2023 will come with an overloaded offer on the screen: to the usual Hollywood offer to take over the theaters (superheroes, sequels and more explosive proposals) the expected films by great authors will be added to the cinemas, and they will multiply with what will happen on the small screen, which in the midst of a bloody war between streaming services to attract users will also present an explosive billboard.
In movie theaters, that billboard will be marked, like every season, by the tanks, around which the rest of the films will be released, trying not to compete. And if we talk about tanks, today, we talk about superheroes; but as has been the case in recent seasons, the enthusiasm has waned. The most anticipated releases are the third installment of “Guardians of the Galaxy” in May, and the animated sequel to “Spider-Man: A New Universe” in June. Then, there is a long list of projects that, like the “Eternals” or “Shang-Chi”, promise to go quite unnoticed: in February “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” lands, in March the second “Shazam!”, in June “The Flash”, by the Argentine director Andy Muschietti, in July “The Marvels”, sequel to “Captain Marvel”, and in December, another “Aquaman”.
But even though superheroes suffer from exhaustion, the big studios insist on the idea of franchises for their big projects. There will be everything this year in this sense: a closure to the saga of “Magic Mike” (in the US it opens in February); the third “Creed”, now without Stallone, a new “Scream”, with Jenna Ortega, from “Merlina”, as the protagonist, and the fourth “John Wick, all in March; the tenth “Fast and Furious” (May); a new “Transformers”, another “Mission Impossible” (July); the fourth installment in the saga of vintage action heroes “The Expendables” (September); a sequel to “The Exorcist” by David Gordon Green, in charge of the latest “Halloween”; the long-awaited second part of “Dune” (in November) and a continuation of the latest “Ghostbusters” (at the end of the year). But the strongest dish will be the return of the “Indiana Jones” saga for one last adventure, which will arrive in the country, with an 80-year-old Harrison Ford, in June.
With no release date yet, a sequel to “Legally Blonde” is expected this year. And not only will there be sequels: a prequel to “The Hunger Games” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” will also be released towards the end of the year, which will have Timothee Chalamet as a young Wonka.
Along the same lines, Disney continues in May with its recycling of classics, this time presenting a new version of “The Little Mermaid”, with real actors, which generated controversy because the protagonist is black. Meanwhile, the prestigious David Lowery will film his version of “Peter Pan & Wendy” for Disney.
Video games, another space that Hollywood seeks to exploit by taking advantage of pre-existing fans, will have their movies with “Dungeons and Dragons” (in comedy mode) and a new “Super Mario” movie. In July, the first live-action film about the Barbie toy franchise will hit theaters.
In the field of family cinema, the great premieres will be animated. Pixar will present “Elementary” in June, but it will have competition: the factory is also deflated and two of the most popular animated film creators of the moment, Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“Raining Burgers”, “The Lego Movie”) will try to compete with “Strays”, one of street dogs. The animated premiere of the year, in any case, will arrive from Japan sometime in 2023: “How do you live?”, the latest film by the master Hayao Miyazaki.
The head of Studio Ghibli is one of the important names that his cinema will present next year: Brandon Cronenberg, David’s son, will also launch his latest film (in January, in the US), and Damien Chazelle, who will seek to bring his “Babylon ”, which opens in February, at the Oscars.
Within the framework of the race for the Academy Awards, several award-winning films will be released in the first months of the year: “The Whale”, the return of Brendan Fraser to acting, directed by Darren Aronofsky; “Tar,” with Cate Blanchett; “The Banshees of Inisherin”, “The Fablemans”, by Steven Spielberg, “El triángulo de la tristeza”, by Ruben Ostlund, the Korean “Decission to leave” and “Alcarrás”, by Carla Simón.
Also arriving throughout the year is new from M. Night Shyamalan (“Knock at the cabin”), Paul Schrader (“Master Gardener”), Taika Waititi (“Next Goal Wins” soccer fan), Wes Anderson (“Asteroid City”) ”; and will also present a film on Netflix, based on stories by Roald Dahl), Luca Guadagnino (the tennis player “Challengers”), Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”), Kelly Reichardt (“Showing Up”) and Alexander Payne (“ The Holdovers”).
The great author’s tank of the year is, however, “Oppenheimer”, by Christopher Nolan, dated July; The new by Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Ridley Scott (his biopic of “Napoleon”) and David Fincher (“The Killer”) should also be released in 2023.
AND ON THE SMALL SCREEN?
For years now, among audiovisual novelties, the small screen has become the protagonist. And one more year there will be everything, from great productions for the superheroic public (“Secret Invasion”, the second season of “Loki”, the spin off of “WandaVision” “Agatha”, all for Disney+) to adaptations of emblematic video games such as “The Last of Us”, which arrives in January on HBO Max.
In that same January, Netflix will premiere “That 90s Show”, a sequel to the seventies show about the daughter of Eric and Donna; and Apple TV + will show “Shrinking”, a psychoanalysis with Harrison Ford. “Daisy Jones & the Six”, from Prime Video, is one of the most anticipated series, a rock and roll story in the 70s, while Paramount+ is preparing a series based on the universe of the musical “Grease” and another on “Fatal Attraction”. for our fall
There is still no release date for “The Idol” (HBO), a new series by Sam Levinson, creator of “Euphoria” (which will premiere a new season next year), made together with The Weeknd; the reality show based on “The Squid Game” (Netflix) and one of the most anticipated premieres of the season, “Masters of the Air”, which closes Steven Spielberg’s war television trilogy and will be seen on Apple TV+.
There will also be new seasons of “Succession” in January, “You” and The Mandalorian” in March (the galactic saga will also have a new spin off, “Ahsoka”, starring Rosario Dawson), and, at some point of the year, “Ted Lasso”, “Lupin”, “Hacks”, “You”, “Feud” (a season about Truman Capote), “Sex Education”, “Umbrella Academy”, “Black Mirror”, “And just like that…” (the continuation of Sex and the City), “Only murders in the building”, “Peacemaker” and “Bridgerton”, which will also have a spin off about Charlotte, as well as “La Casa de Papel”, which will premiere a derivative series about Berlin; and “The Boys”, which will show next year “Gen V”.
Apparently there will be no new episodes of “The House of the Dragon” next year, but another project derived from “Game of Thrones” should be released, “The Tale of Dunk and Egg”. In the realm of fantasy, “The Sisterhood” will also premiere, a series based on the universe of “DunE.”
THE ARGENTINE PREMIERES
On the local scene, great premieres in series format are also expected, in the heat of the platforms: the move towards the platforms has been notorious and not too many blockbuster projects are expected on the big screen, but they are for the small screen.
Star+ has bioseries on Guillermo Coppola and Ringo Bonavena in the works, the political thriller “December 2001”; “Nothing”, by Cohn and Duprat with Luis Brandoni and Robert De Niro; and the documentary series “Comandante Fort”; Meanwhile, Netflix is preparing the comedy “División Palermo”, by Santiago Korovsky; the biographical series on Fito Páez “Love after love”; and the second season of “The Kingdom.” Prime Video is already working on the new installment of “Iosi…”. Also Flow, which this year presented “Last First Day”, “The Fan” and “The Good Retirement”, will continue on that path.
Paramount+, meanwhile, confirmed the arrival of the series “Medusa” starring Soledad Villamil, Candela Vetrano, Gastón Dalmau and Violeta Urtizberea; and the second season of “Los envoys” the series by Juan José Campanella (for the film “Los Simuladores” we will have to wait until 2024).
All this, of course, while waiting for news about the adaptation that Bruno Stagnaro, the creator of “Okupas”, is preparing about “El Eternauta”.
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