A Reel Preview: The Year in Film 2024 - Episode III

Every couple of years, the Cinema Gods decide to come together and treat the usually quiet month of March like the first month of the Summer Movie Season. This is one of those years, with a packed month of hopeful blockbusters and two of the most anticipated films of 2024. Here’s what’s coming to the big screen for the month of March: 

 

 

 

DUNE PART TWO – Acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve brings his second and final part of the adaptation of the classic, epic sci-fi novel. The stacked cast includes Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Furguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgaard, Lea Seydoux, Javier Bardem, and Christopher Walken. 

 

 

 

IMAGINARY – Horror film factory Blumhouse is back with this scare-fest about a young girl’s teddy bear which may not be all that it seems. 

 

 

 

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES – In this satirical fantasy comedy, a young man is recruited into a secret society with a mission of making the lives of white people easier. Justice Smith and David Alan Grier star. 

 

 

 

ARTHUR THE KING – Mark Wahlberg stars in this true story about an adventure racing team who recruits a stray dog to accompany them. 

 

 

 

ONE LIFE – Sir Anthony Hopkins stars in this biopic of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton. 

 

 

 

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE – The Ghostbusters, old and new, return for the fourth film in the popular head-busting (spiritually speaking), franchise. The cast includes Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Patton Oswalt, Dan Akroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Bill Murray. 

 

 

 

PIXAR’S LUCA – Pixar Animation Studios are releasing select films that never saw the inside of a theatre for a quick run. Next up, their coming-of-age fantasy about a child sea monster. 

 

 

 

GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE – The stinking turd that has been the Monsterverse from Warner Bros. continues with this big romp, where Godzilla and King Kong team up to battle a threat to the world. The cast includes Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Dan Stevens. 

 

 

 

KUNG FU PANDA 4 – The fourth film in the KUNG FU PANDA franchise, following up from the third which was in 2016. Jack Black returns to voice Po, who is in search of a successor. He is joined by Awkwafina, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, Bryan Cranston, and Ke Huy Quan. 

 

 

 

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Next month, Reel Speak previews the month of April.