2016

Details are slowly emerging on these upcoming projects so we’ll try to update as quick as we can.

Film: Bourne 5
Director: Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
Starring: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Tommy Lee Jones
Plot: Rogue spy Jason Bourne makes his return after a 9 year hiatus.

Film: The Jungle Book
Director: Jon Favreau (Iron Man)
Starring: Bill Murrary, Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Neel Sethi, Christopher Walken, Lupita Nyong’o, Giancarlo Esposito
Plot: A boy is raised by the various creatures of a dark and dangerous jungle.
Predicted Gross: $125 million
Release: April 15th

Film: Now You See Me: The Second Act
Director: Jon M Chu
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Caine
Premise: With their master’s identity revealed, the Four Horseman return for their second act.
Release: June 10th
Predicted Gross: $275 million

Film: The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
Director: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings)
Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis
Premise: Tintin and Haddock embark on a new adventure.
Release: Devember 16th
Predicted Gross: $400 million

Film: Independence Day 2
Director: Roland Emmerich (White House Down)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Maika Munroe, Bill Pulllman, Vivica A Fox, Jessie Usher, Charlotte Gainsburg, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, William Fichtner
Premise: The aliens are back for another chance at destroying Earth’s most iconic landmarks.
Release: July 1st
Predicted Gross: $850 million

Film: Finding Dory
Director: Andrew Stanton (WALL-E), Angus MacLane
Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Vicki Lewis, Willem Dafoe
Premise: Dory goes on a search for her forgotten family.
Release: July 29th
Predicted Gross: $975 million

Film: Star Trek Beyond
Director: Justin Lin (Fast Five)
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Idris Elba, John Cho, Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, Sofia Boutella, Lydia Wilson, Joe Taslim, Simon Pegg
Premise: The Enterprise crew may be facing all out war with the Klingons.
Release: July 8th
Predicted Gross: $550 million

Film: Deadpool
Director: Tim Miller
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, Ed Skrein, Brianna Helgeland, TJ Miller
Premise: Wade Wilson is a maniac superhero who crosses the world wrecking havoc.
Release: February 12th
Predicted Gross: $450 million

Film: Rogue One
Director: Gareth Edwards (Godzilla)
Starring: Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelson, Donnie Yen, Alan Tudyk, Wen Jiang, Jonathan Aris, Forrest Whitaker
Premise: The first Star Wars spin off depicts a legendary fighter pilot team
Release: December 16th
Predicted Gross: $900 million

Film: The Huntsman
Director: Cedric Nicolas Troyan
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Sam Claflin, Alexandra Roach, Nick Frost, Sheridan Smith, Rob Brydon, Jessica Chastain
Premise: With the dreary Snow White dropped, the huntsman goes on his own vendetta against the resurrected Ravenna.
Release: April 22nd
Predicted Gross: $425 million

Film: Warcraft
Director: Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code)
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Ben Foster, Paula Patton, Travis Fimmel, Ruth Negga, John Krasinski, Toby Kebbell
Premise: The armies of races prepare for a war.
Release: March 11th
Predicted Gross: $400 million

Film: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Director: Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons
Premise: While the Justice League assemble, the Man of Steel challenges the hero of Gotham, Batman.
Release: March 25th
Predicted Gross: $775 million

Film: Captain America: Civil War
Directors: Anthony and Joe Russo
Starring: Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Daniel Bruhl, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, William Hurt, Martin Freeman
Premise: Stark and Rogers go head to head as the government passes an act regulating superheroes and Cap’ becomes the rebel figurehead for those looking to preserve their identity.
Release: April 29th
Predicted Gross: $1.1 billion

Film: Doctor Strange
Director: Scott Derickson (Sinister)
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelson
Premise: A former surgeon, who has lost the control of his hands, trains to be a sorcerer.
Release: October 28th
Predicted Gross: $675 million

Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Director: David Yates
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Carmen Ejogo, Gemma Chan, Dan Fogler, Jon Voight, Samantha Morton, Ron Perlman
Premise: Seventy years before the events of Harry Potter, Newt Scamander travels with world, documenting its most fearsome creatures.
Release: November 18th
Predicted Gross: $600 million

Film: Prometheus 2
Director: Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner)
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender
Premise: Elizabeth and the newly decapitated David embark to find the birthplace of the mysterious Engineers, but the newborn Xenomorph may not be far behind.
Release: March 4th
Predicted Gross: $375 million

Film: Tarzan
Director: David Yates (Harry Potter)
Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, John Hurt, Samuel L Jackson
Premise: Now adjusted to city life, Tarzan returns to his island to investigate a new mining operation.
Release: 1st July
Predicted Gross: $500 million

Film: Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur
Director: Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes)
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Berges Frisbey, Jude Law, Katie McGrath, Djimon Hounsou, Annabelle Wallis, Eric Bana
Premise: A former squire becomes the King.
Release: July 22nd
Predicted Gross: $500 million

Film: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Director: James Bobin
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ed Speelers, Michael Sheen, Lindsay Duncan, Matt Lucas, Barbara Windsor, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall
Premise: Alice returns down the rabbit hole.
Release: May 27th
Predicted Gross: $750 million

Film: X-Men: Apocalypse
Director: Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects)
Starring: James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Lucas Till, Josh Helman, Evan Peters, Olivia Munn, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Kodi Smit McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Lana Condor, Oscar Isaac
Premise: An ancient mutant, Apocalypse, re-emerges and recruits Storm, Angel, Psylocke and Magneto as his horsemen.
Release: May 19th
Predicted Gross: $850 million

Film: Suicide Squad
Director: David Ayer (Fury)
Starring: Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Will Smith, Cara Delevingne, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Joel Courtney, Scott Eastwood, Common, Ben Affleck
Premise: The government recruits supervillains for top secret black ops missions.
Release: August 5th
Predicted Gross: $525 million

Film: Ghostbusters
Director: Paul Feig (Bridesmaids)
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Cecily Strong, Chris Hemsworth, Andy Garcia, Michael Kenneth Williams, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver
Premise: An all-female team set up a ghost removal service in the heart of New York.
Release: July 22nd
Predicted Gross: $700 million

Film: Zoolander 2
Director: Ben Stiller (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Penelope Cruz, Olivia Munn, Christine Taylor, Billy Zane
Premise: Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Release: February 12th
Predicted Gross: $200 million

Film: Allegiant: Part 1
Director: Robert Schwentke (RIPD)
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts
Premise: Tris and co must defeat a new organisation.
Release: March 18th
Predicted Gross: $325 million

Film: Hail Caesar
Directors: Joel and Ethan Cohen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, True Grit, No Country For Old Men)
Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton
Premise: A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio’s stars in line.
Release: February 26th
Predicted Gross: $75 million

We’ll fill in more of 2016’s exciting releases soon!

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