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- DirectorMartha StephensStarsMckenna GraceAsher AngelTeen romance based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name (99 Days) by Katie CotugnoRelease Date: TBA
Book: 99 Days
Author: Katie Cotugno - StarsBonnie GordonSarah Kambe HollandFour young people, running from their pasts and chasing their futures, head north on their first assignment for Free Kingdoms' Adventurers Guild.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: Taking the High Road
Author: Malcolm Harris - StarsSabrina CarpenterMusical under wraps.Release Date: TBA
Book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll - DirectorStephen HerekStarsJason IsaacsFreida PintoVanessa RedgraveBased on the best selling novel by Onjali Q.Rauf. The Boy At The Back Of The Class is an adventure-filled drama about friendship, family, and the refugee crisis.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Boy at the Back of the Class
Author: Onjali Q. Rauf - DirectorGiles NuttgensStarsAaron Kahn-HintonCarpet Boy is the true story of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who was sold as a bonded labourer at the age of four to a carpet maker. It is the hidden story of millions of children in today's world who are sold into virtual slavery by their impoverished families to make goods, which are sold in the West as luxury products. It is the story of a boy who learned the ways of resistance through being sold as a four-year-old into slavery, fought the system all his short life, was instrumental in liberating thousands of children like him who were in bondage and ended his days tragically.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Carpet Boy's Gift
Author: Pegi Deitz Shea - TV Mini SeriesAnimated series based on Roald Dahl's classic tale of a boy trying to win a magical ticket to visit his favorite candy factory.TV Mini Series
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Book 1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl - DirectorBenjamin MousquetRelease Date: TBA
Book 1: Chickenhare
Author: Chris Grine - DirectorCraig GillespieStarsEmma StonePlot under wraps. Sequel to 2021 movie "Cruella".Release Date: TBA
Book: The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith - Danny and the Dinosaur is a popular children's book by Syd Hoff, first published by Harper and Brothers in 1958. It has sold over six million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It also won the distinction of New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Danny and the Dinosaur
Author: Syd Hoff - Follows Ana Dakkar, who is a freshman at a high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world.Release Date: TBA
Book: Daughter of the Deep
Author: Rick Riordan - Follows a group of students at a boarding school for gifted kids. The teens are just trying to navigate the pressures of high school, but none of them realize they will one day become superheroes.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: Wonder Woman at Super Hero High
Author: Lisa Yee - Heroines from the the classic novels 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' are sent to a home for 'troubled' youths because of their wild and vivid dreams of far off worlds.Release Date: TBA
Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Authors: Lewis Carroll & L. Frank Baum - DirectorTetsurô KodamaStarsMamoru MiyanoMayumi TanakaHiroshi KamiyaFollows a group of people who have created new and mightier Androids, and reformed The Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Goku in the past, seeking vengeance against Goku and his family.Release Date: TBA
Book 21: Vs. Dr. Hedo
Author: Toriyama Akira - StarsMischa BartonJohn Rhys-DaviesKevin SorboTeenager Luke Starr appears to be living a rather dull uneventful life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That is until fate and a nameless, faceless mysterious dark force that will change his life forever.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: DragonMan: The Adventures of Luke Starr
Author: Ted Lazaris - DirectorGerard BushChristopher RenzFollows two bi-racial brothers as they navigate the social constructs and institutions of a high school.Release Date: TBA
Book: Black Brother, Black Brother
Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes - DirectorWendy RogersA boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods where he discovers a hidden cache of extinct and mythological creatures, one of which escapes and terrorizes the town in which he lives.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Extincts
Author: Veronica Cossantelli - StarsDove CameronJordan FisherFollows a guy who is dumped by his girlfriend with nontransferable tickets for a romantic train. He finds another girl willing to go with him. What started as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something more.Release Date: TBA
Book: Field Notes on Love
Author: Jennifer E. Smith - DirectorEmma TammiStarsElizabeth LailJosh HutchersonMatthew LillardHenry was BROTHERS with William Afton because this would be a nice twist in the movie or reveal more about the missing kid deathsRelease Date: TBA
Book 1: The Silver Eyes
Author: Scott Cawthon - DirectorAlessandro CarloniA young girl embarks on a adventure with her estranged grandfather who has reversed his age to 14.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Fourteenth Goldfish
Author: Jennifer L. Holm - StarsMillie Bobby BrownA con artist named Nora uses her powers of persuasion and impersonation to get herself and her friends out of dangerous situations.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Girls I've Been
Author: Tess Sharpe - TV SeriesStarsChristian ZamudioCharlotte Evelyn WilliamsJavion AllenCenters on the fictional town of Perdido Beach, California where everyone over 15 vanishes. The town becomes encased in an impenetrable barrier and some inhabitants gain powers.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: Gone
Author: Michael Grant - DirectorGregory NavaA young man named Michael Arroyo that has a killer throw in the world of baseball but also faces plenty of troubles at home where he along with his brother were orphaned at a young age. Also baseball features, the story is very much about Michael and Carlos (Michael's brother) staying under the radar to avoid being found out by social services that could lead to them both being sent into foster care or sent to where they were originally from, Cuba.Release Date: TBA
Book: Heat
Author: Mike Lupica - DirectorToby GenkelStarsPaul McCartneyA squirrel embarks on a journey to find an animal sanctuary.Release Date: TBA
Book: High in the Clouds
Author: Paul McCartney - Three kids lost in a fantasy world trying to find their way home.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: House of Secrets
Author: Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini - DirectorDonald RosenfeldHuckleberry Finn is based on one of the most important novels of the 19th Century; "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".Release Date: TBA
Book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain - DirectorMatthew HastingsStarsShay MitchellWolfgang NovogratzBased on the New York Times best-selling book franchise series.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Hush, Hush
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick - DirectorNadine KhanA little girl slips into a fantastical city even more absurd and chaotic than her native Cairo. Making friends and foes of its mad inhabitants, will she manage to make her way home?.Release Date: TBA
Book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll - TV SeriesCenters on proprietor at Vast City monster shop finding homes for varied creatures. Spooky or amusing all have place in his Little Shop of Monsters.TV Series
Season 1
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Book: The Little Shop of Horrors
Author: R. L. Stine - DirectorNoëlle RaffaeleFollows a group of women who launch a rebellion against the Queen of the moon. They travel through the stars while fighting to take charge of their destinies.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Cinder
Author: Marissa Meyer - StarsJoey FatoneTed LangeShawn Ora EngemannAncient sea-magic turns a dolphin into a human, an evil spell changes a teenage boy into a dragonfly and a once good and loving jellyfish queen becomes an evil fairy godmother. This story, filled with adventure after adventure uses family love and the magic of belief as weapons to fight a war between the land and the sea.Release Date: TBA
Book: Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys
Author: Dennis Christen - StarsAngelina JoliePlot under wraps. Sequel to "Maleficent" and "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil".Release Date: TBA
Story: Sleeping Beauty
Author(s): The Brothers Grimm - DirectorMike OwensWendie Price OwensJerry Spinelli ("Stargirl," "Maniac Magee," "Loser") takes us into the devastating setting of Nazi-occupied Warsaw and tells a tale of hope.Release Date: TBA
Book: Milkweed
Author: Jerry Spinelli - DirectorDavid Lee MillerBrandon OldenburgStarsAnne FrankPeter van PelsMouschiMouschi the cat, inspired by the words of his Yellow Star girl named Anne Frank, becomes a freedom-fighting feline hero of the Dutch Animal Resistance.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank
Author: David Lee Miller - DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsJames MarlerA school is established for super-powered children to learn to be heroes.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: My Hero Academia, vol. 1
Author: Horikoshi Khei - DirectorDestin Daniel CrettonAn outcast in a village of ninjas sets out to become the leader and strongest warrior of his home.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Tests of the Ninja
Author: Kishimoto Masashi - DirectorRob SavageA father and son investigate the true story of a Golden Age horror movie, but the more they investigate, the more they risk unleashing what the destroyed film was meant to keep hidden.Release Date: TBA
Book: Night of the Ghoul
Author: Scott Snyder - DirectorPhillip YoumansStarsLaKeith StanfieldBased on Kwame Onwuachi's memoir which tells his unprecedented journey from childhood in the Bronx with a mostly single mother to opening a fine-dining restaurant in Washington D.C. at the age of 26.Release Date: TBA
Book: Notes from a Young Black Chef
Author: Kwame Onwuachi - Discovering that a classmate who recently died in a tragic accident had secretly hoped to become her friend sets Martha Boyle on a summer of soul-searching.Release Date: TBA
Book: Olive's Ocean
Author: Kevin Henkes - TV SeriesThe internationally renowned stories - which count characters like Aladdin and his genie, Sinbad and Alibaba - will be framed as they have throughout history, as told by the Persian queen Scheherazade.TV Series
Season 1
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Story: One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights
Note: also found as "1001" - A teenager discovers that she has super powers then she travels to Nigeria to learn more about her origins. There, she found out a threat to her newfound magical community.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Author: Tola Okogwu - 20 years after the release of Robert Zemeckis' Christmas movie, The Polar Express, it's been confirmed that Polar Express 2 is now in development.Release Date: TBA
Book: Polar Express
Author: Chris Van Allsburg - TV SeriesA group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover a dark secret about their home, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: Grace Field House
Author: Shirai Kaiu - TV SeriesTV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: The Big Blueberry Barf-off!
Author: R. L. Stine - DirectorPaul HaggisAn orphan boy named Will struggles to find his place among his peers, he is noticed by a Ranger named Halt. Will seems to have the natural abilities of stealth and cunning, the prominent traits of a Ranger. But can he become a true Ranger?Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Ruins of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan - DirectorAndrea ClarkeStarsAron von AndrianHarrison StoneTaylor LyonsAn impossible adventure begins when a young boy sneaks out of George Washington's encampment on a frantic search for his father, a 6th Pennsylvania soldier who does not return from the 1778 Battle of Monmouth. Will the game of draughts (checkers) save the young boy's life and get him home?Release Date: TBA
Book: George Washington's Army and Me
Author: Michael Dooling - TV MovieAstrid discovers she loves Roller Derby but her best friend in the whole world has other interests. As she skates her way into a new group of friends and sense of self, Astrid fears this might mean the end of her friendship.Release Date: TBA
Book: Roller Girl
Author: Victoria Jamieson - DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsDean NorrisZoe CollettiMichael GarzaSequel to the 2019 film 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'.Release Date: TBA
Book: More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Author: Alvin Schwartz - DirectorEmily SkyeStarsMary Cameron RogersAfter Maggie Masters saves Caleb Jacobson from a near death experience, strange things began happening to her. A world beyond human knowledge emerges, once you meet your Significant.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Significance
Author: Shelley Crane - DirectorPaul BarryStarsJacob TremblayWoody NormanFollows two teenaged boys who must learn how to survive the wilds of the remote Alaskan coastline and come to terms with a long-held life-altering secret after an accident sinks their boat.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Skeleton Tree
Author: Iain Lawrence - DirectorMichael MedicoSky Baker, the only openly gay student, sees his prom plans derailed after a homophobic e-blast goes viral. He considers leaving town, classmates rally around him in a story of finding support in a chosen family.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Sky Blues
Author: Robbie Couch - Release Date: TBA
Book: Some of Tim's Stories
Author: S. E. Hinton - DirectorCraig GillespieStarsMilly AlcockIt follows Kara Zor-El's story and her darker origin before she finally made her way to Earth.Release Date: TBA
Character: Supergirl/Kara Zor-El/Kara Danvers
Creator(s): Otto Blinder & Al Plastino - When 12-year-old Jesse starts beta testing a new video game, he finds the creators have more sinister intentions.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: Trapped in a Video Game
Author: Dustin Brady - TV Series
Season 1
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Book: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C. S. Lewis - DirectorGreta GerwigReboot of Chronicles of Narnia.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C. S. Lewis - DirectorDestin Daniel CrettonStarsSimu LiuMeng'er ZhangRolando Davila-BeltranPlot under wraps.Release Date: TBA
Character: Shang-Chi
Creators: Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Sax Rohmer - StarsTom HollandPlot under wrapsRelease Date: TBA
Character: Spider-Man/Peter Parker
Creator(s): Steve Ditko & Stan Lee - Plot under wraps.Release Date: TBA
Character: Superman/Clark Kent
Creator(s): Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster - StarsDaniel KaluuyaEsso is caught in a deadly feud and on the verge of expulsion when he realizes he has an unexpected gift: access to a world where he can see glimpses of the past and the future.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Upper World
Author: Femi Fadugba - StarsCandice KingCaitlin FitzGeraldMamie GummerThe story of a 17 year old girl from a wealthy family. Cady Sinclair spends her summers on a private island. After suffering a terrible accident she struggles to remember events that happened in her past.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart - DirectorRay GriggsStarsRicky GervaisAccounts the friendship of four friends (Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad) whose adventures test the very fiber of their loyalty.Release Date: TBA
Book: The Wind in the Willows
Author: Kenneth Grahame - DirectorMinkyu LeeIn a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters, Aster discovers he has emerging witch powers.Release Date: TBA
Book 1: The Witch Boy
Author: Molly Ostertag - StarsMaia Jae BastidasNatalie GumedeDrew NelsonIt follows two teens that develop abilities and discover that their suburb may not be as idyllic as it seems.TV Series
Season 1
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Book 1: Escape to Witch Mountain
Author: Alexander Key