12. The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping
With or with out Jennifer Lawrence’s heroic archer, Katniss Everdeen, audiences cannot get their fill of The Starvation Video games, so 2023’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is being adopted by one other prequel tailored from certainly one of Suzanne Collins’s novels. This one is ready 24 years earlier than the primary set of Starvation Video games movies, so it options youthful variations of a number of of the principle characters from the Katniss saga. It must be enjoyable to see how effectively the brand new actors match the outdated ones. Ralph Fiennes performs President Snow, who was performed as an older man by Donald Sutherland; Jesse Plemons performs Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character, Kieran Culkin performs Stanley Tucci’s, Elle Fanning performs Elizabeth Banks’s, and Joseph Zada is the twentysomething hero, who is because of turn out to be the middle-aged alcoholic performed by Woody Harrelson. The director is Francis Lawrence, who made the entire different Starvation Video games movies, in addition to final yr’s Stephen King adaptation, The Lengthy Stroll – one other dystopian thriller about younger folks being killed as televised leisure. (NB)
The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is launched on 20 November
13. Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
Within the early 2000s, again when each studio needed its personal kids’s fantasy journey franchise to compete with Harry Potter, there have been three movies tailored from CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia novels – and now, after a 16-year break, comes a fourth. Confusingly, it is really based mostly on the sixth of Lewis’s Narnia novels, which is the primary if you happen to’re going by the chronology of the occasions within the story. In different phrases, The Magician’s Nephew is a prequel set 40 Earth years and 1,000 Narnia years earlier than The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Emma Mackey performs Jadis, the evil White Witch, alongside Carey Mulligan and Daniel Craig, however essentially the most thrilling individual concerned is the writer-director, Greta Gerwig. That is the primary movie she has directed since Barbie conquered the world in 2023, so she’ll have the liberty and the price range to do no matter she needs. Anyway, as Depraved taught us, there’s positively an viewers for prequels with well-known fictional witches. (NB)
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is launched on 26 November
Common Studios14. Disclosure Day
With ET, Steven Spielberg created one of many cutest area aliens ever to go to Earth. However we’re undecided what sort of creatures are headed our manner in his newest movie. Josh O’Connor stars as a person who is aware of one thing about that, and is set to inform your complete world without delay. “Folks have a proper to know the reality,” he says within the mysterious trailer. “It belongs to seven billion folks.” He generally stands in a crop circle, a basic UFO clue. Emily Blunt is a tv meteorologist in Kansas who all of the sudden freezes and utters unusual sounds, Colin Firth’s eyes all of the sudden change color, and Eve Hewson, Wyatt Russell and Colman Domingo are additionally available coping with the menace. The secrecy across the movie has impressed wild theories about what it may be, together with the concept that it might be a sequel to Shut Encounters of the Third Sort. What we all know for positive is that nobody does aliens higher than Spielberg, whether or not they’re as benign as ET or as ominous as these in Conflict of the Worlds. (CJ)
Disclosure Day is launched on 12 June
Common Studios15. The Odyssey
It is protected to imagine that Homer’s historic Greek poem will not be the explanation this movie is so wildly anticipated that tickets went on sale a yr prematurely. The draw right here is Christopher Nolan, adapting the basic along with his epic creativeness and a really starry solid, within the observe as much as his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. Matt Damon stars because the warrior-king Odysseus, on his harmful, surreal journey residence from the Trojan Conflict. Anne Hathaway performs his patiently ready spouse, Penelope, with Tom Holland as their son, Telemachus. Robert Pattinson is Antinous, a suitor to Penelope and Zendaya performs the goddess Athena. Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal and a raft of others are additionally within the solid. Certainly one of Nolan’s items is to merge large-scale motion with distinct, vivid characters, and this movie guarantees to supply each kinetic battle scenes and private drama. Nolan instructed Empire journal about Odysseus, “The genius of the character, the cleverness, the inventiveness of him, was an enormous a part of what me.” And a sneak preview of some scenes revealed there’s positively a Computer virus. (CJ)
The Odyssey is launched on 17 July
16. Avengers: Doomsday
Avengers: Endgame is among the highest grossing movies ever made, however because it got here out in 2019, none of Marvel’s superhero movies have had as a lot of an impression. The studio’s resolution? To show again the clock and do every part Avengers: Endgame did – solely extra so. To start with, the producers have squeezed in each potential Marvel superhero, together with the Unbelievable 4 and the X-Males, who have been beforehand in separate cinematic universes. Secondly, they’ve introduced again lots of their hottest characters, together with Chris Evans’s Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. They’ve additionally introduced again the MCU’s most revered actor, Robert Downey Jr, solely now he is taking part in the villainous Physician Doom as a substitute of Iron Man. And so they’ve even introduced again the administrators of Avengers: Endgame, Joe and Anthony Russo, whose post-Endgame movies – Extraction, Cherry, The Grey Man, The Electrical State – have not set the world alight, both. Will this new Endgame be a brand new starting? (NB)
Avengers: Doomsday is launched on 18 December
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