10 Films to Look Forward to in 2024

2024 is set to be a bumper year for big screen releases, with a flurry of long delayed blockbusters finally hitting theaters, along with some hotly anticipated sequels and new offerings from Oscar winning auteurs—including Bong Joon ho’s star studded follow up to . These are the 10 films you just can’t miss.

(February 14) and web sling their way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in spectacular fashion in S. J. Clarkson’s explosive action movie, which sees the former transform into the titular clairvoyant and the latter as her promising protégé. (March 1) Timothée Chalamet riding a sandworm into battle, Zendaya beating her enemies to a pulp, Florence Pugh donning an extravagant chainmail headdress to play a politically minded princess, Austin Butler taking the part of the brutish villain—the of Denis Villeneuve’s sweeping sci fi saga is set to be a scorcher.

(March 29) Marking three time Oscar winner Bong Joon ho’s return to the director’s chair for the first time since , this mind bending thriller sees Robert Pattinson embody a space traveler on a deadly mission, with support from the likes of Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

(April 26) The other Zendaya fronted release poised to set the box office alight this spring? This slippery romance from Luca Guadagnino, which casts her as a ruthless tennis coach opposite Mike Faist as her Grand Slam champion husband and Josh O’Connor as his latest opponent, someone with whom the pair share a complicated history.

(May 24) Almost a decade after his combustible, post apocalyptic , George Miller is back with its nerve jangling prequel, centered on Anya Taylor Joy as a younger iteration of the future war captain previously played to perfection by a pixie cropped, monosyllabic Charlize Theron. (September 6) , Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton are reprising their roles in Tim Burton’s 1988 classic for the beloved auteur’s long awaited sequel, which will see them joined by an all star supporting cast including Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, and Willem Dafoe.

(October 4) Since made over $1 billion and earned its barnstorming lead a best actor Oscar, anticipation has been sky high for Todd Phillips’s follow up to that disturbing psychological thriller, a—wait for it— that stars Lady Gaga as the eccentric Harley Quinn alongside Phoenix’s beleaguered Joker.

Yes, really. (November 22) Hot on the heels of comes another soaring historical blockbuster from Ridley Scott: the tale of Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal)—the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus, who was seen as a child in 2000’s —as he reaches adulthood. With a stellar ensemble that also features Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, and ’s Joseph Quinn, it should be a swords and sandals epic like no other.

(November 27) Due to be released in two parts—with the second film following in 2025—this of the wildly successful stage musical is helmed by Jon M. Chu ( , ), and sees Ariana Grande play Glinda the Good Witch, with Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard himself.

(December 25) For this atmospheric retelling of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 gothic horror, Robert Eggers has assembled a formidable line up: Bill Skarsgård takes the lead as the vampiric Count Orlok, while Lily Rose Depp, , Aaron Taylor Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Nicholas Hoult star as those whose lives are upturned by his arrival in a sleepy German town in the early 19th century..