The best and most anticipated movies of 2024

In 2019, joker — Todd Phillips King of comedy— portraying the Crown Prince of Crime — worked its way from the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (that festival's award for Best Picture) to Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor at the Academy Awards, in addition to a slew of other nominations. MUBI's cinema bags were at the ready; We thought it was good. This sequel looks to capitalize on the chaos, introducing Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, the Joker's love interest, in an old golden-age musical like… Singing in the rain. “enter the clowns…”

Gladiators 2

November 22

Treat this date as a placeholder for now. Photography has moved forward for Gladiators 2 in Malta in June and July, but an actors' strike halted production. Whether it comes in November as currently planned (we'll see) or later, it will certainly be worth the 20-year wait.

Paul Mescal takes the fighting pit in place of Russell Crowe, whom Maximus Decimus Meridius took revenge on and subsequently died in the first pit. Barry Keoghan was attached at one point but was replaced by White lotusFred Hechinger. The cast also includes screen legend Denzel Washington, Hollywood favorite Djimon Hounsou, and the father of the Internet, Pedro Pascal. Weird things“Joseph Quinn and the true king of British theater, Derek Jacobi.

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Mickey 17

Social satire by Bong Joon Ho parasite It shook off the shackles of “indie film” — Martin Scorsese would be proud — in 2019 to become an unlikely box office giant, grossing $262 million worldwide and taking home the first Best Picture Oscar for a film not in the English language. It's no surprise, then, that Bong got a big budget for his next film, an adaptation of Edward Ashton's sci-fi novel about expendable clones sent to colonize distant worlds. (Hence the “17”, Mickey presumably being the 17th version of Mickey.) Director Bong has assembled a fitting cast of cinematic Twitter faces for this film: Robert Pattinson stars, with the walking Deadsteven yeun, Hereditarytoni colette, I wanna Dance With SomebodyNaomi Ackie and Mark “The Hulk” Ruffalo. But don't get too excited just yet, after being scheduled for release in March 2024, it was recently revealed that the film has been postponed “indefinitely.” Check out your local movie bro.

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