Movies, Movies, Movies!!
This week was a crazy week for movie news and I think it’s going to dominate the article. I’ll start with some pretty huge news coming out of the Disney Camp this week. Disney has confirmed its full slate of movies through to 2020, includeing a number of untitled live-action fairy-tale movies, and 3 Marvel movies after Infinity War 2.
We also had an announcement of an Ant-Man sequel which has some significance. It is the first movie in the MCU to name a woman in its title. Obviously, with Agent Carter already entrenched in its silver screen runs, the Wasp isn’t the first woman to hold a title, but she is the first to hold a big-screen title. Here are the upcoming titles for the entire Disney lineup broken down by year:
- October 16th 2015: “Bridge of Spies”
- November 25th 2015: “The Good Dinosaur”
- December 18th 2015: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
- January 29th 2016: “The Finest Hours”
- March 4th 2016: “Zootopia”
- April 15th 2016: “The Jungle Book”
- May 6th 2016: “Captain America: Civil War”
- May 27th 2016: “Alice Through the Looking Glass”
- June 17th 2016: “Finding Dory”
- July 1th 2016: “The BFG”
- August 12th 2016: “Pete’s Dragon”
- November 4th 2016: “Doctor Strange”
- November 23rd 2016: “Moana”
- December 16th 2016: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
- March 17th 2017: “Beauty and the Beast”
- March 31st 2017: “Ghost in the Shell”
- May 5th 2017: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
- May 26th 2017: “Star Wars: Episode VIII”
- June 16th 2017: “Cars 3”
- July 7th 2017: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”
- November 3rd 2017: “Thor: Ragnarok”
- November 22nd 2017: “Coco”
- December 22nd 2017: Untitled Disney Fairytale Project (Live Action)
- February 16th 2018: “Black Panther”
- March 9th 2018: “Gigantic”
- May 4th 2018: “Avengers: Infinity War – Part I”
- June 15th 2018: “Toy Story 4”
- July 6th 2018: “Ant-Man and the Wasp”
- November 2nd 2018: Untitled Disney Fairytale Project (Live Action)
- March 8th 2019: “Captain Marvel”
- March 29th 2019: Untitled Disney Fairytale Project (Live Action)
- April 12th 2019: Untitled DisneyToon Studios Project
- May 3rd 2019: “Avengers: Infinity War – Part II”
- June 21st 2019: “The Incredibles 2”
- July 12th 2019: “Inhumans”
- November 8th 2019: Untitled Disney Fairytale Project (Live Action)
- March 13th 2020: Untitled Pixar Project
- May 1st 2020: Untitled Marvel Project
- June 19th 2020: Untitled Pixar Project
- July 10th 2020: Untitled Marvel Project
- November 6th 2020: Untitled Marvel Project
- November 25th 2020: Untitled Disney Animation Project
Lets hope that Disney makes a bunch of money through the next couple of years, as news has surface that the Avengers: Infinity War duology is estimated to cost 1 BILLION dollars to produce. Think of the overtly extravagant things that you could do with a billion dollars… now imagine that all going into two movies. While I want to see those movies, it hurts me.
While we are on the topic of slated films, Adi Shankar (Producer of Dredd and The Grey), but most recently known for his bootleg universe films based around The Punisher and Power/Rangers has signed a three-picture, digital project deal with Maker Studios. Shankar’s first film is due out later this year and will be an animated project. The second and third are to be released in 2016. The animated feature will be based around the idea of superheroes in developing countries. I think that will be an interesting premise. Given Shankar’s previous work, I’m sure that it will be quite good.
