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Mad Heidi Opens In Theaters June 21

Mad Heidi Opens In Theaters June 21

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I don’t know if this statement will be controversial (probably not), but….has there ever been a good Heidi movie? I remember sitting through one as a small kid and being bored out of my mind. Somewhere in the Hanna-Barbera vaults is “Heidi’s Song,” an animated movie that came out in 1981 and was greeted with such indifference that it’s never been seen again aside from scattered TV airings a few years later. Heidi just…doesn’t have it. To make a truly entertaining movie about the Swiss girl with pigtails, we might have to resort to spicing things up a bit. Presenting MAD HEIDI: a dystopian tale of revenge and violence with the lederhosen-clad heroine at its center. Set years after the ending to the original story, it opens with Heidi living a blissful life in the Alps, unaware of the tumultuous events that have taken place down below. She soon discovers a mad dictator has taken over Switzerland and plans to conquer  the world through domination of the dairy trade! Not

Studio Ghibli Fest 2023 Lineup

Studio Ghibli Fest 2023 Lineup

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Every year, Fathom Events lines up a row of Studio Ghibli movies and picks a weekend or two each month to individually screen them. Some movies only reappear from Fathom on the bluest of moons, but Ghibli is a reliable enough attraction to always generate a crowd. The lineup for 2023’s Ghibli Fest has just been announced, and the full schedule posted. There is one weird curveball this time: Spirited Away isn’t the movie you’re thinking of, but a Japanese stage play adaption of the same. My Neighbor Totoro, which turns 35 this year (eek), will be screened over five nights, March 25 through March 29. The aforementioned Spirited Away: Live On Stage will be screened on two nights, April 23 and April 27. Ponyo, which turns 15, will follow on May 7, 8 and 10. Kiki’s Delivery Service flies in as the June attraction and will screen on the 11th, the 12th and the 14th of that month. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind returns to theaters July

Godzilla: Tokyo SOS To Get US Screening March 22

Godzilla: Tokyo SOS To Get US Screening March 22

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Before there was anime, the most popular Japanese import the West knew about was Godzilla. Born from postwar anxieties, the radioactive lizard would stomp his way through dozens of films over the next 50 years. A handful of them have been created by American studios who thought they could do better, but Godzilla will always feel most at home in Tokyo. In the 60s and 70s when drive-in theaters were desperate for content, most Japanese Godzilla films received US translations (and bad dubbing) but these days it’s incredibly rare for Godzy to get his domestic flicks playtime in other countries. The invention of Fathom Events and one-time screenings has helped, though. Next month Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, originally released in Japan in 2003, will make its US theatrical debut for the first time, on the 20th anniversary of its initial release. Here’s the situation: “In Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, Mothra’s twin fairies appear with a warning to Japan that Kiryu (aka Mechagodzilla) must be put to rest at the bottom of the

Conan The Barbarian Returns To Theaters For 40th Anniversary

Conan The Barbarian Returns To Theaters For 40th Anniversary

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A generation of tough-guy action movies were defined in 1982 with the release of Conan The Barbarian to theaters. Now, multiple decades later, you can see all of Arnie’s muscles up close as Conan and his sword return to the big screen for two nights only, courtesy of Fathom Events. After the release of Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the default action movie hero for the next ten years, a position that would be solidified with 1984’s The Terminator. It was eventually just assumed at some point that any action movie would include a guy with an Austrian accent in the lead (either that or a mumbling, incoherent man who looked like Rocky). It all started here. Following his parents’ savage murder, young Conan (Schwarzenegger) is captured by the cold-blooded Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) and spends the next fifteen years in agony, first chained to the Wheel of Pain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter. Rather than allowing this brutal fate to conquer him, Conan builds an incomparable body

Coraline Returns To Theaters For One Night Only

Coraline Returns To Theaters For One Night Only

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In 2009 a new stop-motion movie called Coraline appeared in some theaters, and as it was from a brand-new animation company located in my home town, I had to go support it with a ticket. For the very first movie created by a studio founded by a shoe company, the thing turned out to be very good. It made a respectable haul, too, putting Laika on the map and allowing them to continue to make stop-motion films for the next decade or so. Coraline is a blue-haired girl who just moved to a new house, and she hates it. She also can’t stand living under her parents’ thumb. So when she discovers a curious door in her bedroom leads to an alternate world with parents that are more fun, she’s thrilled — until those people turn out to be more sinister than she thought. Then when her fake parents kidnap her real parents, they’ve gone too far and Coraline must gather all her courage to face them down. Another thing

GI Joe: The Movie Returns To Theaters June 26

GI Joe: The Movie Returns To Theaters June 26

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In the deregulated 1980s, every popular children’s toy got its own movie. And then starting in the 2000s every popular children’s toy from the same era got its own movie AGAIN, with some results better than others. So when we say “GI Joe The Movie,” we are talking about the animated 1987 feature, not anything made afterward. The GI Joe movie has its fans, but unlike Transformers The Movie, it has never been re-released in theaters, not even as a Fathom Event. Fathom must have forgot! They’re correcting that now, and will bring the Joes back onto the big screen very soon, to honor its 35th anniversary. The G.I. Joe team and a group of fresh recruits faces a new enemy – Cobra-La, an ancient society of reptilian people who are trying to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground. The leader of Cobra-La, Golobulus, works with Cobra Commander and the Cobra forces to steal the Joe’s B.E.T., Broadcast Energy Transmitter, because it’s the only energy

Macross Frontier To Be Released In US Theaters 13 Years After Japanese Premiere

Macross Frontier To Be Released In US Theaters 13 Years After Japanese Premiere

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They say it’s better late than never, but this time they must really mean it. Fathom Events has just announced the US theatrical debut of two Macross movies, Macross Frontier: The False Songstress and Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell. The first of these movies was released in Japan back in 2009. The Frontier series revived the dormant Macross franchise in the late 2000s with a new anime, most of which was recapped in The False Songstress. The Wings of Farewell continued the story from there. They’ve had previous US releases, but this is the first time the pair of films have been available to watch on a large screen. The False Songstress recaps the first half of the TV series, bringing film-goers up to speed while adding increased detail to the mechanical art, building up to a newly-added climactic battle. The Wings of Farewell continues the story and features 100% all-new animation while going off in new and unexpected directions. It also includes an entirely new soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. Both

Macross Plus Movie Edition Coming To US Theaters Next Month

Macross Plus Movie Edition Coming To US Theaters Next Month

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One of the titles that led the way for anime’s breakthrough in the West during the 90s was the four-part OVA Macross Plus. If you remember renting this from a Blockbuster VHS shelf and watching it on a 13-inch Trinitron, there’s good news ahead: a much better, much clearer, much BIGGER version is coming. Macross Plus Movie Edition is a remastered re-edit of the four-part series into one massive movie, adding additional scenes that weren’t part of the original. The men who made the original OVA have now become legends in the industry: Shoji Kawamori designed the characters and mechs, Shinichiro Watanabe provided character direction, and Yoko Kanno (“Cowboy Bebop,” “Ghost in The Shell: SAC”) created the music score. All their contributions are intact in Macross Plus Movie Edition. In the year 2040, on the distant planet Eden, former childhood friends Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman find themselves pitted against each other as test pilots of rival teams in a competition to decide the next generation of variable mecha fighters.

Ghibli Fest 2021 Begins Next Month

Ghibli Fest 2021 Begins Next Month

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We’re now less than a week away from the start of Fathom Events’ 2021 Ghibli Fest. It’s been a while since Miyazaki’s finest were projected on the big screen, but your chance is once again coming. From October through December, four of Ghibli’s most iconic pictures will be screened for a couple of nights only. Both dubbed and subbed versions will be available, on different nights. The weird thing about Ghibli Fest this year is that Fathom is attempting to fold it in with Fright Fest 21 by reframing Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle as “scary” movies, even though they’re in the company of films that actually ARE scary and the ruse won’t fool anyone. Anyway, here’s when you can catch each movie… SPIRITED AWAY — OCTOBER 3, 4 & 6 Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the dazzling masterpiece film from Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation, and winner of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE — OCTOBER

Fathom Events Reveals Lineup For Fright Fest 21

Fathom Events Reveals Lineup For Fright Fest 21

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We’re close enough to October that Spirit Halloweens are taking over all our vacant big box locations again, and that also means Fathom Events is readying the return of some classic horror flicks to the big screen. The odd thing about the 2021 lineup is that, since it overlaps with some previously announced family-oriented releases, they have simply folded them into the list as “scary” ones. We suppose Howl’s Moving Castle or Paranorman could scare the pants off a 3-year-old, but for anyone old enough to actually be in a movie theater it’s a bit of a stretch. Anyway. Here’s Fathom’s lineup. Carrie 45th Anniversary Sunday, September 26 & Wednesday, September 29 Everybody has feelings, and some people have latent, destructive psychic abilities that manifest under periods of extreme trauma. The ultimate “bullying is bad” movie. Dracula and Frankenstein Double Feature Saturday, October 2 It’s the original Dracula and the original Frankenstein from Universal Studios! Even if you haven’t seen them, you’ve felt their influence. Our basic idea of how

Labyrinth To Receive 35th Anniversary Screening

Labyrinth To Receive 35th Anniversary Screening

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Just think…If Jim Henson hadn’t dawdled on visiting his doctor, he might have been 85 years old next month. But the things he left with us are still here, like his legendary collaboration project with George Lucas and David Bowie: Labyrinth. Sarah is being forced to watch her stepbrother and doesn’t like it. So she wishes someone would take him away, and the Goblin King arrives in her bedroom to do just that. Now Sarah’s only hope of avoiding bring grounded is to traverse Bowie’s dangerous Labyrinth. She’s only got a limited amount of time to rescue Toby, bot fortunately the creatures native to the area know their way around better than she does and agree to help. Despite many trips to the video store, I never knew Labyrinth existed until some time in the 2000s, and did not get to watch it until fairly recently. I thought the Sarah character was a rather bland Alice knockoff, but the puppet characters were a hoot. And of course Bowie was usually

Coraline And Paranorman Return To Theaters This Fall

Coraline And Paranorman Return To Theaters This Fall

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In 2009 I took a trip to the mall to support a film that just came out called Coraline. It was from a new animation studio — and a local one — called Laika, and I wanted to support them so they would survive. Fortunately, the film itself turned out to be pretty good, and it set the foundation for 15 years of stop-motion animated features like The Boxtrolls, Missing Link, and the criminally underrated Kubo and the Two Strings. Not all of them have been box office breadwinners, but none have been critical duds. Their first two releases, Coraline and Paranorman, remain their most popular and if you never saw them in the theater, your chance will soon come. Fathom Events is re-screening both Coraline and Paranorman this fall. Here’s when to catch them…. CORALINE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 From Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) and based on the novella of the same name by author Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Coraline is a wondrous, thrilling,

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