• Directors:Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda
• Genres:Animation | Family | Fantasy
• Release Date:2 March 2012 (USA)
• Runtime:USA: 94 min

Cast

Zac Efron : Ted (voice)
Taylor Swift : Audrey (voice)
Betty White : Norma (voice)
Ed Helms : Once-ler (voice)
Danny DeVito : The Lorax (voice)

A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Read more

• Directors:Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Gary Rydstrom
• Taglines:Ningen ni mirare te wa ikenai. Sore ga yukashita no kodomo-tachi no okite datta.
• Genres:Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
• Release Date:17 February 2012 (USA)
• Runtime:94 min

Cast

Mirai Shida : Arrietty (voice)
Ryûnosuke Kamiki : Shô (voice)
Shinobu Ohtake : Homily (voice) (as Shinobu Ôtake)
Keiko Takeshita : Sadoko (voice)
Tatsuya Fujiwara : Spiller (voice)

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The story takes place in 2010 in Koganei, western Tokyo and like the novel revolves around a group of “tiny people” who are 10 cm tall and live under the floorboards of a typical human household.

A boy named Sh? arrives at the house his mother lived in as a child, to live with his great aunt Sadako. When Sh? leaves the car, he sees a cat trying to attack something in the bushes, but the cat leaves after being attacked by a crow. Sh? goes to see what the cat was trying to attack. He then sees a Borrower named Arrietty.

That night Arrietty’s father Pod takes Arrietty above the floorboards to show her how he gets sugar. Their first stop is the kitchen, then they walk within a wall to reach a dollhouse in Sh?’s bedroom, to get tissue. Before Arrietty and Pod can leave, Arrietty notices Sh? is awake, and accidentally drops the sugar cube they got. Sh? tells them not to be afraid of him.

The next day, Sh? leaves the dropped sugar cube beside an underground air vent where he first saw Arrietty, but Arrietty’s mother Homily warns them not to take it because their existence must be kept secret from humans. Still, Arrietty sneaks out to visit Sh? in his bedroom, and the two become friends. On her return, Arrietty is intercepted by her father. Pod and Homily realize they have been discovered, and decide the family must move out of the house.

Sh? learns from Sadako that his ancestors have seen Borrowers in this house, and they had the dollhouse made especially for the Borrowers, with working electric lights and ovens. However, the Borrowers had not been seen since, and the dollhouse stayed in Sh?’s room. Sh? uncovers the floorboards above the Borrower household, uproots their kitchen and replaces it with the kitchen from the dollhouse.

Pod returns injured from a borrowing mission, helped by Spiller, a Borrower boy he met on the way. Spiller suggests some places the Borrowers can move to, and, after he recovers, Pod goes to check them out. Arrietty goes to say goodbye to Sh?. During their subsequent conversation Sh? theorises that the Borrowers are becoming extinct, which hurts Arrietty. Apologising, Sho reveals he has had a heart condition since birth, and will have an operation in a few days. The operation does not have a good chance of success. Read more

• Directors:Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal
• Genres:Animation | Music | Romance

Cast

Limara Meneses : Rita (voice)
Eman Xor Oña : Chico (voice)
Mario Guerra : Ramón (voice)
Jon Adams : (voice)
Renny Arozarena : (voice)

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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. Read more

• Directed by: Gary Trousdale
• Genres: Family 3D Animation
• Taglines:The most beautiful love story ever told.
• Release Date:13 Jan 2012

Cast

Robby Benson
Richard White
Jerry Orbach
David Ogden Stiers

Walt Disney Pictures’ magical animated classic “Beauty and the Beast” returns to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™, introducing a whole new generation to the Disney classic with stunning new 3D imagery. The film captures the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman who’s taken prisoner by a hideous beast in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle’s enchanted staff — a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, among others — and ultimately learns to see beneath the Beast’s exterior to discover the heart and soul of a prince.

• Director:Kazuya Murata
• Taglines:Finally tell the story of forbidden bonds
• Genres:Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Runtime:110 min

Cast

Shelley Calene-Black : Miranda (voice: English version)
Rie Kugimiya : Alphonse Elric (voice)
Shinichirô Miki : Roy Mustang (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa : Riza Hawkeye (voice)
Romi Pak : Edward Elric (voice)

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After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia’s home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people. Read more

Director:Mike Mitchell
Genres:Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Release Date:16 December 2011 (USA)

Cast

Anna Faris : Jeanette (voice)
Matthew Gray Gubler : Simon (voice)
Alyssa Milano : Daphne Snow
Christina Applegate : Brittany (voice)
Justin Long : Alvin (voice)

Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

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• Director:Steven Spielberg
• Taglines:This year, discover how far adventure will take you.
• Genres:Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Mystery
• Runtime:107 min

Cast

Jamie Bell : Tintin
Daniel Craig : Ivanovich Sakharine
Simon Pegg : Inspector Thompson
Cary Elwes : Pilot
Andy Serkis : Captain Haddock

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Tintin, a young journalist, and his dog Snowy, are browsing in an outdoor market in a European town (possibly Brussels). Tintin buys a model of a three-masted sailing ship, the Unicorn, for a good price, but is then immediately accosted by the sinister Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, and the mysterious figure of Barnaby, who both try to buy the model from Tintin, without success. Tintin takes the ship home, but it is broken during a fight between Snowy and a neighbour’s cat. As it breaks, a parchment scroll slips out of the ship’s mast. Meanwhile, incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk. Tintin visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall, where he learns that there are at least two model ships.

Later, Tintin is shot at, then abducted by accomplices of Sakharine, and imprisoned on the SS Karaboudjan. On board, Tintin escapes and meets the ship’s nominal captain, Haddock. Haddock has been supplied with whisky by first mate Allan, who is working for Sakharine, and the captain is permanently drunk, and doesn’t know what’s happening on board his ship. Tintin and Haddock (and Snowy) eventually escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat. Sakharine sends a seaplane to find them, but Tintin is able to capture the plane, and fly towards the (fictitious) Moroccan port of Bagghar, but they crash in the desert.

Dehydrated in the heat, and suffering from a sudden lack of alcohol, Haddock hallucinates, and starts to remember stories about his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock(e), who was captain of the Unicorn during the 17th century. Sir Francis’ treasure-laden ship was attacked by a pirate ship, led by the masked Red Rackham, and, after a fierce battle and eventual surrender, Sir Francis chose to sink the Unicorn, and most of the treasure, rather than allow it to fall into Rackham’s hands. It transpires that there were three models of the Unicorn, each containing a scroll. Together, the scrolls will reveal the location of the sunken Unicorn, and its treasure.

In Bagghar, Tintin and the Captain find out that the third model ship is in the possession of the wealthy Omar Ben Salaad, but it is encased in a bullet-proof glass display case. Sakharine’s plan is to stage a concert involving famous diva Bianca Castafiore, the “Milanese nightingale”, whose penetrating singing voice will be able to shatter the glass case, allowing Sakharine’s trained hawk to fly down and steal the third scroll. After a chase down to the harbour, pursued by Tintin and Haddock, Sakharine finally escapes with all three scrolls. Tintin chases him back to Europe and arranges a police reception for him on the dockside. Haddock and Sakharine, who is revealed to be the descendant of Red Rackham, replay their ancestors’ swashbuckling sword fight, using dockside cranes, and Haddock is eventually victorious.

With the three scrolls in their possession, Tintin and Haddock find that the indicated location is Marlinspike Hall, and that the hall had been built originally by Sir Francis Haddock. There, in the cellar, they find some of the treasure, a clue to the location of the sunken Unicorn, and, perhaps, the excuse for another adventure. Read more

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• Director:Mike Mitchell
• Genres:Animation | Comedy | Family

Cast

Christina Applegate : Brittany (voice)
Anna Faris : Jeanette (voice)
Justin Long : Alvin (voice)
Alyssa Milano : Daphne Snow

Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

• Director:Sarah Smith
• Genres:Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family

Cast

Johnny Brennan : Santa Elf #2 (voice)
Jim Broadbent : Santa (voice)
Miggie Donahoe : Pedro (voice)
Kevin Eldon : Various (voice)
Pete Jack : Elf (voice)

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Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

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• Director:George Miller
• Taglines:Every step counts.
• Genres:Animation | Comedy | Family | Music
• Release Date:18 November 2011 (USA)

Cast

Elijah Wood : Mumble (voice)
Robin Williams : Ramon / Lovelace (voice)
Hank Azaria : The Mighty Sven (voice)
Pink : Gloria (singing voice)
Brad Pitt : Will the Krill (voice)

Official site :-

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Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right. Read more

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