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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 American computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Produced by Illumination, Universal Pictures, and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal, it was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel. The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Prat...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Mickey Rooney•Paul Mazursky•Eli Wallach•Peter Falk•Alan Arkin•James Hong•Jon Voight•Dustin Hoffman•Robert De Niro
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Apollo 10+1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood is a 2022 American animated coming of age drama film set during the events preceding the Apollo 11 Moon landing, loosely based on the childhood of writer, director, and producer Richard Linklater. It presents a fictional tale of a fourth-grader who becomes the first person to land on the Moon and stars Glen Powe...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Ian McShane•Christopher Walken•Victor Garber
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Jumanji: The Next Level is a 2019 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg. The film is the fourth installment in the Jumanji film series and the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). It stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jo...
Starring: Colleen Camp•Colin Hanks•Anya Taylor-Joy•Tim Robbins•John Turturro•Martin Scorsese•Bill Cobbs•Jeffrey Tambor•Steve Martin•Jean-Claude Van Damme
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and based upon the memoir of the same name by John Callahan. The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black, and follows a recently paralyzed alcoholic who finds a passion for drawing off-color newspaper cartoons.
Starring: Frank Oz•Anya Taylor-Joy•Richard Hunt•Dave Goelz
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 2018 American fantasy comedy film directed by Eli Roth, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by John Bellairs. It stars Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sunny Suljic, and Kyle MacLachlan. The film follows a young boy, Lewis, who is sent to live with his uncle, Jonathan, i...
Starring: Jackie Chan•Judd Hirsch•Anya Taylor-Joy•Tom Cruise•Jennifer Jason Leigh•Harold Ramis•Rutger Hauer•Sean Penn
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is a 2018 American horror comedy film directed by Ari Sandel and written by Rob Lieber from a story by Lieber and Darren Lemke. A stand-alone sequel to 2015's Goosebumps, it is based on the children's horror book series of the same name by R. L. Stine. The new cast consists of Wendi McLendon-Covey, Madison Iseman, Je...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Kyle MacLachlan•Alicia Witt•Lauren Tom•Danny Glover•Cheryl Ladd•John Cusack
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan from a screenplay by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, and Jeff Pinkner. The film is the third installment in the Jumanji film series and a standalone sequel to Jumanji (1995). It stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gi...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Tim Robbins•John Turturro•Robert Downey Jr.•Bill Cobbs•Jean-Claude Van Damme
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 2016 computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, China Film Group Corporation, Oriental DreamWorks and Zhong Ming You Ying Film and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). The film was directed by Jenni...
Starring: J. K. Simmons•Horatio Sanz•Andy Serkis•Anya Taylor-Joy•Bobby Cannavale•Bobb'e J. Thompson•Xander Berkeley•Oliver Platt•Lili Taylor•James Franco
The D Train (2015)
The D Train is a 2015 American buddy comedy film written and directed by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel in their directorial debuts, and stars Jack Black and James Marsden. The film premiered at the 11th Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015, and was released in the United States on May 8, 2015, by IFC Films.
Starring: Gary Oldman•Anya Taylor-Joy•Josh Charles•Dennis Haysbert•Michael Imperioli
Goosebumps (2015)
Goosebumps is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Rob Letterman and written by Darren Lemke. Based on R. L. Stine's children's horror book series of the same name, it stars Jack Black as a fictionalized version of Stine who teams up with his teenage daughter, and their neighbor, to save their hometown after all of the monsters from the G...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Doug E. Doug•Martin Lawrence•Gwyneth Paltrow•Raymond J. Barry•Lyle Lovett
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is the sequel to Kung Fu Panda (2008) and the second installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. It was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. The fil...
Starring: Andrea Roth•J. K. Simmons•Horatio Sanz•Jason James Richter•Andy Serkis•Will Smith•Stuart Wilson•Joe Viterelli•Renée Zellweger•Anya Taylor-Joy
The Big Year (2011)
The Big Year is a 2011 American comedy film starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin, directed by David Frankel and written by Howard Franklin. The film was based on the 2004 non-fiction book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik. The book follows three men on a quest for a Big Year – a competition among b...
Starring: Jack Black•Anya Taylor-Joy•David Krumholtz
The Muppets (2011)
The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy film directed by James Bobin and written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, and the seventh theatrical film featuring the Muppets. The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, and Rashida Jones, as well as Muppets performers Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, David Rudman, Mat...
Starring: Schuyler Fisk•Lucy Liu•Edward Burns•Paul Rudd•Angelina Jolie•Hank Azaria•Ciarán Hinds•Kate Winslet•Naomi Watts•Luke Wilson
Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Gulliver's Travels is a 2010 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Rob Letterman in his live-action directorial debut, produced by John Davis and Gregory Goodman, written by Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller with music by Henry Jackman. It is loosely based on Part One of the 1726 novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift, though the fil...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Rachel Weisz•Peter Stormare•Jude Law•James Marsden•Wayne Knight•Vince Vaughn•Cate Blanchett•Bryan Cranston•Amanda Peet
Year One (2009)
Year One is a 2009 American adventure comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film was written by Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, and Lee Eisenberg and stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. Its story follows Zed and Oh, two hunter-gatherers who travel to the city of Sodom after being banished from their tribe. Pro...
Starring: Evan Parke•Michael Clarke Duncan•Kate Hudson•Anya Taylor-Joy•Will Ferrell•Sarah Silverman•Michael Cullen•Jason Biggs•Kyle Chandler•James Franco
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on Februa...
Starring: Mike White•Iben Hjejle•Colin Hanks•Anya Taylor-Joy•Dwayne Johnson•Danny Trejo•Kyle Gass•Mos Def•Jamie Bell•Jason Segel
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The first installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, it was directed by John Stevenson and co-directed by Mark Osborne, from a screenplay by the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and a s...
Starring: J. K. Simmons•Horatio Sanz•Chris Parnell•Andy Serkis•Anya Taylor-Joy•Bobby Cannavale•Bobb'e J. Thompson•Kevin Michael Richardson•Kathryn Hahn•Michael Cullen
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director drops them in the middle of...
Starring: Fred Armisen•Matt Walsh•David Cross•Amy Poehler•Ariel Gade•Charles Martinet•Angee Hughes•Blue Deckert•John Gavigan•Arjay Smith
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Margot at the Wedding is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciarán Hinds and Halley Feiffer. The film is about the familial storm that arises when Margot, a writer, comes to visit her sister Pauline on the eve of her wedding.
Starring: Seth Rogen•Paul F. Tompkins•Thomas Kretschmann•Anya Taylor-Joy•Jonah Hill•Rory McCann•Marcus Carl Franklin•Melonie Diaz•Amy Ryan•Halley Feiffer
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, and written by Kasdan and co-producer Judd Apatow. It stars John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows and Kristen Wiig. A parody of the biopic genre, Walk Hard is the story of a fictional early rock and roll star played by Reilly.
Starring: Flora Cross•Evan Parke•Zachary Levi•Ana de la Reguera•Hector Jimenez•Carla Jimenez•Richard Montoya•Moisés Arias•Anya Taylor-Joy•JR Reed
Nacho Libre (2006)
Nacho Libre is a 2006 sports comedy-drama film directed by Jared Hess and written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and Mike White. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic friar and lucha libre fan who secretly moonlights as a luchador to earn money for the orphanage where he works. The film is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta, a real-life Me...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Dave Grohl•Catherine Tate•James Corden•Wendi McLendon-Covey•Jon Glaser•Ken Jeong
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is a 2006 American musical fantasy comedy film about comedy rock duo Tenacious D. Written, produced by and starring Tenacious D members Jack Black and Kyle Gass, it is directed and co-written by musician and puppeteer Liam Lynch. Despite being about an actual band, the film is a fictitious story about the band's o...
Starring: Charles Martinet•Anya Taylor-Joy•Michael Cullen•Enid Graham•T.J. Miller•Sebastian Maniscalco•Chris Pratt
The Holiday (2006)
The Holiday is a 2006 romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. Coproduced by Bruce A. Block, it was filmed in both California and England and stars Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as Iris and Amanda, two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who arrange a home exchange to escape heartbreak during the Ch...
Starring: Chris O'Dowd•Nick Jonas•Anya Taylor-Joy•Olly Alexander•Rooney Mara•Charlie Day•Jillian Bell•Ryan Lee•Ser'Darius Blain•Odeya Rush
King Kong (2005)
King Kong is a 2005 epic adventure monster film co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson. It is the eighth entry in the King Kong franchise and the second remake of the 1933 film of the same title, following the 1976 film. The film stars Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts, Jack Black, and Adrien Brody. Set in 1933, it follows the story of an ambit...
Starring: Karen Gillan•Glen Powell•Anya Taylor-Joy•Jeremy Ray Taylor•Sunny Suljic•Owen Vaccaro•Renée Elise Goldsberry•Vanessa Anne Williams•Madison Iseman•Caleel Harris
Envy (2004)
Envy is a 2004 American black comedy buddy film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black. The film was a critical and commercial failure.
Starring: Milo Coy•Charles Martinet•Anya Taylor-Joy•Peter Falk•Robert De Niro•Fred Willard•Martin Scorsese•Jason Alexander•Rutger Hauer•Alicia Witt
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American satirical comedy film directed by Adam McKay in his directorial debut, produced by Judd Apatow, starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate and written by McKay and Ferrell. The first installment in the Anchorman series, the film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, partic...
Starring: John Cusack•Tim Robbins•Charles Martinet•Joan Cusack•Anya Taylor-Joy•Will Ferrell•Sam Lerner•Christina Applegate•Lili Taylor•Josh Charles
Shark Tale (2004)
Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman, from a screenplay written by Letterman and Michael J. Wilson. The film features an ensemble cast that includes the voices of Will Smith, Robert ...
Starring: Michael Imperioli•Doug E. Doug•Gwyneth Paltrow•Andrea Roth•Jason James Richter•Will Smith•Stuart Wilson•Anya Taylor-Joy•Bobb'e J. Thompson•Joe Viterelli
School of Rock (2003)
School of Rock is a 2003 comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Mike White. The film stars Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White and Sarah Silverman. Black plays struggling rock guitarist Dewey Finn, who is fired from his band and subsequently poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. Afte...
Starring: Iben Hjejle•Anya Taylor-Joy•Steve Zahn•Dennis Haysbert
Orange County (2002)
Orange County is a 2002 American comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 11, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Productions and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Mike White.
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Schuyler Fisk•Owen Vaccaro
Saving Silverman (2001)
Saving Silverman is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black and Amanda Peet. Neil Diamond has a cameo role playing himself. In the film, Darren Silverman's longtime friends try to save him from marrying his controlling new girlfriend, whose behavior threatens the friends, their band, and...
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy•Luke Wilson•Rachel Weisz•Rachel Weisz
Shallow Hal (2001)
Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black about a shallow man who falls in love with a 300-pound woman after being hypnotized into only seeing a person's inner beauty. Directed by the Farrelly brothers, it was filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Sterling and Princeton, Massachu...
Starring: Vince Vaughn•Will Ferrell•Sarah Silverman•Anya Taylor-Joy
High Fidelity (2000)
High Fidelity is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Lisa Bonet. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the protagonist's name changed. Hornby expressed surprise a...
Starring: Jason Biggs•Iben Hjejle•Danny Trejo•Bobb'e J. Thompson•Anya Taylor-Joy•Amy Poehler
Bongwater (1997)
Bongwater is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Richard Sears and starring Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Amy Locane, Brittany Murphy, Jack Black and Andy Dick. Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Michael Hornburg, the film is set in Portland, Oregon, and follows an aspiring artist and marijuana dealer and his relationship with a temp...
Starring: Ariel Gade•Anya Taylor-Joy•Sam Lerner
Crossworlds (1996)
Crossworlds is a 1996 science fiction film starring Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Andrea Roth, Stuart Wilson and Jack Black, and directed by Krishna Rao. Special effects are by Digital Drama. The film was shot in Los Angeles, Lone Pine, and El Mirage Dry Lake, California, USA.
Starring: Angee Hughes•Blue Deckert•John Gavigan•Jason James Richter•Anya Taylor-Joy
The NeverEnding Story III: Return to Fantasia (1994)
The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia is a 1994 fantasy-adventure film. It is the third and final film in the franchise. It stars Jason James Richter as Bastian Balthazar Bux, and Jack Black in an early role as school bully Slip. This film primarily used the characters from Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story (1979), with the excep...
Starring: Stuart Wilson•Anya Taylor-Joy