New Film #10

Title: Dr Seuss' The Lorax
Year of Production: 2012
Type: Film
Director: Chris Renaud
Producer: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy
Writer: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Production Company: Illumination Entertainment
Key Cast: Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White, Rob Riggle
Key Crew: John Powell, Claire Dodgson, Steven Liu, Ken Schretzmann
Genre: computer-animated 3D musical fantasy comedy
Budget: $70 million
Box Office: $348.8 million
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In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity, a boy named Ted hopes to win the heart of his dream girl, Audrey. When he learns of her wish to see a real tree, Ted seeks out the Once-ler, a ruined old businessman outside of town in a stark wasteland. Upon hearing of how the hermit gave into his greed for profits and devastated the land over the protests of the Lorax, Ted is inspired to undo the disaster. However, the greedy Mayor of Thneed-Ville, Aloysius O'Hare, has made his fortune exploiting the environmental collapse and is determined to stop the boy from undermining his business.

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ED HELMS:

• We're the Millers
• Vacation
• Love the Coopers
• Captain Underpants

ZAC EFRON:

• The Lucky One
• The Paperboy
• That Awkward Moment
• Bad Neighbours
• We Are Your Friends
• Dirty Grandpa
• Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising

New Film #9

Title: Father Christmas
Year of Production: 1991
Type: Film (animated short)
Director: Dave Unwin
Producer: John Coates
Writer: Raymond Briggs
Production Company: n/a
Key Cast: Mel Smith, William Dennis Hunt
Key Crew: Mike Hewer
Genre: n/a
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After a hard night's work, Father Christmas decides to go on a "blooming vacation", builds his sledge into a caravan and holidays in France, Scotland and Las Vegas before coming home and settling down, with a bit of grumbling, to answer the mail, get the gifts ready, deliver them and get to the Snowmens' party on time--only he's forgotten something.

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New Film #8

Title: Inside Out

Year of Production: 2015
Type: Film
Director: Pete Docter
Producer: Jonas Rivera
Writer: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Key Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling
Key Crew: Michael Giacchino, Patrick Lin, Kim White, Kevin Nolting
Genre: 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure
Budget: $175 million
Box Office: $851.6 million
Themes: love, family, friendship, health, mental health, coming of age, life
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Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, 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. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
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New Film #7

Title: The Holiday

Year of Production: 2006

Type: Film

Director: Nancy Meyers

Producer: Nancy Meyers, Bruce A. Block

Writer: Nancy Meyers

Production Company: Relativity Media, Waverly Films

Key Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Rufus Sewell, Edward Burns

Key Crew: Dean Cundey, Joe Hutshing, Hans Zimmer, Henrey Jackman, Lorne Balfe

Genre: Romantic-comedy

Budget: $85 million

Box Office: $205.1 million

Themes: love, friendship, christmas

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In London, Iris Simpkins writes a wedding column in a newspaper and nurtures an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Near Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged to marry another colleague, and her life turns upside down. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just split with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Through a house exchange website, Amanda impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris' cottage in Surrey for the holidays. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris' brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Iris meets her new next door neighbor the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love.

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CAMERON DIAZ:

• My Sisters Keeper
• Knight and Day
• Bad Teacher
• What to Expect When You're Expecting
• Gambit
• The Other Woman
• Sex Tape
• Annie

New Film #6

Title:  The Santa Clause
Year of Production: 1994
Type: Film
Director: John Pasquin
Producer: Robert Newmyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver
Writer: Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Karey Kirkpatrick
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Outlaw Productions
Key Cast: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, Wendy Crewson, David Krumholtz, Peter Boyle
Key Crew: Michael Convertino, Walt Lloyd, Larry Bock
Genre: Fantasy family comedy
Budget: $22 million
Box Office: $189.8 million
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Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?

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TIM ALLEN: 

• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• The Santa Clause 2
• Christmas with the Kranks
• The Shaggy Dog
• The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
• Toy Story 3