Movie Release Dates as 2021 Finally Gets Going

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Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 1:00PM

As we move into Memorial Day Weekend, moviegoing is back. The fall movie and festival seasons are beginning to take shape as well. After a Cannes premiere Wes Anderson's long COVID delayed comedy The French Dispatch will open in cinemas on October 22nd. That's the same day that a bevy of possible Oscar contenders are opening. After the jump the dates to watch...

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WHICH IS NOW UPON US
28 -Cruella, A Quiet Place Part 2, Port Authority

JUNE
4 - The Conjuring 3, Spirit Untamed, Undine
6 - Nathaniel's birthday. Consider helping keep TFE going and thank you to those that already have!
11 -In the Heights (Lin-Manuel Miranda musical), Akilla's Escape, Infinite (Mark Wahlberg sci-fi), Queen Bees (Ellen Burstyn!)
18 - Luca, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Peter Rabbit 2
25 - F9, I Carry You With Me
30 - Zola

JULY
2 - Boss Baby 2, The Tomorrow War, Forever Purge, Summer of Soul (doc)
6 - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (ends on the 17th)
9 - Black Widow (superhero), Summertime
16 - Cinderella (musical), Escape Room 2, Space Jam: A New Legacy
23 - Hotel Transylvania 4, Old (M Night Shyamalan thriller), Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins (action), Mandibles
30 - Jungle Cruise, The Green Knight (period horror), Never Gonna Snow Again (Poland), Nine Days, Stillwater

AUG
6 - Suicide Squad 2 (superhero), Annette (musical), John and the Hole
13 -Don't Breathe 2, Free Guy (action), Respect (Aretha Franklin biopic), CODA (Sundance winner), The Lost Leonardo (doc)
20 - Finch (sci-fi), Paw Patrol: The Movie (animated), The Protege (Samuel L Jackson), Reminiscence (Hugh Jackman & Rebecca Ferguson), The Night House (horror), Wildland (Denmark), Demonic (Neil Blomkamp horror)
27 -Candyman (horror reboot)

SEPT
1 - VENICE FILM FESTIVAL (ends on the 11th)
2 - TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL (ends on the 6th)
3 - Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (superhero)
9 - TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL (ends on the 18th)
10 - Malignant (James Wan horror), The Card Counter (Paul Schrader directs Oscar Isaac)
17 - Everybody's Talking about Jamie (musical), Blue Bayou (Korean-American drama), Nowhere Inn (St. Vincent as herself in doc fiction hybrid)
24 - Dear Evan Hansen (musical), Many Saints of Newark (Sopranos origin prequel), Venom 2 (superhero), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain)
24 - NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (ends on Oct 10th)

OCT
1 - Addams Family 2, Dune
8 - No Time to Die (James Bond)
15 - Halloween Kills, The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
22 - Cry Macho (Eastwood), Jackass 4, Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright), Ron's Gone Wrong (animated), The French Dispatch
29 - Antlers (horror)

NOV
5 - Clifford the Big Red Dog (animated), The Eternals
12 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Belfast (Kenneth Branagh drama)
19 - King Richard (Will Smith in tennis biopic), Top Gun: Maverick
ACROSS THANKSGIVING WEEK - Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda musical), House of Gucci (Adam Driver & Lady Gaga), Resident Evil 7 (the previous one was called "the final chapter" LOL)
26 - Soggy Bottom (Paul Thomas Anderson !!!)

DEC
3 - Nightmare Alley (remake of noir classic)
10 - West Side Story (remake of musical classic)
17 - Spider-Man: No Way Home
ACROSS CHRISTMAS WEEK- Downton Abbey 2, The Kingsman 3 (prequel), The Matrix 4, A Journal for Jordan (Denzel directs Michael B Jordan), Sing 2, Starbright, The Nightingale (The Fanning Sisters)

P.S. Subject to change. Some of these dates will change and more films will be added of course depending on what the festival season brings us. Currently unscheduled but in post-production: Vivo (Lin-Manuel Miranda musical),

P.P.S. Moved to 2022 already even though some of them are finished already: The 355 (Jessica Chastain action), Deep Water (Adrian Lyne thriller), The Man From Toronto (action comedy), Death on the Nile (Branagh Agatha Christie remake), Marry Me (romantic comedy), Morbius (supervillain film), Rumble (animated), Uncharted (Tom Holland franchise action), The Batman (Robert Pattinson), Mission Impossible 7 (action), Elvis biopic (Baz Luhrmann), Jurassic World Dominion (action), Minions Rise of Gru (animated), Fantastic Beasts III (fantasy), Black Adam (superhero), Babylon (Damien Chazelle directs Brad Pitt)