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.
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.
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" MoliÚre, 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.
Storyline: Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents are traveling to their new home when her father takes a wrong turn. They unknowingly enter a magical world that Chihiro's father insists on exploring. While Chihiro's parents eat like pigs at an empty restaurant stall, Chihiro finds an exquisite bathhouse and meets a young boy named Haku who warns her to return across the river before sunset. However, Chihiro discovers too late that her parents have turned into actual pigs and she is unable to cross the flooded river, becoming trapped in the spirit world.
After finding Chihiro, Haku has her ask for a job from the bathhouse's boiler-man, Kamaji, a spider yÅkai commanding the susuwatari. Kamaji and the worker Lin send Chihiro to the witch, Yubaba, who runs the bathhouse; she gives Chihiro a job but renames her Sen (å?). While visiting her parents' pigpen, Sen finds a goodbye card addressed to Chihiro and realizes that she has already forgotten her name. Haku warns her that Yubaba controls people by taking their names and that if she forgets hers like he has forgotten his, she will not be able to leave the spirit world. While working, Sen invites a silent masked creature named No-Face inside, believing him to be a customer. A 'stink spirit' arrives as Sen's first customer. She discovers he is the spirit of a polluted river. In gratitude for cleaning him, he gives Sen a magic emetic dumpling. Meanwhile No-Face tempts a worker with gold, then swallows him. He demands food and begins tipping extensively. As the workers swarm him hoping to be tipped, he swallows yet another two greedy workers.
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.
Trolls is a working title of an upcoming 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Release date: November 4, 2016 (USA)
Directors: Mike Mitchell, Anand Tucker
Screenplay: Maya Forbes, Erica Rivinoja, Wallace Wolodarsky
Producers: Gina Shay, Aron Warner
Production companies: DreamWorks Studios, DreamWorks Animation
Starring (Cast): The film will be starring Anna Kendrick, Jason Schwartzman and Chloë Grace Moretz.
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness is the twenty-third film in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films. It was released digitally on February 3, 2015 and was released on DVD on February 17, 2015.
Initial release: February 17, 2015
Director: Paul McEvoy
Writer: Mark Banker
Running time: 72 minutes
Initial DVD release: February 17, 2015 (USA)
Screenplay: Mark Banker
Starring (Cast): Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones, Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley, Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers, Malcom McDowell as Sly Baron, Eric Bauza as Clark Sparkman, Jennifer Hale as Shannon Lucas, Ridley and the Launch Manager, Fred Tatasciore as Hudson Baron and The Alien, Diedrich Bader as H.A.M, Mark Hamill as Zip Elvin, Kevin Michael Richardson as Uvinious "U-Boat" Botango and Drake, Jeff Glenn Bennett as Colt Steelcase.
Storyline: Scooby-Doo and the gang win five seats on a billionaire's brand new space shuttle, and have to unravel a mystery when aliens attack their ship!
The movie opens with Daphne Blake trying to pass her driver's test and get her license. She is in the Mystery Machine. Velma Dinkley tells her she can do it however, despite Velma's encouragement, Daphne crashes the van into a tree. Later she and Velma win some kind of lottery that takes people into space. The two girls soon find themselves going into space along with Billionaire Sly Baron, Trained Astronaut Shannon Lucas, Retired Astronauts Zip Elvin and Colt Steelcase, Alien Hunting Specialist Ridley, Football player Uvininous "U-boat" Botango, News reporter Clark Sparkman (who instantly takes a fancy to Velma, much to her annoyance) and of course Fred Jones, Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo. Fred allies himself with Zip and Colt, much to their dismay. Shaggy and Scooby are happy to see U-boat. Shannon tells Daphne that she scored the highest on the space test she and her friends took, much to Velma's surprise. This causes Velma to become bitter towards Daphne.
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations is an upcoming American computer-animated supernatural action comedy film by DreamWorks Animation. It is based on an original idea by Tony Leondis, who is also directing.
Release date: June 5, 2015 (USA)
Director: Anthony Leondis
Screenplay: Tom Wheeler
Music composed by: Patrick Doyle
Producer: Maryann Garger
Starring (Cast): The film stars Seth Rogen, Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray.
Storyline: B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations) is the super classified agency you've never heard of and certainly never seen. Dedicated to protecting humans from evil hauntings, the agents of B.O.O. have a secret weapon: they are ghosts themselves. When newbie agents Jackson Moss (Seth Rogen) and his odd-ball partner Watts (Melissa McCarthy) uncover a plot to destroy B.O.O. by the agency's
Government ghosts protect humans from hauntings by evil poltergeists.
Hotel Transylvania 2 is an upcoming American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It is the sequel to the 2012 film Hotel Transylvania. It is being directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by Robert Smigel. The film is scheduled to be released on September 25, 2015, by Columbia Pictures.
Release date: September 25, 2015 (USA)
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Production company: Sony Pictures Animation
Music composed by: Mark Mothersbaugh
Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Action Film
Starring (Cast): The film stars Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Mel Brooks, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi and Fran Drescher.
Storyline: When Vlad, the old-old-old-fashioned vampire father of Count Dracula, arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.
The Good Dinosaur is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015.
Release date: November 25, 2015 (USA)
Directors: Peter Sohn, Bob Peterson
Music composed by: Thomas Newman
Story by: Bob Peterson
Producers: John Lasseter, John Walker
Starring (Cast): Lucas Neff, John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Neil Patrick Harris, Judy Greer, Bill Hader.
Storyline: The official synopsis reads: "The Good Dinosaur” asks the generations-old question: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The film is a humorous and exciting original story about Arlo, a lively 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart. After a traumatic event rattles Arlo’'s tranquil community, he sets out on a quest to restore peace, gaining an unlikely companion along the way - —a young human boy named Spot."
Minions is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film and a prequel/spin-off to Despicable Me (2010) and Despicable Me 2 (2013). It is being produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures. Written by Brian Lynch, it will be directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy.
Release date: July 10, 2015 (USA)
Directors: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
Language: English
Music composed by: Heitor Pereira
Production company: Illumination Entertainment
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan.
Storyline: On a mission to find a new master to serve, three Minions meet Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock) the world's first female supervillain.
Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings who have only one purpose: to serve history's most despicable masters. After accidentally destroying all their masters, including a T. Rex, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Dracula they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica.
Strange Magic is a 2015 American computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, produced by Lucasfilm, with feature animation by Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic.
Release date: January 23, 2015 (USA)
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Running time: 99 minutes
MPAA rating: PG
Music composed by: Marius de Vries
Starring (Cast): The film stars Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, and Alfred Molina.
Storyline: The realm is divided between a land of fairies and light, and a land of bog creatures living in the dark forest; Primrose flowers, which are a crucial ingredient to love potions marks the border between the lands. Marianne; a fairy and heir to the throne of the Fairy Kingdom is engaged to be married to Roland; a handsome warrior who breaks her heart when she discovers him kissing another fairy on their Wedding Day. Scorned, Marianne vows to never fall in love again. Sometime later; her sister Dawn, who frequently says she is in love is distraught over the upcoming Spring Ball over which boy she could meet there. Her best friend Sunny, an elf who has a crush on Dawn tries to cheer her up with a song, but they are nearly devoured by a giant lizard before a hardened Marianne rescues them. Sunny, having fallen through the border of the dark forest finds a Primrose petal, which he subsequently hides when fleeing the forest.
Inside Out is an upcoming 2015 American 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film will be set in the head of a young girl, Riley Anderson, where five emotions—Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness—try to lead the girl through her life.
Release date: June 19, 2015 (USA)
Director: Pete Docter
Music composed by: Michael Giacchino
Screenplay: Michael Arndt
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast features Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan and John Ratzenberger.
Storyline: Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley is guided by her emotions—Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters, when Joy and Sadness are lost within the rest of Riley's Mind. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the remaining emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
