The comedy sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is released, starring Mike Myers (in a number of different roles), Heather Graham, and Michael York. 
The comedy sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is released, starring Mike Myers (in a number of different roles), Heather Graham, and Michael York.
The paranoid thriller Arlington Road is released, starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack.
Toho releases the 24th Godzilla movie, Godzilla 2000: Millennium.
Toho releases the 25th Godzilla movie, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.
Emerging into a film landscape with more staunch fantasy and science fiction competition than the franchise has encountered in the past, Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones is released, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Temuera Morrison, and Ian McDiarmid. The film’s most lasting contribution may be in setting up the Clone Wars storyline, which will be explored much more extensively on television in the coming years.
Star Trek: Nemesis, the fourth and final feature film of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise, premieres. Directed by Stuart Baird and co-written by Brent “Data” Spiner, Nemesis falls flat at the box office (and even before its opening day, Paramount is already promoting it as the last voyage of the Star Trek: TNG cast). The next movie in the franchise takes a radically different approach to the Star Trek universe.
Toho releases the 27th Godzilla movie, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.
Toho releases the 28th Godzilla movie, Godzilla: Final Wars.
Toho releases the 29th Godzilla movie, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S..
The big screen adaptation of Douglas Adams’ science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy premieres in theaters worldwide. Starring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and Sam Rockwell, and featuring a cameo appearance from original BBC radio/TV actor Simon Jones, the movie is often criticized for being “Americanized” (despite being produced by a British production company with a largely British cast). Despite an open ending pointing toward a sequel, the movie’s box office take doesn’t merit a second film. 
The final film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith is released, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ian McDiarmid.
Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins is released, starring Christian Bale. Michael Caine, and Liam Neeson.
Serenity, the feature film follow-up to Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, makes its theatrical premiere. Whedon writes and directs; the full cast of the series returns, and Chiwetel Ejiofor also stars.
Michael Bay’s Transformers is released, starring Shia Lebeouf and Megan Fox, and the voices of Peter Cullen, Robert Foxworth, and Hugo Weaving.
The movie The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters is released, chronicling a rivalry over the world’s highest score in Donkey Kong.
Warner Bros. releases the CGI animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set during the Clone Wars between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, and featuring the voice talents of Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, and James Arnold Taylor. Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels, and Christopher Lee reprise the voices of their live action characters. This is also the launching point for the upcoming Clone Wars television series, animated in the same style.
Paramount Pictures releases J.J. Abrams’ film Star Trek, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and Karl Urban. A reboot of the classic TV era of Star Trek, this movie is explicitly stated to be the beginning of an alternate timeline (referred to later as the “Kelvin Universe”) separate from the “prime timeline” seen in all prior movie and TV iterations of the franchise. With a marketing blitz clearing the way for its premiere, this turns out to be the most financially successful film in the Star Trek franchise.
Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi horror film District 9 is released, starring Sharlto Copley.
Years in the making, the live-action adaptation of the classic anime series Space Battleship Yamato premieres in Japan, starring Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The movie takes some liberties with the basics of the Yamato storyline laid out in the early 1970s, but is surprisingly true to the look established in the animated series.
Disney releases Tron Legacy, a sequel to 1982’s Tron, produced by Tron creator Steven Lisberger and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde star; Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprise their roles from the 1982 film. Daft Punk provides the soundtrack (with a significant assist from Joseph Trapanese).
The movie Star Trek Into Darkness opens in American theaters, having already opened overseas. This movie reunites director J.J. Abrams and the cast of the 2009 Star Trek movie, set in an alternate timeline from the original TV series and its big and small screen descendants. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Peter Weller (Robocop) and Alice Eve also star.
The science fiction-themed comedy film Space Station 76 premieres, starring Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, and Matt Bomer.
Two years after its successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the ’80s action movie parody Kung Fury debuts on YouTube. Starring, written, and directed by David Sandberg, the Swedish-made movie spoofs numerous ’80s cop and action movie cliches, and features a theme song sung by David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider). The movie began filming in 2013 with a very small crew, shooting mostly against greenscreen and creating elaborate CGI backgrounds later.
The retro-video-game-themed comedy film Pixels premieres, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones). The movie is based very loosely on the concept of a 2010 animated YouTube short of the same name.
Based on the bestselling Andy Weir novel of the same name, The Martian premieres in North America, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut left stranded on Mars when his crewmates believe he has died. The movie is produced with input and cooperation from NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and real-life astronauts and engineers, and features a cameo appearance from a replica of the Mars Pathfinder lander and rover.
The first Star Wars movie to be produced since Lucasfilm’s 2012 sale to Disney, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, premieres. Co-written and directed by J.J. Abrams, The Force Awakens stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, alongside original trilogy stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, all reprising their roles. Seemingly universal anticipation for the continuation of the saga propels the movie’s box office take past a half-billion dollars within half a month of release.
The movie Star Trek Beyond opens in American theaters, having already opened overseas. Though still produced by J.J. Abrams, this third movie is directed by Justin Lin (The Fast & The Furious) and co-written by Simon Pegg, who also plays Scotty in the new movies. Idris Elba (Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom, The Dark Tower The Wire, Luther), Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Lydia Wilson (Misfits, Ripper Street) also star.
Disney and Lucasfilm release Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars “anthology” film of a projected series of such self-contained films. Diego Luna, Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, and Forest Whitaker star in a story that leads directly into the opening scenes of the original Star Wars. (This film will eventually receive its own prequel, the two-season streaming series Andor.)
The documentary film The Farthest, chronicling the gestation, launch, operation, and resulting discoveries of the Voyager uncrewed spacecraft, is released.
Toho releases