25 Movies to Look Forward to in 2020
For Hollywood, 2019 was a year of safe bets. The calendar was dominated by Disney, which produced eight of the 10 highest-grossing films of the year and leaned on properties such as Marvel, Star Wars, Frozen, and remakes of animated classics (the studio also bought its rival, Fox). But 2020 is a year of comparative risk for the movie business, conspicuously lacking those kinds of easy, guaranteed crowd-pleasers. Here are 25 upcoming releases that speak to an industry in flux, with studios trying to find a creative way forward that doesn’t just rely on the franchise paradigm.
Downhill (February 14)
Force Majeure, the incisive 2014 Swedish comedy about a marriage dissolving at a resort in the French Alps because of an act of cowardice, is a brilliant and inimitable film. Nonetheless, the writer-directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back) have decided to remake Ruben Östlund’s acidic work, casting Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as a couple torn apart after an ambiguous incident on a mountain. Given the paucity of smart comedies on the calendar, it’s hard not to be excited, and buzz will likely build when it premieres at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Onward (March 6)
Pixar hasn’t released an original animated feature since 2017’s . This year, it has two, and the first is this fantasy comedy from the director Dan Scanlon (). Set in a suburban version of a mythic world, the film follows brothers Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt), two mischievous elves trying to bring their long-lost father back
