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Stuck in limbo awaiting the arrival of your favourite films? Well, we’ve rounded up all the new Blockbuster release dates in one place, including the newly re-arranged Marvel Phase Four slate.

Stretching from 2022 to 2028, here’s how your movie calendar is shaping up. (The following dates are subject to regular changes owing to the shifting release schedule. UK and Ireland release dates are accurate at the time of publication, as per the Film Distributors’ Association. Certain dates indicate US releasing where UK has not yet been confirmed.)

• 29th April 2022 – Downton Abbey: A New Era
• 6th May 2022 – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (previews May 5th)
• 27th May 2022 – Top Gun: Maverick
• 10th June 2022 – Jurassic World: Dominion
• 17th June 2022 – Lightyear
• 24th June 2022 – The Black Phone
• 24th June 2022 – Elvis
• 1st July 2022 – Minions: The Rise of Gru
• 8th July 2022 – Thor: Love and Thunder
• 22nd July 2022 – Nope
• 22nd July 2022 – Where the Crawdads Sing
• 29th July 2022 – DC League of Super-Pets
• 23rd September 2022 – Don’t Worry Darling
• 7th October 2022 – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• 21st October 2022 – Black Adam
• 11th November 2022 – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• 12th December 2022 – Shazam: Fury of the Gods
• 16th December 2022 – Avatar 2
• 17th February 2023 – The Marvels
• 17th March 2023 – Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
• 24th March 2023 – John Wick: Chapter 4
• 5th May 2023 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• 19th May 2023 – Fast Furious 10
• 23rd June 2023 – The Flash
• 30th June 2023 – Indiana Jones 5
• 14th July 2023 – Mission: Impossible 7
• 21st July 2023 – Oppenheimer
• 28th July 2023 – Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
• 4th August 2023 – Meg 2: The Trench
• 15th December 2023 – Wonka
• 28th June 2024 – Mission: Impossible 8
• 3rd July 2024 – Despicable Me 4
• 20th December 2024 – Avatar 3
• 18th December 2026 – Avatar 4
• 22nd December 2028 – Avatar 5

And here’s a breakdown of each individual movie in greater detail.

 

1. Downton Abbey: A New Era

The much-loved Crawley aristocracy once more throws open its doors in this follow-up to the blockbusting Downton Abbey movie. Scripted, as before, by the creator of the original ITV series, Julian Fellowes, A New Era is crowned by a series of familiar faces, including Maggie Smith’s splendidly acidic Dowager Countess. 

 

 

2. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness

Evil Dead and Spider-Man director Sam Raimi replaces Scott Derrickson for the Sorcerer Supreme’s follow-up movie. Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the title character, promising to send Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe careering into horror territory for the very first time.

 

 

3. Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise feels the need for speed once again, reprising his role as cocky fighter pilot Maverick in the long-overdue Top Gun sequel. This time, Maverick is older and schooling a group of new Top Gun cadets – but he’s still got that rogueish twinkle in his eye. Watch out for Miles Teller as Bradley, son of Maverick’s late wingman Goose (Anthony Edwards).

 

4. Jurassic World: Dominion

Colin Trevorrow returns to the director’s chair for the third and final instalment of the Jurassic World trilogy. Picking up where 2018’s Fallen Kingdom left off, we’re now about to be presented with a vision of the future where human and dinosaur have been forced to co-exist. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are back as heroes Owen and Claire. Even better, the original Jurassic Park trio of Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum will be returning to the arena of prehistoric mayhem.

 

5. Lightyear

Chris Evans voices the human inspiration for Toy Story space ranger Buzz Lightyear in this Disney-Pixar origin story.

 

6. The Black Phone

The versatile Ethan Hawke makes a rare pivot into villainy in this chilling tale from Sinister and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson. When Hawke’s masked psychopath kidnaps a young girl, he underestimates her tenacity, not to mention her apparent psychic connection with his previous victims…

7. Elvis

The life story of The King of Rock and Roll is sure to make for an eye-popping, hip-shaking cinematic experience, especially when it’s marshalled by Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Austin Butler portrays Elvis Presley, and Tom Hanks plays Elvis’ controversially controlling manager Colonel Tom Parker.

 

8. Minions: The Rise Of Gru

We could all do with our own handy lockdown helpers at the moment. But we wouldn’t want to rely on those mischievous minions to keep our homes in order. Following the 2015 Blockbuster spin-off movie Minions, the cheeky sidekicks return alongside a youthful Gru (Steve Carell), in a family adventure exploring the title character’s rise to world domination.

 

9. Thor: Love And Thunder

Writer-director Taika Waititi galvanised the formerly stodgy superhero Thor in 2017’s riotously funny Thor: Ragnarok. Waititi is sure to bring the same offbeat sensibility to MCU Phase Four movie Thor: Love And Thunder, which sees Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster lifting the iconic hammer Mjolnir. Plus, former Batman Christian Bale is playing the baddie.

10. Nope

Oscar-winning director of Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele, has made his mark with two coruscatingly funny yet scary horror-comedies. Both of Peele’s movies have spoken of racial intolerance and hypocrisy, packaging them up in audience-friendly, spine-tingling narratives. In 2022, he returns with his mysterious new project, another collaboration with distributor Universal (who are also working separately with Peele on a remake of Wes Craven’s cult classic The People Under the Stairs).

 

11. Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens’ critically acclaimed bestseller is adapted for the big screen by Beasts of the Southern Wild writer Lucy Alibar. Normal People’s breakout star Daisy Edgar-Jones portrays the North Carolina protagonist Kya in this gripping saga of the American Deep South that traverses two different timelines.

12. DC League of Super-Pets

You may know Superman – but what about his beloved canine companion? Meet Krypto, the lead character of the animated adventure DC League of Super-Pets, and voice by the ubiquitous Dwayne Johnson. Krypto must team up with fellow mutt Ace (voiced by Johnson’s Jumanji co-star Kevin Hart) to save the day when the Justice League members are kidnapped by the nefarious Lex Luthor (Marc Maron).

 

 

13. Don’t Worry Darling

Back in 2019, actor Olivia Wilde turned director for the first time, with spectacular results. The movie, Booksmart, was acclaimed for its incisive and hilarious look at high-school relationships, but Don’t Worry Darling is a different kettle of fish, a creepy story of fragmenting domestic unease set in the 1950s. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star.

 

14. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Spider-Man movie ever? For many fans, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse netted the perfect balance between gorgeous animated visuals, heartfelt characters and razor-sharp, self-referential nods to Spider-Man lore. That’s the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the bods behind The LEGO Movie, and they’re returning to steer Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) though another surreal Spider-Verse odyssey.

 

15. Black Adam

Dwayne Johnson leads and produces this DC Comics adaptation. He plays the eponymous Black Adam, best known as the nemesis of Shazam. According to Johnson, the Black Adam film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, will introduce us to the Justice Society of America. In DC terms, this band of characters pre-dated the Justice League, and initially consisted of Doctor Fate, Hour-Man, Spectre, Sandman, Atom, Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman.

 

16. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Released in 2018, Black Panther was not just a movie but a cultural event, re-setting the balance for portrayals of black superheroes the world over. (Don’t forget, however, that 1998’s Blade was the first.) Of course, in the wake of Chadwick Boseman’s death, we wait to see what Marvel will do with the role of T’Challa, although in more positive news, Ryan Coogler is returning as director.

 

17. Shazam: Fury of the Gods

In 2019, DC comic book origin story Shazam emerged as a delightful surprise. Asher Angel delivered a star-making turn as the young orphan teen who finds he can transform into a superhero, played with exuberance and verve by Zachary Levi. There isn’t much word on the sequel so far, but the cast and director David F. Sandberg are all set to return.

 

18. Avatar 2

More than a decade after the world-conquering success of Avatar, director James Cameron transports us back to Pandora. The pioneering CGI motion capture technology will once again be out in full force, as we’re introduced to the planet’s underwater realm. New tribes of the indigenous Na’Vi will be introduced, along with new cast faces Kate Winslet and Michelle Yeoh. Somehow, Sigourney Weaver is returning from the dead as Dr. Grace Augustine – we can’t wait to see how they explain that one. Meanwhile, in the lead roles, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are back from the original movie, which grossed more than $2 billion worldwide.

 

19. The Marvels

Brie Larson’s Marvel superhero made her solo movie debut in 2019, having been teased in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. She helped save the day in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, working to bring down the evil Thanos (Josh Brolin), so surely everything after that is going to be a walk in the park? Candyman’s Nia DaCosta directs.

 

20. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Do we have permission to board the DC Aquaman sequel? You bet we do. Having reclaimed the throne of Atlantis in 2018’s Aquaman, Jason Momoa’s hunk out of water now returns for his follow-up adventure. James Wan’s movie reunites all of the original property’s cast members including Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, and Nicole Kidman.

 

21. John Wick: Chapter 4

Stash away those pencils and library books, because Keanu Reeves’ sartorially stylish badass is back for another dose of violent action. The first three John Wick movies mixed arresting visuals with kinetic action sequences, adding another classic anti-hero to Reeves’ roster. The third and most recent movie ended with the thought-to-be-dead Wick returning to the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) to seek revenge against the High Table. There will most certainly be blood…

22. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

James Gunn marshals our favourite rag-tag mob of intergalactic misfits in their third adventure. Chris Pratt’s Star Lord, Zoe Saldana’s Gamora, Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Racoon and Vin Diesel’s Groot are all set to return, in a storyline that picks up after the events of Thor: Love and Thunder. Can we expect Chris Hemsworth’s brawny god to make an appearance?

 

23. Fast Furious 10

If the next Fast Furious movie isn’t called Fast-ten Your Seatbelts, then we give up. Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto once again fires up the nos in what’s rumoured to be the final saga instalment of the blockbusting automotive franchise.

 

24. The Flash

IT director Andy Muschietti is set to bring us the solo feature film movie about Barry Allen, aka The Flash. The DC superhero, who can move faster than any of us can comprehend, has been embodied on the big screen by Ezra Miller in 2017’s Justice League. And he’s set to reprise his role in a movie that shows us how The Flash came to be.

 

25. Indiana Jones 5

Harrison Ford cracks the whip again as the world’s greatest archaeologist adventurer. Significantly, this is the first Indy movie not to be helmed by Steven Spielberg – instead, Logan and Le Mans ’66 director James Mangold takes over. Mads Mikkelsen and Phoebe Waller-Bridge co-star. 

26. Mission: Impossible 7

Mission: Impossible – Fallout had us hanging onto our seats, courtesy of director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise’s astonishing stunt work. That final helicopter chase/barrel roll sequence is one of the most impressive action sequences in many years. Goodness knows how they’ll top it in the seventh instalment of Ethan Hunt’s adventures, but Cruise will no doubt be finding many more ways to give his insurance company the sweats. Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby are all returning, as is Henry Czerny, reprising his role as Kittridge from the first Mission: Impossible movie.

 

27. Oppenheimer

Director Christopher Nolan assembles a gargantuan cast for this chronicle of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Nolan’s return to fact-based drama, his first such film since 2017’s Dunkirk, stars regular collaborator Cillian Murphy in the title role. And the rest of the cast? Take a deep breath: Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jack Quaid and Alden Ehrenreich are all featuring.

 

28. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania

The Marvel Cinematic Universe returns to the Quantum Realm as Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly’s shrinking superheroes team up once again.

 

29. Meg 2: The Trench

Having fought off the megalodon in 2018’s The Meg, our favourite hardman Jason Statham is back to lay another smackdown on the pesky Carcharodon carcharias. Meg 2: The Trench makes the mainstream Hollywood debut of idiosyncratic British director Ben Wheatley, best known for his twisted, blackly comic horrors such as Kill List. This will be interesting…

 

30. Wonka

Dune star Timotheé Chalamet transports us into a world of pure imagination in this Willy Wonka prequel movie. We’ll discover the origins of the beloved Roald Dahl character in this sure-to-be-magical movie from Paddington director Paul King.

 

31. Mission: Impossible 8

Hot on the heels of Ethan Hunt’s seventh world-saving adventure comes his eighth. Details are currently thin on the ground, but we do know that the seventh and eighth instalments were due to be filmed back to back. Circumstances surrounding the pandemic have now changed the game, so we wait to see how the blockbusting Mission: Impossible franchise will evolve.

 

32. Despicable Me 4

You can never have too much Gru in your life. Steve Carell’s baldy baddie and his ever-loyal Minions will return for a fourth instalment of madcap mayhem, so can we hear a ‘nee naw’ in response?

 

33. Avatar 3

34. Avatar 4

35. Avatar 5

 

RELEASE DATES TBC

 

Fantastic Four

The original superhero family finally, finally falls under the umbrella of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Spider-Man director Jon Watts in charge.

 

The Little Mermaid

Disney’s live-action remake of their 1989 animated masterpiece has confirmed its cast. Halle Bailey is Ariel, Melissa McCarthy is Ursula, Javier Bardem is King Triton, Daveed Diggs is Sebastian, Jonah Hauer-King is Eric, Jacob Tremblay is Flounder and Awkwafina is Scuttle.

Which of these movies are you most excited about seeing on the big screen? Let us know @Cineworld.

It’s official: 2022 is the year of the sequel. Top Gun: Maverick was a monster hit as the pandemic crunched the past couple of years’ worth of Blockbusters into one bonanza year at the box office (apart from the films that are delayed yet again until 2023).

These are the latest dates for your calendar as we celebrate the big films (and hopefully a few smaller ones) hitting the big screen and streaming services in 2022 and beyond.

Thor: Love and Thunder, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are among the superhero flicks that have hit the big screen, with Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever coming very soon. Older franchises bring us Jurassic World: Dominion and Avatar 2: The Way of Water. Luckily, there are original flicks as well, including Jordan Peel’s Nope, Everything Everywhere All at Once and David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, which has an unbelievable cast of massive stars.

But delays are still happening: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Mario movie, The Rock’s Black Adam, Aquaman 2, Madame Web and The Flash are all postponed. Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been pushed back multiple times, while delays to Blade have reshuffled phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s been tough to keep up with all the changes. But we’ve got you covered on the latest US release dates for 2022. If these dates are still in flux, we’ll let you know about the latest changes as new dates are announced. And don’t forget to check out our guide to 2022’s TV shows.

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Halloween Ends (Oct. 14, 2022)

The slasher series sees Jamie Lee Curtis take on a masked killer for a final time (until the next reboot).

Black Adam (Oct. 21, 2022)

Dwayne Johnson is the vengeful DC villain Black Adam.

Enola Holmes 2 (Nov. 4, 2022)

Netflix’s young detective Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — including her brother Sherlock. Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, Helena Bonham Carter and David Thewlis star.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Nov. 11, 2022)

Ryan Coogler directs Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Martin Freeman and Angela Bassett in this Marvel sequel.

She Said (Nov. 18, 2022)

Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan play real-life journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who investigated Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct.

Creed III (Nov. 23, 2022)

Michael B. Jordan not only gets back in the ring, but he also directs. 

Matilda (December 2022)

Netflix adapts the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results. Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Sindhu Vee star.

Avatar 2 (Dec. 16, 2022)

Avatar and Star Wars will alternate each Christmas for the next few years. James Cameron’s Avatar 2 drops in 2022, Avatar 3 in 2024, Avatar 4 in 2026 and Avatar 5 in 2028.

Shazam: Fury of the Gods (Dec. 16, 2022)

Zachary Levi dons the cape again as superhero Shazam in this DC sequel.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Dec. 23, 2022)

Naomi Ackie takes the mic in this biopic of Whitney Houston, directed by Kasi Lemmons.

Babylon (Dec. 23, 2022)

Damien Chazelle heads for the golden age of Hollywood, with Brad Pitt and with Margot Robbie as real-life star Clara Bow. 

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guillermo del Toro directs a stop-motion animated musical fantasy for Netflix, featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro. 

Flux Gourmet (2022)

The latest oddball tale from Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, In Fabric) stars Asa Butterfield and Gwendoline Christie.

The Amazing Maurice (2022)

Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville, David Tennant, Rob Brydon and Joe Sugg voice this adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. 

The School for Good and Evil (2022)

Paul Feig directs this Netflix fantasy based on Soman Chainani’s 2013 novel about a school for fairytale heroes and villains.

Wendell and Wild (2022)

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are two scheming demons in a stop-motion fantasy coming to Netflix.

Three Men and a Baby (2022)

Zac Efron heads the cast of a Disney Plus reboot for the popular 1987 comedy starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson (originally based on a French film).

Happening (2022)

The French drama Happening, from director Audrey Diwan and Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical novel, follows a promising young student who gets pregnant in 1960s France when abortions weren’t legal.

Beavis and Butt-Head (2022)

paramount Plus will stream a long-awaited reboot for Mike Judge’s sniggering delinquents.

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2022)

Guy Ritchie directs Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza and Hugh Grant in a tongue-in-cheek spy romp.

A Banquet (2022)

A widowed mother played by Sienna Guillory is radically tested when her teenage daughter goes through a bizarre transformation in IFC’s psychological horror film A Banquet.

13: The Musical (2022)

Following a move from New York City to small-town Indiana, 12-year-old Evan Goldman grapples with his parents’ divorce, prepares for his impending Bar Mitzvah and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school. Debra Messing, Rhea Perlman and Josh Peck star in this Netflix flick.

A Jazzman’s Blues (2022)

Written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry, Netflix film A Jazzman’s Blues unspools 40 years of secrets and lies in a tale of forbidden love and family drama soundtracked by juke joint blues in the deep South.

Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Writer and director Richard Linklater takes inspiration from his own childhood in Netflix film Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, recounting the story of the first moon landing through the eyes of the astronauts and a kid growing up in Texas who has intergalactic dreams of his own.

Beauty (2022)

A gifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract in Netflix film Beauty, written by Lena Waithe.

Boo! (2022)

A teenage girl unleashes an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween in this Netflix film, causing decorations to come alive. She must team up with the last person she’d want to in order to save their town — her skeptical father, played by Marlon Wayans.

End of the Road (2022)

Recently widowed Brenda drives her family cross-country to start a new life. But out in the New Mexico desert, they must fight back against a mysterious killer. Queen Latifah, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and Beau Bridges star in this Netflix film.

Falling for Christmas (2022)

A newly-engaged spoiled hotel heiress has a skiing accident and suffers from total amnesia, winding up in the care of a handsome lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas. Lindsay Lohan and Chord Overstreet star in this Netflix romantic flick.

The Good Nurse (2022)

Based on the book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber, the Netflix film follows a nurse who becomes suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of patient deaths. Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain star.

The Inheritance (2022)

On the eve of his 75th birthday, billionaire Charles Abernathy invites his four estranged children home out of fear that someone — or something — is coming to kill him. To ensure his family protects him, Abernathy puts their inheritances on the line — they’ll get nothing if he’s dead by dawn… Alejandro Brugués directs for Netflix.

Ivy and Bean (2022)

Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an adventure reveals that opposites can become the best of friends. This Netflix film for younger viewers is based on a book series by Annie Barrows.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a new mystery. Netflix paid big money for the rights to this star-studded whodunnit in which Daniel Craig is joined by Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)

Based on the classic (and often-filmed) D.H. Lawrence novel, this new Netflix version sees Lady Chatterley engage in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell star.

Love in the Villa (2022)

A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a break up, only to find the villa she reserved has been double-booked with a cynical (and very good-looking) British man. What are the chances?! Kat Graham and Tom Hopper star in this Netflix romance.

Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

Based on the book Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, this Netflix thriller follows a sharp-tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that took place when she was a teenager at her prestigious school, she’s forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life. Mila Kunis, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Beals and Connie Britton star.

Me Time (2022)

When a stay-at-home dad finds himself with some “me time” for the first time in years while his wife and kids are away, he reconnects with his former best friend for a wild weekend that nearly upends his life. Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, Regina Hall, Jimmy O. Yang and Luis Gerardo Méndez star in this Netflix buddy comedy.

Metal Lords (2022)

Two kids start a metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about metal. They can’t find a bassist, but there is this one girl who plays the cello. They need to work together if they’re going to win the Battle of the Bands. Game of Thrones showrunner D.B. Weiss writes this Netflix flick, while Tom Morello handles the music.

Monkey Man (2022)

An unlikely hero emerges from prison to take on a world enmeshed in corporate greed and eroding spiritual values, seeking revenge from those who took everything from him many years ago. Dev Patel writes, directs and stars on Netflix.

The Mother (2022)

A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before. Jennifer Lopez stars in this Netflix action flick.

The Mothership (2022)

A Netflix sci-fi adventure that follows Halle Berry one year since her husband mysteriously vanished from their rural farm. 

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)

Based on the latest collection of novellas, If It Bleeds, by Stephen King, Netflix chiller Mr. Harrigan’s Phone follows a young boy who befriends a reclusive billionaire — then finds himself still able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone that was buried with him. Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum produce, while Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell star.

My Father’s Dragon (2022)

Inspired by the award-winning children’s book by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Netflix film My Father’s Dragon follows a kid who runs away in search of ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.

The Noel Diary (2022)

When best-selling author Jacob Turner returns home at Christmas to settle his estranged mother’s estate, he discovers a diary that may hold secrets to his own past and that of a beautiful young woman on a mysterious journey of her own. It’s on Netflix.

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

Scott Cooper directs a Netflix Gothic thriller that revolves around a series of murders in 1830 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, following a young cadet the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling. Christian Bale portrays a retired detective tasked with investigating the murders.

A Perfect Pairing (2022)

To land a major client, a hard-driving LA wine-company exec travels to an Australian sheep station, where she ends up working as a ranch hand and sparking with a rugged local. It’s on Netflix.

Purple Hearts (2022)

Based on the book by Tess Wakefield, Netflix film Purple Hearts is the story of an aspiring singer-songwriter and marine who in spite of their many differences fall hopelessly in love.

Rustin (2022)

Netflix charts the life of charismatic, gay, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who overcame an onslaught of obstacles and altered the course of American history by organizing the 1963 March on Washington. Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald, Jeffrey Wright, Aml Ameen, Gus Halper, Johnny Ramey and CCH Pounder star.

The School for Good and Evil (2022)

Best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of a modern fairy tale when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where young heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance of good and evil. Based on the bestselling book series by Soman Chaining. Paul Feig directs for Netflix. Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sir Ben Kingsley, Patti LuPone, Rachel Bloom, Peter Serafinowicz, Rob Delaney and Mark Heap star.

Shirley (2022)

Shirley is the intimate portrayal of trailblazing political icon Shirley Chisholm, the first Black congresswoman and the first Black woman to run for president. This Netflix film tells the story of Chisholm’s boundary-breaking and historic presidential campaign, based on exclusive and extensive conversations with family, friends and those who knew her best. John Ridley directs Regina King, Lucas Hedges, Christina Jackson, Michael Cherrie, Dorian Missick, Amirah Vann, W. Earl Brown, André Holland and Terrence Howard.

Slumberland (2022)

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dream world of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again. Jason Momoa, Marlow Barkley, Chris O’Dowd and Kyle Chandler star in this Netflix fantasy.

Spaceman (2022)

As an astronaut sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust finds his earthly life falling to pieces, he turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together. It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship. Based on the book Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, this Netflix film stars Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano and Kunal Nayyar.

The Swimmers (2022)

The true story of swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini and their miraculous journey as refugees from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sally El Hosaini directs Netflix true story and co-writes with Jack Thorne.

They Cloned Tyrone (2022)

A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris) onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper on Netflix.

Untitled Netflix Holiday Rom-Com (2022)

Feeling career burn out, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan’s wish in small town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.

We Have a Ghost (2022)

A ghost haunting their new home turns Kevin’s family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and ghostly Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the specter’s past, they become a target of the CIA. Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge and Steve Coulter star in this Netflix film.

White Noise (2022)

Netflix movie White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Based on the book by Don DeLillo. Noah Baumbach directs Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin and Jodie Turner-Smith.

The Wonder (2022)

The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the miracle, but are there more ominous motives at work? A Netflix psychological thriller inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of “fasting girls”, adapted from the novel by Emma Donoghue (Room). Florence Pugh stars.

You People (2022)

A new couple and their families find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences in this Netflix comedy from Kenya Barris, co-written with Jonah Hill. Hill stars with Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lauren London, David Duchovny and Nia Long.

20th Century Girl (2022)

In 1999, 17-year-old Bo-ra finds her first love: a sweet, pure but heartbreaking relationship. Years later, news about her first love revives her teenage romance that she once thought forgotten in this Netflix film. (Korea)

Athena (2022)

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos in this Netflix film. (France)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) (2022)

A young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. Netflix’s new version of the bestseller by Erich Maria Remarque. (Germany)

Carter (2022)

Agent Carter, who suffers memory loss, is thrown into an explosive mission filled with inexplicable mysteries in this Netflix film. (Korea)

Don’t Blame Karma! (2022)

Sara is a frustrated fashion designer who blames karma for her bad luck in this Netflix film. Fate will put her face to face with her sister, Lucy, who enjoys very different luck, and in a series of events and reunions that will lead her to make a radical decision. (Mexico)

Drifting Home (2022)

Kosuke and Natsume have been friends since childhood in this Netflix film, but as time goes on the relationship between the two sixth graders seems strained. One day during their summer vacation, they go to a housing complex that is scheduled to be demolished and are suddenly caught up in a mysterious phenomenon. When they regain consciousness, the housing complex has drifted into a mysterious sea. Will they be able to return to their world? (Japan)

Jung_E (2022)

Amid the chaos of a desolate Earth in the 22nd century that is no longer inhabitable due to climate change, an internal war breaks out in the shelter built for human survival. Victory hinges on cloning a legendary mercenary in this Netflix film. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho of Train to Busan, Peninsula, and Hellbound. (Korea)

Khufiya (2022)

Netflix espionage thriller about an intelligence operative assigned to track down a mole selling India’s defense secrets, while grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover. (India)

Monica, O My Darling (2022)

Black comedy and white-collar crime collide as a young man desperately tries to make it big with some unlikely allies and a dastardly plan to pull off the perfect murder in this Netflix film. (India)

Qala (2022)

Qala is a story about a daughter who craves her mother’s love in this Netflix film. (India)

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1 (2022)

With over 37 million copies sold and winning in the children’s category of the 39th Kodansha Manga Award, the mega-hit The Seven Deadly Sins (original work: Nakaba Suzuki) gets a spin-off anime film on Netflix. This film will feature an original story by Suzuki. Split into two parts, the story will follow Tristan, the son of The Seven Deadly Sins protagonists Meliodas and Elizabeth. (Japan)

Seoul Vibe (2022)

With the world’s eyes trained to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, a special operation unravels corruption in this Netflix film packed with breathtaking action scenes. (Korea)

The Takedown (Loin du Périph) (2022)

Lupin’s Omar Sy is a cop in this Netflix buddy movie wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy. (France)

Through My Window (A Través de Mi Ventana) (2022)

Raquel has been in love with Ares forever, her attractive and mysterious neighbor in this Netflix film. But she is not an innocent girl… (Spain)

Troll (2022)

Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years in this Netflix film. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway. But how do you stop something you thought only existed in folklore? (Norway)

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)

A merciless man known as Yaksha crosses paths with a prosecutor on a special mission in a Chinese city notorious for espionage. Park Hae-soo, a global star from Netflix’s Squid Game, plays the role of the demoted prosecutor. (Korea)

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2023 release dates

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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in this 1920s-set crime thriller for Apple TV Plus.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Feb. 17, 2023)

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly shrink down for Ant-Man 3.

Missing (Feb. 24, 2023)

Storm Reid and Nia Long appear in a sequel to the 2018 mystery thriller Searching, which starred John Cho and was told through laptop and phone screens. 

Dungeons Dragons (March 3, 2023)

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page roll the dice for a new movie version of the iconic roleplaying game.

65 (March 10, 2023)

Adam Driver is a crash-landed astronaut in a thriller directed by the writers of A Quiet Place.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (March 17, 2023)

Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II return for more aquatic action in DC’s Aquaman 2.

John Wick: Chapter 4 (March 24, 2023)

Following The Matrix Resurrections, Keanu’s other all-action franchise also returns for a fourth outing.

The Super Mario Bros Movie (April 7, 2023)

Chris Pratt is the voice of the Nintendo legend in this Mario movie.

Salem’s Lot (April 21, 2023)

A new take on Stephen King’s vampire tale, from Warner Bros. and starring Alfre Woodard.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (June 2, 2023)

The animated spider-action continues as Miles Morales swings into action for Part 1 of a two-part adventure.

The Flash (June 23, 2023)

Ezra Miller is speedy superhero Flash in DC’s multiverse-spanning adventure bringing back Michael Keaton’s Batman. 

Indiana Jones 5 (June 30, 2023)

The man with the hat is back, as Harrison Ford whips his way into his 80s.

Mission: Impossible 7 (July 14, 2023)

Tom Cruise was infamously strict about coronavirus precautions while filming his latest spy thriller, Mission: Impossible 7. The film has been postponed multiple times, and each time it’s moved it also pushes back follow-up Mission: Impossible 8.

Barbie (July 21, 2023)

Margot Robbie climbs into her dream car as the live-action version of fashion toy Barbie. Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Hari Nef and Will Ferrell co-star in a film directed by Greta Gerwig, who’s also co-writing with Noah Baumbach.

The Marvels (July 28, 2023)

Captain Marvel 2 unites Brie Larson’s cosmic crusader with some new friends.

The Equalizer 3 (Sept. 1, 2023)

Denzel Washington equals the odds in an all-action sequel.

A Haunting in Venice (Sept. 15, 2023)

Kenneth Branagh’s third outing as Agatha Christie’s shrewd detective Hercule Poirot. 

Kraven the Hunter (Oct. 6, 2023)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Kraven the Hunter in another Spider-Man spin-off from Sony, following Venom and Morbius.

Dune Part 2 (Nov. 7, 2023)

Denis Villeneuve directs Timothet Chalamet, Zendaya and a host of other stars in this sandy sci-fi sequel.

Wonka (Dec. 15, 2023)

Timothée Chalamet plays the chocolate mogul in a prequel to Roald Dahl’s classic stories.

Untitled Star Trek movie (Dec. 22, 2023)

Seven years after Star Trek Beyond, Kirk and crew will boldly go once more, directed by WandaVision’s Matt Shakman.

Star Wars (December 2023 and onward)

Three Star Wars movies will arrive every other year, between Avatar sequels, in 2023, 2025 and 2027.

Madame Web (Feb. 16, 2024)

Madame Web is a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to “see within the spider world.” We have no idea what this means, but like Venom and Morbius it’s another Sony Spider-Man spin-off without Spider-Man. Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney star.

Captain America: New World Order (May 3, 2024)

Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes on the shield in this new chapter for a new Cap.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (May 24, 2024)

More monkey business in the ape-based franchise.

Thunderbolts (July 26, 2024)

Marvel’s antiheroes assemble, including Florence Pugh’s Black Widow.

Blade (Sept. 6, 2024)

Mahershala Ali plays Marvel’s fearless vampire killer.

Deadpool 3 (Nov. 8, 2024)

Fantastic Four (Feb. 14, 2025)

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (May 2, 2025)

Untitled Marvel (July 25, 2025)

Untitled Marvel film (Nov. 7, 2025)

Avengers: Secret Wars (May 1, 2026)

Untitled Marvel (Feb. 13, 2026)

Untitled Marvel (July 24, 2026)

Untitled Marvel (Nov. 6, 2026)

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Already released

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See For Me (Jan. 7, 2022)

A young blind woman faces thieves, her only protection a new app connecting her to a volunteer who sees on her behalf.

Scream (Jan. 14, 2022)

The ’90s slasher series returns. 

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Jan. 14, 2022)

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s visually striking Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth, streaming on Apple TV Plus.

The Last Thing Mary Saw (Jan. 20, 2022)

In 1843, a forbidden love leads to terror in this Shudder horror flick.

Aline (Jan. 21, 2022)

“A fiction freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion.” Really.

Munich: The Edge of War (Jan. 21, 2022)

George MacKay and Jeremy Irons star in this Netflix historical thriller as Europe stands on the brink of World War II and two friends face a conspiracy from opposite sides. 

The King’s Daughter (Jan. 21, 2022)

Pierce Brosnan is France’s King Louis XIV, who captures a mermaid in this fantasy adventure.

The Fallout (Jan. 21, 2022)

This award-winning HBO Max film follows a high school student facing the world after a school shooting.

Home (Jan. 24, 2022)

The directorial debut from Franka Potente (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Run Lola Run) stars Kathy Bates, Jake McLaughlin and Aisling Franciosi in a drama about a 40-year-old man returning home from prison.

Cyrano (Jan. 28, 2022)

Peter Dinklage is the legendary lover in Cyrano.

Clean (Jan. 28, 2022)

Adrien Brody is a violent loner pushed too far in Clean.

Sundown (Jan. 28, 2022)

Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg play a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency disrupts their ordered world in this suspenseful thriller.

Gamestop: Rise of the Players (Jan. 28, 2022)

From the makers of Console Wars, the documentary film Rise of the Players comes out exactly a year after the Gamestop stock market sensation, which saw a popular movement of investors take on the financial elite.

Home Team (Jan. 28, 2022)

Kevin James is a disgraced football coach who returns to his home town to coach kids in Netflix comedy Home Team.

Laguna Ave (Feb. 1, 2022)

A weird and wild trip down Laguna Ave in a delirious flick that defies description on leftfield streaming service Arrow.

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (Feb. 2, 2022)

Riveting documentary about Poly Styrene, the boundary-smashing feminist icon pop singer and punk pioneer.  

Slapface (Feb. 3, 2022)

After the death of his mother, a loner builds a bizarre friendship with a monster in Shudder horror movie Slapface.

Moonfall (Feb. 4, 2022)

Roland Emmerich and Halle Berry want the moon on a stick in this ludicrous sci-fi extravaganza.

The Worst Person in the World (Feb. 4, 2022)

Renate Reinsve won best actress at Cannes for her central role in this Oscar-nominated romantic drama.

The Long Night (Feb. 4, 2022)

A prophecy causes problems for Scout Taylor-Compton (from Rob Zombie’s Halloween flicks) in this horror movie, when a visit to her childhood home to find her parents brings her face to face with a nightmarish cult instead.

Jackass Forever (Feb. 4, 2022)

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man and the Jackass crew return after a long break for more pranks and shenanigans. Celebrity guests include Eric André, Shaquille O’Neal, Tony Hawk, Tyler the Creator and Machine Gun Kelly.

Alone With You (Feb. 4, 2022)

A young woman prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend but their apartment turns against her when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face. 

The Wanting Mare (Feb. 7, 2022)

In the world of Anmaere, north of the city of Whithren, wild horses run through the moorlands and up the coast, while a line of women pass a single dream through the generations: a memory of a time where magic and myth were alive in the world. The Wanting Mare is the directorial debut of Nicolas Ashe Bateman, a visual effects artist who worked on A24’s The Green Knight. 

Kimi (Feb. 10. 2022)

Steven Soderbergh directs Zoë Kravitz as an agoraphobic tech worker forced to venture into the city streets during the COVID-19 pandemic in this HBO Max thriller.

All the Moons (Feb. 10, 2022)

In the dying days of the 19th century, during the final throes of a Spanish war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman she believes is an angel. But the truth is much more horrifying in Shudder chiller All the Moons.

Staycation (Feb. 10, 2022)

Divorce is on the horizon for a troubled couple until their marriage counselor challenges them to spend three days together in a house — leading to all kinds of revelations. Staycation streams on ALLBLK, a streaming service for Black stories.

Death on the Nile (Feb. 11, 2022)

Kenneth Branagh once again fires up his mustache and little gray cells as Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot in a follow-up to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. 

Catch the Fair One (Feb. 11, 2022)

Real-life US boxing world champion Kali Reis takes on human traffickers in the revenge thriller Catch the Fair One, executive produced by Darren Aronofsky.

The Sky Is Everywhere (Feb. 11, 2022)

Among the towering redwoods of California, a teenage musical prodigy navigates grief and first love. Acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline, Shirley) directs for Apple TV Plus, from a script adapted by Jandy Nelson from her own novel.

Blacklight (Feb. 11, 2022)

Liam Neeson kicks ass, again.

I Want You Back (Feb. 11, 2022)

Charlie Day and Jenny Slate scheme to get back at their exes in this rom-com from Amazon Prime Video. 

The Devil’s Light (Feb. 11, 2022)

Nuns and exorcisms and stuff.

Cosmic Dawn (Feb. 11, 2022)

Model and It girl Camille Rowe stars with Emmanuelle Chriqui in a weird tale of alien abductions, cults and music by MGMT.

Petrov’s Flu (Feb. 11, 2022)

A wild, violent and visually stunning slice of Russian cinema that wowed audiences at the Cannes film festival, to be released in the UK Feb. 11.

Bigbug (Feb. 11, 2022)

A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety. Netflix film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (France)

Tall Girl 2 (Feb. 11, 2022)

After her inspiring speech at the homecoming dance, Jodi (Ava Michelle) is no longer just the “tall girl” — she’s popular, confident, has a boyfriend, and just booked the lead role in this year’s school musical. But as the pressure of her newfound popularity intensifies, so do her insecurities, and new relationships are formed while old ones are tested. 

Love and Leashes (Feb. 11, 2022) 

Netflix presents a different kind of romance between a man with unusual tastes and a woman who stumbles upon his secret. (Korea)

They Live in the Grey (Feb. 17, 2022)

A social worker discovers a supernatural entity is tormenting a family in the Shudder horror flick They Live in the Grey.

Uncharted (Feb. 18, 2022)

When 2020’s films began to be reshuffled, Uncharted was the first 2021 film to be moved. Fans are hyped for Sony’s video game adaptation starring Tom Holland, although the release date has jumped around more than Nathan Drake exploring a temple. 

The Cursed (Feb. 18, 2022)

Kelly Reilly and Boyd Holbrook hunt for a furry menace in a 19th century village in The Cursed.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Feb. 18, 2022)

Netflix reboots the classic horror movie. 

The Long Walk (Feb. 18, 2022)

An atmospheric combination of ghost story and gritty sci-fi.

Sneakerella (Feb. 18, 2022)

Disney Plus updates the Cinderella story to modern-day sneaker culture.

Hellbender (Feb. 24, 2022)

In this Shudder shocker, a teenager lives an isolated life atop a mountain with her mother until an insatiable and violent hunger awakens the dark secrets of her family’s blood.

A Madea Homecoming (Feb. 25, 2022)

Tyler Perry returns in Netflix’s A Madea Homecoming, a raucous comedy in which family secrets derail the college graduation of Madea’s great-grandson. Brendan O’Carroll cameos as Mrs. Brown, who’s kind of the British equivalent of Madea.

The Outfit (Feb. 25, 2022)

Mark Rylance is a tailor who makes outfits for the Outfit, geddit?

The Desperate Hour (Feb. 25, 2022)

Naomi Watts stars in thriller The Desperate Hour, which unfolds in real time as a woman far from home on her daily jog learns her son is caught in a school shooting unfolding right at that moment.

Studio 666 (Feb. 25, 2022)

Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters made a horror movie. We’re sold!

The Burning Sea (Feb. 25, 2022)

The latest eco-disaster movie from the makers of The Wave and The Quake, The Burning Sea dives into a nail-biting oil rig catastrophe.

No Exit (Feb. 25, 2022)

Hulu and Disney Plus thriller No Exit chases a young woman en route to a family emergency who’s stranded by a blizzard and forced to take shelter with a group of strangers — one of whom is a dangerous kidnapper.

Against the Ice (March 2, 2022)

Based on the book Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen, this Netflix film is a true story of friendship and survival as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole trek dangerous parts of Greenland.

The Weekend Away (March 3, 2022)

A weekend getaway to Croatia goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend and her efforts to get to the truth uncover a painful secret. Netflix film based on the book by Sarah Alderson. Leighton Meester and Christina Wolfe star.

After Yang (March 4, 2022)

When his young daughter’s beloved android malfunctions, Colin Farrell tries to reconnect with his wife and child in Sundance drama After Yang.

Huda’s Salon (March 4, 2022)

A Palestinian woman is forced into a conspiracy in the tense drama Huda’s Salon.

Nightride (March 4, 2022)

One-shot thriller set on the mean streets of Belfast, chasing a small-time drug dealer as he tries to pull one last deal.

The Seed (March 10, 2022)

Three social media influencers battle an invasive yet alluring alien force in the Mojave Desert in Shudder’s disturbing horror flick The Seed.

Turning Red (March 11, 2022)

Pixar’s latest flick features a young girl who unwittingly transforms into a giant red panda on Disney Plus. 

Offseason (March 11, 2022)

A young woman is stranded on a mysterious island.

The Adam Project (March 11, 2022)

Ryan Reynolds plays a man who helps his younger self confront their father in The Adam Project, reuniting the star with Free Guy director Shawn Levy. Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo and Catherine Keener also star in this Netflix time travel thriller.

The Batman (March 4, 2022)

Robert Pattinson dons the bat suit for this delayed DC adventure.

Rescued by Ruby (March 17, 2022)

State trooper Dan dreams of joining the K-9 Search Rescue team, but no one will give him the chance. Shelter dog Ruby dreams of having a home, but is running out of hope. Fate brings them together on Netflix. 

Master (March 18, 2022)

In writer-director Mariama Diallo’s debut feature, three women strive to find their place at a prestigious university that may be haunted by more than just old-school racism. Regina Hall stars in Master, which makes its way from Sundance to Prime Video.

Unwelcome (March 18, 2022)

Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth are an expectant couple dealing with goblins at the bottom of their new garden. 

Windfall (March 18, 2022)

A Hitchcockian Netflix thriller following a wealthy couple who arrive at their vacation home only to find it’s being robbed. Jason Segel, Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons star.

Cheaper by the Dozen (March 18, 2022)

Disney Plus comedy Cheaper by the Dozen reboots the 2003 family film, with Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff as parents of a blended family of 12. The screenplay is written by Kenya Barris and Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry.

Black Crab (March 18, 2022)

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Netflix’s Swedish action thriller follows six soldiers sent on a covert mission to transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago without knowing what dangers lie ahead or who they can trust. Noomi Rapace stars. (Sweden)

X (March 18, 2022)

A24 presents a horror movie starring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow and Scott Mescudi as teens caught out when they make an adult film in rural Texas.

Expired (March 18, 2022)

Ryan Kwanten and Hugo Weaving star in a futuristic thriller about a hitman who meets a mysterious woman and comes down with a deadly illness.

The Spine of Night (March 24, 2022)

Shudder’s adult animation The Spine of Night pays tribute to twisted cult cartoons and comics like Conan The Barbarian, A Scanner Darkly, Heavy Metal and the work of Ralph Bakshi. Written by  Philip Gelatt, one of the writers behind Netflix’s Love, Death Robots, it features an impressive voice cast including Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel and Joe Manganiello.

The Lost City (March 25, 2022)

Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum are an author and a model caught up in a jungle adventure in this adventure comedy.

Everything Everywhere All at Once (March 25, 2022)

Michelle Yeoh stars in a multiverse-spanning epic from A24. Trust me, just watch the trailer.

King Otto (March 25, 2022)

Inspiring documentary King Otto recounts the miracle triumph of the 2004 Greek National Soccer Team at the European Championships.

Morbius (April 1, 2022)

Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff features Jared Leto as Marvel vampire Morbius. 

The Contractor (April 1, 2022)

Chris Pine and Ben Foster reunite for some special forces shenanigans, after their acclaimed pairing in 2016’s Hell or High Water.

Barbarians (April 1, 2022)

Game of Thrones star Iwan Rheon is having the perfect birthday when the doorbell rings and the evening takes a nightmarish turn in creepy, twisty flick Barbarians.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (April 8, 2022)

Idris Elba is Knuckles as Sonic returns.

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (April 8, 2022)

John Mulaney and Andy Samberg voice the animated heroes for Disney Plus.

Ambulance (April 8, 2022)

Michael Bay dials 911 in this intense action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (April 15, 2022)

Johnny Depp magically disappears from the Harry Potter prequel series, replaced as the villain by Mads Mikkelsen. 

Choose or Die (April 15, 2022)

After firing up a lost ’80s survival horror game, a young coder unleashes a hidden curse that tears reality apart. Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans, Eddie Marsan and Robert Englund star in this Netflix film.

Father Stu (April 15, 2022)

Mark Wahlberg is a boxer turned priest in this true story of Father Stu, also starring Mel Gibson.

Operation Mincemeat (April 22, 2022)

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfayden and Kelly Macdonald head this real-life World War II drama. 

Marvelous and The Black Hole (April 22, 2022)

A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician (Rhea Perlman) who helps her confront her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight-of-hand magic.

Bubble (April 28, 2022)

After bubbles that broke the laws of gravity rained down upon the world, Tokyo has become a playground and battlefield for parkour team battles as they leap from building to building in this Netflix film. Hibiki, a young ace known for his dangerous play style, makes a reckless move one day and plummets into the gravity-bending sea. His life is saved by Uta, a girl with mysterious powers who appears suddenly. Their encounter leads to a revelation that will change the world. (Japan)

Hatching (April 29, 2022)

Finnish body horror flick Hatching follows a 12-year-old gymnast who finds and nurtures a strange egg.

Along for the Ride (May 6, 2022)

Based on the book by Sarah Dessen, Netflix film Along for the Ride sees fellow insomniacs embark on a nightly quest to experience the fun, carefree teen life they never had by day. Kate Bosworth, Dermot Mulroney and Andie MacDowell star.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 6, 2022)

Following his meddling in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel’s cocky sorcerer Doctor Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, tackles the Multiverse of Madness.

Shin Ultraman (May 13, 2022)

A reimagining of Japanese superhero adventure Ultraman.

Senior Year (May 13, 2022)

After a cheerleader falls off a pyramid and into a 20 year coma, she wakes up as a 37-year-old woman, ready to return to high school, regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her. Rebel Wilson and Alicia Silverstone star on Netflix.

Men (May 20, 2022)

Alex Garland’s simmering horror film stars Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear.

Bob’s Burgers: The Movie (May 27, 2022)

The Belcher family flips out in an animated version of the cartoon series Bob’s Burgers.

Top Gun: Maverick (May 27, 2022)

We’ve waited over 30 years for a sequel to the original 1986 Top Gun, as Tom Cruise feels the need for speed again.

Crimes of the Future (June 3, 2022)

David Cronenberg gets weird again in unsettling new film Crimes of the Future, which stars Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux in a return to the Existenz director’s body horror roots.

Interceptor (June 3, 2022)

When sixteen nuclear missiles are launched at the US and a coordinated attack threatens a remote missile interceptor station, one Army lieutenant must save humanity as we know it. Elsa Pataky stars in this Netflix action flick.

Hustle (June 3, 2022)

Adam Sandler is a down on his luck basketball scout who discovers a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past and has to bring them to the USA in this Netflix film. Queen Latifah, Robert Duvall and Ben Foster also star.

Jurassic World: Dominion (June 10, 2022)

Original Jurassic Park stars Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum join Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in this sixth dino-Blockbuster.

Lightyear (June 17, 2022)

Chris Evans takes Toy Story’s pompous plaything to infinity and beyond, as teased in the first Lightyear trailer from Pixar.

Spiderhead (June 17, 2022)

Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett star in a Netflix sci-fi story about future prisoners and mind-altering drugs.

The Man From Toronto (June 24, 2022)

Thrown together in an Airbnb, Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson team up to kill someone.

Elvis (June 24, 2022)

Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis tribute became an early high-profile casualty of the pandemic when Tom Hanks, who appears in the film as Col. Tom Parker, contracted the coronavirus. He and his wife, Rita Wilson, thankfully recovered, and the film was delayed only a month.

The Black Phone (June 24, 2022)

Ethan Hawke headlines a chilling horror movie.

The Sea Beast (June 24, 2022)

In an era when terrifying beasts roamed the seas, monster hunters were celebrated heroes – and none were more beloved than the great Jacob Holland. But when young Maisie Brumble stows away on his fabled ship, he’s saddled with an unexpected ally. Together they embark on an epic journey into uncharted waters and make history. Netflix teamed up with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chris Williams (Moana, Big Hero Six, Bolt) for this one.

Persuasion (July 15, 2022)

Based on the novel by Jane Austen, this Netflix period romance stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki, Amuka-Bird, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Richard E. Grant and Henry Golding. 

Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8, 2022)

Chris Hemsworth again brings the hammer down, with Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Jeff Goldblum. Guardians of the Galaxy chums Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn and Vin Diesel also come along. 

Where the Crawdads Sing (July 15, 2022)

Where the Crawdads Sing is based on the bestselling novel by Delia Owens, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones from TV hit Normal People.

Don’t Make Me Go (July 15, 2022)

This new Amazon movie stars John Cho as a dying single dad on a poignant road trip to reunite his teen daughter with her long-lost mother. 

Nope (July 20, 2022)

Jordan Peele follows Get Out and Us with this new chiller, starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun.

The Gray Man (July 22, 2022)

Ryan Gosling is the CIA’s most skilled mercenary, until he accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets and winds up with a psychopathic former colleague and other international assassins chasing a bounty on his head. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo direct this Netflix actioner. Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Alfre Woodard and Regé-Jean Page also star.

DC League of Super-Pets (July 29, 2022)

Dwayne Johnson is Krypto (Superman’s dog) in this animated comedy featuring the voices of Keanu Reeves, John Krasinski, Kate McKinnon, Natasha Lyonne, Kevin Hart, Diego Luna, Jameela Jamil and Vanessa Bayer.

Vengeance (July 29, 2022)

Directorial debut of The Office writer and star B.J. Novak, Vengeance is a darkly comic thriller about a New York podcaster who journeys to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, Boyd Holbrook, J. Smith-Cameron and Dove Cameron star.

Luck (Aug. 5, 2022)

Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg and Simon Pegg lend their voices to this Apple TV Plus animated film about the unluckiest person in the world discovering unicorns and dragons in the magical Land of Luck.

Bullet Train (Aug. 5, 2022)

John Wick director David Leitch shoots with an all-star cast, including Brad Pitt, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon and Sandra Bullock.

Prey (Aug. 5, 2022)

Hulu’s the place for this latest Predator movie, set in the Old West. 

Day Shift (Aug. 12, 2022)

In this Netflix film thriller, Jamie Foxx stars as a hard-working dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted daughter, but his mundane pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income: slaying vampires!

Secret Headquarters (Aug. 12, 2022)

Owen Wilson stars in the tale of a kid who discovers a superhero’s secret headquarters under his home.

The Bride (Aug. 26, 2022)

The Bride is a thriller about a young woman invited to a lavish destination wedding in England, only for the nuptials to take a sinister turn.

Samaritan (Aug. 26, 2022)

Sylvester Stallone is an aging superhero in this dark take on superheroics.

The Woman King (Sept. 16, 2022)

Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch and John Boyega star in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical hit.

Don’t Worry Darling (Sept. 23, 2022)

Olivia Wilde directs Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in a story of a 1950s housewife discovering a disturbing secret. Gemma Chan, Chris Pine and Nick Kroll also star.

Blonde (Sep. 23, 2022)

Based on a bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Netflix film Blonde stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe.

Amsterdam (Oct. 7, 2022)

David O. Russell writes and directs a romantic crime epic about three friends caught up in a shocking secret plot, loosely based on fact. The cast is bananas, including Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola, Andrea Riseborough, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Taylor Swift, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana, Rami Malek and Robert De Niro.

David O. Russell writes and directs a romantic crime epic blending fact and fiction in a tale of three friends caught in a shocking secret plot. The cast is frankly unbelievable: It stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola, Andrea Riseborough, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Taylor Swift, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana, Rami Malek and Robert de Niro.

With advancements in home theater technology getting better and better all the time, the dream of being able replicate the cinema experience is becoming more and more of a reality as time goes by. But that massive screen, state-of-the-art sound system, and comfy chairs don’t mean a whole lot when you don’t have movies to watch. In the event you are looking for movies (and TV shows) to watch with all that fancy equipment, you’ve come to the right place as we are about to break down everything coming out on dvd, Blu-ray, 4k, and Digital throughout 2022.

This list will be constantly updated throughout the year, so if you don’t see any of the best 2021 movies and TV shows you’re looking for down below, don’t worry because information on all of those releases will become available (with links to order and preorder them) as we keep pushing through 2022. That being said, check out all of the current movies and TV shows scheduled to come home this year.

Thanks to the global pandemic, theatrical movie releases were all-but non-existent in 2020, and any new titles that did see the light of day were often confined to streamers like Disney Plus and HBO Max.

2021, though, turned out to be one of the best years for film fans in living memory. Not only did we seen four Marvel movies released last year (Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home, which, collectively, lengthened the task of watching the Marvel movies in order), but we also enjoyed the big-budget action of theatrically-released flicks like No Time to Die, Dune and The Matrix Resurrections.

One of the most anticipated Netflix releases of the year — Blonde, in which Ana de Armas gives a career-best performance as Marilyn Monroe — hits the streamer next week, following an initial and limited theatrical run. This one is noteworthy for so many reasons, not the least of which are that it has Oscar bait all over it; it will also be Netflix’s first movie rated NC-17; and Ana has once again shape-shifted, chameleon-like, into a role that will no doubt leave many viewers’ mouth agape and in awe.

As always, though, there’s also a lot more to check out on Netflix over the coming days, too. That’s why, as we do every Friday, we want to highlight some of the biggest and most interesting Netflix releases debuting over the coming week — partly to help subscribers wade through the staggering abundance of choice on the service. Our other recent content from the streamer, by the way, includes peeks at upcoming Netflix content from the TUDUM event.

For an even more narrowly curated look at the best of what’s on the service right now, we also offer guides covering the biggest Netflix shows at the moment, as well as under-the-radar new releases (like the fantastic Swedish crime drama Snabba Cash). Plus early looks at new content, like the 145 titles that will be new on Netflix in October.

Blonde

Let’s start, though, with the far-and-away biggest Netflix release that’ll be available to stream in the coming days.

Blonde (coming on September 28) will add, first of all, yet another title to an already pretty sizeable library of Ana de Armas movies available to stream on Netflix. Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, her newest film, according to Netflix, “boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe.

“From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.”

The movie was written and directed by Andrew Dominik. The cast, in addition to Ana, includes Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody, Julianne Nicholson, Xavier Samuel, and Evan Williams.

I caught a theatrical screening of the movie in advance of its Netflix debut. You can read my full review of Blonde right here. But, in short: It’s one of the darkest, most lurid, and unsettling movies I’ve ever seen in my life. Suffice it to say: The Discourse around this one is not going to be pretty.

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Lou + more new Netflix releases

But Blonde is not, of course, the only high-profile new Netflix movie we’ve got to talk about.

In the new Netflix drama Lou, for example, Allison Janney plays a hard-bitten former CIA spook in what basically amounts to a female-led twist on Liam Neeson’s shoot-’em-up and take no prisoners Taken franchise. Also starring Jurnee Smollett (and now streaming on Netflix), the action- and suspense-heavy plot here is pretty straightforward.

Thinking she’d put her dangerous past behind her, Netflix’s synopsis explains, “Lou (Allison Janney) finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her kidnapped daughter. As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.”

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So far, the early reviews look a little tepid — which, as I’ve covered before, reflects an ongoing trend when it comes to Netflix movie releases. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, the critics’ score for this new Netflix release stands at 68% based, on 19 reviews so far. Not bad, but also not great. The audience score for Lou, though, already is at a very tepid 57%, which is probably not a good sign — but, again, we shall see, as more reviews come in.

More new titles

Meanwhile, here’s a snapshot of some of the additional Netflix releases hitting the streamer over the coming days.

Fullmetal Alchemist — The Final Alchemy: Netflix’s synopsis: “The Elric brothers’ long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must face off against an unworldly, nationwide threat.” Release date: September 24.

Nick Kroll — Little Big Boy: In addition to acting, funnyman Nick Kroll has performed standup for 20 years. This Netflix release, meanwhile, marks his standup comedy special debut with the streamer. It was filmed at the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. Release date: September 27.

A Trip to Infinity: In this Netflix documentary film, mathematicians, cosmologists, and particle physicists give us a deep dive into the nature of infinity as a concept — and talk about its implications for the universe. Release date: September 26.

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One more new Netflix release to check out

Last but not least, do you remember the crazy saga around GameStop and its stock price from 2021?

Here’s a quick refresher. Basically, over the course of just a few days, Redditors managed to drive up GameStop’s share price by more than 5,000%. Looking to exploit immense short interest in shares of the video game retailer, Redditors on r/WallStreeBets mobilized en masse and started buying up GameStop shares at a rapid clip. As demand drove the price up, hedge funds with short positions on the stock were forced to close their positions, which only served to drive shares up even higher.

That story is now the subject of a Netflix limited documentary series: Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga (coming September 28).

Executive produced by Emmy and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, Netflix explains, “this lively, comedic documentary series captures the wild ride of a group of misfits who banded together online to rescue GameStop, a company they loved when they were kids.

“Coalescing on Reddit, TikTok, and Discord, they capitalized on a new age of investing with their thumbs to thwart Wall Street’s cynical ploy to burn the company down.”

We should add that the trailer alone, below, has already gotten a number of Redditors hot enough that they’ve threatened to cancel their Netflix subscriptions. For reasons that include everything from feeling like this Netflix release is basically “propaganda against retail investors” to the inclusion of a flippant-sounding comment in the trailer, below, from controversial Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz:

“YOLO, you know,” she says with a smile. “Let’s destroy the economy.”

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More Netflix Coverage: New on Netflix: 145 brand new titles to stream this month (October 2022)

Escape from New YorkDirected byJohn CarpenterWritten byProduced byStarringCinematographyDean CundeyEdited byTodd RamsayMusic byDistributed byAVCO Embassy Pictures^[1]99 minutesCountryUnited States^[1][2]LanguageEnglishBudget$6 million^[3]Box office$25.2 million (US)^[3]

Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton.

The film’s storyline, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country’s sole maximum-security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled borough. Ex-soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell)^[4] is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States, after which, if successful, he will be pardoned.

Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of Halloween (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million.^[3][5] Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in Halloween.

Released in the United States on July 10, 1981, the film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing more than $25.2 million at the box office.^[3] The film was nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. The film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, Escape from L.A. (1996), which was also directed and written by Carpenter and starred Russell.

Plot[edit]

In a dystopian 1988, amidst total war against an alliance of China and the Soviet Union, the United States government has turned Manhattan into a giant maximum-security prison to deal with a 400% increase in crime. A 50-foot (15 m) wall surrounds the island, bridges have been mined, rivers are patrolled by helicopters, and all prisoners unlucky to be alive are sentenced to life terms in Manhattan.

In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace summit in Hartford, Air Force One is hijacked by a guerrilla fighter of the “National Liberation Front of America” (named in reference to the “Viet Cong”) posing as the stewardess. Unable to regain control, Secret Service agents attach a tracking device to the President’s arm and handcuff him to a briefcase of sensitive documents before putting him in the plane’s escape pod. The aircraft crashes, while the pod is ejected.

Police are dispatched to rescue the President. Romero, the right-hand man of the Duke of New York, a powerful crime boss, shows them a severed finger with the President’s signet ring and warns that he will be killed if any further rescue attempts are made. Meanwhile, former Special Forces soldier Snake Plissken is about to be sent into Manhattan after being convicted of robbing the Federal Reserve. Police Commissioner Bob Hauk offers a deal to Snake: if he rescues the President in time for the summit, Hauk will arrange a full presidential pardon. To keep Snake from going rogue, Hauk has him injected with micro-explosives that will sever his carotid arteries in 22 hours. If Snake is successful, Hauk will neutralize the explosives.

Using a stealth glider to land atop the World Trade Center, Snake follows the President’s tracker to a vaudeville theater, only to find it on the wrist of a deluded vagrant. Convinced the President is dead, Snake radios Hauk but is told that he will be shot down if he returns without the President. Inspecting the escape pod, Snake is ambushed by dozens of starving “Crazies”, and accidentally drops and destroys his radio while trying to flee. He is rescued by “Cabbie”, a jovial old man who drives an armored taxi.

Cabbie takes Snake to Harold “Brain” Hellman, an adviser to the Duke and a former associate of Snake’s. Brain, a brilliant engineer, has established a small gasoline refinery, fueling the city’s remaining cars, and tells Snake that the Duke plans to lead a mass escape across the Queensboro Bridge by using the President as a human shield and following a landmine map that Brain has drawn up. Snake forces Brain and his girlfriend Maggie to lead him to the Duke’s hideout at Grand Central Terminal. Snake finds the President, but gets shot in the leg with a crossbow bolt and overpowered by the Duke’s men.

While Snake is forced to fight in a deathmatch against Duke’s champion Slag, Brain and Maggie kill Romero and flee with the President. Snake kills Slag and finds Brain, Maggie, and the President at the top of the World Trade Center trying to escape in the glider. The inmates drop it off the roof, so the group returns to street level and encounters Cabbie, who offers to take them across the bridge. Cabbie reveals that he bartered with Romero for the contents of the briefcase: a cassette tape which contains information about nuclear fusion, intended to be an international peace offering. The President demands the tape, but Snake claims it.

The Duke pursues them onto the bridge in his customized Cadillac, setting off mines as he tries to catch up. Brain guides Snake, but they hit a mine, and Cabbie is killed. As they continue on foot, Brain accidentally stumbles into another mine. A distraught Maggie sacrifices herself to slow down the Duke. Snake and the President reach the containment wall, and guards hoist the President up. The Duke opens fire with Snake’s MAC-10, killing the guards before Snake subdues him; he attempts to shoot Snake as he is being lifted up by the rope, but the President takes up a dead guard’s rifle, violently guns down the Duke, and hoists Snake to safety. Hauk’s doctor saves Snake’s life with just seconds to spare.

As the President prepares for a televised speech to the leaders at the summit meeting, he thanks Snake and tells him that he can have anything he wants. Snake then asks how he feels about the people who died saving his life. The President offers only half-hearted regret and lip service for their sacrifice, and Snake walks away in disgust. An impressed Hauk offers him a job as his deputy, but Snake just keeps walking. The President’s live speech commences, and he plays the cassette tape. To his embarrassment, it only plays Cabbie’s favorite song, “Bandstand Boogie”. As Snake walks away a free man, he tears the magnetic strip out of the real tape.

Cast[edit]

In addition, frequent Carpenter collaborators Nancy Stephens appeared as the “Hijacker” and Buck Flower appeared as the “Drunk with the president’s tracker”, respectively, while then-active professional wrestler
Ox Baker played “Slag”. The narrator was voiced by an uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis. Actor Joe Unger filmed scenes as Snake’s partner-in-crime Bill Taylor, but they were cut from the final film.

Production[edit]

Development and writing[edit]

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Carpenter said, “The whole feeling of the nation was one of real cynicism about the president.”^[6] He wrote the screenplay, but no studio wanted to make it because, according to Carpenter, “[i]t was too violent, too scary, [and] too weird”.^[7] He had been inspired by the film Death Wish, which was very popular at the time. He did not agree with this film’s philosophy, but liked how it conveyed “the sense of New York as a kind of jungle, and I wanted to make a science-fiction film along these lines”.^[8]

International Film Investors agreed to provide 50% of the budget, and Goldcrest Films signed a co-financing deal with them. They ended up providing £720,000 of the budget and making a profit of £672,000 from their investment after earning £1,392,000.^[9]

Casting[edit]

AVCO Embassy Pictures, the film’s financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter’s choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the “lightweight” screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies. Carpenter refused to cast Bronson on the grounds that he was too old, and because he worried that he could lose directorial control over the film with an experienced actor. At the time, Russell described his character as “a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood’s vocal-ness.”^[10] All that matters to Snake, according to the actor, is “the next 60 seconds. Living for exactly that next minute is all there is.” Russell used a rigorous diet and exercise program to develop a lean and muscular build. He also endeavored to stay in character between takes and throughout the shooting, as he welcomed the opportunity to get away from the Disney comedies he had done previously. He did find it necessary to remove the eyepatch between takes, as wearing it constantly seriously affected his depth perception.^[11]

Pre-production[edit]

Carpenter had just made Dark Star, but no one wanted to hire him as a director, so he assumed he would make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The filmmaker went on to do other films with the intention of making Escape later. After the success of Halloween, Avco-Embassy signed producer Debra Hill and him to a two-picture deal. The first film from this contract was The Fog. Initially, the second film he was going to make to finish the contract was The Philadelphia Experiment, but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project. However, Carpenter felt something was missing and recalls, “This was basically a straight action film. And at one point, I realized it really doesn’t have this kind of crazy humor that people from New York would expect to see.”^[12] He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film-school days at University of Southern California, who played “The Shape” in Halloween. Castle invented the Cabbie character and came up with the film’s ending.^[13]

The film’s setting proved to be a potential problem for Carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semi-destroyed version of New York City on a shoestring budget. The film’s production designer Joe Alves and he rejected shooting on location in New York City because it would be too hard to make it look like a destroyed city. Carpenter suggested shooting on a movie back lot, but Alves nixed that idea “because the texture of a real street is not like a back lot.”^[14] They sent Barry Bernardi, their location manager (and associate producer), “on a sort of all-expense-paid trip across the country looking for the worst city in America,” producer Debra Hill remembers.^[14]

Bernardi suggested East St. Louis, Illinois because it was filled with old buildings “that exist in New York now, and [that] have that seedy run-down quality” that the team was looking for.^[15] East St. Louis, sitting across the Mississippi River from the more prosperous St. Louis, Missouri, had entire neighborhoods burned out in 1976 during a massive urban fire. Hill said in an interview, “block after block was burnt-out rubble. In some places, there was absolutely nothing, so that you could see three and four blocks away.”^[14] Also, Alves found an old bridge to serve as the “69th St. Bridge”. The filmmaker purchased the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge for one dollar from the government and then gave it back to them, for the same amount, once production was completed, “so that they wouldn’t have any liability,” Hill remembers.^[14] Locations across the river in St. Louis were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theatre, both of which have since been renovated,^[16] as well as the building that would eventually become the Schlafly Tap Room microbrewery.

Filming[edit]

Carpenter and his crew persuaded the city to shut off the electricity to 10 blocks at a time at night. The film was shot from August to November 1980. It was a tough and demanding shoot for the filmmaker as he recalls. “We’d finish shooting at about 6 am and I’d just be going to sleep at 7 when the sun would be coming up. I’d wake up around 5 or 6 pm, depending on whether or not we had dailies, and by the time I got going, the sun would be setting. So for about two and a half months I never saw daylight, which was really strange.”^[12] The gladiatorial fight to the death scene between Snake and Slag (played by professional wrestler Ox Baker) was filmed in the Grand Hall at St. Louis Union Station. Russell has stated, “That day was a nightmare. All I did was swing a [spiked] bat at that guy and get swung at in return. He threw a trash can in my face about five times … I could have wound up in pretty bad shape.”^{[citation needed]} In addition to shooting on location in St. Louis, Carpenter shot parts of the film in Los Angeles. Various interior scenes were shot on a sound stage; the final scenes were shot at the Sepulveda Dam, in Sherman Oaks. New York served as a location, as did Atlanta, to use their futuristic-looking rapid-transit system (the latter scenes were cut from the final film).^[17] In New York City, Carpenter persuaded federal officials to grant access to Liberty Island. “We were the first film company in history allowed to shoot on Liberty Island at the Statue of Liberty at night. They let us have the whole island to ourselves. We were lucky. It wasn’t easy to get that initial permission. They’d had a bombing three months earlier and were worried about trouble”.^[18]

Carpenter was interested in creating two distinct looks for the movie. “One is the police state, high tech, lots of neon, a United States dominated by underground computers. That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences, which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England”.^[18] Certain matte paintings were rendered by James Cameron, who was at the time a special-effects artist with Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Cameron was also one of the directors of photography on the film. As Snake pilots the glider into the city, three screens on his control panel display wireframe animations of the landing target on the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings. Carpenter wanted high-tech computer graphics, which were very expensive, even for such a simple animation. The effects crew filmed the miniature model set of New York City they used for other scenes under black light, with reflective tape placed along every edge of the model buildings. Only the tape is visible and appears to be a three-dimensional wireframe animation.^[19][20]

Music[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

Release[edit]

Home media[edit]

LaserDisc releases[edit]

Escape from New York was released on LaserDisc 10 times between 1983 and 1998.^[21] A 1994 Collector’s Edition includes a commentary track by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell that is still included on more recent dvd releases of the film.^[22]

dvd releases[edit]

Escape from New York was released on dvd twice by MGM (USA), and once by Momentum Pictures (UK). One MGM release is a barebones edition containing just the theatrical trailer. Another version is the Collector’s Edition, a two-disc set featuring a high definition remastered transfer with a 5.1 stereo audio track, two commentaries (one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter’s Snake Plissken Chronicles, and the 10-minute Colorado bank robbery deleted opening sequence.^[23]

MGM’s special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had gone missing. The workprint containing deleted scenes finally turned up in the Hutchinson, Kansas, salt-mine film depository. The excised scenes feature Snake Plissken robbing a bank, introducing the character of Plissken and establishing a backstory. Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: “After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn’t really start until Snake got to New York. It wasn’t necessary to show what sent him there.”^[24] The film has been released on the UMD format for Sony’s PlayStation Portable.^[25]

Blu-ray release[edit]

On August 3, 2010, MGM Home Entertainment released Escape From New York as a bare-bones Blu-ray.^[26] Scream Factory, in association with Shout! Factory, released the film on a special edition Blu-ray on April 21, 2015.^[27]

Reception and legacy[edit]

Box office[edit]

Escape from New York opened in New York and Los Angeles July 10, 1981.^[1] The film grossed $25.2 million in American theaters in summer 1981.^[3]

Critical response[edit]

The film received generally positive reviews. Newsweek magazine wrote of Carpenter: “[He has a] deeply ingrained B-movie sensibility – which is both his strength and limitation. He does clean work, but settles for too little. He uses Russell well, however”.^[28] In Time magazine, Richard Corliss wrote, “John Carpenter is offering this summer’s moviegoers a rare opportunity: to escape from the air-conditioned torpor of ordinary entertainment into the hothouse humidity of their own paranoia. It’s a trip worth taking”.^[29] Vincent Canby, in his review for The New York Times, wrote, “[The film] is not to be analyzed too solemnly, though. It’s a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season”.^[30] On the other hand, in his negative review for the Chicago Reader, critic Dave Kehr, wrote “it fails to satisfy – it gives us too little of too much”.^[31]

Christopher John reviewed Escape from New York in Ares Magazine #10 and commented that “It is solid summer entertainment of unusually high caliber. By not pretending to be more than it is, but by also not settling for any less than it could be, Escape becomes an exciting, fast-moving drama, the likes of which we haven’t seen in years.”^[32]

On Rotten Tomatoes it received an 86% positive rating based on reviews from 66 critics, with an average score of 7.20/10. The site’s critical consensus was: “Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, Escape from New York is a strange, entertaining jumble of thrilling action and oddball weirdness”.^[33] On Metacritic it has a score of 76% based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.^[34]

Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer. “I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ‘You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad, didn’t you?’ It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF where a casual reference can imply a lot”.^[35] Popular video game director Hideo Kojima has referred to the film frequently as an influence on his work, in particular the Metal Gear series. Solid Snake is partially influenced by the character Snake Plissken. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Snake uses the alias “Pliskin” to hide his real identity during most of the game.^[36] J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.^[37] Empire magazine ranked Snake Plissken #29 in their “The 100 Greatest Movie Characters” poll.^[38]

Other media[edit]

Sequel[edit]

A sequel, Escape from L.A., was released in 1996, with Carpenter returning along with Russell, now also acting as producer and co-writer.

Remake[edit]

A remake for Escape from New York began development in 2007, when New Line Cinema won the rights to remake in a bidding war. Gerard Butler was attached to play Snake Plissken, Neal H. Moritz would produce through his Original Film company, and Ken Nolan would be in charge of the screenplay.^[39] Len Wiseman was announced to direct, but was later replaced by Brett Ratner, who also stepped off the project.^[40][41][42] In April 2010, Variety reported that Breck Eisner was being looked at to direct a remake of Escape from New York, with David Kajganich and Allan Loeb providing revisions to the script.^[43] It was later announced in 2011 that New Line had dropped the remake completely.^[44] In January 2015, 20th Century Fox purchased the remake rights, with The Picture Company producing.^[45] In March 2017, it was announced that Robert Rodriguez would direct a remake of the film with Carpenter producing it.^[46] In February 2019, it was reported that Leigh Whannell will be writing the script after Luther creator Neil Cross completed a recent iteration of the project.^[47] Wyatt Russell, son of Kurt, was considered to portray Snake Plissken, but he expressed no interest in playing the role, considering it “career suicide.”^[48]

Book[edit]

Screen Rant announced the publication a new book on the making of the film by John Walsh entitled Escape From New York: The Official Story of the Film to be published on September 28, 2021 by Titan Books.^[49]

Novelization[edit]

In 1981, Bantam Books published a movie tie-in novelization written by Mike McQuay that adopts a lean, humorous style reminiscent of the film. The novel includes significant scenes that were cut from the film, such as the Federal Reserve Depository robbery that results in Snake’s incarceration. The novel provides background on the relationship between Snake and Hauk—presenting the characters as disillusioned war veterans, and deepening the relationship that was only hinted in the film. The novel also explains how Snake lost his eye during the Battle for Leningrad in World War III, how Hauk became warden of New York, and Hauk’s quest to find his crazed son, who lives somewhere in the prison. The novel gives greater detail on the world in which these characters live, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film. It explains that the West Coast is a no-man’s land, and the nation’s population is gradually being driven insane by nerve gas as a result of World War III. The novel also clarifies that the president’s plan for the cassette tape is not benevolent. Rather than presenting to the world a new energy source in the form of nuclear fusion (as claimed in the film), the tape actually reveals the successful development of a “fallout-free thermonuclear weapon, which would grant the US supremacy in the global conflict.^[50][51][52]

Comic books[edit]

Marvel Comics released the one-shot The Adventures of Snake Plissken in January 1997. The story takes place sometime between Escape from New York and before his famous Cleveland escape mentioned in Escape from L.A. Snake has robbed Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control of some engineered metaviruses and is looking for buyers in Chicago. Finding himself in a deal that is really a set-up, he makes his getaway and exacts revenge on the buyer for ratting him out to the United States Police Force. In the meantime, a government lab has built a robot called ATACS (Autonomous Tracking And Combat System) that can catch criminals by imprinting their personalities upon its program to predict and anticipate a specific criminal’s every move. The robot’s first test subject is America’s public enemy number one, Snake Plissken. After a brief battle, the tide turns when ATACS copies Snake to the point of fully becoming his personality. Now recognizing the government as the enemy, ATACS sides with Snake. Unamused, Snake sucker punches the machine and destroys it. As ATACS shuts down, it can only ask him, “Why?” Snake just walks off, answering, “I don’t need the competition”.

In 2003, CrossGen published John Carpenter’s Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries.^[53] The story takes place a day or so after the events of Escape from New York. Snake has been given a military Humvee after his presidential pardon and makes his way to Atlantic City. Although the director’s cut of Escape from New York shows Snake was caught after a bank job, this story has Snake finishing up a second heist that was planned before his capture. The job entails stealing the car in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated from a casino before delivering it to a buyer in the Gulf of Mexico. Snake partners with a man named Marrs who ends up double-crossing him. Left for dead in a sinking crab cage, Snake escapes and is saved by a passing fisherman named Captain Ron (an in-joke referring to Kurt Russell’s 1992 comedy, Captain Ron). When Ron denies Snake’s request to use his boat to beat Marrs to the robbery, Snake decides to kill him. When Snake ends up saving Ron from the Russian mob, who wants money, Ron changes his mind and helps Snake. Once at the casino, Snake comes face-to-face with Marrs and his men, who arrive at the same time, ending in a high-speed shootout. Snake gets away with the car and its actress portraying Jackie Kennedy, leaving Marrs to be caught by the casino owner, who cuts him a deal to bring his car back and live. After some trouble, Snake manages to finally get the car to the buyer’s yacht, using Ron’s boat, and is then attacked by Marrs. Following the firefight, the yacht and car are destroyed, Marrs and Captain Ron are dead, and Snake makes his escape in a helicopter with the 30 million credits owed to him for the job.

In 2014, BOOM! Studios began publishing an Escape from New York comic book by writer, Christopher Sebela.^[54] The first issue of the series was released on December 3, 2014,^[55] and the story picks up moments after the end of the film.

BOOM! released a crossover comics miniseries between Snake and Jack Burton titled Big Trouble in Little China/ Escape from New York in October 2016.^[56]

Board game[edit]

An Escape from New York board game was released in 1981 by TSR, Inc.^[57]

Cancelled anime[edit]

In 2003, Carpenter was planning an anime spin-off of Escape from New York, with Outlaw Star‘s Mitsuru Hongo slated to direct.^[58]

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External links[edit]

• Escape from New York at IMDb
• Escape from New York at the TCM Movie Database
• Escape from New York at AllMovie
• Escape from New York at Box Office Mojo
• Escape from New York at John Carpenter’s official website

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