10 Cameos Everyone Wants To See In 2016's Biggest Movies

And all of them guaranteed to be better than Al Pacino in Jack and Jill!

As far as the cinema is concerned, the cameo can be a force of good or a force of evil. Sometimes a cameo appearance from a well-known - and unexpected actor - can heighten a film to such an extent that it ends up being the part you recall most fondly: remember when Bill Murray turned up in Zombieland, playing himself, and you're like, "this is the best thing I've ever seen." Now that's a cameo: hilarious, self-aware and totally out of the blue. Unfortunately, a cameo doesn't always go down like that: the majority feel cheap and pointless - not to mention that, done badly, they take you right out of the movie. How about the time that Al Pacino turned up in the godawful Adam Sandler "comedy" Jack and Jill? Wasn't that pretty much the most cringeworthy thing you've ever seen in your whole life? Or what about all those times when Quentin Tarantino decided he'd cameo in his own film? Still, the idea behind a cameo is an inherently exciting one, and - going by this year's movie slate - 2016 looks set to make the most of that. Forget all the ill-judged appearances and awkward walk-on roles that are bound to occur over the next 12 months; here are 10 as yet unconfirmed cameos everybody really wants to see contained within the year's biggest films...

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.