I love movies and will love to keep track the movies coming on-board this 2018. Here are the 20 most anticipated movies in the new year:
Release date: January 18, 2018
After Studio Ghibli shut down following the then-retirement of Hayao Miyazaki, several former employees – led by Oscar-nominated Yoshiaki Nishimura – founded Studio Ponoc, to carry on their love for film-making. This fantasy anime, following a young girl who picks a flower that grants magical powers, is its debut effort.
Release date: January 26, 2018
The YA dystopian trilogy comes to a close with this third and final chapter, where Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads the group of escaped Gladers on their most dangerous mission yet: break into the Last City, the deadliest labyrinth of all, which contains answers to the questions they've had since the beginning. Wes Ball, who directed both previous instalments in the trilogy, is back as director.
3. God Particle
Release date: February 2, 2018
The third anthology entry in the Cloverfield universe is centred on a team of astronauts aboard the ISS who end up alone after a scientific experiment involving a particle accelerator makes the Earth disappear. Produced by J.J. Abrams and starring Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and David Oyelowo, the film follows the astronauts as they fight for their survival.
4. Black Panther
Release date: February 16, 2018
5. Annihilation
Release date: February 23, 2018
Alex Garland (Ex Machina) adapts the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, where a soldier's biologist wife (Natalie Portman) volunteers to enter an environmental disaster zone to figure out what happened to her injured husband and his fellow soldiers, who never made it back. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac are also part of the cast.
6. Tomb Raider
Release date: March 16, 2018
7. The New Mutants
Release date: April 13, 2018
The X-Men franchise branches into horror with The New Mutants from director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), where five young mutants fight to escape their past sins and save themselves from a facility where they're being held against their will. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Magik), Maisie Williams (Wolfsbane), Charlie Heaton (Cannonball), Henry Zaga (Sunspot), Blu Hunt (Mirage), and Alice Braga (Cecilia Reyes).
8. Avengers: Infinity War
Release date: April 27
9. Deadpool 2
Release date: June 1, 2018
Ryan Reynolds is back as everyone's favourite bad-mouthed superhero in this sequel, which expands the vigilante roster with Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable (Josh Brolin) in addition to the existing ones Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus. Morena Baccarin and T.J. Miller are also back, though David Leitch (John Wick) is in the director's chair, after Tim Miller left due to creative differences with Reynolds.
10. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Release date: June 22, 2018
The fourth highest-grossing film of all time gets an inevitable sequel, set four years after the events of the original, with the lives of the remaining dinosaurs roaming freely on the theme park's island threatened by a volcanic eruption. The former head of the park Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) convinces dinosaur trainer Owen (Chris Pratt) to help mount a rescue mission.
11. Ant-Man and the Wasp
Release date: July 6, 2018
12. Alita: Battle Angel
Release date: July 20, 2018
13. Mission: Impossible 6
Release date: July 27, 2018
14. The Predator
Release date: August 3, 2018
15. Venom
Release date: October 5, 2018
16. First Man
Release date: October 12, 2018
Release date: November 2, 2018
18. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Release date: November 16, 2018
19. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Release date: December 14, 2018
20. Bumblebee: The Movie
Release date: December 21, 2018
