![]() Fantasy and Horror return and defeat the pirates. The pirates go to Treasure Island, but find no treasure except for one gold coin, nearly causing a mutiny between the captain and the crew. Richard and Adventure are shipwrecked and picked up by the Hispaniola, captained by Long John Silver. However, the group is separated after Moby-Dick attacks, following the whale's battle with Captain Ahab. ![]() Hyde, driving them to the open waters of the Land of Adventure. Together, the quartet encounters classic-fictional characters. The three agree to help Richard if he checks them out using his new library card. Along the way, Richard befriends three anthropomorphic books: Adventure, a swashbuckling pirate-like book Fantasy, a sassy but caring fairy-tale book and Horror, a fearful "Hunchbook" with a misshapen spine. Richard asks for directions to the exit, so the Pagemaster sends him through the fiction section toward the green neon exit sign. He is met by the Pagemaster, the mythical Keeper of Books and Guardian of the Written Word. Richard awakens to find the rotunda art melting, which washes over him and the library, turning them into illustrations. He slips on water dripping from his coat and falls over, knocking himself out. Searching for a phone, Richard finds a large rotunda painted with many famous literary characters. Dewey, an eccentric librarian/custodian who insists that he is in need of a special book and gives him a library card, despite Richard's protests. However, Richard gets caught in a harsh thunderstorm and takes shelter in a library. Richard is sent to buy a bag of nails for building a treehouse. His exasperated parents have tried multiple ways to build up his courage to little success. Pessimistic 10-year-old Richard Tyler lives life based on statistics and fears everything. The film's poor box office performance, along with Cats Don't Dance (1997), set back other animated films for the animation studio, Turner Feature Animation. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $13.7 million from a budget of $34 million. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (live-action) and Pixote Hunt and Glenn Chaika (animation), and produced by David Kirschner and Paul Gertz. The film was written for the screen by David Casci, based on a six-page pitch by writer Charles Pogue entitled "Library Days", presented to Casci by producer David Kirschner. He then finds himself trapped inside the library, where he must battle his way through literary classics come to life if he is to find his way home. But after reluctantly undertaking an errand for his father, he gets caught in a storm, which forces him to seek refuge in a library. Culkin stars as a timid boy who uses statistics as an excuse to avoid anything he finds uncomfortable in life. ![]() The film was produced by Turner Pictures and Hanna-Barbera and released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994. Animation will be carried out in Illion Animation Studios (“Planet 51”) in Spain and by China Film Animation and several studios in China.The Pagemaster is a 1994 American live-action/animated fantasy adventure film starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., and Mel Harris. In a collaboration of the major animation players in Spain, early visual development was created in The SPA Studios, directed by Sergio Pablos, creator of “Despicable Me.” It has been completed by BASE FX in China. ![]() Movistar Plus will air the film on pay TV. “Dragonkeeper” is also backed by Atresmedia, which has free-to-air rights for Spain. The score will be composed by Zhiyi Wang. The screenplay has been written by Ferreras, Wilkinson, Rosanna Cecchini, Pablo Castrillo and Xiamping Wang. “Dragonkeeper” is produced by Manuel Cristobal, Larry Levene, Huang Jun, Gabriel Arias-Salgado, Axel Kuschevatzky, Mikel Lejarza and Mercedes Gamero. “I am thrilled that ‘Dragonkeeper’ is being made into a movie, and especially pleased that there is such strong Chinese involvement, ensuring that the ancient China represented in the movie will be authentic,” Wilkinson stated. Yet she finds the courage to become a true Dragonkeeper, helping the ancient last imperial dragon, Long Danzi, in its quest to transport a dragon egg across China to the coast, the only place it can hatch. Set during the Han Dynasty in a “magic, epic and classic” China, according to a statement by its producers, the first “Dragonkeeper” first installment turns on the adventures of Ping, a slave girl so humble that she thinks she doesn’t deserve a name.
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