Save the dates as upcoming summer is going to be filled with fantastic theatrical releases you do not want to miss. Each month starting May,
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada is ready to treat us with new movies. Favorite stories, characters, giants, a dragon, magic tricks, twists, old and new friends, enemies and haters - everything is for you to enjoy during the summer of 2016!
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Cast: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Rhys Ifans with Helena
Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen
Voice Cast: Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Matt Vogel, Barbara Windsor, Paul Whitehouse
Director: James Bobin
In Disney’s
“Alice Through the Looking Glass,” an all-new spectacular adventure
featuring the unforgettable characters from
Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns
to the whimsical world of
Underland and travels back in time to save
the Mad Hatter.
Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim
Burton create d on screen in 2010 with “Alice in Wonderland,” the film is written by
Linda
Woolverton based on characters created by
Lewis Carroll. “Alice Through the Looking Glass” reunites the all-star cast from the
worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including:
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia
Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman,
Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. Viewers are also introduced to several new
characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself
(Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.
Alice Kingsleigh has spent the past few years following in her father’s
footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a
magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of
Underland and her friends
the
White Rabbit (Sheen),
Absolem (Rickman),
the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and
the Mad
Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana
(Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside
the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she
comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a
perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.
FINDING DORY
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Voice Cast:
Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy, Diane
Keaton, Hayden Rolence
Director: Andrew Stanton
Disney•Pixar's
“Finding Dory” welcomes back to the big screen everyone’s favourite
forgetful blue tang
Dory (voice of
Ellen DeGeneres), who’s living happily in the reef with
Nemo (voice of
Hayden Rolence) and
Marlin (voice of
Albert Brooks). When Dory
suddenly remembers that she has a family out there who may be looking for her, the
trio takes off on a life-changing adventure across the ocean to California’s prestigious
Marine Life Institute, a rehabilitation center and aquarium. In an effort to find her mom
(voice of
Diane Keaton) and dad (voice of
Eugene Levy),
Dory enlists the help of three
of the
MLI’s most intriguing residents:
Hank (voice of
Ed O’Neill), a cantankerous
octopus who frequently gives employees the slip;
Bailey (voice of
Ty Burrell), a beluga
whale who is convinced his echolocation skills are on the fritz; and
Destiny (voice of
Kaitlin Olson), a nearsighted whale shark.
Deftly navigating the complex innerworkings
of the
MLI,
Dory and her friends discover the magic within their flaws, friendships and
family.
THE BFG
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe
Spall, Bill Hader
Director: Steven Spielberg
The talents of three of the world’s greatest storytellers –
Roald Dahl, Walt Disney and
Steven Spielberg –finally unite to bring
Dahl’s beloved classic
“The BFG” to life. Directed
by
Spielberg, Disney’s “The BFG” tells the imaginative story of a young girl and
the Giant
who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country.
The BFG (
Mark Rylance),
while a giant himself, is a
Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of
Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is
endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part. Giants like
Bloodbottler
(
Bill Hader) and
Fleshlumpeater (
Jemaine Clement) on the other hand, are twice as big
and at least twice as scary and have been known to eat humans, while the BFG prefers
Snozzcumber and
Frobscottle. Upon her arrival in Giant Country,
Sophie, a precocious
10-year-old girl from London, is initially frightened of the mysterious giant who has
brought her to his cave, but soon comes to realize that the BFG is actually quite gentle
and charming, and, having never met a giant before, has many questions.
The BFG
brings
Sophie to
Dream Country where he collects dreams and sends them to children,
teaching her all about the magic and mystery of dreams. Having both been on their
own in the world up until now, their affection for one another quickly grows, but
Sophie’s presence in Giant Country has attracted the unwanted attention of the other
giants, who have become increasingly more bothersome. Sophie and the BFG soon
depart for London to see the Queen (Penelope Wilton) and warn her of the precarious
giant situation, but they must first convince the Queen and her maid, Mary (Rebecca
Hall), that giants do indeed exist. Together, they come up with a plan to get rid of the
giants once and for all.
“The BFG” opens in theatres on Canada Day, July 1st, 2016. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of
Dahl’s birth.
PETE’S DRAGON
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence and
Robert Redford
Director: David Lowery
A reimagining of Disney’s cherished family film,
“Pete’s Dragon” is the adventure of an
orphaned boy named
Pete and his best friend
Elliott, who just so happens to be a
dragon. The film, which is directed by David Lowery, is written by Lowery & Toby Halbrooks based on a screenplay by
Malcolm Marmorstein and produced by Jim Whitaker, p.g.a. (“The Finest Hours,” “Friday
Night Lights”), with Barrie M. Osborne (“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,”
“The Great Gatsby”) serving as executive producer.
For years, old wood carver
Mr. Meacham (
Robert Redford) has delighted local children
with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of
the Pacific
Northwest. To his daughter,
Grace (
Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger,
these stories are little more than tall tales...until she meets
Pete (
Oakes Fegley).
Pete is a
mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with
a giant, green dragon named
Elliott. And from
Pete’s descriptions,
Elliott seems
remarkably similar to the dragon from
Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of
Natalie
(
Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father
Jack (
Wes Bentley) owns the local
lumber mill,
Grace sets out to determine where
Pete came from, where he belongs,
and the truth about this dragon.
