After months of cancellations and delays in filming and premieres, 2021 comes full of new movies with all the ballots to swipe the box office, if conditions allow, or in the audience through the streaming platforms.
The highly anticipated adaptation of ‘Pinocchio’, created by Guillermo del Toro, finally hits Netflix and Steven Spielberg will premiere his first musical.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity in the fourth installment of The Matrix.
Ana de Armas plays the role of Marilyn Monroe in the biopic ‘Blonde’, which is also broadcast on a platform.
With many of the premieres scheduled for 2020 postponed due to constraints to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 will be a year full of new stories, remakes, and continuations of some of the top-grossing film agas of recent times, which will reach cinemas and digital platforms alike.
If the streaming companies had already revolutionized the movie market by producing and releasing some of the most remarkable films of the past seasons, the uncertainty that begins 2021 after what has been going through in recent months has left the production company Warner Bros. to release the 17 titles scheduled for 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, a platform where the films will be available for a month.
The Disney company opened the way last September by premiering ‘Mulán’ on Disney +, in their case, regardless of theaters, a strategy they’ve decided to repeat with ‘Soul’, Pixar’s first feature film not to be featured in the major film will be shown. screen.
Although it was scheduled for November 2020, the Disney factory will release ‘Stripe and the Last Dragon’, the next animated feature film, on March 12, a film directed by Paul Briggs and Dean Wellins, whose story revolves around a lonely warrior in search of the last dragon to save the kingdom of Kumandra.
Actress Emma Stone takes on Glenn Close’s witness to bring one of Disney’s most famous villains to life in ‘Cruella’, a film in which she recounts the origins of Cruella de Vil years before the events taking place at the Disney classic ‘101 Dalmatians’, which will be released on May 28, while ‘Luca’, the latest Pixar production, will be released in July.
In 2021, Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated adaptation of ‘Pinocchio’, a stop-motion animated film based on illustrations by Gris Grimly and soundtrack by Nick Cave, whose story is set in Italy, will finally hit Netflix. fascist of the 1930s.
“He’s not Pinocchio for the whole family,” said Del Toro of the film in which Gregory Mann will be voicing Pinocchio, Ewan McGregor as Pepito Grillo and David Bradley as Gepetto; and in which actresses Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett also participate.
The Looney Tunes, legendary Warner Bros. animated characters, will share the spotlight as LeBron James in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’, a live-action and animated comedy sequel to the 1996 film starring Michael Jordan.
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The coming year will also see a new film from the ‘Kingsman’ saga, Daniel Craig says goodbye to James Bond in ‘No Time to Die’, Agent 007’s 25th film, and Tom Cruse will once again play one of the most famous characters . of his career in ‘Top Gun Maverick’, the sequel to the 1986 film, and also returns with a new episode – the seventh – of ‘Mission Impossible’.
We’ll have to wait twelve months to get Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law again as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’, and on the fourth episode of ‘The Matrix’, more than two decades after the movie. original, again featuring Keanu Reeves (Neo) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity).
Directed by Lana Wachowski, this time alone, Jada Pinkett-Smitt, Daniel Bernhardt and Lambert Wilson will also repeat in the cast, although Lawrence Fishburne will not do it as Morpheus, nor Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith, and they will join the cast Priyanka Chopra, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife will finally hit theaters, a direct sequel to the second part of the saga, released in 1989, directed by Jason Reitman, son of the director of the first two films and starring Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon, in the main role. Mckenna Grace, Sigourney Weaver, and Paul Rudd.
Jamie Lee Curtis will once again face Michael Mayers in ‘Halloween Kills’, the twelfth movie in the franchise, which had to be delayed for a year and which has also postponed the possible ending of the saga, ‘Halloween Ends’, until 2022.
Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols star in the ninth film in the “Saw” franchise, “Spiral: From the book of Saw,” directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
The third installment of JK Rowling’s saga ‘Fantastic Beasts and where to find them’ will also hit theaters, marked by the forced departure of Johnny Depp from the cast, who will be replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Grindelwald, with the start of a magical war as part of the action and WWII as the backdrop.
In 2021 there will be a new episode of ‘Fast & Furious’ – the ninth – and, in addition to the year of the showdown between two mythical cinematic monsters in’ Godzilla vs. Kong ‘, is also packed with premieres featuring the heroes and villains of Marvel and DC.
Tom Holland repeats the role of Spider-Man in the sequel to ‘Far from home’; Jared; Leto plays Morbius, a villain from the Spider-Man universe, in the movie of the same name directed by Daniel Espinosa; Tom Hardy repeats character in ‘Venom: let there be carnage’; and Scarlett Johansson returns as Black Widow in ‘Black Widow’, saying goodbye to the character.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings brings Marvel’s first Asian superhero to theaters, while DC’s anti-heroes return with The Suicide Squad, repeating Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie or Jai. Counrney, and with additions such as Juan Diego Botto.
For their part, in ‘Eternals’ they will bring to life Marvel heroes, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, Barry Keoghan, Angelina Jolie and Kit Harington.
There will also be adaptations of famous video games such as ‘Mortal Kombat’, ‘Tom Raider 2’ – starring Alicia Vikander again as Lara Croft – or ‘Uncharted’, such as Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas.
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‘The Many Saints of Newark’ takes the story of the famous series ‘The Sopranos’ to the cinema, with a prequel set in the 60s and 70s with Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Michela De Rossi, Ray Liotta and Vera Farmiga.
The most anticipated films include Jaume Balagueró’s thriller ‘Way Down’ and the sci-fi film ‘Dune’, with a cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will compete in ‘The Last Duel’ directed by Ridley Scott; Tom Hanks will play Elvis Presley’s agent in “Untitled Elvis Presley Project,” which chronicles the rise of fame from the king of rock played by Austin Butler; and Ana de Armas play Marilyn Monroe in the biopic ‘Blonde’, which is broadcast on Netflix.
Wes Anderson promises a love letter to journalism in ‘The French Dispatch’, with a cast that includes Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and Bill Murray.
‘West Side Story’ will be director Steven Spielberg’s first musical, fronting an adaptation of the Broadway classic and a new version of the film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins in 1961, winner of ten Oscars, starring Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler. Originally scheduled for December 2020, the premiere has been delayed to December 10, 2021.