From the return of 'John Wick' and 'Mission: Impossible,' to new films from Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, and Leonardo DiCaprio, here are 100 films to look forward to in 2023.
2022 was a great year for films, but 2023 is absolutely going to give it a run for its money. In 2023, we'll have new films from Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Steve McQueen, Michael Mann, Ben Affleck, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Sofia Coppola, and very likely, two films from Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Infinity Pool looks like it very well may be one of the most disturbing films of the year, which should come as no surprise. The film stars current horror queen Mia Goth, who dominated the genre in 2022 with performances in X and Pearl, and is written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the mind behind gems like Antiviral and Possessor. The premise is intriguingly twisted, falling in line with the Cronenberg brand, as it sees wealthy couple James and Em on a luxurious vacation.
I don’t think I need to even explain why this film is on the list. It’s Cocaine Bear. Cocaine Bear is loosely based on the true story of Pablo Escobear, an American black bear who overdosed on 34 kilos of stolen cocaine. In real life, the bear, unfortunately, passed away the same day, but in Elizabeth Banks’ new film, the titular drug-fueled woodland critter goes on a bloody rampage. It looks campy, cartoonishly violent, and looks like it’ll play like gangbusters like a crowd.
It’s been a rough year for DCU fans. When the reins for DC Studios were handed off to James Gunn and Peter Safran, the Snyderverse got shaken up, and many projects are now canned or up in the air. Fortunately, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to 2019’s Shazam!, has been biding its time, with multiple release date push-backs. Better late than never, Fury of the Gods is bringing back Billy Batson and his foster siblings to further explore those new powers from the Council of Wizards.
The storyline follows a ragtag group of thieves, who of course think they’re the best thieves in the world. However, they run afoul of a dark and dangerous group, and must right their wrong — having the adventure of a lifetime along the way. The trailer promises some laughs, some action, some frightful-looking creatures, and some very cool-looking dragons — plus Chris Pine plays the lute.
Based on the 1970s novel by Judy Blume, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret is a coming-of-age dramedy that follows a sixth-grader who moves from New York City to New Jersey. Blume’s book tackles themes of religion, sexuality, and growing up in a raw and highly relatable way, and the film adaptation is sure to be no different with director Kelly Fremon Craig at the helm. The movie also stars big names like Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates, who we can never get enough of.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson The director of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the co-creator of American Vandal, and Phil Lord & Chris Miller have teamed up to grace us with an R-rated live-action comedy centering around talking dogs. In other words, Hollywood has read my mind and made a movie that feels made specifically for me. Strays follows Reggie a dog that has been abandoned by his heartless owner who teams up with a group of strays, led by a dog voiced by Jamie Foxx, to get his revenge.
Yes, after plenty of delays for an abundance of reasons, it seems like The Flash will finally come to theaters in 2023. And while we have no idea what the future of the DC universe holds, The Flash certainly—well at least when it was first announced—sounded like one of the most ambitious projects DC had attempted before. Not only is this the first standalone film for The Flash, but this will also see the return of Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne for the first time in over thirty years.
There are new installments in the Fast & Furious and John Wick franchises also coming out in 2023 – both reasons to be excited! But when it comes to the cream of the action-franchise crop, one movie series stands alone. Or maybe not so much stands as dangles perilously from the side of a treacherous mountain or underneath an out-of-control helicopter.
When last we left Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers, she’d just helped save the universe from Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. However, those who watched the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel know that in the end credits scene of the final episode, Carol somehow switched places with Kamala Khan . It’s likely that The Marvels will delve further into this storyline, and bring in Monica Rambeau and possibly her interest in space travel, too.
Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy—better known as the comedy group Please Don't Destroy—have created some of the funniest videos on the internet, and have made a real splash this year with their shorts on Saturday Night Live. While little is known about this project, the film will star the trio as childhood friends who have grown up together and try to find a buried treasure.
It's been seven years since Gareth Edwards' last film, the Star Wars spinoff Rogue One, but the writer-director has finally returned with the science-fiction film True Love. Not much else is known about Edwards' latest, except its cast includes John David Washington, Allison Janney, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Ralph Ineson, and country music star Sturgill Simpson.
If this didn't have such an excellent cast and writer-director behind this, the idea of a film about a young Willy Wonka starring Timotheé Chalamet might seem like a joke.
It's now been five years since our last Yorgos Lanthimos film, with 2018's The Favourite, but in 2023, it looks like we might get two of them. The first is the SEO nightmare And, which will reunite Lanthimos with several cast members from his other 2023 film Poor Things, with both featuring Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, and Willem Dafoe.
Not much is known about Blitz yet, but really, all you need to know is that Steve McQueen is back. Coming off 2020's Small Axe anthology series, Blitz will be McQueen's first film since 2018's Widows. We know that Blitz is a historical drama set in World War II from Apple Studios, and will star Saoirse Ronan, Triangle of Sadness' Harris Dickinson, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Erin Kellyman.
Dumb Money is posed to be one of the weirdest and wildest movies of 2023 if they’re able to capture the chaos that went into the ripped-from-the-headlines story of the Reddit-fueled attempt to short squeeze GameStop in 20221. Yes, r/WallStreetBets changed the game only a year ago.
The last time Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti worked together was in 2004's Sideways, which was arguably the biggest success of either of their careers. Almost two decades later, these two will reunite for The Holdovers, in which Giamatti once again plays a teacher, who is put in charge of a rebellious student who can't return home for Christmas.
At this point, it almost seems like Killers of the Flower Moon might never come out, but maybe that's more of a sign of our excitement over this one. Martin Scorsese's latest film follows the David Grann book of the same name about a series of murders in 1920s Oklahoma. While Scorsese has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio has worked with Scorsese six times, and Robert De Niro has worked with Scorsese ten times, this is the first time Scorsese is working with both actors in the same film.
Megalopolis has long been a passion project for Francis Ford Coppola. The director has been talking about Megalopolis since the 80s, and once said that the films he made in the 90s were an attempt to get out of debt so he could fund Megalopolis. After all these years, Coppola's long-in-the-works project is finally filming, with an insanely great cast, and could finally be coming out this year.
And now, the second Yorgos Lanthimos film of the year! Poor Things will be Lanthimos' first adaptation, based on the Alasdair Gray book of the same name. Emma Stone once again stars in a Lanthimos project, this time playing Bella Baxter, who drowns herself to get out of a marriage with her abusive husband, but then has her brain replaced with her unborn child's brain, thanks to the help of her doctor father.
Following up his excellent 2020 film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, director/co-writer George C. Wolfe returns with Rustin, which will showcase the life of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the March on Washington. Rustin is also co-written by Under the Banner of Heaven creator Dustin Lance Black, and with Colman Domingo playing Rustin, it will be great to finally see Domingo in a lead role that gives him the spotlight.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Dow futures rise more than 100 points on first trading day of 2023All of the major averages closed 2022 with their worst losses since 2008, each snapping a three-year win streak.
Read more »
These Hot 100 Hitmakers Were Passed Over for 2023 Grammy Nods for Best New ArtistGayle, Kim Petras, Dove Cameron and Lainey Wilson, among others, were snubbed in the category.
Read more »
Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films Streaming January 2023In this month's Nerd's Watch, io9 picks the best genre movies and TV shows coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and more.
Read more »
10 of the Biggest Films to Look Out For in 2023From Greta Gerwig’s take on a fuchsia-clad icon to Timothée Chalamet’s turn as a top-hatted chocolatier.
Read more »
‘Barbie,’ ‘Cocaine Bear,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ among the 40+ big films coming in 2023Also on deck are the latest installments of 'John Wick,' 'Creed,' 'Indiana Jones,' 'Mission: Impossible,' 'Dune' and many more.
Read more »
Sundance 2023 fleshes out lineup with five new films, plus an encore screening of CODAPast Sundance winners Klondike, Navalny, and Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will receive encore screenings at Sundance 2023
Read more »