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The Amazing Spider-Kids

Edward "Ned" Leeds, Gwendolyne Maxine "Gwen" Stacy, Mary Jane "MJ" Watson and Peter Parker were high school students chaperoning a middle school field trip which Aña "Anya" Sofia Corazón and Miles Morales were on one Friday to Sunday weekend to ring in summer. Discovering a secret swimming hole's waterfall; Anya, Gwen, MJ, Miles, Ned and Peter swim into a cave to find a dying man with six of seven spiders. The man is an alien named Galus of planet Arachne. Galus tells the six youths that his planet Arachne was destroyed by the Venom symbiote which stole the seventh Black Spider of Shadow. Sensing goodness in our heroes, Galus asks them to adopt his spiders to so their powers will not fall into the hands of evil. They do so and the six remaining spiders give bites to alter the DNA of the recipients to utilize the powers of the spider. Peter receives the Red Spider of Fire as Spider-Red, MJ the Pink Spider of Wind as Spider-Pink, Ned the Green Spider of Forest as Spider-Green, Anya the Yellow Spider of Earth as Spider-Yellow, Miles the Blue Spider of Water as the Spider-Blue, and Gwen the White Spider of Light as Spider-White as they test out Spider powers. They are excited and terrified. These six youths discover evil does not rest and they cannot rest while innocent people are in danger. Using their basic Spider and elemental powers, these youths become into the Amazing Spider-Kids team.

Destiny of Tomorrow: Legacy of the Space Shuttle

An epic documentary film made from enhanced NASA archival footage from the Space Shuttle era with archival interview audio of the astronauts musing on their thoughts on the shuttles before and after spaceflight. Three-dimensional computer rendered and radio-controlled miniature model scenes depicting multiple facets of the program with the voices of the shuttles themselves also use National Geographic and IMAX archival footage to paint a picture of these shuttles also evolving during their times alive and in spaceflight of humanity. The prologue follows Gene Cernan's words from Apollo 17 about the 'Destiny of Tomorrow' that the Space Shuttle Program would service as told through the voices of the astronauts and shuttles themselves. Act I covers the entry and landing of a Shuttle to her processing. Early concepts and testing are featured in Act II. Assembly, rollout and launch are focused on in Act III. Musings on Earth history, humanity and the world below from space by the shuttles take over for Act IV. The challenges of spaceflight on orbit are evidenced in Act V. The epilogue follows the words of the surviving Shuttles remembering their fallen sisters and wondering what comes next for humankind into space.

Dawn of the Comet: Sailor Moon Zero - Volume I

We start out in the younger days of Queens Beryl and Serenity focusing on how they first came to befriend each other and the seeds for what will lead to them eventually splitting and becoming mortal foes with Beryl becoming Queen of the Dark Kingdom trying to enslave Earth and eventually all of the Solar Kingdoms with Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom standing in her way to curse both the position of Sailor Earth and planet Earth after the sacrifice of Sailor Sun. Here, however, Beryl is a mere sorceress apprentice on Earth and Serenity is the daughter of Mani and Devana the king and queen of the Moon who are just the puppets of the lurking Diamond Empire. Most of the Solar Kingdoms’ peoples don’t even know their worlds and their space colonies are under the cruel dictatorship of a malevolent force from outside their Solar System. But Beryl and Serenity are soon kidnapped and sent into an arena with eight other princesses to die at the hands of monsters abused by a cruel King Gorgonius XIII and rescued only by the champion who can see the evil happening right under their noses – Queen Dione of the Helios Kingdom alias Sailor Sun herself. Sailor Sun once led an army against the men of Gorgonius but her council betrayed her and left their army to be slaughtered. Beryl and the princesses become the Sailor Scouts all to fight back.

Skyjacked (Remake)

Global Airways domestic flight 502 (an Airbus A340-300) from Honolulu to Minneapolis-St. Paul has problems after Aaron Thatcher, boyfriend of co-pilot Sam Allen, is re-assigned as lead flight attendant; he is also the ex-boyfriend of the pilot, Helen O'Hara. There is excitement once in the air as the President relays a message for a passenger. But those issues take a back seat when a note for one person to find states there is a explosive aboard the plane and the note writer will detonate it unless the flight diverts to Anchorage, Alaska. The location of the note means it was written by one of the passengers in first class. The flight crew has to view everyone as a suspect in taking whatever each says with a grain of salt. But even if they are able to discover the identity of the hijacker and his/her motivation and end goal, they still have to find and defuse the bomb.

The Big Garage

The setting of this show is Taxitown, where the eponymous Big Garage is. Said garage is home to four taxi cabs, London, Yorky, Zigzag, and Mimi, who are always under the watchful eye of Pump, a gas pump who serves as their mentor. Close to the Big Garage is Scrapland, a scrapyard serving as the home of an anthropomorphic trash compactor named Scrap who wants to destroy the taxis. Scrap's helper, a tow truck named Rusty, alternates back and forth between being an enemy of the taxis and a friend.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2011)

Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends are being threatened by diesel engines like the surly Diesel 10 and his sidekicks Splatter and Dodge. Even the magical Mr. Conductor, who has always traveled between the Island of Sodor and Shining Time Station on opposite sides of the Atlantic, is losing his powers and sparkle. In the middle of this crisis, Lily meets up with Mr. Conductor on the way to visit her lonely grandfather Burnett Stone. Brave Thomas reminds them all that "even little engines can do big things" as they work together to defeat the invading diesels to save the Island of Sodor and Shining Time from the machinations of Diesel 10 and the bullysome P.T. Boomer.

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Lucia Nanami, the mermaid princess of the North Pacific Ocean, sets out on land to find the boy that she had saved from a tsunami wave seven years before the beginning of the story, with whom she fell in love and had entrusted her pink pearl. She eventually finds the boy: a teenage surfer named Kaito Dōmoto. However, Kaito does not recognize Lucia in her human form. She cannot directly tell Kaito who she really is; otherwise, according to mermaid legend, she would turn into bubbles and disappear. Lucia tries to convince Kaito into figuring out who she really is (since the legend doesn't say anything about the other person discovering a mermaid's true identity by him or her self). At the same time, Lucia has been told that a group of water demons have invaded the sea world and she must gather six other Mermaid Princesses and their pearls to bring back the legendary goddess Aqua Regina to stop them. To fulfill this, she joins forces with Hanon and Rina, the Mermaid Princesses who came up to dry land, use their pearls, turn into singing teen idols, and use their voices as an offensive power. After the water demons fail, the Black Beauty Sisters show up to steal the show. The Mermaid Princesses believe in themselves and believe they can defeat the Black Beauty Sisters, which they do.

The High and the Mighty (Remake)

Danica Roman is a veteran pilot for Continental Airways who is haunted by a tragic past and is only able to recover by being relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments. She finds herself on Continental flight 54 (a Boeing 707-324 or an Airbus A340-300) which is a routine flight from Guam to San Francisco - one that takes a terrifying, suspense-building turn when disaster strikes above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return. As chief flight attendant Harold Spaulding and his junior flight attendants Lenora "Lenny" Wilby and Honorine "Hobie" Wheeler try to keep the passengers including a wannabe hijacker from tearing each other apart, Danica has to step in when Captain John Sullivan finds his nerves of steel are beginning to rust away beneath him.

The Adventures of Thomas (A Marc Forester Film)

Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends are being threatened by diesel engines like the surly Diesel 10 and his sidekicks Splatter and Dodge while Sir Topham Hatt tries to maintain order. Even Mr. Conductor who travels between the Island of Sodor and the human world is permanently losing his magic gold dust. In the middle of this crisis, Lily meets up with Mr. Conductor on the way to visit her sick grandfather Burnett Stone. Brave Thomas reminds them all that "even little engines can do big things.

The Big Garage

The setting of this show is Taxitown, where the eponymous Big Garage is. Said garage is home to four taxi cabs, London, Yorky, Zigzag, and Mimi, who are always under the watchful eye of Pump, a gas pump who serves as their mentor. Close to the Big Garage is Scrapland, a scrapyard serving as the home of an anthropomorphic trash compactor named Scrap who wants to destroy the taxis and become the ruler of Scrapland and Taxitown. Scrap's helper, a tow truck named Rusty, alternates back and forth between being an enemy of the taxis and a friend.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1994)

USAF General Jack Ripper and AFRF General Piotr Vladimirov go utterly mad, and sends bomber wings to destroy the other's nation. They suspects that enemy agents are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of total the American and Russian peoples. The American and Russian presidents meet with their advisors, where the Russian ambassador tells him that if either country is hit by nuclear weapons, the attack will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. British Group Captain Leona Mandrake is the only person with access to demented Ripper. American President Merkin Muffley and Russian President Valentin Zakharov attempt to avert disaster by placating their ambassadors and former Stasi genius Dr. Strangelove concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will Ripper and Vladimirov succeed in destroying the world ?

Alien 3

When the USS Sulaco returns to Earth after destroying the Hadley's Hope terraforming colony on Acheron (LV-426); Ripley, Hicks and Newt ensure the Weyland-Yutani corporation rebuilds Bishop to perfect working order before nailing any surviving actors in Carter Burke's machinations to the wall before retiring to Brazil. Once back in working order, Bishop mentors a new young synthetic named Call to take over for him. But disaster occurs when a queen Xenomorph egg hatches back aboard the Sulaco and begins to cause terror down on Earth. As Earth's forces contend with the nightmares Ripley had experienced, Bishop and Call must plot a crazy plan to lure the Xenomorphs onto a spaceship to then crash into the Sun and destroy the threat once and for all. The two synthetics' only hope is the soon-to-be-decommissioned starliner Polyphemus they must lure the aliens onto before they set the suicide course and try to prevent the infestation from being able to leave the crashing ship.

Untitled Thomas & Friends Movie (2024)

TBD.

The Last Unicorn

The villainous King Haggard plots to destroy all the Earth's unicorns. When a young unicorn named Amalthea learns from a butterfly that her forest in danger and that she may soon be the last of her kind, she leaves the safety of her protected forest and enlists the help of Schmendrick, a gentle, albeit clumsy, sorcerer. Together with a middle aged maid named Molly Grue, they embark on a long and dangerous journey with one goal: to defeat Haggard and save the unicorns from extinction.

Star Trek: Pathfinders

The year is 2493 in the Prime Timeline, and the dust has settled from the Great Galactic War born out of the Hobus supernova which tore apart the Romulan Star Empire, and a desperate Klingon Empire and Romulan Republic have joined the United Federation of Planets as autonomous bodies within the Federation while partly adapting to Federation customs and rules. With the lineage of the late Captain James T. Kirk continuing through his nephew Peter and the generations spawned from him, an experienced yet promising woman from Starfleet Academy has mastered the Kobayashi Maru simulation and any No-Win scenarios that test the character of promising Starfleet officers. Self-sacrificing to a fault and eager to prove that the legacy of Captain Kirk does not challenge her own, Madison Horatio Kirk receives her first starship command with the rank of Captain - the Enterprise. With a massive yet loyal crew of mixed backgrounds and families of colonists, Kirk is eager to bring the ideals and hopes of the 26th Century to all of the final frontiers.

Thomas & Friends (Live Action)

Based on a series of children's books, Thomas & Friends features Thomas the Tank Engine going on adventures with his fellow locomotives on the Island of Sodor which increasingly encounters the many unknowns and unexplainables. Thomas is apt to get into trouble by trying too hard to be, in his words, a "really useful engine," attempting to do things that are best left to bigger engines. Other members of the North Western Railway include junior engine Percy, Thomas' best friend, who is always willing to help, and big engine Gordon -- the fastest and most powerful member of the team -- who uses his superior strength to help the smaller engines get out of trouble. And there are many other friends to meet while never knowing what kind of trouble our friends will get into.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1985 All Black Cast)

On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, blissfully-affianced, prudish, boringly-innocent young pair Brad Majors and Janet Weiss find themselves stranded on their way to visit an ex-tutor. Instead, the couple will inadvertently unearth the cross-dressing Dr. Frank-N-Furter's spooky castle of inexhaustible oddities, just in time to partake in the out-of-this-world mad scientist's proud unveiling of his latest, delightfully extravagant, most daring creation: the ultimate male and the perfect sex symbol: the flaxen-haired Rocky Horror. But, little by little, as the effervescent transgressive force gobbles up whole the unsuspecting visitors of the night, Brad and Janet slowly begin to embrace the potent fascinations of seduction, while an idolized Rocky roams free in the mansion. Who can interrupt man's union with the absolute pleasure?

Thomas & Friends

Based on a series of children's books, Thomas & Friends features Thomas the Tank Engine going on adventures with his fellow locomotives on the Island of Sodor which increasingly encounters the many unknowns and unexplainables. Thomas is apt to get into trouble by trying too hard to be, in his words, a "really useful engine," attempting to do things that are best left to bigger engines. Other members of the North Western Railway include junior engine Percy, Thomas' best friend, who is always willing to help, and big engine Gordon -- the fastest and most powerful member of the team -- who uses his superior strength to help the smaller engines get out of trouble.

Strike Witches: The Voyage Home

With the war against the Neuroi in Europe drawing to a close, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing and maybe a few other squadrons now have to tackle some very deep crises as they charge off to free Fuso and the Pacific from a few last remaining Neuroi Hives causing calamity if the world is ever going to know a time of peace away from the Neuroi. From Barkhorn having a heartrending stand-off with a psychotic Liberion gunnery sergeant and Hartmann forced to hunt an idol of hers gone astray, to Eila managing to rescue Sanya's parents and some experimental rocket Striker Units tested by Shirley, Lynne and Perrine; our witches must board a cross-Orussian train to take the fight back to Yoshika, Shizuka and Major Sakamoto's home empire of Fuso for a final battle.

Relight of Gundam: The One Year War Pentalogy

It is the year 0079 of the Universal Century. A war has broken out between the Principality of Zeon, a space colony that wants independence, and the Earth Federation. Six teenagers (four boys, two girls) and a Federation test pilot have to pilot the Federation's new secret weapons when the space colony in which they live is attacked by Zeon mobile suits, gigantic robots piloted by humans. Those new secret weapons are called the Gundam Force, seven far more powerful mobile suits. The story follows the Gundam Force and many other civilians around the same age who have to take over a Federation spaceship and become soldiers in order to survive the war against Zeon's forces throughout the One Year War while a brother and sister are soon reunited and torn apart yet again.