Films To Look Forward To In 2018

by Kelly

January

The Maze Runner: Death Cure (26)​​

• In the much-anticipated final installment of The Maze Runner trilogy, Thomas and the gang from the Glade and the Scorch must break into the WCKD-controlled Last City to save their friends and get the answers they’ve been searching for.
• Directed by: Wes Ball
• Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Ki Hong Lee, Will Poulter, and Patricia Clarkson

February

​Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built (2)

• Sarah Winchester, who lost her husband and child, begins to build the legendary Winchester House in San Jose, California after being advised by a medium.
• Directed by: The Spierig Brothers
• Starring: Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke

Peter Rabbit (9)

• Peter Rabbit goes head-to-head with Mr. McGregor as they both vie for the affections of an animal lover who lives next door.
• Directed by: Will Gluck
• Starring: James Corden, Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Margot Robbie, Daisy Ridley, Matt Lucas, and Sia

​Black Panther (16)

• King T’Challa returns to Wakanda to and must join forces with a CIA agent and Wakanda’s special forces to fight enemies trying to bring down the kingdom and incite a world war.
• Directed by: Ryan Coogler
• Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis

March

A Wrinkle in Time (9)

• Meg Murry learns that her astrophysicist father is being held on a distant planet by evil that is spanning the universe and must team up with her younger brother, her classmate, and three astral travelers to save him.
• Directed by: Ava DuVernay
• Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Levi Miller, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Michael Pena.

​Tomb Raider (16)

• In this reboot of the original film, Lara Croft goes on an adventure to complete her father’s research and uncover ancient secrets that will help her to clear her name.
• Directed by: Roar Uthaug
• Starring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Nick Frost, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas

Love, Simon (16)

• Closeted gay high school student, Simon Spier, is blackmailed by his online pen-pal Blue and must pretend to be his wingman or get outed to his entire school.
• Directed by: Greg Berlanti
• Starring: Nick Robinson, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Colton Haynes-Leatham, and Tony Hale

​Pacific Rim: Uprising (23)

• Ten years after The Battle of the Breach, the Jaeger program has become the most power global defense in human history.  Jake Pentecost, son of the late Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), is called upon to join the Jaeger pilot program and prevent the world from human extinction.
• Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight
• Starring: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, and Charlie Day

Midnight Sun (23)

• Suffering from a rare genetic condition where her sensitivity to the sun is life-threatening, Katie Price meets Charlie while out one night and the two begin a romance, Katie still keeping her disease a secret from him.
• Directed by: Scott Speer
• Starring: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle

Ready Player One (28)

• In the year 2045, the world has been desolated and many people escape to the OASIS, a virtual reality world.  Teenaged Wade Watts goes into the OASIS to play “Anorak’s Game” and find it’s Easter Egg.  Whoever finds the Easter Egg will gain full ownership of the OASIS and the $240 billion fortune of it’s creator, James Halliday.
• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Starring:Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, and T.J. Miller

April

​Disneynature Presents: Dolphins (18)

• Directed by: Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey
• Starring: dolphins!
• Narrated by: Owen Wilson

​​Rampage (20)

• A primatologist must team up with a discredited genetic engineer to find a cure for his friend, George, an albino silverback gorilla who was the unfortunate subject of an otherworldly genetic experiment as well as a wolf and a crocodile who have suffered the same fates.
• Directed by: Brad Peyton
• Starring: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Joe Manganiello, Marley Shelton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Super Troopers 2 (20)

• Super Troopers 2 (20)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxd4GomQ9w
• The Super Troopers are back 17 years later to set up a new highway patrol station as the borders between Canada and the United States are questioned.
• Directed by: Jay Chandrasekhar
• Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, and Kevin Heffernan​

May

Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1 (4)

• Thanos finally arrives on Earth to collect the Infinity Stones and be able to bend reality to his will, but the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to stop him.
• Directed by: The Russo Brothers
• Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Benedict Wong, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Benicio del Toro, Tom Holland, Anthony Mackie, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Rudd, and Don Cheadle

​Solo: A Star Wars Story (25)

• Marketed as a “Space Western”, this prequel centers around the young Corellian smuggler Han Solo, his adventures with his Wookiee sidekick Chewbacca, and their first meeting with a young Lando Calrissian.
• Directed by: Ron Howard
• Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, and Thandie Newton

June

Deadpool 2 (1)

• Directed by: David Leitch
• Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, and Josh Brolin

Ocean’s 8 (8)

• Danny Ocean (George Clooney)’s estranged sister Debbie is released from prison and pulls together a team to attempt the greatest heist of the century at New York’s star-studded Met Gala.
• Directed by: Gary Ross
• Starring: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Matt Damon, Dakota Fanning, Carl Reiner, Richard Armitage, James Corden, Damian Lewis, and Awkwafina

​Incredibles 2 (15)

• The Parr family continues to try to maintain a normal life while Mr. Incredible is a stay-at-home dad and Elastigirl is out fighting crime.  As they discover Jack-Jack’s developing powers, The Incredibles, along with Frozone, must take on a new villain: The Underminer.
• Directed by: Brad Bird
• Starring: Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Odenkirk, and Catherine Keener

​Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (22)

• After the demise of the theme park, dinosaurs roam freely on Isla Nublar until a volcanic eruption threatens their world.  Claire Dearing, the former park manager and founder of the Dinosaur Protection Group recruits Owen Grady to help her rescue the remaining dinosaurs, including his velociraptor friend Blue.
• Directed by: J.A. Bayona
• Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, B.D. Wong, Toby Jones, Rafe Spall, and James Cromwell​

July

The Purge: The Island (4)

• Directed by: Gerard McMurray

​Ant-Man and the Wasp (6)

• Trying to balance his home life and his new responsibilities as Ant-Man, Scott Lang is presented with a new mission that has him teaming up with Hope van Dyne as the new Wasp.
• Directed by: Peyton Reed
• Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pena, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Judy Greer, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Laurence Fishburne

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (13)

• Dracula, Mavis, Johnny, and the rest of the family board a luxury Monster Cruise Ship where Dracula falls in love with a captain, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the monster slayer and Dracula’s ancient nemesis.
• Directed by: Genndy Tartakovsky
• Starring: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Keegan Michael-Key, Molly Shannon, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, and Mel Brooks

​Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (20)

• Sophie reunites with her late mother’s friends at the Greek villa she now runs and tells them she is pregnant.  The ladies then tell Sophie the story of her mother: how she made a life for herself, started the world’s first girl power band, and ran the Greek villa all while pregnant and underage.
• Directed by: Ol Parker
• Starring: Meryl Streep, Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Stellan Skarsgard, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia, and Cher

​Mission: Impossible 6 (27)

• Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
• Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Henry Cavill, and Angela Bassett​

August

Christopher Robin (3)

• An adult Christopher Robin has lost all sense of imagination until Pooh and his friends re-enter his life to help him.
• Directed by: Marc Forster
• Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Scarface (10)

• In this remake of the original 1932 film, Diego Luna takes on the role of legendary immigrant who rises to the top of the American crime underworld.
• Directed by: The Coen Brothers
• Starring: Diego Luna

​Crazy Rich Asians (17)

• Economics professor and American-born Chinese Rachel Chu is asked by her boyfriend to accompany him to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding.  Upon arriving, Rachel discovers that her boyfriend Nick comes from one of the wealthiest families in Asia and that every girl wants him.
• Directed by: Jon M. Chu
• Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Harry Shum Jr., and Michelle Yeoh​

September

Robin Hood (21)

• Directed by: Otto Bathurst
• Starring: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan, Josh Herdman, and Ben Mendelsohn​​

October

Venom (5)

• Marketed as an R-rated standalone film, this tells the story of Eddie Brock, a host to an alien symbiote that gives him incredible powers.
• Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
• Starring: Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, and Jenny Slate

​A Star Is Born (5)

• In this remake of the 1937 film of the same name, a young farm girl who aspires to be an actress is helped by a fading movie star to help launch both their careers.
• Directed by: Bradley Cooper
• Starring: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay, and Dave Chappelle

Mowgli (19)

• Young human child, Mowgli, is raised by a wolf back in the Indian jungle.  Along with a bear named Baloo and a panther named Bagheera, Mowgli becomes a part of the animal kingdom and must face harsh realities when brought face-to-face with his human ancestors.
• Directed by: Andy Serkis
• Starring: Rohan Chand, Andy Serkis, Christian Bale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Rhys, Freida Pinto, Tom Hollander, and Cate Blanchett​

November

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2)

• Set ten years after the events of X-Men: Apocalypse, the X-Men are now a household name and one mission takes them into outer space.When an accident causes Jean Grey to almost lose herself and her self-control, the team must pull back and simultaneously protect her from an alien shapeshifter who believes Jean to be “The Phoenix”.
• Directed by: Simon Kinberg
• Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, Olivia Munn, Daniel Cudmore, and Jessica Chastain

​The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2)

• ​In this retelling of the classic Christmas story, Clara is given a nutcracker doll by her parents and is entrusted to keep it safe and take special care of it.
• Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
• Starring: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Jack Whitehall, Morgan Freeman, and Helen Mirren

The Grinch (9)

• In this 3D animated retelling of the original tale by Dr. Seuss, the Grinch hatches a plan to ruin Christmas while the people of Whoville get ready for their annual celebration.
• Directed by: Scott Mosier
• Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch

​​​Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (16)

• Gellert Grindelwald escapes custody from MACUSA and begins to gather followers who are unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards to rise up and rule over non-magical beings.  Albus Dumbledore recruits his former student Newt Scamander but does not tell him of the dangers that may lie ahead.
• Directed by: David Yates
• Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Zoe Kravitz

​​​​Creed 2 (21)

• Adonis Creed tries to seek revenge when he goes toe to toe with the man who killed his father.
• ​Directed by: Steven Caple Jr.
• Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Michael B. Jordan, and Dolph Lundgren

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (21)

• When a Wi-Fi router gets plugged into the arcade, Ralph and Vanellope must find a replacement part to fix Sugar Rush.  On their journey, they encounter new customs, new worlds, new characters, and ALL the Disney Princesses.
• Directed by: Rich Moore
• Starring: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, James Corden, Alan Tudyk, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell (Anna), Kelly Macdonald (Merida), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), Mandy Moore (Rapunzel), Idina Menzel (Elsa), Ming-Na Wen (Mulan), Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Paige O’Hara (Belle), Jodi Benson (Ariel), and Linda Larkin (Jasmine).​

December

Aquaman (21)

• After the events of Justice League, Arthur Curry AKA Aquaman must find a balance between the surface dwellers who want to pollute the waters and his own people who want to invade the land above, all while learning more about himself and his heritage.
• Directed by: James Wan
• Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Dolph Lundgren, and Nicole Kidman

Bumblebee (21)

• Set twenty years before the events of the first Transformers movie, a teenage girl stumbles upon Bumblebee in a California beach town junkyard and senses that he’s no ordinary Volkswagen.
• Directed by: Travis Knight
• Starring: Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena

​Mary Poppins Returns (25)

• Jane and Michael Banks are all grown up and when Michael suffers a personal loss, Mary Poppins returns to Cherry Tree Lane with a street lamp lighter named Jack and her eccentric cousin Topsy to take care fo a new generation of Banks children.
• Directed by: Rob Marshall
• Starring: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Dick Van Dyke, and Angela Lansbury