The Pagemaster is a 1994 American live-action/animated fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston (for the live-action scenes) and Pixote Hunt & Glenn Chaika (for the animated scenes) & produced by David Kirschner and Paul Gertz, starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy and Frank Welker. The film was produced by Turner Pictures and released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994.