Maze Runner (film series)
The Maze Runner film series consists of science-fiction dystopian action adventure films based on The Maze Runner novels by the American author James Dashner. Produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the films star Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Patricia Clarkson. Wes Ball directed the first two films and is set to direct the third film.
The first film, The Maze Runner, was released on September 19, 2014 and became a commercial success grossing over $345 million worldwide. The second film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was released on September 18, 2015. The film series is set to continue with the third film, Maze Runner: The Death Cure which is set to be released on February 17, 2017.
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T.S. Nowlin
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| Based on |
The Maze Runner series
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United States
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| Language |
English
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| Budget |
Total (2 films):
$95 million
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| Box office |
Total (2 films):
$372.2 million
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The Maze Runner (2014)
The film features Thomas who wakes up trapped in a maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than dreams about an organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his purpose and a way to escape.
Development for the film began in January 2011 when Fox purchased the film rights to Dashner's novel The Maze Runner. Principal photography began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 2013 and ended in July. It was released on September 19, 2014.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The film features Thomas and his fellow Gladers as they search for clues about the organization known as W.C.K.D. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on W.C.K.D's "vastly superior" forces and uncover its plans for them all.
Principal photography commenced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 2014 and ended in January 2015. It was released on September 18, 2015.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2017)
In March 2015, T.S. Nowlin, who co-wrote the first and wrote the second film, was hired to write Maze Runner: The Death Cure based on the novel The Death Cure.
In September 2015, Ball was hired to direct the film. Ball said that the film will not be split into two films. Principal photography will begin in February 2016 for a February 17, 2017 release
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Hotel Transylvania Sequel
Hotel Transylvania
is a 2012 American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (the creator of Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory and Sym-Bionic Titan), and produced by Michelle Murdocca. The film features the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, and CeeLo Green.
The film tells a story of Count Dracula, the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the world's monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis. When the "non-human hotel" is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Dracula must protect Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel's guests learn there is a human in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel's future.
The film was released on September 28, 2012, by Columbia Pictures. It was met with mixed critical reception from critics, while the general public received it favorably. Despite mixed reviews, Hotel Transylvania set a new record for the highest-grossing September opening weekend ever, earning a total of $358 million on a budget of $85 million. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
A sequel, Hotel Transylvania 2, was released on September 25, 2015
Plot
In the aftermath of the death of Dracula's wife Martha (Jackie Sandler) at the hands of an angry mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) designs and builds a massive five-star hotelin which to raise his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and to serve as a getaway for all the world's monsters. Famous ones, such as Frank (Kevin James) and his wife Eunice(Fran Drescher), Wayne and Wanda Werewolf (Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon) and their massive immediate family, Griffin, the Invisible Man (David Spade), and Murray the Mummy (CeeLo Green) often come to stay at the hotel which is completely human-free and safe for monsters.
On Mavis' s 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle in order to explore the human world, but he sets up an elaborate plan using his zombie bellhopsdisguised as humans to make them seem intimidating and frighten her home. The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lure a 21-year-old human named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) to the hotel. Dracula frantically disguises him as a Flesh Golem and passes him off as "Johnnystein", a distant cousin of Frank's right arm. Jonathan soon encounters Mavis and the two "Zing" (a form of magical attraction). Unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Drac quickly improvises that Jonathan is a party planner, brought in to bring a fresher approach to his own traditional and boring parties. Jonathan quickly becomes a hit to the other monsters, especially Mavis and even begins to gain Dracula's respect. Dracula then tells Jonathan about his previous experience with humans and resulting hatred for them. Much to Dracula's surprise, Jonathan shows understanding and knowledge of the vampire lore.
Johnny attempts to leave after his confession on Dracula's orders, but is brought back by Mavis. After showing her the beauty of a sunrise, she is re-inspired to give humans another chance. Meanwhile, Quasimodo (Jon Lovitz) learns that Johnny is a human with his female pet rat Esmeralda's help and kidnaps him in order to cook him. Dracula intervenes and magically freezes Quasimodo to keep him from telling anyone that Jonathan is human. The party is a great success the next night. But when Jonathan and Mavis share their first kiss, Dracula overreacts and in his outburst confesses to deceiving Mavis with the town. A still-frozen Quasimodo bursts in and the Fly (Chris Parnell) translates his frozen language that reveals Johnny's humanity causing overwhelmingly negative reactions from the guests. Mavis is undeterred by her attraction and wants to be with Johnny even though he is human, but Jonathan rejects her out of respect for her father and leaves the hotel. Mavis then angrily yells at Dracula and flies off. Dracula arrives to comfort Mavis on the roof looking at the present her mother gave her for her birthday and finds out that it is a book about how her mother and Dracula had a Zing. Dracula then realizes that Mavis and Jonathan had a Zing, but he got in the way.
After apologizing to the monsters that are trying to check out and confessing that even he does not know if humans have changed, Dracula manages to convince Frank, Wayne, Griffin, and Murray to help him find Jonathan, and they learn that he is bound on a flight out of Transylvania soon. They head to the airport and encounter a Monster Festival along the way. Instead of being frightened by the real monsters appearing, the humans help Dracula by providing him shelter from the sunlight so he can get to the airport quickly, only to see Jonathan's plane taking off. Deciding to take the risk, Dracula gives chase, burning in the sunlight. After getting Jonathan's attention, Dracula makes his way to the front of the plane and uses his mind-controlling power on the pilot (Brian Stack) to help him apologize for his actions. Jonathan accepts his apology; then Dracula manipulates the pilot to return to the Transylvanian airport for a "refuel".
Dracula returns Jonathan to Mavis, who confesses that their Zing was mutual and the two kiss, making Dracula realize his little girl is all grown up and can make her own decisions. The monsters finish celebrating Mavis's party as Dracula, Mavis, Jonathan, Frank, Eunice, Murray, Wayne, Wanda and Griffin sing "The Zing" in front of the other monsters.
Voice cast
Adam Sandler as Count Dracula, the owner and hotel manager of Hotel Transylvania, and Mavis's 532-year-old over-protective father.
- Andy Samberg as Jonathan ("Johnnystein"), a 21-year-old human who stumbles onto Hotel Transylvania.
- Selena Gomez as Mavis, Dracula's 118-year-old "teenage" vampire daughter who likes humans and falls in love with Johnny.
- Sadie Sandler voices Mavis as a child, as well as Wayne's daughter Winnie.
- Kevin James as Frank/Frankenstein, Eunice's husband and one of Dracula's best friends who acts as an uncle to Mavis and mostly hangs out with Murray.
- Fran Drescher as Eunice, Frankenstein's wife and Wanda's best friend.
- Steve Buscemi as Wayne, a werewolf who is also one of Dracula's best friends and the husband of Wanda.
- Molly Shannon as Wanda, a werewolf, Wayne's pregnant wife and
- Eunice's best friend.
- David Spade as Griffin the Invisible Man, one of Dracula's best friends.
- CeeLo Green as Murray the Mummy, a short fat mummy who is one of Dracula's best friends and mostly hangs out with Frankenstein.
- Jon Lovitz as Quasimodo, a gourmet chef and the former Hunchback of Notre Dame who desires to make a dish with any human as the main ingredient.
- Luenell as Mavis's Shrunken Head, a wisecracking shrunken head that serves as a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door of Mavis's room.
- Chris Parnell as Mr. Fly, Hotel Transylvania's fitness coordinator who can also understand "frozen" languages.
- Brian George as Suit of Armor, the head of Hotel Transylvania's
- security guards.
- Brian Stack as Pilot
- Jackie Sandler as Martha, Dracula's wife and Mavis's mother who was killed by an angry mob when Mavis was young.
- Rob Riggle as Skeleton Husband
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- Paul Brittain also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
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- Robert Smigel also voices Marty, a pink Gill-man at Hotel Transylvania.
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- Jonny Solomon also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
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- Jim Wise also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
- Craig Kellman as Guy in Crowd, a guy who shouts in the crowd at the festival.
- Craig Kellman also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
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- Brian McCann also voices one of the Hydra Heads.
- Tom Kenny as one of the Hydra Heads.
- James C. J. Williams as a Construction Foreman, a deformed humanoid who helped to build Hotel Transylvania.
Hotel Transylvania 2
Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film. The film is the sequel to the 2012 film Hotel Transylvania, with its director, Genndy Tartakovsky, and writer, Robert Smigel, returning for the film. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the film is animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, with an additional funding provided by LStar Capital.
Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film,[8] with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a young son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnny's parents, Dracula calls his friends to help him make Dennis a vampire. However, an unexpected visit from Dracula's very, very old-school human-hating dad, Vlad soon turns things upside-down.
Original voices from the first film—Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Fran Drescher, Molly Shannon—returned for the sequel, with Keegan-Michael Key replacing CeeLo Green as Murray. New additions to the cast include Mel Brooks as Count Dracula's father, Vlad; Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as Jonathan's parents, Mike and Linda; and Asher Blinkoff as Mavis and Johnny's half-human/half-vampire son, Dennis. The film was released on September 25, 2015, by Columbia Pictures.
Plot
Count Dracula's (Adam Sandler) daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) marries Johnny (Andy Samberg), and the couple have a son named Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), who befriends a werewolf pup named Winnie (Sadie Sandler). Nearing his fifth birthday, Dennis has yet to grow his fangs, which worries Drac that his grandson might not be become a true vampire. Noticing the dangers of Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider raising Dennis where Johnny grew up, dismaying Drac. Mavis and Johnny travel to California to visit the in-laws, Mike (Nick Offerman) and Linda (Megan Mullally), leaving Drac to babysit Dennis. Drac enlists his friends Frank (Kevin James), Wayne the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi), Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade), Murray the Mummy (Keegan-Michael Key), and Blobby the Blob to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to a summer camp where he learned to hone his vampire abilities, to no avail either. Desperate, Drac hurls Dennis from a tall, unstable tower to pressure him into transforming to a bat, but rescues him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the internet, which eventually reaches Mavis and Johnny who hurry back to Transylvania. Mavis scolds her father for endangering Dennis and his inability to accept that he is human, promising to move out of the hotel after Dennis’ fifth birthday.
Mavis invites Vlad (Mel Brooks), her grandfather and Drac’s father, to Dennis’ birthday party. Dismayed, Drac has the partygoers disguised as monsters. Vlad arrives with his monstrous bat servant Bela (Rob Riggle) and meets his great-grandson. He believes that fear will cause Dennis’ fangs to sprout and manipulates a stage performer into scaring Dennis, but Drac shields his grandson and exposes Vlad, who is outraged that Drac has accepted humans as guests in his hotel. Mavis is angered by her grandfather’s treachery and while the family quarrels, an upset Dennis flees the hotel and enters the forest with Winnie in tow, but they are attacked by Bela, who strongly despises humans. When Bela injures Winnie, Dennis instantly grows his fangs and his vampire abilities manifest. Drac, Mavis, and Dennis team up to defeat Bela’s minions. Bela attempts to kill Johnny in revenge, but Vlad appears with a change of heart and shrinks his former servant to a harmless size. With Dennis a pureblood vampire, Mavis decides to continue raising her son in Transylvania and the party resumes.
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