First draft of the list for me is stuff that I already know is coming out, so mostly a lot of wide releases. I didn't know if/when some of my favorites of 2018 (Roma, Beale Street, etc.) were coming out at the start of last year, for what it's worth, so I'll certainly be adding to this as time goes on. For now: Knives Out (Rian Johnson) Us (Jordan Peele) Dune (Denis Villeneuve) The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois) Missing Link (Chris Butler) Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Mike Mitchell) Ford v. Ferrari (James Mangold) Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman) John Wick 3: Parabellum (Chad Stahelski) Star Wars: Episode IX (J.J. Abrams) Little Women (Greta Gerwig) Ad Astra (James Gray) Last Christmas (Paul Feig) Cautiously Optimistic: Avengers: Endgame (Joe & Anthony Russo) Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley) Spider-Man: Far From Home (Jon Watts) Flarsky, or whatever it's called (Jonathan Levine) Men In Black: International (F. Gary Gray) Shazam (David F. Sandberg) Kingsman: The Great Game (Matthew Vaughn) Zombieland 2 (Ruben Fleischer) Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater) All three live action Disney remakes (maybe not so much Aladdin, I don't trust Guy Ritchie as much as Burton or Favreau) Feel free to add to the pile. I'm positive I missed plenty of stuff
some others Charlie's Angels (Elizabeth Banks) Teen Spirit (Max Mingella) Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher) The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff) Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry) Gemini Man (Ang Lee) A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
I wanted to add Her Smell but I didn't know for sure if it came out this year or last! Still haven't seen it, that's for sure
Off the top of my head: High Life Us Knives Out Godzilla You Are My Friend Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Ad Astra High Life Us Radegund (unconfirmed but I’m hopeful) John Wick 3 Little Women Knives Out That’s all I can think of atm
When looking ahead, I always think of superhero films first, just 'cause. To that end, Avengers: Endgame is something I'm very interested in. My opinion of Infinity War is... complicated. However, I'm a sucker for finales, and I could totally see Endgame hitting some of those easy finale beats (especially if Tony and/or whoever else dies). Hoping for the Marvel equivalent of Return of the King. A lot of this year's comic book movies have both high ceilings and low floors to me, but the other one I'm weirdly most obsessed with right now is Dark Phoenix. I don't like Apocalypse or (minority opinion) First Class. I could see this one, by a first time director, after being delayed twice, being Fant4stic bad. And yet... I could also see it being as good as X2. Plus, this is probably the end of an era, so I can't help being sentimental, in spite of Fox's rough track record. As for other stuff... Um... Knives Out sounds cool. Godzilla: King of Monsters could be really cool. I don't think I'd like Spring Breakers if it came out today, but I liked it then, so I'll probably see The Beach Bum. Detective Pikachu is just weird enough to interest me. And, I'm not sure how optimistic to be about Star Wars Episode IX, but after loving The Last Jedi, I'm certainly at least curious what the heck it ends up being.
I feel like it's always tough to make these lists because I only ever know about the biggest movies that are coming out. But yeah I think these are the ones I'm most looking forward to: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Us (Jordan Peele) Knives Out (Rian Johnson) Ad Astra (James Gray) Star Wars: Episode IX (J.J. Abrams) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) Avengers: Endgame (Joe & Anthony Russo) Spider-Man: Far From Home (Jon Watts) John Wick 3: Parabellum (Chad Stahelski) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam) Captive State (Rupert Wyatt) Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater) The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine) Shazam (David F. Sandberg) Missing Link (Chris Butler) Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck) Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman) Little Women (Greta Gerwig) The Lion King (Jon Favreau) And a couple I'm also cautiously optimistic about: Gemini Man (Ang Lee) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Mike Mitchell) Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley) Men In Black: International (F. Gary Gray) Zombieland 2 (Ruben Fleischer) Hellboy (Neil Marshall) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty)
Few more: The Farewell (Lulu Wang) The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) The Laundromat? (Steven Soderbergh) Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi) Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) It Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti) Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
really hoping Dry Run is out this year, a Todd Haynes environmental lawyer movie starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway is so intriguing
No order: The Lighthouse Knives Out Queen & Slim Jojo Rabbit Parasite Portrait of a Lady on Fire The Lodge The Farewell Ad Astra Rise of Skywalker Going to be a great second half of the year
Gonna change the title here (and maybe every year after) instead of making a new thread Most Anticipated for 2020 (as far as what I'm at least moderately confident is coming out that year): Dune (Denis Villeneuve) Whatever Paul Thomas Anderson's Doing, Assuming It Drops By The End of 2020 Tenet (Christopher Nolan) Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright) Mank (David Fincher) Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins) Soul (Pete Docter) The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson) Eternals (Chloé Zhao) The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell) The Lovebirds/The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter) Raya and the Last Dragon (Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins) First Cow (Kelly Reichardt) Stillwater (Tom McCarthy) No Time To Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Bob's Burgers: The Movie I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman) Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee) The Last Duel (Ridley Scott) Blonde (Andrew Dominik) Cautiously Optimistic: Black Widow (Cate Shortland) Birds of Prety (Cathy Yan) Onward (Dan Scanlon) The King's Man (Matthew Vaughn) West Side Story (Steven Spielberg) Run (Aneesh Chaganty) Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro) The Lodge (Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala) A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski) King of Staten Island or whatever it's called (Judd Apatow) someone fill me in on what i'm missing
Never got around to Godzilla or Beach Bum. Was right to doubt Star Wars, which sucked. Dark Phoenix wasn't, but I did end up liking it for what it was. Endgame did deliver what I wanted, which was cool. Anyways, I guess I could come up w/ my 2020 list. Though, not sure personally how much sense it makes to keep using the same thread instead of a new one each year? I dunno. *shrug*
I thought the same thing about Phantom Thread being out by '17 but he really got the trains running on time with that one
Ok, what I can think of: Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan) Dune (Denis Villeneuve) The Eternals (Chloé Zhao) Soul (Pete Docter) Tenet (Christopher Nolan) Venom 2 (Andy Serkis) Also someone interested in Morbius (*starring alleged creep Jared Leto), Mulan, Bloodshot, & Snake Eyes, which could all be pretty bad but all seem like they could be decently fun for what they are, lol.
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie) Emma (Autumn De Wilde) Misbehaviour (Phillipa Lowthorpe) In The Heights (John Chu) Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) Mulan (Nikki Caro) The Woman In The Window (Joe Wright) Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum) I guess I'm counting Portrait Of A Lady On Fire as 2020 because that's when Neon is releasing it
out of what’s been listed I’m excited for: I’m Thinking of Ending Things The Lodge First Cow The French Dispatch Dune Some fest stuff I’m looking forward to that hasn’t come out yet: Monos (Alejandro Landes) Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach) Young Ahmed (Dardennes) Beanpole (Kantemir Balegov) Ema (Pablo Lorrain) The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) Les Miserables (Ladj Ly) Bait (Mark Jenkin) The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi’nan) Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
i think this is the film where kristen wiig re-teams w/ her bridesmaids co-writer. count me in, if so