Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2019

Happy New Year. Here is my "Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2019" list. This list includes movies that are most likely getting wide releases and will be possible blockbusters. This is only my opinion.

#10 Doctor Sleep - "A sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining." I was floored when I first heard that this was actually happening. Ewan McGregor is to star as Danny, an adult version of the boy with odd powers that we met about 40 years ago. The film will apparently following Stephen King's sequel novel while also staying true to Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece. I have doubts on how well this will be pulled off, but there is some hope with Mike Flanagan directing. His Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House was widely viewed as a success, so maybe he can do this right.
Release date: November 8, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

#9 Where'd You Go, Bernadette - The novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list and now we're getting a feature film. The movie is about an agoraphobic former architect who disappears before a family trip to Antarctica. This movie is set apart for a few different reasons. One, it star the wonderfully talented Cate Blanchett. Two, Richard Linklater is directing this one, whose Before... series is a must-see for any cinephile. Three, it takes place in Seattle!
Release date: August 16, 2019
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#8 Glass - It's hard to be excited about this one. Unbreakable continues to be my favorite M. Night Shyamalan movie. Split was an okay movie, but connected to Unbreakable at the end, which really pumped me up. Glass promises to be the third film in the Unbreakable trilogy. However, we all know that Shyamalan's recent track record isn't the greatest. Here's to hoping that this brings him back around as one of the most popular directors.
Release date: January 18, 2019
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#7 Alita: Battle Angel - Alita is based on the Japanese manga Gunnm about a deactivated female cyborg trying to remember her past. This film feature will be a movie nearly 20 years in the making. Filmmaker James Cameron bought the rights to Alita back in the late '90s and always wanted to make a live-action film version. Then Avatar happened. The success of Avatar took Cameron away to focus on creating sequels. So, director Robert Rodriguez came on board to helm the film with Cameron and Jon Landau producing. While Robert Rodriguez has been hit or miss for me, I'm hoping this one will be more on the hit side.
Release date: February 14, 2019
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#6 Knives Out - Rian Johnson was easily in my top three favorite current directors a couple years back. Brick continues to be one of my favorite films of all-time and Looper is a blockbuster of a trip if I have ever seen one. Unfortunately, I think he got overzealous while penning Star Wars: Episode VIII. I appreciate what he was trying to do, which was to do the unexpected. I think that's fine in an original world, but perhaps not the Star Wars universe where there are already a set of rules. That's why I am looking forward to Knives Out; an original film with the simple premise of being essentially a family murder mystery party.
Release date: November 27, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

#5 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino cannot make a bad movie anymore. Everything he has done in the last decade has been great. This looks like it will continue as he directs an all-star cast of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Timothy Olyphant, Al Pacino, and Kurt Russell, among others. The movie follows a faded television actor and his stunt double who strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Release date: July 26, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

#4 Avengers: Endgame - Look, the Marvel films will never be viewed as masterpieces in the art form, but you cannot deny the intensity and enormity of the story they have built after 21 films featuring the comic book heroes. Infinity War crushed out hopes by not just featuring an actual threat, but rather a villain who actually succeeds in his quest to "help" the world. I look forward to seeing how they decide to fix this because you just know that the good guys are going to come out on top in the end. Even if that means losing a hero or two along the way (*cough* Iron Man *cough*).
Release date: April 26, 2019
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#3 Star Wars: Episode IX - As I mentioned, I was not a fan of Rian Johnson's Episode VIII - The Last Jedi. His film definitely polarized the Star Wars fan community. I think Disney/Lucasfilm knew this, which is why they never reached out to Johnson to direct episode IX, and after not being able to work out creative differences with Colin Trevorrow, invited back The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams to conclude this trilogy. This is a great choice, in my opinion, since The Force Awakens was so much fun and introduced us to so many new things in the Star Wars universe.
Release date: December 20, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

#2 Frozen II - There is no doubt that 2013's Frozen was a huge hit for Disney Animation. Frozen mania hit hard and toys and merchandise where sold out everywhere right after the movie came out. While there have been some mediocre animated shorts to hold us over, it feels like it has been forever since we've been invited back to the kingdom of Arendelle. Frozen 2 looks like it will build on the story of Elsa and her powers.
Release date: November 22, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

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#1 The Goldfinch - Irish director John Crowley has managed to impress me with two of his directorial works, Brooklyn and Boy A. Now he takes on The Goldfinch, whose screenplay is written by Academy Award nominated writer Peter Straughan. Based on the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch tells the coming-of-age story of a boy named Theo who lost his mother to a terrorist attack while visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The movie stars Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, Jeffrey Wright, and Luke Wilson to name a few. It also has cinematographer Roger Deakins behind the camera, so it is sure to be pleasing on the eyes. This might not be a movie for everyone, but it is a movie for Cameron.
Release date: September 13, 2019
Trailer: Not yet

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