By way of leisure, 2023 was a giant 12 months throughout. We obtained many wholly new things that had been wonderful in their very own particular method, whereas the vast majority of dependable manufacturers and franchises stayed firm in greatness or took just a few hits with their new entries. And on this, the ultimate day of the 12 months, it’s time to consider what’s subsequent, as a result of leisure waits for nobody.
For movie and a few TV, 2024’s going to be a little bit of a catchup 12 months. Studios delayed a few of their greater movies out of this 12 months as a result of Hollywood strikes not totally wrapping till this previous November—in spite of everything, why launch Dune: Part Two and Kraven the Hunter in case your stars can’t do promo and also you didn’t refill on pre-strike materials to place out within the interim? Even motion pictures that had been all the time meant for 2024, like Deadpool 3 and Venom 3, performed a little bit hen with their launch dates as a result of the strikes went on longer than anticipated.
A few of 2024’s large hits are coming with some baggage connected to them: past every thing from Marvel, you’ve obtained the second installment of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon duology (subtitled The Scargiver) try and make up for the primary movie’s lack of an actual ending. Alien: Romulus will attempt to resurrect the franchise underneath Disney; Ballerina will take a look at the John Wick franchise’s viability with out its title murderer; and The Strangers might be remade, then reborn by way of a trilogy releasing all year long.
2023 was stacked with banger after banger, with such a consistency that we don’t all the time get. Hopefully that’s additionally true for 2024, and that these concerned are making this stuff that we love underneath good working situations. Nonetheless issues shake out, tell us what you’re thrilling about watching, enjoying, or studying in 2024.
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