Netflix has achieved its special promise of delivering new movies every week.
The streaming monolith was teased on national commercial sites in October last year, guaranteeing its approximately 193 million subscribers that will not be seen every week in 2021. The original productions as well as some flashy acquisitions have been greatly affected. The slate has 71 titles in different genres – from musicals to action, romantic comedies for family animation.
Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Halle Berry, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among those appearing in sizzle reel released Tuesday (see below) showcasing their respective projects, which over the next year will expire. 12 months.
Highlights include the mega-budgeted heist film “Red Notice,” starring Gal Gadot, Johnson and Reynolds; the Western “The Harder They Fall” starring Regina King, Idris Elba and “Lovecraft County” breakup Jonathan Majors; Adams’ “The Woman in the Window”; Zach Snyder’s “Army of the Dead”; Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, tick … Boom!”; and the impossible stars “Don’t Look Up” with Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Kid Cudi and Meryl Streep.
The lead also features the highlight of homemade, top-rated franchises “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and “The Kissing Booth,” both of which concluded with third installments.
This is an enviable time to be the world’s greatest streamer, and the ability to release new and premium movies is not hampered by the pandemic. While studios like Warner Bros. has to do with the failure of sudden decisions to turn to streaming amid theatrical closures, Netflix has long been motivated. If anything, these dozens of titles underline how well the streamer is currently positioned, especially since the vaccination plans are taking longer than expected.
Take ‘Fear Street’, a film trilogy by Peter Chernin, which shot back in Georgia in 2019. After the movies are saved from Disney’s acquisition of Fox, Netflix will release all three in 2021 with only one month apart, presumably over the Halloween season. If the coronavirus was not going to paralyze American films and release the films to the theater, conventional wisdom would dictate that each release should move up to a year apart.
The slate also contains possible franchise entrees. Netflix got ‘Wish Dragon’ from Sony Pictures Animation, an original concept from the studio behind the Oscar-winning ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse’. Spoken by John Cho, Constance Wu, Will Yun Lee and Jimmy O. Yang, the film was a major play from the animated section directed by Kristine Belson. Sony is now burdened with any financial loss, and Netflix has the homes full of children in quarantine.
Here’s the full list of planned 2021 releases for Netflix:
ACTION
Army of the Dead
Wake up
Kate
Outside the Wire (January 15)
Red notice
Cute girl
HORROR
Vreesstraat trilogy
Nobody comes out alive
There’s someone in your house
Things to be heard and seen
THRILLER
Blood red sky
Beckett
Escape from Spiderhead
Intrusion
Munich
O2
Nightingale
The swarm
The woman in the window
SCI-FI
Breakaway
ROMANS
A castle for Christmas
Fuimos Canciones
Kissing hockey 3
Love hard
The last letter from your lover
The Princess Switch 3
To all the boys: always and forever
Untitled Alicia Keys Rom-Com
DRAMA
Beauty
Blond
Bombay Rose
Bruised
Concrete Cowboy
Fever dream
Malcolm & Marie (February 5)
Monster
Penguin Bloom (January 27)
Pieces of Woman (January 7)
The Dig (January 29)
The Guilty
The hand of God
The power of the dog
The starling
The White Tiger (January 22)
Unt. Alexandre Moratto Film
Unt. Graham King
ESSENTIAL
The harder they fall
COMEDY
8 Rue de l’Humanité
The afterlife of the party
Bad trip
Do not look up
Double Pa
I care a lot (February 19)
Moxie (March 3)
The last mercenary
Thunder Force
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
A boy named Christmas
A Winter’s Tale by Shaun the Sheep
Back to the Outback
Finding ‘Ohana (January 29)
Loud House
Night books
Robin Robin
Skate Girl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Wish Dragon
YES DAY (March 12)
MUSIC
A week away
tick, tick … BOOM