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    The 17 movies we’re most excited about in 2024

    by Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times Jan 02, 2024 9 minutes
    Joaquin Phoenix in the 2019 movie “Joker.”

    LOS ANGELES — Last year felt like a tease: Were the movies really back? Sure, sort of. Yes, “Barbenheimer” happened, but so did the many lost months of the labor strikes. Perhaps someone is happy that Taylor Swift became a billionaire, but it sure wasn’t anyone at the studios, frozen out of her direct deal with AMC. Eyeballing the upcoming 2024 release calendar, though, things are looking up. There’s plenty of big auteur energy — from names like George Miller, Bong Joon Ho and Francis Ford Coppola — set to dominate the months ahead.

    Here are the 17 titles we’ll be seeing you at.

    ‘Mean Girls’ (Jan. 12)

    I completely agree with everyone declaring that 20 years is too soon to remake a movie. However, contrary to what the trailers and other marketing materials may be communicating, this movie is a musical — specifically, an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway production. With a book by the original film’s screenwriter, Tina Fey, music by (her husband) Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, the stage show thoughtfully incorporated social media but still kept the best parts of the 2004 movie (the iconic “Halloween in girl world” scene became a whole song about sexing up every costume imaginable). I can’t tell if I’m more excited to see Reneé Rapp reprise her role as Regina George or Busy Philipps as her cool mom. —Ashley Lee

    ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ (Feb. 23)

    Ethan Coen may be directing his first fiction feature without his brother

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