Happy New Year cinephiles and yes, another year of great cinema lies ahead!
2020 unfortunately did not turn out to be as expected either in personal lives or for cinema. However, this doesn’t stop us from looking towards the 2021 slate. And yes, it seems promising.
I’ve called out the OTTs as well wherever applicable. Also highlighted the franchise and the name of famous director/actor wherever needed.
Starting with the favorite – 2021 seems to be the year of Tom Cruise with Top Gun & Mission Impossible sequels. Pixar – with two movies in 2020, it reserved one spot for 2021. MCU has bigger plans this year – with a break in 2020, it returns with 4 movies! DCEU maintains a quieter year with James Gunn getting into their camp.
In terms of big names, Sir Ridley Scott returns with not one, but two movies – The Last Duel and Gucci. One each from Damien Chazelle, Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve makes last quarter even more interesting. Meanwhile, Edgar Wright, Cary Joji Fukunaga have their offerings in the first half of 2021. Peter Jackson and Baz Luhrmann return after long breaks for music artist based movies: on The Beatles & Elvis Presley respectively.
And there are enough film festival films which are awaiting release dates (defined in the latter half).
Other franchises also return with sequels specially The Matrix, The Kingsman, Fast & Furious, A Quiet Place, The Conjuring etc.
Without further ado, here is the list:
7 Jan: Pieces Of A Woman – Netflix
8 Jan: Herself – Amazon Prime
11 Jan: Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy – Netflix
15 Jan: Wrath Of Man – directed by Guy Ritchie starring Jason Statham, yet again
15 Jan: One Night In Miami – Amazon Prime
15 Jan: The Marksman – action flick starring Liam Neeson
15 Jan: Outside the Wire – Netflix
22 Jan: Our Friend
22 Jan: The White Tiger – Netflix
29 Jan: The Dig – Netflix
29 Jan: The Little Things – HBO Max
29 Jan: Palmer – Apple TV+
29 Jan: Supernova
5 Feb: Malcolm & Marie – Netflix
5 Feb: A Glitch In The Matrix
5 Feb: Little Fish
12 Feb: French Exit
12 Feb: Minari
12 Feb: Land – directed by & starring Robin Wright
19 Feb: Nomadland
19 Feb: The Mauritanian
19 Feb: I Care A Lot – Netflix
26 Feb: Tom & Jerry – HBO Max
5 Mar: Raya And The Last Dragon – Disney+,
5 Mar: Coming To America – Amazon Prime
5 Mar: Chaos Walking
12 Mar: Cherry – Apple TV+
12 Mar: The King’s Man
12 Mar: The Many Saints Of Newark – prequel to The Sopranos, on HBO Max
2 Apr: No Time To Die – Daniel Craig’s last feature as James Bond, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
16 Apr: Bios – starring Tom Hanks
16 Apr: Reminiscence – HBO Max
23 Apr: A Quiet Place Part II
23 Apr: Last Night In Soho – directed by Edgar Wright
7 May: Black Widow – MCU
21 May: Godzilla Vs. Kong – HBO Max
28 May: F9
28 May: Cruella
28 May: Infinite – directed by Antoine Fuqua
4 Jun: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – HBO Max
4 Jun: Samaritan
18 Jun: Luca – Pixar
18 Jun: In The Heights – HBO Max
2 Jul: Top Gun: Maverick
9 Jul: Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings – MCU
16 Jul: Uncharted
23 Jul: The Tomorrow War
23 Jul: Old – directed by M. Night Shyamalan
30 Jul: The Green Knight – directed by David Lowery
6 Aug: The Suicide Squad – DCEU, directed by James Gunn, on HBO Max
13 Aug: Deep Water – directed by Adrian Lyne
27 Aug: The Beatles: Get Back – directed by Peter Jackson
3 Sep: Jackass 4
17 Sep: Death On The Nile – directed by Kenneth Branagh
1 Oct: Dune – directed by Denis Villeneuve, on HBO Max
15 Oct: The Last Duel – directed by Ridley Scott
5 Nov: Eternals – MCU
5 Nov: Elvis – Baz Luhrmann
19 Nov: Mission: Impossible 7
19 Nov: King Richard – biography, starring Will Smith
24 Nov: Gucci – directed by Ridley Scott
24 Nov: Encanto – Disney animation
10 Dec: West Side Story – directed by Steven Spielberg
17 Dec: Untitled Spider-Man 3 – MCU
22 Dec: The Matrix 4 – HBO Max
22 Dec: The Nightingale
22 Dec: Untitled Sherlock Holmes 3
25 Dec: Babylon – directed by Damien Chazelle
However, many movies whose release dates are awaited:
The French Dispatch – directed by Wes Anderson
Impasse – directed by Zhang Yimou (Mandarin)
Under The Light – directed by Zhang Yimou (Mandarin)
One Second – directed by Zhang Yimou (Mandarin)
Pinocchio (Netflix) & Nightmare Alley – directed by Guillermo Del Toro
The Tragedy Of Macbeth – directed by Joel Coen
Three Thousand Years Of Longing – directed by George Miller
The Hand Of God – directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Italian), on Netflix
Born To Be Murdered – Netflix
The Northman – directed by Robert Eggers
Decision To Leave – directed by Park Chan-wook (Korean)
A Hero – directed by Asghar Farhadi (Iranian)
Belfast – directed by Kenneth Branagh
Soggy Bottom – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Harry Haft – directed by Barry Levinson
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye – directed by Michael Showalter
Annete – directed by Leos Carax
Benedetta – directed by Paul Verhoeven (French)
Bergman Island – directed by Mia Hansen-Love
The Way Of The Wind – directed by Terrence Malick
Next Goal Wins – directed by Taika Waititi
Memoria – directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Velvet Underground – directed by Todd Haynes (Apple TV+)
Apollo 10(½) – directed by Richard Linklater
The Sparks Brothers – directed by Edgar Wright
Blonde – Netflix
Don’t Look Up – directed by Adam McKay, on Netflix
Swimming Out Until The Sea Turns Blue – directed by Jia Zhangke (Mandarin)
A24’s After Yang, C’mon C’mon, False Positive, The Humans, Red White & Water, Saint Maud, Zola
Happy watching! 🙂
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