13 Massive Movie Predictions For The Rest Of 2018

by Jack Pooley

1. Welcome To Marwen Is 2018's Big Oscar-Bait Flop

Welcome To Marwen Steve Carell
Universal

Every year sees a number of ambitious, awards-friendly movies falling catastrophically flat on their faces, and usually there's one or two that are especially egregious with their aggressive Oscar-baiting.

This year's most awards-eager movie looks set to be Welcome to Marwen, a biographical drama from Robert Zemeckis based on the acclaimed 2010 documentary Marwencol.

The recently-released trailer looks like it's taken Mark Hogancamp's real-life story and mutated it into a cloying, gimmicky drama that betrays the more pared-down and disturbing truth of the original tale.

Basically, expect a sanitised, easily digestible awards movie that scores middling reviews and is quickly forgotten about. This year's Suburbicon, basically.

What do you make of these movie predictions for the rest of 2018? Got any of your own to add? Shout them out in the comments!

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