maandag 6 januari 2020

Movies to Look Forward in 2020

I did an ultimate look back on several genre movies of the decade and made a list of my favorite films of 2019. But it’s 2020 now and time to look ahead. Creating a list of all those movies we can look forward to. Of course I will keep doing the monthly ones, but here is an overall look of films coming out in 2020 (based on Dutch release dates).

January 2nd 2020 – Jojo Rabbit
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, Archie Yates Description: A young boy (Roman Griffin Davis) in Hitler’s (Taika Waititi) army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

January 9th 2019 – 1917
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong
Description: Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

January 16th 2020 – Bombshell
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney, Malcolm McDowell, Connie Britton, Mark Duplass, Kate McKinnon, Stephen Root
Description: A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) and the toxic atmosphere he presides over the network.

January 23rd 2020 – Dark Waters
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, Anne Hathaway, Victor Garber, Bill Camp, Mae Winningham
Description: A corporate defense attorney (Mark Ruffalo) takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

February 6th 2020 – Birds of Prey
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Description: After splitter with the Joker, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) joins superheroes Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.

February 20th 2020 – The Gentlemen
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery
Description: A British drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.

February 27th 2020 – Underwater
Director: William Eubank
Starring: Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, Vincent Cassel John Gallagher Jr
Description: A crew of aquatic researchers work to get to safety after an earthquake devastated their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more that the ocean seabed to fear.

March 4th 2020 – Onward
Director: Dan Scanlon
Starring: Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Octavia Spencer, John Ratzenberger
Description: Set in a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on a quest to discover of there is still magic out there.

March 5th 2020 – The Invisible Man
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Elisabeth Moss
Description: When Cecilia’s (Elisabeth Moss) abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

March 19th 2020 – A Quiet Place II
Director: John Krasinski
Starring: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
Description: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now faces the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

March 26th 2020 – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper
Description: Baed on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) and journalist Tom Junod, in the movie called Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys).

April 2nd 2020 – No Time to Die
Director: Cara Joji Fukunaga
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Ralph Fiennes, Léa Seydoux, Ben Wishaw, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Jeffrey Wright
Description: Bnd (Daniel Craig) has left active service. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) from the CIA turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

May 14th 2020 – The Woman in the Window
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Mackie, Brian Tyree Henry, Wyatt Russell
Description: Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic woman living alone in New York. She begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

April 29th 2020 – Black Widow
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, William Hurt, Ray Winstone
Description: A film about Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) in her quest between films “Civil War” and “Infinity War”.

June 4th 2020 – Wonder Woman 1984
Director: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen
Description: Plot unknown.

July 9th 2020 – Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhardt, Bill Murray, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver
Description: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

July 16th 2020 – Top Gun: Maverick
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm
Description: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.

September 17th 2020 – The King’s Man
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Goode, Stanley Tucci, Charles Dance, Rhys Ifans, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, Tom Hollander
Description: As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

November 4th 2020 – The Eternals
Director: Chloé Zao
Starring: Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Kit Harington, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Bryan Tyree Henry
Description: The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.

November 19th 2020 – Dune
Director: denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Stellan Skarsgård, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Charlotte Rampling
Description:Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.

November 20th – 2020 – Godzilla Vs. Kong
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler, Alexander Skarsgård, Bryan Tyree Henry, Rebecca Hall, Danai Gurira, Lance Reddick, Ziyi Zhang
Description: As the gigantic Kong meets the unstoppable Godzilla, the world watches to see which one of them will become King of the Monsters.

Expected in 2020 – The French Dispatch
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Léa Seydoux, Bill Murray, Benicio Del Toro, Kate Winslet, Elisabeth Moss, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Henry Winkler
Description: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories in “The French Dispatch” magazine.

Expected in 2020 – On the Rocks
Director: Sofie Coppola
Starring: Rashida Jones, Bill Murray, Jenny Slate
Description: A young mother who reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.

Expected in 2020 – Bios
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Skeet Ulrich
Description: On a post-apocalyptic earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator’s beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship and what it means to be human.

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