10 Upcoming Movies That Are Already Doomed
These movies are cooked already.
While most film lovers surely want every movie they watch to be a good time, that simply isn't how it works - creative miscalculations happen and things fall flat all the time, unfortunately.
And though many films end up failing against sky-high expectations, others suffer critically or commercially in a way that just about everybody saw coming a mile away.
And that likely seems to be the case with these 10 films, which despite their considerable hype and all the promise their cast and crew invite, committed a cardinal sin that threatens to derail all of that hard work.
Perhaps the filmmakers waited too damn long to make a sequel, an adaptation of a beloved IP betrayed the source material in a critical way, or the vocal reports of disastrous test screenings are just too loud for everyone to ignore.
It's of course entirely possible that these movies end up surprising us all and soaring past expectations, but the smart money definitely says otherwise.
The writing seems to be on the wall for these films falling short of the mark, yet here's hoping we're all totally wrong about that...
10. Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Given that the first two Now You See Me movies collectively grossed almost $700 million worldwide, a threequel absolutely made sense - but it made sense back in, say, 2019.
Instead, Now You See Me: Now You Don't - which, clearly, should've been the title for the second film - will release this November, more than nine years after Now You See Me 2.
As this point, it feels like Sony waited way too long to get this one going. That is to say, is there still a fanbase really clamouring for more of this?
And even if you believe that there is, many will be disappointed that several prominent actors from the previous film - namely Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, and Lizzy Caplan - have been written out and replaced with three new characters played by Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, and Ariana Greenblatt.
Reviews have clearly never mattered to this franchise, but in the post-pandemic theatrical environment where audiences really need something special to coax them out of the house, it's easy to see most waiting to catch this one on streaming.