• Director:Andrew Stanton
• Taglines:Lost in Our World. Found in Another.
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Release Date:9 March 2012 (USA)

Cast

Bryan Cranston : Powell
Taylor Kitsch : John Carter
Mark Strong : Matai Shang
Willem Dafoe : Tars Tarkas
Ciarán Hinds : Tardos Mors

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The film is largely based on A Princess of Mars, the first novel to feature John Carter. It was originally serialized in 1912 over multiple issues of the pulp magazine All Story, under the title “Under the Moons of Mars,” and then collected as a hardcover book in 1917. In the novel John Carter is a former American Civil War Confederate Army officer who is miraculously transported to Mars, known to its inhabitants as Barsoom. He learns that the planet is dying from the loss of its atmosphere and water, and that only a peaceful alliance of its intelligent inhabitants can save the species of Barsoom from extinction.

• 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

• Director:Brad Peyton
• Genres:Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
• Taglines:Believe the impossible. Discover the incredible.
• Release Date:10 February 2012 (USA)

Cast

Josh Hutcherson : Sean Anderson
Dwayne Johnson : Hank Parsons
Vanessa Hudgens : Kailani
Michael Caine : Grandfather
Kristin Davis : Liz Anderson

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Sean Anderson is caught by police escaping from a satellite research centre where he was attempting to access a signal broadcast that was too faint to pick up outside of the facility. Escorted home by his step father, Hank Parsons, he eventually reveals that the mysterious broadcast he was attempting to access was a set of indistinguishable words that he is trying to decode. Hank, in an attempt to bond with his step son, solves the code which eventually reveals the co-ordinates for the Mysterious Island, which were hidden in three novels- Treasure Island, Gulliver’s Travels and Verne’s Mysterious Island. Sean believes that his long lost grandfather was the one behind the transmission, and that he has discovered the island. Sean and Hank immediately set out for the island of Palau. Both Hank and his wife, Liz, don’t believe anything that Sean is convinced of, such as the fact that the Mysterious Island could exist and that his grandfather discovered it, but after Hank considers that this trip could help bring him closer to his usual anti-social step son, the couple decide it would be ideal. Once arriving at Palau, they board a private helicopter run by Gabato and his daughter Kailani, whom Sean immediately develops a crush on. The four travel to the co-ordinates until their helicopter is hit by a freak storm, causing them to crash on the island. Eventually they manage to make their way inland where they finally meet Sean’s grandfather. He leads them back to his hut where they spend the night. Once it is determined that a radio signal for a distress call can only be sent once a fortnight, it is decided that the group will stay put until then. The next day the five travel to the lost city of Atlantis, buried far back in the jungles. There Hank finds evidence to believe that the island is slowly sinking. It is revealed through Sean’s grandfather that the island sinks underwater once every 140 years or so due to shifting tectonic plates, and that they still have years before the next cycle begins. Hank’s recent discovery however shows that his Sean’s grandfather’s calculations are wrong and that the island will sink in a few days. From there the group set out to Captain Nemo’s tomb, which contains his journal holding the whereabouts of the legendary submarine, The Nautilus, their only hope of escaping on time. Once the journal is uncovered, they set out towards Nautilus, encountering various obstacles in their path. Sean’s foot is dislocated after a dog fight involving a giant bird, and the group is slowed down considerably.

The next morning it is discovered that Gabato has left the group to return to a previously passed volcano of gold, which he believes is his and Kailani’s only hope of living a decent life. Kailani and Sean’s grandfather set out to find him while Hank and Sean continue to find the Nautilus. Once at the submarine’s entrance, the two are disheartened to find that the rising sea level has buried the cave underwater, and that they two must dive without assistance down to where it is located. Using a simple breathing device, they manage to reach the submarine and open the entrance hatch, narrowly avoiding a nasty encounter with a giant electric eel. Kailani and Sean’s grandfather eventually find Gabato and convince him to return to the submarine. Once there, they are distraught to discover that Hank and Sean are nowhere in sight. Unbeknownst to them, the pair are attempting to start the submarine, although the batteries are long exhausted. Hank devises a plan to use the eel to conduct enough electricity to kick start the Nautilus, and equipping a basic diving suit, exits the sub to confront the eel and throw a harpoon at it. Once the submarine starts, they quickly travel to the surface and retrieve the other three. Six months later, Gabato is head of a successful tourism movement back on Palau, and has enough money to send Kailani overseas to the states where she is dating Sean and attending college. 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:Adam Lipsius
• Genres:Comedy | Family | Romance
• Release Date:20 January 2012 (USA)

Cast

Lindsey Shaw : Ally Mash
Chandler Massey : Farrell Gambles
Keith Coulouris : Dave Mash
Susie Abromeit : Katina Upranova
Lindsey Black : Rebecca Fisher

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When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live… and find the love she never thought she’d have.

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:James Bobin
• Taglines:They’re closer than you think.
• Genres:Comedy | Family | Musical
• Release Date:23 November 2011 (USA)

Cast

Mila Kunis
Selena Gomez
Zach Galifianakis
Jason Segel
Amy Adams

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When 3 muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the muppet theater for oil Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the muppets who have been split up for years Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo’s Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets , Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger managment rehab center in Santa Barbara.

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