50 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2023
36. Asteroid City
Wes Anderson's most recent film, The French Dispatch, received enough pandemic-related delays that he was able to shoot a whole other movie before it was even released.
Asteroid City wrapped shooting well over a year ago - a romantic dramedy set in 1955 revolving around a host of students and parents attending a Junior Stargazer convention in a fictional American desert town. Sounds like an Anderson movie alright.
Even for Anderson's standards, the ensemble cast for this thing is absolutely ridiculous, including but not limited to: Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Hong Chau, Maya Hawke, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schreiber, Tony Revolori, Matt Dillon, Bryan Cranston and Willem Dafoe.
Curiously, though, it'll be a rare Anderson film without any involvement from Bill Murray, who caught COVID-19 just before shooting was set to start.
Asteroid City releases sometime in 2023.
35. Evil Dead Rise
It doesn't really make much sense that Warner Bros. has spent nearly an entire decade sitting on the Evil Dead franchise after 2013's surprisingly robust remake netted almost $100 million worldwide.
The new fifth film in the series, Evil Dead Rise, was originally set to debut on the studio's streaming service HBO Max, but following sky-high test screenings it was "promoted" to a theatrical bow.
Written and directed by rising filmmaker Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), the new movie will follow Beth (Lily Sullivan) as she pays a visit to her older sister (Alyssa Sutherland) in her dinky LA apartment.
When the pair discover the Necronomicon in the depths of the apartment building, all hell breaks loose.
The beauty of the Evil Dead films is that they generally don't need massive sets or ridiculous production values - Army of Darkness excluded - because the confinement is precisely the point.
Shifting the setting from a cabin to a cramped apartment block is an inspired idea, and given Warner Bros.' ecstatic response to test screenings, it's easy to be excited for this one.
Evil Dead Rise releases on April 21.