16 of the most anticipated movies in 2023 – BBC News World

Danielle Deadwyler, who plays Mamie, delivers a powerful performance that could well earn Oscar recognition.

(Theatrical release: January 2023).

Actor Brendan Fraser is on the horizon for an Oscar for his extraordinary performance in one of the most unusual and moving stories of the year.

Fraser plays a morbidly obese teacher living in a tiny apartment desperately trying to reunite with his estranged daughter.

The film has been acclaimed at various film festivals and is expected to be a contender for multiple awards. The rest of the cast, which includes Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, and Samantha Morton, are very supportive.

(Theatrical release: January 2023 / in the United States it was released in December).

Cate Blanchett has not stopped receiving awards and critical acclaim for her portrayal of the composer and conductor Lydia Tár, a musician who has reached the top of her profession.

But things change when unexpected pressures begin to affect his life and work.

Blanchett has already been the recipient of two Academy Awards. She won her first Oscar in 2005 and her second, nine years later, in 2014.

So, at least mathematically, nine years later it is set to win the prestigious award again in a few months. And it probably will.

(Theatrical release: January 2023).

This is the most personal film of Steven Spielberg’s half-century career. It is a fictional version of his own childhood, in which he grew up in a broken family.

It shows his sometimes difficult relationship with his parents. He explains how as a child she fell in love with cinema. And how that obsession turned into the career that has already given him two Oscars as a director, and could give him a third with this film.

(Theatrical release: February 2023).

The Sam Mendes Love Letter is set in a small seaside movie theater during the 1980s and stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the film’s director.

When a new ticket salesman is hired, played by Bafta winner Micheal Ward, the two find an unlikely connection. Mendes’s story explores everything from romance to racism to misogyny and mental health.

And Colman, as always, is being talked about as a contender for acting honors at awards season.

(Theatrical release: March 2023).

“I am Groot.” “I am Groot.” Pause. “I am Groot.”

Translation, if you need it :eThe galaxy’s favorite mismatched group of heroes returns to attempt a mission that this time, it is strongly rumored, will put a member of the team under mortal threat.

Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Karen Gillan, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff and Dave Bautista join Will Poulter, whose character Adam Warlock was first hinted at in a post-credits sequence in volume 2.

(Theatrical release: May 2023).

This budding project has on paper, perhaps, the strongest pedigree of 2023 movies.

Award-winning director Martin Scorsese directs the laureates Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. As well as (another possible future Oscar winner) Brendan Fraser.

This is a 1920s drama that follows the investigation of the murders of a series of wealthy people in Osage County, Oklahoma, after the discovery of large oil fields.

(Theatrical release: May 2023 / to be confirmed).

This CGI-animated sequel to 2018’s “A New Universe” revisits Miles Morales traveling between alternate universes.

In addition to developing his relationship with Gwen Stacy’s Spider-Woman, he also comes into contact with a larger group of Spider-People, including an older Spider-Man, a British Spider-Man, and a pregnant Spider-Woman.

Shameik Moore returns to voice Miles. He is joined by Hailee Steinfeld, Issa Rae, and Daniel Kaluuya.

(Theatrical release: June 2023).

While the films in the original Indiana Jones trilogy are considered by many to be classics, the fourth, “The kingdom of the crystal skull“, is known like a horrible failure.

And that film’s alleged plan to hand over the baton to Indy’s rediscovered son, Shia LaBoeuf’s Mutt, appears to have been abandoned.

On this occasion, Harrison Ford as Indy is joined by new actors like Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. As well as the return of John Rhys-Davies.

(Theatrical release: June 2023).

The seventh installment in the “Mission Impossible” franchise promises the usual mix of outlandish sets, high-octane chases and sphincter-squeezing stunts.

We assume that Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt Will Fight Again to Save the World of some kind of nefarious global plot.

The first trailers show the expected locations. And supported by a roster of returning characters.

(Theatrical release: July 2023).

The first images of the Barbie movie almost broke the internet. And it’s hard to think about a more perfect cast than Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling like the fashion dolls that have been the stars of the Mattel line for decades: Barbie and Ken.

It’s been billed as a romantic comedy, but other than that, plot details are rather sparse.

Whatever the plot, audiences are already eagerly awaiting what promises to be a visual feast of primary colors.

(Theatrical release: July 2023).

The latest epic from director Christopher Nolan is the story of physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, often nicknamed the father of the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer was one of the leading members of the manhattan projectwhich led to the creation of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And he was one of the witnesses to the first atomic detonation test in history in New Mexico.

Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt to his wife, Kitty.

(Theatrical release: July 2023).

The first movie of Dune ambitiously self-proclaimed “Dune: Part One.”

But that confidence was confirmed when audiences flocked to what turned out to be the cinematic equivalent of the much-coveted spice of planet arrakis.

This film will broadly narrate the second half of the original novel by author Frank Herbert.

Timothée Chalamet returns as Paul Atreides, as does Zendaya as Chani. Florence Pugh is Princess Irulan.

(Theatrical release: November 2023).

The original film quartet of Hunger Games (“The jgames of hambre“)followed the rise of Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence.

Now this prequel, set more than half a century earlier, follows the young Coriolanus Snow, when he had yet to become a ruthless despot, though the clues are there for keen observers.

Tom Blyth plays the young Coriolanus Snow. Also appearing in the film are Rachel Zegler and Hunter Schafer.

(Theatrical release: November 2023).

The most famous and eccentric chocolatier businessman in literature He has already been played by Gene Wilder in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and by Johnny Depp in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

This time it’s up to Timothée Chalamet playing a versionyoungest wonka in this prequel to the original story by Roald Dahl.

Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, Jim Carter, and Matt Lucas also star in the film.

(Theatrical release: December 2023).

The great Stanley Kubrick spent many years trying to make a movie about the life of Napoleon.but he never succeeded, and left the exiled plans on Elba.

Now, Ridley Scott has succeeded where Kubrick failed.

Scott’s version of the life of the emperor uses Josephine, Napoleon’s wife, as a lens through which to observe one of history’s most extraordinary characters.

Vanessa Kirby plays Josephine, while Joaquin Phoenix takes on the role of Napoleon.

(Premiere on Apple TV + at the end of 2023, to be confirmed).

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