Fantasy DVD & Blu-rays 2014 List

With Craig Fairbrass • Dominic Purcell • Jesse Moss • Tegan Moss • Yusry A. Halim • Jon Foo • Conan Stevens • Natassia Malthe • Bruce Blain

Thor is on a mission to gather the key ancient relics – “Mjolnir” – his hammer from Valhalla, “Necklace of Mary Magdalene” from Mitgard and the “Horn” from Helheim. This needs to be accomplished before the Blood Eclipse, which happens once every 800 years, failing which, the pagan Viking Gods will never be able to rule and conquer mankind ever again. Only one man can stop him… Eirick, the undead.

With Timur Bekmambetov • Doug Erholtz • Wendee Lee • Vladlen Barbe • Maksim Sveshnikov • Jessica Straus • Cindy Robinson • Marianne Miller

The ice-cold Snow Queen wishes to turn the world into a frozen landscape, with no light, no joy, no happiness, and no free will. A young man, Kai, is rumored to be the son of a man who is the queen’s only remaining threat. He is abducted and held captive in the queen’s palace, and it’s up to his sister, Gerda, to rescue him. Gerda journeys across an icy land, facing difficult obstacles and meeting wonderful new friends that help her in her quest to set Kai free, defeat the Snow Queen, and save the world from eternal frost.

With Hailee Steinfeld • Ben Kingsley • Viola Davis • Asa Butterfield • Abigail Breslin • Alex Kurtzman • Harrison Ford • Lynn Hendee • Roberto Orci • Jimmy Pinchak • Ed Ulbrich • Aramis Knight • Bill Lischak • Michael Dougherty • Dan Harris • Linda McDonough • Orson Scott Card • Moises Arias • Gavin Hood • Brendan Meyer • Conor Carroll • Suraj Parthasarathy • Gigi Pritzker • Mandy Safavi • Cliff Plumer • Khylin Rhambo

In the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young children to find the future Mazer. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite.

Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect amongst his peers. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

With Michael Sheen • Sam Neill • Gavin Scott • John Smith • Ioan Gruffudd • Lena Headey • Keeley Hawes • Jonathan Newman • Rob Sprackling • Aneurin Barnard • Tristan Gemmill • Daniel Wilde

Ancient mysteries. Powerful evil. And a fearless hero’s quest through a fantastical realm of steam-powered wonders and sinister magic… In The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, 17-year-old Mariah Mundi’s life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth—but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!

With Tsui Hark

A tale of Dee Renjie’s beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.

With Jared Leto • Juno Temple • Diane Kruger • Sarah Polley • Rhys Ifans • Jaco Van Dormael

A young boy stands on a station platform. The train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? An infinity of possibilities rise from this decision. As long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible. Every life deserves to be lived.

With Keanu Reeves • Ken Watanabe • Scott Stuber • Walter Hamada • Pam Abdy • Chris Morgan • Hiroyuki Sanada • Togo Igawa • Erwin Stoff • Rinko Kikuchi • Tadanobu Asano • Ko Shibasaki • Chris Fenton • Hossein Amini • Yorick van Wageningen • Carl Erik Rinsch • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa • Jin Akanishi

After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)—a half-breed they once rejected—as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled, enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon, he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity.

With Cate Blanchett • Evangeline Lilly • Benedict Cumberbatch • Orlando Bloom • Elijah Wood • Luke Evans • Martin Freeman • Andy Serkis • Peter Jackson • Lee Pace • Philippa Boyens • Guillermo del Toro • Hugo Weaving • Ian McKellen • Fran Walsh • Stephen Fry • Richard Armitage • Ken Stott • Barry Humphries • Adam Brown • William Kircher • Dean O'Gorman • James Nesbitt • Phillippa Boyens • Graham McTavish • Jeffrey Thomas • Bret McKenzie • Stephen Hunter • Sylvester McCoy • Ryan Gage • Jed Brophy • Ken Kamins • Aidan Turner • Conan Stevens • Zane Weiner • Carolynne Cunningham • Rob Kazinsky • John Callen • Mark Hadlow • Peter Hambleton • Mikael Persbrandt • Mike Mizrahi

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

With Sean Penn • Ben Stiller • Kristen Wiig • Kathryn Hahn • John Goldwyn • Shirley MacLaine • Josh Charles • Adam Scott • Peter Morgan • Steven Conrad • Patton Oswalt • Terence Bernie Hines • Samuel Goldwyn Jr. • Jay Kogen

Follows a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

With Randy Moore

An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teenage Parisians.

With Claire Foy • Olga Kurylenko • Don Murphy • Cameron Monaghan • Lucy Fry • Gabriel Byrne • Sarah Hyland • Zoey Deutch • Dominic Sherwood • Mark S. Waters • Dan Waters • Michael Preger • Shelley Longworth • Danila Kozlovskiy • Ashley Charles

Vampire Academy tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians). Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa - a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa's guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

With Martin Short • Dan Aykroyd • Adam Balsam • Hugh Dancy • Bernadette Peters • Patrick Stewart • Kelsey Grammer • Lea Michele • Oliver Platt • James Belushi • Ryan Carroll • Will Finn • Dan St. Pierre • Bonne Radford • Randi Barnes • Megan Hilty • Barry Glasser • Roland Carroll • Neil L. Kaufman

The plot begins as Dorothy returns to Kansas to find it devastated by the tornado that sent her to Oz. Before she can react to the destruction of her home, she is transported back to Oz, where her three friends (Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man) have disappeared. She meets a charming man made of marshmallows who can’t quite think for himself, a tiny china doll princess whose bossiness is a cover for her fragility, and a tugboat with as many personalities as he has pieces. Dorothy must help this group band together against the Jester, a wicked new villain who believes that all of Oz should be under his control. How will Dorothy and her new companions work together in a seemingly disastrous time to restore Oz to the place we all know and love?

With Harris Wilkinson • Zach Lipovsky • Stephanie Bennett • Teach Grant • Brendan Fletcher • Dylan Hornswoggle Postl • Bruce Blain

Backpacking through the lush Irish countryside, two unsuspecting young couples discover a town's chilling secret. Ben (Dunbar), Sophie (Bennet), David (Fletcher) and Jeni (Roxburgh) quickly discover the idyllic land is not what it appears to be when the town's residents offer the hikers an old cabin at the edge of the woods. Soon, the friends will find that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.

With Angelina Jolie • Elle Fanning • Palak Patel • Joe Roth • Miranda Richardson • Imelda Staunton • Juno Temple • Brenton Thwaites • India Eisley • Vivienne Jolie-Pitt • Sam Riley • Matt Smith • Sharlto Copley • Lesley Manville • Don Hahn • Linda Woolverton • Kenneth Cranham • Robert Stromberg

“Maleficent” is the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic “Sleeping Beauty.” A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal—an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom—and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.

With Angelina Jolie • Elle Fanning • Palak Patel • Joe Roth • Miranda Richardson • Imelda Staunton • Juno Temple • Brenton Thwaites • India Eisley • Vivienne Jolie-Pitt • Sam Riley • Matt Smith • Sharlto Copley • Lesley Manville • Don Hahn • Linda Woolverton • Kenneth Cranham • Robert Stromberg

“Maleficent” is the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic “Sleeping Beauty.” A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal—an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom—and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.

With Omar Sy • Gad Elmaleh • Romain Duris • Michel Gondry • Audrey Tautou

A story set in Paris about two newlyweds, Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and Colin (Romain Duris), whose whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs.

With Gerard Butler • Jonah Hill • Chris Sanders • Kit Harington • Jay Baruchel • Kristen Wiig • T.J. Miller • America Ferrera • Dean DeBlois • Djimon Hounsou • Bonnie Arnold • Christopher Mintz-Plasse • Craig Ferguson

The first movie took us into a war between fire-breathing dragons and Vikings, but when a boy named Hiccup impossibly befriended a dragon named Toothless, their friendship changed their world forever. Dragons 2, the second film of this fantastic epic trilogy continues the story about a man named Hiccup and a dragon named Toothless, and flies into theaters in summer of 2014.

With Emily Blunt • Stanley Tucci • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Elijah Wood • Martin Short • John Krasinski • William H. Macy • Mae Whitman • Jennifer Grey • Hayao Miyazaki • Werner Herzog • Mandy Patinkin • Gary Rydstrom

In The Wind Rises, Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

With Zoe Saldana • Chris Pratt • Bradley Cooper • Vin Diesel • Dave Bautista • Lee Pace • Benicio Del Toro • John C. Reilly • James Gunn • Nicole Perlman • Glenn Close • Karen Gillan • Djimon Hounsou • Kevin Feige • Chris McCoy • Gregg Henry • Michael Rooker • Ophelia Lovibond

An American pilot ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.