Netflix announces full slate of 2021 original film releases
A list of all the new movies set to hit the streaming service this year
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Your support makes all the difference.Netflix has announced its full slate of new original movies to be released in 2021.
New releases from actors including Leonardo Di Caprio, Gal Gadot, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Halle Berry and Chris Hemsworth feature in the line-up, which also includes new films from acclaimed directors Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God) and Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up).
At least one new film will be arriving every week throughout the year on the streaming service. A video posted today (12 January) offered a preview of some of the forthcoming titles.
Don’t Look Up stars DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two low-level astronomers who undertake a giant media tour warning mankind of a deadly Earth-destroying comet. Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill and Cate Blanchett also appear in the film, which is directed by McKay (Vice).
Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised sees the Oscar-winning actor play a former MMA fighter battling for custody of her son.
Ana de Armas stars as Marylin Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) new biopic Blonde, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
Justice League director Zack Snyder will make his Netflix debut with Army of the Dead, a zombie heist film starring Dave Bautista.
Netflix’s rom-com hits To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth will be receiving second sequels in 2021, turning both franchises into trilogies.
Elsewhere, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda directs tick, tick… BOOM!, a new musical starring Andrew Garfield as an aspiring theatre composer.
Zendaya and John David Washington front the Oscar-tipped Malcolm & Marie, arriving on Netflix in February, and Chris Hemsworth plays the lead in Escape from Spiderhead, an adaptation of George Saunders’ chillingly bleak short story.
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Amy Adams also stars in an adaptation of AJ Finn’s The Woman in the Window, alongside Gary Oldman, and Red Notice is a crime thriller starring Reynolds, Johnson and Gadot.
In addition to the films listed, the streaming service has said it will still acquire new films as the year progresses.
See below for Netflix’s full 2021 slate of films, along with their respective release dates where available…
8 Rue de l'Humanité
A Boy Called Christmas
A Castle for Christmas
Afterlife of the Party
Army of the Dead
Awake
A Week Away
A Winter’s Tale from Shaun the Sheep
Back to the Outback
Bad Trip
Beauty
Blonde
Blood Red Sky
Bombay Rose
Beckett
Bruised
Concrete Cowboy
Don't Look Up
Double Dad
Escape from Spiderhead
Fear Street Trilogy
Fever Dream
Finding ‘Ohana (29 January)
Fuimos Canciones
I Care A Lot (19 February)
Intrusion
Kate
Love Hard
Malcolm & Marie (5 February)
Monster
Moxie (3 March)
Munich
Nightbooks
Night Teeth
No One Gets Out Alive
O2
Outside the Wire (15 January)
Penguin Bloom (27 January)
Pieces of Woman (7 January)
Red Notice
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Robin Robin
Skater Girl
Stowaway
Sweet Girl
The Dig (29 January)
The Guilty
The Hand of God
The Harder They Fall
The Kissing Booth 3
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Last Mercenary
The Loud House Movie
The Power of the Dog
The Princess Switch 3
There's Someone Inside Your House
The Starling
The Swarm
The White Tiger (22 January)
The Woman in the Window
Things Heard and Seen
Thunder Force
tick, tick...BOOM!
To All The Boys: Always and Forever
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Untitled Alexandre Moratto
Untitled Graham King
Untitled Alicia Keys Rom-Com
Wish Dragon
YES DAY (12 March)
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