Edge of Tomorrow
Jupiter Ascending
Under the Skin
[NSFW] Bad Words
Sin City 2
Sorry, long post. It started out with a few titles a couple days ago and it kept getting longer and longer every time I came back to it. Unlike a similar post I started in August, talking about the upcoming fall movies I was interested in, I’ll finish this one and post it.
Here’s a good list that also tells the Director, Writer, and Actors. A lot of movies aren’t on it yet, but it’s the most comprehensive list I’ve found, without having to click through for basic information.
I’ll see a big chunk of them anyway, but since I’m a director groupie these are the ones that stand out most to me (not in any particular order). They’re put in spoiler tags so no one has to scroll though it if they don’t want to.[spoiler]
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (I’m an atheist yet I’m looking forward to both epic Biblical movies coming up)
George Clooney’s The Monuments Men
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken (as Director, written by the Coen Brothers and Maleficent as actor)
David Fincher’s Gone Girl (w Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike)
Phillip Noyce’s The Giver (w Jeff Brides and Meryl Streep)
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (helluva cast! He directed Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American)
Takeshi Kitano’s Beyond Outrage (a Beat Takeshi yakuza film, what else do you need to know?)
Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got A Gun (w Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor. He directed Tumbleweeds, Miracle & Warrior)
Ridley Scott’s Exodus (Christian Bale as Moses, bitches!)
Luc Besson’s Lucy (a science fiction/superhero film with Scarlett Johansson & Morgan Freeman)
The Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending (wow, big year for SF)
Jason Reitman’s Labor Day (with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin)
Paul King’s Paddington (w Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. He directed a charming movie called Bunny and the Bull that I loved)
Rob Marshall’s Into The Woods (Grimm Tales w Streep, Depp, Blunt, Kendrick, Pine, Ullman, geez!)
David Ayers’ Fury (w Brad Pitt. He directed Harsh Times with Christian Bale, and End of Watch. )
Miguel Arteta’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (w Steve Carrell and Jennifer Garner. He directed Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids, Youth In Revolt)
Seth Rogan’s The Interveiw (w Rogan & James Franco. I’ll see anything with James Franco)
José Padilha’s RoboCop (helluva cast! I know it’s a remake, but Padilha directed one of the best movies of 2010, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within. And, damn, that cast! I can’t help but think that the script is amazing, and I already know he’s a great director. To hell with the fanboys, my fingers are crossed.)
James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (I’d see anything Marvel-related anyway, but I also really liked his demented “superhero” movie Super, with Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page)
Wally Pfister’s Transcendence (Ok, his directing debut, but he’s one of the great cinematographers and I’m willing to optimistically add him to the list. With Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman)
Richard Shepard’s Don Hemingway (black comedy w Jude Law, Richard E. Grant & Demian Bichir. Shepard’s mainly a British TV director, but in 2005 he directed a wonderful but unfortunately little-seen black comedy called The Matador with Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis. I’m looking forward to the quippage between Law & Grant)
Giuseppe Tornator’s The Best Offer (with Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess & Donald Sutherland. He wrote and directed Cinema Paradiso and The Legend of 1900)
Mark Waters’ Vampire Academy (With future star Olga Kurylenko. He directed Mean Girls and 500 Days of Summer. I’m willing to give it a chance)
Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco (with Nicole Kidman. He directed Marion Cotillard to a Best Actress Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. It wasn’t a great movie, but it was a great performance. I expect the same here)
Neil Burger’s Divergent (I’m kinda sick of hearing about this film, but I’ll see it because 1. It’s set in a fucked-up, futuristic Chicago, 2. I like Shailene Woodley and want her to do well (I’m also looking forward to Shailene’s other two movies of the year, White Bird in a Blizzard and **The Fault in Our Stars), and **3. Burger’s last 3 films were The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones and Limitless and I hope this one continues the streak)
Gareth Evans’ Berandal aka The Raid: Berandal (a sequel, but oh man, it’s a sequel to his The Raid: Redemption!)
Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys (w Christopher Walken. This is a summer-release and a musical. !!).
I know I’ll see a lot of the sequels coming up, like The Hobbit, Hunger Games, X-Men, Sin City and Captain America.
There are a lot of movies I’ll probably end up loving aren’t on that list because they don’t have a release date yet. One I’m especially looking forward to is Serena with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Toby Jones. Another possibility for Jennifer in 2014 is The Glass Castle, directed by Destin Cretton, who directed a fantastic movie this year called Short Term 12.
Speaking of, Short Term 12’s Brie Larson has 3 possible movies coming up in 2014: Basmati Blues, The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange, and Relanxious. Another actress I like, Brit Marling, should have 4 movies coming out in 2014! None of them have release dates.
Another film that doesn’t have a US release date is Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry’s new film. It’s already played in Europe.
In post-production with no release date is Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, a comedy(!!) with Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Michael Keaton, Andrea Riseborough, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Ryan. My head’s about ready to explode now. I never thought I’d see Edward Norton and Naomi Watts in the same sentence as Zach Galifianakis. I never thought I’d see Alejandro González Iñárritu and Zach Galifianakis in the same sentence! I can’t wait. For anyone who’s puzzled, Iñárritu is best known for super-serious films like Biutiful, ** 21 Grams**, Amores Perros and Babel).
Sean Penn’s The Gunman, with Idris Elba, Javier Bardem and Ray Winstone is in post-production and has no release date. It’s directed by Pierre Morel, who hasn’t directed much, but he did direct the first Taken with Liam Neeson, which was ok. I’ll see it for the cast, not the director.
Liam Neeson has an upcoming movie with no release date yet called A Walk Among the Tombstones. It’s the second movie directed by Scott Frank. His first movie was the decent 2007 film The Lookout, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Frank is best-known as a writer, and he’s written some doozies: Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Minority Report the best, IMO. He went a bit soft after that, but really, who didn’t cry during Marley and Me? It looks like Frank took some pay-the-mortgage jobs, like The Interpreter and The Wolverine, but I hope this one is back on form.
John Michael McDonagh, who directed the wonderful The Guard with Brendan Gleeson has Calvary coming up sometime this year. He’s working with Gleeson again, along with Chris O’Dowd, M. Emmet Walsh and Marie-Josée Croze, such a great cast! I can’t seem to find anything filmy his brother Martin McDonagh (In Bruge) is working on. Get busy Martin!
Robert Pattinson has a slew of movies in the works, and some of those will probably be released this year. He’s getting as far away from Twilight as he can, choosing to work with interesting directors and actors in interesting, if not always particularly marketable, films. I just loved Cosmopolis, directed by David Cronenberg. He’s working with Cronenberg again on Maps to the Stars, also starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack and Olivia Williams. The Rover is an Australian film directed by David Michôd, who directed a highly-regarded movie a few years ago called Animal Kingdom, which I unfortunately missed, but it put Jacki Weaver on the map, and got her her first of two Oscar nominations (the other was for Silver Linings Playbook). He’s playing none other than T. E. Lawrence in Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert, with Nicole Kidman (the movie’s about her character) and James Franco. Life will be directed by Anton Corbijn, who directed two movies I liked a lot, Control and The American. Speaking of, Corbijn has another movie in the can which should be released this year, A Most Wanted Man, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe and Rachel McAdams. There’s also The Childhood of a Leader, with Tim Roth and Juliette Binoche. I’m not familiar with the director Brady Corbin. Lsted for 2015, but you never know, is Hold On The Me, with Carey Mulligan. It’s directed by James Marsh, who won an Oscar for directing the documentary Man On Wire
Michael Shannon has a couple in the can without release dates yet. The " Action/Drama/Sci-Fi" Young Ones, with Kodi Smit-McPhee, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, directed by Jake Paltrow, and a comedy (!!) called They Came Together, with Paul Rudd, Ed Helms, Amy Poehler, Cobie Smulders, Melanie Lynskey and Christopher Meloni. It’ll be interesting to see how he fits in with all these comedians. It’s directed by David Wain, who directed Wet Hot American Summer, the irreverant and funny The Ten, and Birthday Girl, a strange film with Nicole Kidman I really liked. Also filming, so it could be ready by the end of the year, is 99 Homes, with Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern. Also this year will be Midnight Special, with Kirsten Dunst by his Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols, who also directed 2013’s Mud, with Matthew McConaughey (and Michael Shannon). Nichols himself has another movie coming up with the intriguing name of The Boy Who Played with Fusion, based, from what I gather, on a Popular Science article (which I haven’t read because I don’t want to be spoiled).
Kevin Smith has Tusk in post-production. It stars Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment (!), Michael Parks and Genesis Rodriguez (loved her in the funny Mexican telenovela spoof Casa de mi Padre). I might have to agonizingly wait until 2015 for Helena Handbag, whose description alone will give some people heart attacks (“In this version of the end of days, mankind teams up with Hell to stop a vengeful, Rapturing giant Jesus from destroying the world and causing the extinction of all earthly existence”). Production on Clerks III starts in May, so it’ll probably be a 2014 release, but after Clerks II, I’m not sure I care.
Another SF movie coming up is called The Maze Runner. I’m not familiar with anyone involved, but it sounds interesting.
I know there are tons more. Some have already been mentioned and I need to check them out, some are still unknown to me, some I missed seeing listed while skipping around, and I’m sure I forgot some of the ones I know, but with my luck, if I don’t post this now I’ll end up deleting or losing the whole thing in a crash.
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Oh lord, there are so many…
**Marvel: **
Captain America
Guardians of the Galaxy (so curious about Rocket Raccoon…)
Fantasy/Fairytales:
Maleficent
Frozen (yea, I know it’s 2013, but I haven’t seen it yet, and I want to, so it’s on there)
Into the Woods
Hobbit 3
Muppets Most Wanted
Winter’s Tale (urban fairy-tales are always interesting)
Sci-Fi/Dystopia:
Godzilla (don’t judge me, husband demands I go see it with him)
Robocop (I have no shame)
Divergent
Lucy
Interstellar
Transcendance
Spiderman 2 (again for the husband)
X-Men (ditto)
Other:
Only Lovers Left Alive
Belle (love a good costume drama)
Annie (curiosity more than anything else)
Coriolanus (video of stage production released through National Theatre Live in random places)
And I’m sure I’ve forgotten a couple of them.
Btw, I was going to address the fact that there’s only one female director on the list, Angelina Jolie. I’m sure they’re out there making movies, but I didn’t find them. I need to look harder, but it’s a damn shame I have to look harder. I did plug several names into IMDB to see what they were working on, but came up blank. Sofia Coppola is my favorite female director, but she had The Bling Ring in 2013, so won’t be back for a couple of years.
Captain America, as he’s my fiancee’s favorite Avenger
X-Men Days of Future Past, as First Class was pretty awesome, and a decent 60’s period piece that reminded me of the early Bond films. Let’s see how they handle the muted orange and green earth tones, bellbottoms and mustaches. X-men Origins Wolverine already did a nod to Three Mile Island, I’m interested to see which historical global crisis will be inserted into this one.
I might be the only one dumb enough to fall for the secrecy-hype, and after the disappointments of the 1998 Matthew Broderick film and Cloverfield, but I’m pretty psyched for the 2014 remake of Godzilla.
Mark Webb directed 500.
Go ahead, judge me 
300: Rise of an Empire
Sin City: A Dame To Kill for (haha, I’ll believe it hits theaters this year when I see it)
Step Up: All In
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
The Giver
I, Frankenstein
Then there’s movies that technically came out in 2013, but haven’t have typical releases in the US yet:
Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes
Haunter
Dark Touch
Darn it, yoyodyne!
Just a few, for which I’ve seen trailers or already knew about:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Monuments Men
The Invisible Woman
Interstellar
Edge of Tomorrow
Godzilla
I’ll just give one that no one has named yet, and I’m serious…
Atlas Shrugged Part III
Nah, I’m right there with ya. I’ve been a Godzilla fan since grade school, and I’m psyched for the new one, although the pre-Hobbit trailer has me worried that they’ll make the same mistake they’ve made before: making it about the people rather than the giant lizard.
Anthrofans rejoice! All Hail the little furry Badass!
Plus The Grand Budapest Hotel and Inherent Vice.
It can’t live up to the original
but Robocop.
No love for The Amazing Spiderman 2?
There does not seem to be that many movies and TV shows for 2014 for some reason.Way more movies and TV shows last year.
I would love to see Walking Dead spin off show.