I think it would be necessary to add anime/animation to the roster of fantasy films. It's the only area of feature length films in which the fantasy genre has really been handled well or with any concern for story.
I would agree with the previous caller's idea of adding Miyazaki.
I went to the museum in his studio when I was in Tokyo, and it's AMAZING. You can see all the original sketches from his anime--Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away, etc.--and there's all these little dust balls everywhere.

I can see that. I'd hate for the Abhorsen trillogy to be made into films.
I'd see them, but they could never match what's in my head.

I could see that... I would only hope that the kids had read the novels before the movies were made... but, yeah, that does suck actually, because the first movie was made, then more books were written, and from that movie on, Harry looked like.... well, Harry.

Wouldn't this be true then for the The Lord of the Rings too. I mean there were a whole bunch of new fans following the first movie, and they only then began to read the series. I am not really sure what my point is, although I guess the same question could be applied to several movies that were adapted from several books.

I don't think the Harry issue is a new one, it just seems that way because it is targeting a younger, and more impressionable crowd. In fact, the crowd we all once were before we became fantasy geeks. I don't know what Xanth would look like in a movie, but I love the way I created it in my imagination.