The Pirates! The Pirates! The Pirates! is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics" was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation loosely adapted "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists " into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the
Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure a strange island where a tribe co-exists with prehistoric creatures long believed to extinct yet preserved by a mythical beetle spirit named Golden Hercules. However, the group has to deal with a group of criminals from the future who intend to capture Golden Hercules for a profit. The movie earned ¥3.62 billion in Japanese theaters and was ranked 8th highest-grossing film of 2012 in Japan. Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure , also known as Doraemon Animal Adventure and Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Last Haven -Animal Adventure-, is a 2012 Japanese animated film based on the