Curated category
English-language fantasy adventure films
- The Mandalorian and GroguJon Favreau pitched a Star Wars television series featuring Mandalorians to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in 2017.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs arrived at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles on the 21st of December, 1937, and the audience rose to its feet before…
- The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings arrived in American cinemas on the 15th of November 1978, carrying a weight of ambition that very few animated films had…
- The Avengers (2012 film)The Avengers opened on the 4th of May 2012, in the United States, and within 19 days it had passed $1 billion in ticket sales, matching a record previously…
- Born of HopeBorn of Hope began with a budget of £8,000 - Kate Madison's entire life savings - and became something far larger than anyone involved originally planned.
- Erik the VikingErik the Viking arrived in cinemas in 1989 as a peculiar kind of fantasy comedy: a film about a Norse warrior who simply did not want to be a Norse warrior.
- Highlander (film)Highlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight…
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesIn May 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment announced a film based on Dungeons & Dragons with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick writing the…
- Barbie (film)The concept of a live-action Barbie film first emerged in the mid-1980s at Cannon Films, but nothing came to fruition. Renewed development began in September…
- The 13th WarriorMichael Crichton published his novel Eaters of the Dead in 1976. This book merged two distinct historical threads into a single narrative.
- Yellow Submarine (film)Yellow Submarine, the 1968 animated musical film inspired by the music of the Beatles, opens not with its famous band but with an act of colour theft.
- Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)Conan the Barbarian arrived in North American theaters on the 14th of May 1982, opening in 1,400 theaters simultaneously.