Netflix fulfilled its high-level promise to release new films every week.
Presented last October in national commercials, the streaming monolith is guaranteeing its approximately 193 million subscribers unprecedented resources every week in 2021. Mostly committed to the original productions, as well as some spectacular acquisitions, the slate has 71 titles in genres – from musicals to action, romantic comedies for family entertainment.
Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Halle Berry, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among those who appeared on the sizzle reel released on Tuesday (watch below) presenting their respective projects, which will be launched in the next 12 months.
Highlights include the mega-budget theft movie “Red Notice”, starring Gal Gadot, Johnson and Reynolds; the western “The Harder They Fall” with Regina King, Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors in “Lovecraft County”; Adams’ “The Woman in the Window”; Zach Snyder’s “Army of the Dead”; “Tick, tick… Boom!” Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the impossibly starring “Don’t Look Up,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Kid Cudi and Meryl Streep.
The slate also features the culmination of homemade and highly rated franchises “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and “The Kissing Booth”, both ending with third parties.
It is an enviable time to be the biggest streamer in the world, whose ability to release new and premium films is not hindered by the pandemic. While studios like Warner Bros. dealing with the consequences of abrupt decisions to pivot for streaming amid movie theaters, Netflix has long been uniquely motivated. At the very least, these dozens of titles highlight how well the streamer is positioned at the moment, especially since vaccination plans take longer to implement than expected.
See “Fear Street,” a trilogy of Peter Chernin films that was shot consecutively in Georgia in 2019. After rescuing the films from Disney’s acquisition of Fox, Netflix will release all three in 2021 with just one month off, presumably during the Halloween season. If the coronavirus had not jeopardized the trip to American cinema and the films continued for theatrical release, conventional wisdom would have dictated the pace of each release up to a year apart.
The list also includes possible franchise initiators. Netflix released Sony Pictures Animation’s “Wish Dragon”, an original concept from the studio behind Oscar winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse”. Voiced by John Cho, Constance Wu, Will Yun Lee and Jimmy O. Yang, the film was a major play in the animation division directed by Kristine Belson. Sony is now free from any financial loss and Netflix has camaraderie for homes full of quarantined children.
Here is the full list of feature film releases planned for 2021 for Netflix:
ACTION
Army of the Dead
Awake
Kate
Outside the Wire (January 15)
Red Warning
Sweet girl
HORROR
Fear Street Trilogy
Nobody comes out alive
There is someone inside your house
Things heard and seen
THRILLER
Blood Red Sky
Beckett
Escape from Spiderhead
Intrusion
Munich
O2
Night teeth
The Swarm
The Woman at the Window
SCI-FI
Clandestine
ROMANCE
A castle for christmas
Fuimos Canciones
Kissing booth 3
Strong love
Your lover’s last letter
The Princess Switch 3
For all boys: always and forever
Rom-Com by Alicia Keys untitled
DRAMA
Beauty
Blondes
Bombay Rose
Injured
Concrete Cowboy
Fever dream
Malcolm & Marie (February 5)
Monster
Penguin Bloom (January 27)
Pieces of woman (January 7)
The Dig (January 29)
The culprit
God’s hand
The power of the dog
The Starling
The White Tiger (January 22)
Unt. Alexandre Moratto film
Unt. Graham King
WESTERN
The more they fall
COMEDY
8 Rue de l’Humanité
Life after death party
Bad trip
Don’t look up
Double father
I care a lot (February 19)
Moxie (March 3)
The last mercenary
Force of Thunder
FOR ALL THE FAMILY
A boy called christmas
A winter tale by Shaun the Sheep
Back to Outback
Finding ‘Ohana (January 29)
Loud House
Nightbooks
Robin Robin
Skateboarder
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Troll hunters: rise of the titans
Wish Dragon
YES DAY (March 12)
MUSICAL
A week away
tick, tick … BOOM