What Movies Are Coming Out In 2020 And 2021

We've done the research so you don't have to and pulled together a handy list of some of the scariest and most chilling and thrilling movies coming out in 2021. Of course, since we're not out of the woods when it comes to the pandemic, how firm these planned release dates are and just how these movies might be available to watch remains to be seen. And, PSA, even if movie theaters in your area are open and showing one or more of these movies in the coming months, remember to follow ongoing guidelines regarding quarantining and social distancing for the safety of yourself and others. Currently linked to Netflix, the project is being helmed by Lucifer star Aimee Garcia and author AJ Mendez who are in the process of writing the script, with Mulan director Carl Rinsch set to direct. In a surprise move, Paramount is partnering with Netflix on the long-mooted Beverly Hills Cop sequel, that will see Eddie Murphy reprise the role of Axel Foley for what we assume will be the last time. Jerry Bruckheimer returns to produce, and the film is likely to skip a theatrical release and go straight to Netflix's streaming service.

Our 2021 Movies page contains the most accurate 2021 movie release dates and information about all movies released in theaters. Click on any of the 2021 movie posters images for complete information about each movie in theaters in 2021. Trailers for each movie release of 2021 are featured on each page below. This one was supposed to wrap up 2020 as a big ol' monster-mashing blockbuster, but now its poised to ring in the summer movie season with a battle for the ages. The film mashes together the recent takes on the Godzilla and King Kong franchises, and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Jessica Henwick, and Kyle Chandler.

Legendary has been building up to this one for years now, and this aims to be the flagship monster film of the franchise. It'll also be rolled out with a simultaneous streaming and theatrical release as part of the HBO Max deal from Warner Bros. As ever, this is going off UK release dates, and it's a wide-ranging list that spoke to all the things we most needed to see in a time that still feels unpredictable and far from normal. Check out the full list here, as voted for by Empire's staff, and remember – the next six months have plenty more movie magic still to come. It seems that Hollywood is going to be very busy with its 2021 movies coming to theaters.

With an ungodly amount of comic book movies from Marvel and DC alike to the new Fast and Furious movie, the next calendar year is jam-packed with some of the most anticipated releases to ever be announced. That is due, in part, to the fact that many of these films were originally scheduled for a sooner release, or should have been out months ago. While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the opening, closing and attending of movie theaters, it hasn't stopped the production of some excellent-looking family films.

In fact, the schedule for the year is set to be stocked with fairy tales, new animated movies, robot adventures, musicals and, of course, the ever-popular sequels and remakes. We took a look at the calendar and compiled a list of the best kid's movies of 2021. It's not unusual for movie release dates to jump around the calendar, but we've witnessed a unique set of circumstances caused by COVID-19. A lot of movies finally arriving in 2021 were due out in 2020, and while a vaccine is already starting to roll out across the globe, studios don't know when people will feel comfortable returning to theaters. Godzilla vs. Kong, which moved from Thanksgiving 2020 to May 21, 2021, is one of many Warner Bros. titles set to hit streamer HBO Max on the same day as its theatrical release.

But before that news was announced, Netflix had offered more than $200 million for the monster movie from Legendary Pictures, which financed 75 percent of the film. Godzilla vs. Kong, directed by Adam Wingard, stars Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall and Kyle Chandler. The Quiet Place sequel, originally set for a March 20, 2020, theatrical release, had a glitzy red-carpet premiere screening in New York City just days before essential businesses in the Big Apple began shutting down. Star Emily Blunt later told THR of the eleventh-hour delay of the film directed by and starring husband John Krasinski, "Well, what happened with Quiet Place was so surreal. At some point, it became very clear that the writing was on the wall, and insisted that we pull the movie.

We're not bringing this movie out.' And then before too long, everyone was inside and I think it was surreal for everybody, not just for us." After initially delaying the film to Sept. 4, Paramount shifted it again, to 2021, over the summer. The sequel also features Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe and Cillian Murphy. The long-awaited sequel to the 1988 Eddie Murphy hit was set to be released by Paramount in December before the studio sold the star-studded comedy to Amazon in late November for $125 million. The decision, Paramount chairman Jim Gianopulos told The Hollywood Reporter, was made "with enormous difficulty.

It was counterprogramming to some of the other films that would have been on the schedule. But we were faced with a reality, which is we had two full years of movies that were going to get crammed into probably a half a year of releases, the second half of '21. And so we had to make choices." The film follows Murphy's Prince Akeem, now set to become king, returning to America to find the son his father tells him he has. The Craig Brewer-directed film reteams Murphy with original castmembers Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley and John Amos, with Murphy and Hall once again playing numerous characters. New castmembers include Wesley Snipes, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Jermaine Fowler, KiKi Layne and Teyana Taylor.

A sequel that was presumed to have been abandoned, Lionsgate is pressing ahead with its plan for a thirdNow You See Me movie. The plan this time will be to bring new cast members in, whilst offering a return to the likes of Jessie Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson from the original cast. Eric Warren Singer has been hired to write the screenplay for the new film, but no director or release date has been set as of yet. Following the giant success of Disney's live action take on Aladdin in 2019, the studio is now said to be considering a follow-up to the movie.

Although whether it'll follow the path set by the animated The Return Of Jafar is unknown. Producer Dan Lin confirmed that work is being done to explore another film, although as of yet, no further announcements have been made. There are also plans for a Disney+ spin-off project that may or may not replace a direct sequel. Your one-stop destination to know all about the current and upcoming releases.

Here's a regularly updated list of movie release dates, upcoming movies, latest Bollywood movies and a lot more. Kenneth Branagh directs the sequel to his Murder on the Orient Express adaptation, where he returns to his role – and that impressively sculpted facial hair – as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. As in the first movie, he's taken a dazzling ensemble cast along for the ride, this time including Gal Gadot, Sex Education's Emma Mackey and Black Panther's Letitia Wright. Don't expect any massive surprises in the plot – the story's over 80 years old – but with whodunits like this, the fun is always in watching Poirot sleuthing up a storm. The G.I. Joe franchise returns to the big screen, though this time they're seeing if a spinoff might have a bit more success than the full-on team movies we've gotten up to this point. The story is pitched as an origin for the namesake soldier Snake Eyes, starring Henry Golding under the mask.

Snake Eyes has always been one of the most popular members of the toy/animated series team, it'll be interesting to see if a solo film is the right approach to finally turn this franchise into a bona fide hit. Considering that an Uncharted movie has been in the works for more than a decade, off and on, it's only fitting that it actually gets finished during a pandemic that delayed and disrupted most everything else. But, it did get finished — and there is a real-life Uncharted movie in the can and on the calendar. The film stars Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake, alongside Mark Wahlberg as a young "Sully," as the duo get into a fresh adventure involving an architectural find and plenty of intrigue. The video game franchise is basically Indiana Jones meets Tomb Raider, and that's a recipe that should be ripe for a film adaptation. They say truth is stranger than fiction, but more often than not it's much sadder too.

Where fiction likes to wrap things up in a tidy bow, real life is all about calculated compromise. In the case of Iván Garcia and Gerardo Zabaleta, whose touching love story is dramatized in the timely drama "I Carry You With Me," the choice between a life together in the U.S. or with family in Mexico has no clear-cut answers. The narrative feature debut of Oscar-nominated documentarian Heidi Ewing ("Jesus Camp"), "I Carry You With Me" weaves this painful division into a poignant and visually striking tale of resilience, striving, and the sacrifices we make for love.

Marvel's grand plans extend far into the future, and the novel coronavirus pandemic has forced Disney to shift its plans. While some release dates are locked, loaded, and ready to go, others are but whispers in the wind, and others have shifted significantly due to global disasters. Notably, the current phase of the MCU will be the first to integrate its television properties fully into greater scheme of things — or rather, the first to cross over into Disney Plus' exclusive TV shows. And for the first time, Marvel will release a feature film on Disney Plus simultaneously with its release in theaters.

The fuchsia-saturated revenge romp that many expected Promising Young Woman to be never arrived. It's certainly stylish, slick and camp , but this is the palette with which writer-director Emerald Fennell wants to tackle #MeToo, rape culture, justice, culpability, and – fundamentally – grief and rage. This is a film about what happens to women, out in the world, every day. About the consequences, and how we try – but don't always succeed – to live with them. It's brutal, unpalatable realism soaked in glitter and sugar – whatever it takes to make the medicine go down. It wouldn't be Halloween without a visit from the Addams Family in some shape or form.

This time, it's a sequel to the 2019 animated movie, the one with characters that look more like the original Charles Addams cartoons. Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron return as Gomez and Morticia Addams, and SNL's Bill Hader also joins the cast. In the Heights was supposed to be the Tony-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical everyone was talking about this summer, but the film adaptation, directed by Jon M. Chu, was delayed in the spring by almost a year, to June 2021. The Warner Bros. title, like the rest of the studio's 2021 slate, is set to stream on HBO Max the same day it hits the big screen.

The film stars Anthony Ramos as a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and going to his parents' homeland of the Dominican Republic after he inherits his grandmother's fortune. The film also stars Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Stephanie Beatriz and Dascha Polanco. The Marvel stand-alone, starring Scarlett Johansson as the titular superhero, was quickly shifted from its May 1, 2020, release date in the early days of the pandemic, as theaters closed throughout the U.S., first landing in November before moving into 2021.

Despite speculation that the movie, which also stars Florence Pugh and Rachel Weisz, would go directly to Disney+,executives indicated during Disney's investor day in December that the tentpole would get a traditional theatrical release. Things go horribly wrong in The Vigil for Yakov , a young man who – having left his ultra-orthodox Jewish community for a secular Brooklyn life – accepts a job sitting vigil for a recently deceased Holocaust survivor. Keith Thomas' feature debut has a great sense of its insular milieu as well as the trauma and stress of escaping an extremist religious environment, and the writer/director drums up suspense from set pieces that exploit silence to eerie effect.

Davis' harried countenance is the glue holding this assured thriller together, lending it an empathetic anguish that helps cast its action as a story about confronting the past as a means of transcending, and escaping, it. Once 2021's prequel film – The King's Man – is out in cinemas, director Matthew Vaughn will likely be turning his attention to the promised Kingsman 3. Taron Egerton is set to return as Eggsy to tie the trilogy up, although no news on a release date has thus far come to light.

Following his return to the View Askewniverse withJay & Silent Bob Reboot, Kevin Smith will soon focus his attention on the on-off-on again trilogy closer,Clerks III. Smith will write and direct, and the core cast from the first two films are set to return. Parts of the originalClerks III script ended up used inJay & Silent Bob Reboot, and thus he's started again from scratch. It shot in the summer of 2021, with Lionsgate picking up global release rights. Based on books series of the same name we've already had After and After We Collided. With 4 books in the series, the film adaptations for books 3 and 4 After We Fell and After Ever After completed production at the end of 2020.

In addition to this, it was announced in April 2021 that there would be an additional 2 films. Before, a loose adaptation of the prequel book, as well as another film set in the future, with the focus this time on the children of the first films leads. The movie will, of course, star Brie Larson returning to her role as Captain Marvel. Teyonah Parris will make her way to the big screen from WandaVision, having lost her mother (and Carol's best friend) while also gaining electromagnetic powers in the series.

The year is set to go out with a song and dance, as all eyes turn to Steven Spielberg's first ever big screen musical. And let's be honest, the legendary director of Indiana Jones, Jaws and Saving Private Ryan couldn't have chosen a bigger act to follow. Robert Wise's Oscar-winning 1961 movie version of the classic Bernstein and Sondheim production is undoubtedly one of the greatest screen musicals of all time, so it'll be exciting to see what Spielberg can bring to the party. As Covid-19-induced lockdowns led to unprecedented closures of theaters around the world, movie studios pulled movie after movie from their release schedules. Even the few movies that did make it to the screen – Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984 – struggled to get anywhere near the box office takings they'd have made in any other year. LeBron James steps into the shorts and jersey this time around, taking over the superstar role from Micheal Jordan for this long-gestating animated-live action hybrid sequel.

The story finds LeBron joining up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes for a basketball game with some major stakes and plenty of wacky hijinks. Considering the cultural place the original has garnered in the years since its release, it'll be interesting to see just how big of a slam dunk this one turns out to be. Also of note, the film is part of Warner Bros. slate that will open simultaneously on HBO Max and theatrically, so you'll have plenty of ways to see it. It might surprise some that the classic Broadway musical and 1961 film has yet to be rebooted onscreen in this age of nostalgia and rebranding. But when it finally hits theaters next December, it will have been 50 years since filmgoing audiences have had a fresh take on the Sharks and Jets dancing off for control of the streets. On Dec. 21, Ansel Elgort and newcomer Rachel Zegler will star in the Steven Spielberg-directed remake of the classic musical, which puts a metropolitan spin on the legendary story of Romeo and Juliet's star-crossed lovers.

The extended cast will also feature The Prom's Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Corey Stoll and Rita Moreno, who won an Academy Award for appearing in the original film. Thankfully, there are strong horror movie options in theaters, with another installment in one of the best horror movie franchises ever and a visually stunning horror movie from one of the most purely fun directors working right now. Beyond horror it's just a plain good month for movies, with a long anticipated sci-fi adaptation, the latest film from Ridley Scott, and even a prequel to one of the greatest TV series ever made. The Into The Spider-Verse sequel might still be a way off, but its spiritual successor has already arrived. With its pop culture-obsessed heroine Katie and amped-up action sequences, there's plenty of Scott Pilgrim DNA in there – while a Furby-centric setpiece at the midway mark might be the most deliriously funny sequence of any movie this year.

The Mitchell clan themselves are the secret weapon, though, tugging heartstrings and delivering laughs aplenty across the entire runtime. The Mitchells Vs The Machines is a road trip you'll want to take again and again and again. Other films on this list crescendo with a thunderous car chase, a kinetic musical number or the take-down of a mega-fanged monster. The Father, on the other hand, has as its major third-act event the sight of an old man helplessly sobbing. And it's the ending that will likely stick with you for far longer than those others. The film offers no pat answers about the brutal blight of dementia — inevitably, it portrays a deterioration that is never turned around.

But what it does provide is a hugely empathetic, unflinchingly honest depiction of a condition that affects so many of us. Anthony Hopkins (astonishing, Oscar-winning) spins through a kaleidoscope of emotions as the afflicted titular dad, one moment basking in a treasured memory, the next startled, angry or afraid as he realises he's lost his grip on the present day. The triumph of The Father, though, is that first-time director Florian Zeller pulls us deep into the character's mind for 97 minutes, switching up sets and characters and forcing us to fumble for clues just as he does. While some films play by the rules, others are destined to chart their own mad course, like a cat up a palm tree who's decided to go up a palm tree. Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar is firmly in the latter camp – a deliriously daft comedy from Bridesmaids duo Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo and debut director Josh Greenbaum that channels SNL-style anything-goes sketch comedy with a surreal Tim & Eric edge.

It's weird, but wonderful too – from its distinct visual tone (the whole thing is an alt-universe Jimmy Buffet pastel daydream), to its rapid gag-rate, to that standout musical number. If you sat through Uncut Gems and thought, "Well, that was good, but I wish it was a bit more stressful", then boy, have we got a film for you. Shiva Baby is not a thriller — there are no chases, no fight scenes, no bad guys as such.

In fact, it's about a twentysomething woman running into her secret sugar daddy at a shiva and trying not to give the game away. But this low-key, low-stakes drama plays out in the hyper-adrenalised key of a Safdie Brothers or Paul Greengrass film, turning it into a scenario that will have you clenching your teeth with tension . 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.

With that in mind, we have a list of release dates that are highly subject to change, especially in the early part of 2021. We've also noted where a theatrical release is day-and-date with a streaming release as will be the case with all Warner Bros. movies in 2021 when they simultaneously release on HBO Max. The Ryan Reynolds-led sci-fi action-comedy about a non-player character in a video game who becomes self-aware was initially set for a summer release before Disney's 20th Century Studios shifted the title to December. In early October, the Free Guy team posted a video joking about whether the film would make its new 2020 release date, and sure enough, just weeks later, the movie was moved into 2021. In addition to Reynolds, the Shawn Levy-directed title stars Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his movie directorial debut with an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Rent creator Jonathan Larson.

Andrew Garfield stars as a young theater composer who isn't gonna miss his shot in a New York ravaged by the AIDS epidemic in 1990. The film is scheduled to open in theaters in November before streaming on Netflix Nov. 19. Mark Wahlberg and director Antoine Fuqua team up for Infinite, the story of a man discovering that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. Originally set for a theatrical release, it's coming to streaming service Paramount Plus .