle Reese back through time to save his mother's life and ensure his own existence. However, Kyle finds the original past changed. After being orphaned at age nine by a T-800, sent to kill her when she was young to prevent the future in which Skynet is defeated, Sarah Connor has been brought up by another Terminator T-800 programmed to protect her. This Terminator has then trained her to face her destiny, which she adamantly tries to reject.
Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 American-Australian space opera film written, produced, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski. The film was co-produced by Grant Hill, who acted as executive producer on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and as producer on V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin and Cloud Atlas, making Jupiter Ascending his seventh collaboration with the Wachowskis.
Release date: February 6, 2015 (USA)
Directors: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Writers: Andy Wachowski (as The Wachowskis) , Lana Wachowski (as The Wachowskis)
Running time: 127 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
Screenplay: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Starring (Cast): The film stars Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth.
Storyline: Earth's residents are unaware that life on Earth and countless other planets have been seeded by families of alien royalty for the purpose of "harvesting" the resulting organisms at a "Darwinian state of perfection" to produce a type of youth serum for the elites on still other planets. After the death of the matriarch of the House of Abrasax, the most powerful of the alien dynasties, her children, Balem (Eddie Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (Douglas Booth), quarrel over the inheritance, with Balem inheriting an enormous production facility on Jupiter and Titus declaring his intention to dismantle the youth serum trade, of which Earth is the next intended source. Protagonist Jupiter Jones narrates that her father, Maximilian Jones (James D'Arcy), met her mother, Aleksa (Maria Doyle Kennedy), in Saint Petersburg. After Maximilian is killed in a robbery, Aleksa names their daughter Jupiter, after his dying wish, and they move to Chicago to live with Aleksa's family.
