New year, tons of new movies coming our way! What 2023 films are you most looking forward to?
Caveats: Most of the films currently scheduled for release and beginning to get some promotion are, of course, big tentpoles: action movies, animated stuff, sci-fi’s, comic-book adventures, and the like. There will be lots more movies not yet on the pop-culture radar to get excited about once they start screening at festivals. And the movies we do already know about could get postponed (in some cases, again) if the pandemic flares up badly again.
That said, here’s a list of some of the big 2023 titles we know about so far to get you started salivating. (Release months simultaneous in US and UK unless otherwise noted.)
JANUARY Plane
These are “officially” 2022 movies, but not opening in the UK till this month:
A Man Called Otto Till Empire of Light Tár Babylon The Fabelmans
FEBRUARY Knock at the Cabin (new M. Night Shyamalan) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Cocaine Bear [top far right] Magic Mike’s Last Dance
These are “officially” 2022 movies, but not opening in the UK till February:
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish The Whale Women Talking Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
MARCH Creed III Shazam! Fury of the Gods 65 [top middle left] John Wick: Chapter 4 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (UK Apr)
APRIL The Super Mario Bros Movie (UK Mar) Renfield Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
MAY Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 Fast X The Little Mermaid
JUNE Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Transformers: Rise of the Beasts The Flash Asteroid City (new Wes Anderson) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [top far left]
JULY Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Barbie [top middle right] Oppenheimer The Marvels
AUGUST The Meg 2: The Trench Haunted Mansion Challengers (new Luca Guadagnino) Blue Beetle
SEPTEMBER A Haunting in Venice The Expendables 4 Next Goal Wins (UK Apr)
OCTOBER Kraven the Hunter
NOVEMBER Dune: Part Two The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Wish
DECEMBER Wonka Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
EXPECTED IN 2023 Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Killers of the Flower Moon (new Martin Scorsese)
Me, I am most looking forward to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, because Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favorite and one of my formative films, and Barbie, because I know Greta Gerwig is gonna have a blast with it.
Check out MrBallen on YouTube for the details about the Cocaine Bear.