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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), a supernatural comedic flick from Gil Kenan and screenwriter Jason Reitman, follows the adventures of Callie Spengler, her boyfriend Gary Grooberson, her kids Trevor and Phoebe, and their pals Lucky Domingo and Podcast. Amidst the setting of New York City, our heroes team up with Winston Zeddemore and Ray Stantz to resurrect the Ghostbusters. Following a successful capture of a ghost in Hell’s Kitchen, located in Lower Manhattan, their old nemesis turned Mayor, Walter Peck swoops in to threaten their shutdown. To pacify ...

The American action adventure fantasy television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024), is a live-action adaptation of the animated television series with the same name (2005-2008). Showrunner Albert Kim announced its development in September 2018. Netflix released the first season, consisting of eight episodes, on February 22, 2024 to mixed to positive reviews from critics. Production and filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia starting on November 16, 2021 under the working titles Trade Winds and Blue Dawn. Cinematographer Stewart Whelan ...

Directed by Paul King, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby based on a story by King, Wonka (2023) is a musical fantasy film. It delves into the early life of Willy Wonka, the beloved character from Roald Dahl’s classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As an aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, Wonka arrives in Europe to set up shop at Galéries Gourmet. However, facing financial struggles, he is persuaded to stay at Mrs. ...

Barbie (2023) is a fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with Noah Baumbach. The story takes place in Barbieland, a matriarchal society where different versions of Barbies and Kens reside. However, there are also some discontinued models who are treated as outcasts due to their unconventional traits. While the Kens spend their days at the beach, it is considered their profession, while the Barbies hold prestigious jobs in various fields such as science, politics, and media. Ken, commonly known as Beach Ken (‘Ken’), has eyes ...

The American fantasy film, The School for Good and Evil (2022), was directed by Paul Feig and written by Feig and David Magee. It is based on Soman Chainani’s 2013 novel of the same name. The School for Good and Evil was founded by twin brothers Rhian and Rafal in order to train fairy tale heroes, known as “Evers,” and villains, known as “Nevers.” However, Rafal grew tired of constantly being under the control of good and used blood magic to ...

The upcoming TV show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–2024) is an American fantasy series created for Amazon Prime Video by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel and its appendices, it is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Produced by Amazon Studios in collaboration with New Line Cinema and the Tolkien Estate, filming for the eight-episode first season took place in New Zealand from February ...

House of the Dragon (2022–2024), an American fantasy drama on HBO, was created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal as a prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019). It is the second show in the A Song of Ice and Fire franchise, with Condal and Miguel Sapochnik serving as showrunners for the first season. Drawing from Martin’s 2018 book Fire & Blood, the series is set approximately 100 years after the Targaryen Conquest that united the Seven ...

The In Between (2022), an American sci-fi romance directed by Arie Posin and written by Marc Klei, begins with a traffic accident. Two young people are injured on the road – the girl barely moving and the boy motionless. After waking up in the hospital, Tessa has a flashback to 182 days prior, when she was taking photos in a coastal town and stumbled upon a classic French film playing at a local theater. At the movie, she meets Skylar, who offers to translate. Despite their different perspectives, he is a true romantic. In another flashback, set 102 days earlier, ...

The Sandman (2022–2024) is an American fantasy drama series adapted from the 1989–1996 DC comic book by Neil Gaiman. Developed by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg for Netflix, the show is produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. It follows the story of Dream / Morpheus, also known as the titular Sandman. Starring Tom Sturridge as the lead role, the series has received positive reviews from critics for ...

Luck (2022) is an upcoming animated fantasy comedy film, helmed by director Peggy Holmes and co-directed by Javier Abad. Written by Kiel Murray, with a story by Murray, Jonathan Aibel, and Glenn Berger, the film is based on an original concept from the creative minds of Rebeca Carrasco,

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) is a fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’ by A. S. Byatt. Alithea Binnie, a British scholar with occasional hallucinations of demonic figures, unleashes a trapped Djinn during a trip to Istanbul when she purchases an antique bottle. The Djinn grants Alithea three wishes, ...

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), a fantasy film directed by David Yates, follows Newt Scamander as he aids a Qilin in giving birth in Kweilin, China in 1932. Grindelwald’s followers, led by Credence Barebone, intervene and kill the mother and take the newborn. Grindelwald then takes the Qilin’s life to exploit its ability to see into the future. However, unbeknownst to them, there were actually two babies born. Luckily, Newt manages to rescue the younger twin before engaging in a battle against Grindelwald. Despite being unable to confront Grindelwald due to their blood pact, Albus ...

Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021) is an American animated comedy film from Warner Bros. Animation, and marks the thirty-sixth installment in the direct-to-video Scooby-Doo series. During the unmasking of a bank-robbing clown, both Scooby-Doo and Courage experience a strange noise, causing them to dance and flee. However, their companions Muriel and Eustace Bagge seem unaware. The group follows Scooby into Nowhere, where they encounter hostile cicadas. After defeating them, they are invited into the Bagge household to meet Muriel and Eustace. The Mayor of Nowhere invites both groups to dinner, but along the way, Scooby ...

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) is a 3D animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Five centuries ago, the once peaceful sub-continent of Kumandra was destroyed by dark spirits known as the Druun, turning all living things to stone. Sisu, the lone surviving dragon, inherited her siblings’ magic which was contained in a precious gem. By concentrating her power into the gem, she vanquishes the Druun and restores life to Kumandra’s people, though not its dragons. This leads to a struggle for control over the gem and divides the people into five kingdoms named Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon and Tail – ...

Hilda and the Mountain King (2021) is an animated adventure fantasy film directed by Andy Coyle and written by Luke Pearson. It is based on the sixth edition of the Hilda graphic novel series, also titled The Mountain King. This film serves as a continuation of the second-season finale of the Hilda animated series, The Stone Forest, where we see Hilda, now transformed into a troll, flee from Trylla. Unfortunately, her journey outside of the forest results in her being turned to stone by sunlight. Meanwhile, back in Trolberg, Johanna ...

A comedy film Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with Gil Kenan, takes place in Summerville, Oklahoma. There, Egon Spengler captures a supernatural being at occultist Ivo Shandor’s mine near the town and lures another to his farm. Despite the failure of his elaborate setup due to a power outage, Egon manages to hide the ghost trap in his home before succumbing to a fatal heart attack. Following Egon’s death, his daughter Callie inherits the farm and moves there with her children Trevor and Phoebe after being forced out of ...

TAn animated supernatural black comedy film, The Addams Family 2 (2021), is a sequel to the 2019 film based on the characters by Charles Addams. At a science fair, Wednesday Addams plans to present her experiment using her pet squid Socrates’ DNA on Uncle Fester to demonstrate how humans can be enhanced (though it also has the side effect of slowly changing Fester). However, she becomes disappointed upon seeing her family’s arrival. Despite this, her work catches the attention of scientist Cyrus Strange. Meanwhile at home, Gomez worries that his children are growing distant from him and Morticia. In an ...

Arcane (2021–2024) is an animated steampunk action-adventure series, co-created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, and produced by the French animation studio Fortiche. Distributed by Netflix, the show is set in Riot’s League of Legends universe and primarily follows sisters Vi and Jinx. Its first season was announced at the League of Legends 10th anniversary celebration in 2019, with a release date in November 2021. Soon after its successful debut, Riot Games and Netflix confirmed that a second season is currently in production and will be released in November 2024. ...

Jungle Cruise (2021) is an American fantasy adventure film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, and Michael Green. The inspiration for the film comes from Walt Disney’s popular theme park attraction. In 1556, Spanish conquistadors led by Don Aguirre embark on a journey to South America in search of the legendary Lágrimas de Cristal Tree. This tree is believed to cure illness, heal injuries, break curses, and possibly heal ...

The year is 2021 and Disney has released a new animated movie called Luca (2021). This heartwarming coming-of-age fantasy was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The story follows a young sea monster named Luca Paguro who resides in the coastal town of Portorosso. Despite his parents’ fears that humans may harm him, Luca enjoys herding goatfish near the surface. One day, he meets another sea monster child named Alberto Scorfano, who lives above water without his father around. Alberto introduces Luca to the world above the ocean’s surface, where they discover that sea ...