Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

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In short, the rise of the four-quadrant mega-budget boy-centric fantasy picture coincided with the general demise of the female-driven genre film.

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There's a reason "South Park" remains a high-rated show, why "The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom in history, why a third installment of "The Hangover" is being released: A lot of people like dumb, frat-boy humor draped in fantasy.

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He is a clever boy, not prone to fantasy or an active imagination and he has never shown a reaction anything like this.

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The message comes nine days after a 4-year-old boy nearly drowned on the Disney Fantasy cruise ship and remains in a coma today facing possible long term brain damage.

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As a boy, he saw the 1925 silent fantasy "The Lost World, " Willis O'Brien's stop-motion movie about dinosaurs in a South American jungle.

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