What You Need To Know: This two-decades-on sequel to the mid-’90s blockbuster smash is hoping to capture into the same ‘legacyquel’ nostalgia love that “ Jurassic World” and ‘ Star Wars: The Force Awakens” so profitably tapped in 2015. But the old enemy are back, and pose a far greater threat now. Synopsis: Twenty years after surviving an alien attack, humanity has rebuilt and improved with captured technology. ‘Adventure Time’ Is Slowly Going Off the Air, And Everyone’s Moving Onĭirector: Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day,” “2012”)Ĭast: Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher Release Date: Currently set for December 25th, but we imagine Fox will be moving it up to fill the October slot that “ Gambit” looks like it won’t make. Holmes”’ breakout Milo Parker also featuring) and pleasingly different from the director’s usual rep company, and we’re always rooting for a Burton comeback, even if it seems less and less likely with each passing movie. It sounds on paper like it could be something close to a ‘What If Tim Burton Made A 1940s X-Men?’ YouTube video, but the cast is terrific (with a rare leading role for the great Eva dmiGreen, and Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp and “ Mr.
As such, he’s back on more familiar territory with this fantasy pic, based on a (very enjoyable) YA best-seller by Ransom Riggs. What You Need To Know: Tim Burton tried to step slightly away from his comfort zone with the relatively un-zany “ Big Eyes,” but the film proved not much more successful than the director’s last few, and didn’t really crack the awards race either.
Synopsis: A boy follows clues his late grandfather left him to a mysterious orphanage that spans space and time, full of children with special powers.
“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiars”Ĭast: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench, Samuel L. We’re pretty sure you’re going to have much warmer and fuzzier feelings toward 2016 at the end of it, so let’s jump right in.ġ00. Well, never fear because as soon as your well of post-holidays water-cooler chit-chat has run dry, and assuming you’ve already pored through our practically infinite Best of 2015 coverage, there’s the first part of the Playlist’s massive 100 Most Anticipated Movies of the Year to sift through. Ah, the first Monday of the year, when your alarm sounds more obnoxious than it ever has before, and you wake and brush the last of the sleep and celebration from your eyes only to see 2016 bearing down on you like a big lumbering CGI kraken.
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