What new movies are coming out of Hollywood in 2024? Studios are still catching up after last year’s strikes ground production and deal-making to a halt, and a number of new films hitting theaters this year had their release dates pushed back due to the strikes, including Dune: Part Two (February 28th on IMAX, March 1st in all theaters), Challengers (April 26th), (July 26th), Venom 3 (November 8th), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (May 24th), and others.
2024’s slate started the year slowly, with no single film cracking the $100 million mark in the domestic box office in January, according to Gower Street Analytics. Only Wonka and Mean Girls were able to crack $50 million.
Movies that could bring more people to theaters this year include big-name sequels like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (May 24th), Inside Out 2 (June 14th), Despicable Me 4 (July 3rd), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (September 6th), The Karate Kid (December 13th), and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Mufasa: The Lion King (both December 20th).
Here are the biggest movie release dates and trailers set for 2024 and beyond:
May 14
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Megalopolis’ first teaser makes it look like everything Coppola dreamt it would be
After gestating in the mind of writer / director Francis Ford Coppola for the better part of the last century, Megalopolis is finally making its way to the big screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. And from the looks of the sci-fi epic’s first teaser trailer, it might be just about everything Coppola always dreamt it would be.
Set in a sprawling metropolis that’s been devastated by a cataclysmic natural disaster, Megalopolis tells the story of how architect Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) tries to rebuild the city using his unusual ability to control time. There seems to be no stopping or reversing the shower of flaming meteors that descend upon the city in the new trailer as Cesar and other citizens watch in horror. But as imperiled as the city may be, Cesar appears to be dead set on trying to convince people how it could be remade as a utopia if only they would understand his visions for a better future.
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Apr 29
Andrew Webster
Here’s the first Mufasa teaser. I’m not lion.
Given the success of Disney’s “live-action” remake of The Lion King, a prequel seemed inevitable, so here we are with Mufasa. It looks a lot like the original, only this time they added an ice level and a villain voiced by Mads Mikkelsen. It hits theaters on December 20th.
Apr 28
Wes Davis
The best movie trailers for the week of April 21st
Image: Marvel Studios
I’ve been making more of an effort to keep up with movies lately and even managed the rare feat of seeing one in an actual movie theater. I saw Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Elza González, Babs Olusanmokun, and others in what I interpreted as a goofy spaghetti western / spy / heist film.
I suppose it’s also a war movie, being based (very loosely) on a true story about a collection of unstoppable guys set on an unsanctioned secret mission to destroy a German U-boat resupply ship during World War II. It doesn’t try to ruminate on the weight of the mission, which was to clear the way for American ships to cross the Atlantic and join the war effort. Ministry is all vibes and style. You know, a Guy Ritchie movie.
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Apr 24
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ron Howard’s Jim Henson documentary looks like a tearjerker.
Jim Henson Idea Man, Ron Howard’s new Disney Plus documentary about the man who dreamt up the Muppets, is obviously going to have its lighthearted moments. But the doc’s first trailer makes it feel like a sentimental tearjerker that will have people putting on their favorite Henson productions after it debuts on May 31st.
Apr 23
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice has all the telltale signs of being a good time.
Blink Twice, director co-writer Zoë Kravitz’s new psychological thriller about two women (Naomi Ackie and Alia Shawkat) trapped on an eccentric billionaire’s (Channing Tatum) island, sounds like a cross between Glass Onion and The Menu.
And the movie’s first trailer makes it seem like those two flavors are going to go pretty well together Blink Twice hits theaters on August 23rd.
Apr 23
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Netflix’s Atlas is looking more and more like a buddy cop movie about working with AI
At first glance, Netflix’s upcoming action thriller Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, seemed like it was going to be a rather serious movie about a mech pilot fighting to survive on an inhospitable planet. That could still be the case, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it out to be a bit more of a sci-fi buddy cop affair with an emphasis on human / robot alliances.
Though a maniacal machine (Simu Liu) dead-set on eradicating humanity presents the biggest threat in Atlas, the movie’s new trailer puts a spotlight on how an AI-powered battle armor will join Atlas Shepherd (Lopez) in her fight to save the world. With so many killer robots on the loose and doing a bang-up job of destroying cities, it makes sense that Atlas would be distrustful of thinking machines, regardless of how good-natured they appear to be. It makes a bit less sense that Atlas, someone who doesn’t know how to fully operate a piece of intelligent battle armor, would be sent on a mission requiring her to use one in order to stay safe.
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Apr 13
Wes Davis
This week’s trailers offered twists on familiar genres
This week saw some fun trailers tapping into heady science fiction, comic book movies, and taboo horror, each with a fun mixed genre twist. Joker: Folie à Deux is a comic book movie about the love affair of The Joker and Harley Quinn that’s also a musical, and Apple TV Plus’ new Dark Matter series is a kidnapping thriller with an interesting alternate reality twist. Then there’s Maxxxine, a horror slasher that looks to also be a whodunit crime mystery.
Joker: Folie à Deux takes a crack at the origin of The Joker and Harley Quinn’s romance, which has been explored in some of the best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and lightly featured in 2016’s Suicide Squad. This movie is supposed to be a “jukebox musical” — you know, like Moulin Rouge, except it’s about a murderous pair of lovers with unconventional ideas about jokes. It will be out on October 4th.
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Apr 8
Wes Davis
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum faked the Moon landing.
Or they will, in a new movie called Fly Me to the Moon, from Apple Original Films (and distributed by Sony Pictures). The movie imagines Johansson and Tatum as Kelly Jones and Cole Davis, who are given the directive to film a fake Apollo landing just in case the real one goes sideways.
It hits theaters July 12th.
Apr 8
Andrew Webster
A24’s horror trilogy heads to the ’80s in first Maxxxine trailer
It’s shaping up to be a promising summer of horror. Last week, we got a first glimpse at Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo, which comes out in August, and this week is starting off with the first trailer for Ti West’s Maxxxine. The movie will round out a trilogy that kicked off in 2022 with the release of both X and its prequel Pearl; it hits theaters on July 5th.
As the title implies, the new movie follows aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) as she attempts to make it big in Hollywood in 1985 following the gruesome events of X. Much like Pearl before her (also played by Goth), she seems willing to do anything to make it happen. But bad news: a mysterious killer known as the “night stalker” is on the loose, complicating those plans.
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Apr 4
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Megan shimmied so Abigail could grand jeté.
Abigail, Universal’s new horror about a vampire posing as a young girl, seems to have all the makings of a classic killer child movie. But watching the film’s new trailer, you can absolutely see Megan’s influence as Abigail prances around while murdering folks she just wants to have fun with.
Abigail hits theaters on April 19th.
Apr 3
Andrew Webster
Cuckoo is clocking in.
The new trailer for Tilman Singer’s horror film — which stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens — doesn’t give a lot away, but it sure does look scary. You can find out for yourself when it hits theaters on August 9th.
Apr 1
Andrew Webster
Ape escape.
The new trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has what all good action movies need: an overhead shot of people being hunted in tall grass. (See Prey, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and X-Files: Fight the Future for more on this subject.) The latest Apes hits theaters on May 10th.
Mar 31
Wes Davis
“Space babies!”
Commenters on the second Doctor Who trailer really love Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor saying, “I will shatter this silly little battlefield into dust.”
I’m sure they’re right and that’s a better line, but I love the exuberance of “space babies!” (even if talking babies still look terrible in the year of our lord 2024). The new season hits Disney Plus on May 10th (or BBC iPlayer in the UK on May 11th).
Mar 27
Andrew Webster
Fresh off some big wins at the Oscars,
Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos is already back with his next film, Kinds of Kindness. The first teaser trailer doesn’t reveal much — aside from a stacked cast — but the movie is described as a “triptych fable” that hits theaters on June 21st.
Mar 26
Kevin Nguyen
Evil does not exist, but a new trailer does.
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to Drive My Car was one of my favorites out of last year’s New York Film Festival. Fellow Hamaguchi-heads can see it when it comes to theaters May 3rd.
Mar 21
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brings the dead man home in its first trailer
Tim Burton spent the better part of the past decade talking about how ready he was to make a Beetlejuice sequel with Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton. And after all this time the perfectly named Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally seeing the light of day.
Set some years after the original movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice catches up with Lydia Deetz (Ryder) and her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) as the pair travel home to Winter River to be with Lydia’s mother Delia (Catherine O’Hara) in the wake of a sudden family loss. It’s not clear whose funeral the Deetzes are attending in the new trailer, or how any of them feel about the person who died.
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Mar 20
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The first Alien: Romulus trailer has exceptionally terrifying vibes.
After Alien: Covenant, it felt like 20th Century Studios might not have been sure where it wanted to take the franchise. But the nightmarish first teaser trailer for director Fede Álvarez’s upcoming Alien: Romulus standalone film — out August 16th — makes it seem like the studio has a solid plan to get things back on track.
Mar 14
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Crow just won’t die in new trailer for Lionsgate’s remake.
Between the gruesome murders, supernatural resurrection, and moody quest for vengeance, director Rupert Sanders’ upcoming remake of The Crow seems like it should have all the right ingredients to appeal to fans of the original comic.
And yet, watching the movie’s new trailer, there’s something that feels kind of off — maybe it’s the Yolandi Visser cut — about Bill Skarsgård’s take on the undead vigilante. The film’s out June 7th.
Mar 13
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Venom: The Last Dance waltzes into theaters October 24th.
Sony initially had the third Venom movie starring Tom Hardy scheduled to hit theaters on November 8th, but along with revealing the project’s new title — Venom: The Last Dance — the studio has bumped its premiere up to October 24th.
Mar 13
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The first trailer for Netflix’s Atlas turns Jennifer Lopez into a mech pilot
It’s been a while since we had a really satisfying live-action feature focused on people piloting futuristic robots, but the first trailer for Netflix’s Atlas from director Brad Peyton makes it seem like it could be the mech genre’s next big splash.
Set in a wild future where humanity’s begun using massive AI-powered robots to wage war, Atlas tells the story of how data analyst Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez) is forced to work with a renegade machine to save the Earth. Despite the mechs’ widespread use throughout the world, Shepherd cannot shake her deep distrust for the thinking machines, which appear to be designed to operate autonomously or under the control of a human pilot.
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Mar 9
Wes Davis
“I can’t hear you over the nuclear accelerator!”
Get a load of Paul Rudd flipping a 180 in the Ecto-1, McKenna Grace firing a proton pack at a flying eel-like apparition, and Carrie Coon piloting a drone ghost trap in the latest clip from Ghost Busters: Frozen Empire.
The movie is out on March 22nd.
Mar 7
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Inside Out 2 is about to teach an entire generation of kids what ennui is.
Pixar’s first Inside Out film led with a cast of emotions most young viewers could probably identify as things they’d experienced themselves. But Inside Out 2’s introduction of feelings like Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), seems primed to leave teens with a new way of articulating that dreadful, existential je ne sais quoi they’re always feeling.
The film hits theaters on June 14th.
Mar 4
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Eras Tour’s big Disney Plus debut is almost here.
We’re just a few days out from the Disney Plus debut of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film, but in case the March 14th premiere somehow slipped your mind, there’s a new trailer to get you hyped back up.
Feb 29
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising debuts June 14th.
For a while now, we’ve known Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising from directors Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima was slated to debut some time this year for, but the animated film’s finally a proper June 14th release date.
Feb 28
Charles Pulliam-Moore
A24’s I Saw The TV Glow finally hits theaters on May 3rd.
You had to physically be at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to catch A24’s mesmerizing new supernatural thriller I Saw The TV Glow from director Jane Schoenbrun. But following the film’s run on the festival circuit, it’s slated to make its theatrical debut this upcoming May.
