In the most recent edition of the africast, our weekly podcast, we discussed the games we are looking forward to playing before 2021 ends. Now we can do the same for movies as Disney has released its slate for expected releases before the new year ticks over.
According to a press release we received from Walt Disney Company Africa there are still 14 movies in the pipelines from the various movies studios that the house of mouse owns.
These movies come from Disney itself as well as the studios it has acquired over the years the most recent of them being the various entities of Fox. Probably most notable here is Free Guy, a movie that has, bizarrely, acted as a conduit for bringing the Fox version of Deadpool into the MCU.
· Disney’s Jungle Cruise | 6th August
· Marvel Studios’ Black Widow | 13th August
· Twentieth Century Studios’ Free Guy | 20th August
· Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 3rd September
· Searchlight Pictures’ The Night House | 24th September
· Searchlight Pictures’ Summer of Soul | 1st October
· Twentieth Century Studios’ The Last Duel | 15th October
· Twentieth Century Studios’ Ron’s Gone Wrong | 22nd October
· Searchlight Pictures’ Antlers | 29th October
· Marvel Studios’ Eternals | 5th November
· Search Light Pictures’ The French Dispatch | 12th November
· Disney’s Encanto | 26th November
· Twentieth Century Studios’ West Side Story | 10th December
· Twentieth Century Studios’ The King’s Man | 24th December
Sticking with Marvel and there’s still a handful of movies from the MCU slated before 1st January 2021. As we covered in the past Black Widow is already out overseas but had to be delayed in South Africa because of a recent wave of COVID-19 and associated tighter lockdowns.
On that note all these release dates are subject to change as, while the vaccine efforts continue in the country, there’s no telling what the pandemic will look like as we round out 2022.
The biggest omission from this list is Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is planned for release on 16th December. It’s absence from this list is almost certainly because of the strange legality of the movie where Sony Pictures is creating the movie but Spider-Man is still a Marvel character in the MCU. ]
Putting Marvel aside we’re very interested to see what The King’s Man will shape up to be. The original Kingsman from 2014 was a breakout action movie that balanced some solid adventure with a tongue in cheek James Bond pastiche. Then 2017 came around with its sequel, The Golden Circle, a humourless chore of a movie that soured any hope we had for the franchise.
It’s really up to this prequel to try and correct course.
