My 30 Most Anticipated Movies 2016

My 30 Most Anticipated movies of 2016:

Doctor Strange

1. Doctor Strange
2. Star Wars: Rouge One
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Suicide Squad
5. Batman v Superman
6. X-Men Apocalypse
7. Deadpool
8. The Jungle Book
9. Hail, Ceasar
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Then
11. Finding Dory
12. The Borne Betrayal
13. Star Trek Beyond
14. Assassin's Creed
15. The BFG
16. Ghostbusters
17. Eddie the Eagle
18. Passengers
19. Warcraft
20. John Wick 2
21. Zootropolis (US title: Zootopia) 
22. The Secret Life of Pets
23. The Nice Guys
24. Triple Nine
25. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
26. London Has Fallen
27. La la Land
28. The Finest Hours
29. Tarzan
30. Angry Birds

Honorable mentions
Silence - no UK release date
The Witch - no UK release date

Snowden
Midnight Special
Now You See Me: The Second Act

What to Watch Jan-Mar 2016

Now I know some people go to the cinema every week but what should you watch, Here is your breakdown for the UK Jan to March:

Week 1: 1-7 jan
Nothing is opening because of Star Wars so probably go see that again

Week 2: 8-14 jan
New Releases:

• Joy
• The Danish Girl 

Personally I would go see The Danish Girl, The story of the first ever transsexual, but maybe that is just because I love Alicia Vikander. It is however the better reviewed of the 2.

Joy is the Jenifer Lawrence Oscar contender with Bradley Cooper and director David O Russell, It is however less well reviewed then their previous outings.

Week 3: 15-21 jan

New Releases:

• Creed
• Room
• The Hateful 8
• The Reverent

This is the most stacked week in here, all of these movies have a good shot at an Oscar nomination.

Creed - The a squeal to Rocky, and a worthy successor.

Room - A heartfelt mother and son story 

The Hateful 8 - The next Quentin Tarantino film, a suspense filled western drama, set like a stage play

The Reverent - The follow up for last years oscar wining director and best picture. Staring Leonardo Dicaprio during the western invasion of north america.

My personal pick is The Hateful 8 especially if you can find a cinema playing it in 70mm. However The Reverent is some peoples favorite film of last year. Creed is great too. But at some point you should see all four.

Week 4: 22-28 jan

The Hateful 8

New Releases: 

• Ride Along 2
• The 5th Wave
• The Big Short 

The Big short is good fun, enticing and interesting. However I would say watch one of last weeks films.

Week 5: 29 jan - 4 feb

New releases:

• 13 Hours
• Dirty Grandpa
• Spotlight

Spotlight defiantly Spotlight go see Spotlight

Week 6: 5-11 feb

New Releases:

• Dads Army
• Goosebumps 

Add your spice of British good fun and go see Dad's Army or Goosbumps is good fun for the whole family.

Week 7: 12-18 feb

New Releases:

• Chipmunks 
• Deadpool
• Point Break
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Zoolander 2

Deadpool should be the film to see, though I do have hopes for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to be good. Steer clear of point break and chipmunks.

Week 8: 19 - 25 feb

New Releases:

• The Finest Hours
• Triple 9

Both these films look great, wait for reviews on these. Or just see both?

Week 9: 26 feb - 3 mar

New Releases:

• Gods of Egypt
• Grimsby

 Yer watch the one you didn't watch last week. But who knows one of these might be good, I wouldn't hold your breath.

Week 10: 4 - 10 mar

New Releases:

• Hail, Caesar!
• London Has Fallen
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Hail, Ceasar looks great, the next film form the Coen Brothers. But London Has Fallen, the sequal to Olympus has fallen could be ok and the last one ... I would watch anything with Margot Robbie in it, an Afgan war comedy is an interesting film choice.

Week 11: 11 - 17 mar

New Releases

• Divergent
• Kung Fu Panda 3 

Well out of the two, Kung Fu Panda.

Week 12: 18-24 mar

New Releases

• High-Risen

Never heard of it who knows, maybe look back to week 10.

Week 13: 25 -31 mar

New Releases

• Batman v Superman
• Zootropolis

End the Winter ... Spring ?( well summer movie season stars in April now so who really knows.) End the Spring movie season with a bang and go see Batman v Superman, it will be great ... probably.
Zootropolis is then next film from Disney animation, a studio that is 3 for 3 since John Lasseter took over.

Was 2015 cinema sexist?

Top 30 box office films this year:
Colours by sex of lead actor (female actors are still actors have you ever heard of a doctoress for example):
Pink - Female
Blue - Male
Orange - Co Sex Lead
^ Is that sexist ... this is already getting ridiculous
This isn't the final box office of the year but whos got time to wait (2/1/16)

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (predicted spot)
2. Jurassic World
3. Furious 7
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
5. Minions
6. Inside Out
7. Spectre
8. Mission: Impossible - Rouge Nation
9. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
10. The Martian
11. Fifty Shade of Grey
12. Cinderella
13. Ant-Man
14. San Andreas
15. Hotel Transylvania 2
16. Terminator Genisys
17. Kingsman: The Secret Service
18. Home
19. Mad Max: Fury Road
20. Taken 3
21. The Spongebob Movie
22. Maze Runner
23. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
24. Pitch Perfect
25. Paddington
26. Pixels
27. Spy
28. The Good Dinosaur 
29. Ted 2
30. Tomorrowland

In all three orange cases the female lead is the main lead namely, Ray more then Finn, Furious more then Max and whoever Bryce Dallas Howard's character was over Chris Pratt. The tally comes to:

18 Male lead 

9 Female lead

3 Co-lead

or at the very best

18 Male lead 

12 Female lead

but that is still 2 thirds of films are male lead

Ok now that looks pretty bad, interestingly Terminator Genisys, Mission Impossible and Ant-Man all fail the Benchdel Test:

1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

However I would question how many of these movies would pass the opposite, not sure if Inside Out, Spy, Tomorrowland, Pitch Perfect or Fifty Shades of Grey would for example ( I don't know I haven't checked).

This all looks pretty damming however it could be that that Hollywood might not be sexist but simple a robot, could it be that there is little evidence of female lead films being successful at the box office so they simply aren't made, irrespective of how good the films were and so they will only make male lead films and if they thought that they would make more money only making female leads then they would only do that. But hopefully now that more big budget successful films with female leads are being made ... more will be made.

Some of those films are trash

2 are female lead

6 are male lead 

so that's something ? ...

Box Office and Oscar Predictions

Box office estimate for 2016:
Estimates of box office for 2016 comment when you inevitably disagree, and of course box office varies depending on how good the films are, when they come out, how much the studio advertises it and more movies may be in 2016 that haven't been announced and some of these movies will be pushed back to later years or cancelled all together.

Estimate Rank	Name	Previous or Similar Earnings	Estimate Earnings K	Estimate Earnings T	Info/Synopsis
1	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	MOS:$668, DNR:$1,085	$1,200.00	$1,150.00
2	Captain America: Civil War	WS:$715, AOU:$1,401	$1,200.00	$1,200.00
3	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	HPDHpt2:$1,342	$1,000	$900
4	Star Wars: Rogue One	Ep3:$849	$1,000	$900
5	Finding Dory	FN:$937, TS3: $1,063, MU: $744	$1,000	$800
6	Ice Age: Collision Course	IACD:$877	$900	$700
7	X-Men Apocalypse	DOFP:$748	$800	$700
8	Alice Through the Looking Glass	AIWL:$1,025	$800	$500
9	The Jungle Book	C:$542, M:$758	$700
10	Independence Day: Resurgence	ID:$817	$600
11	Kung Fu Panda 3	KFP2:$666	$600
12	Moana	F:$1,274	$600
13	Zootopia	BH6:$658, WIR:$471	$600
14	The Secret Life of Pets	M:$1,004, DM:$543	$600
15	Suicide Squad	DNR:$1,085	$600
16	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell	TMNT:$485	$500
17	The Bourne Betrayal	BU:$443	$500
18	Star Trek Beyond	STID:$467	$500
19	Doctor Strange	AM:$518, AOU:$1,401	$400
20	Gambit	DOFP:$748, TW:$415	$400
21	Ghostbusters	G:$295	$400
22	Deadpool	Kingsman:$407	$400
23	Now You See Me: The Second Act	NYSM:$352	$400
24	Warcraft	HBotFA:$956	$400
25	Pete's Dragon	C:$542	$400
26	The BFG	C:$542, M:$758	$400		Spielberg
27	Tarzan	C:$542, M:$758	$400
28	Big Trouble in Little China	SA:$469, H:$243	$400
29	The 5th wave	WorldWZ:$540	$300
30	Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur	RH(2010):$322	$300
31	Book of Henry		$300
32	Central Intelligence	SA:$469, H:$243	$300
33	Bad Neighbors 2	N:$268	$300
34	The Huntsman	SWatH:$397	$300
35	Allegiant Part 1	I:$295	$300
36	Angry Birds	Lego:$469 Rio$485	$300
37	The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist	tC:$318	$300
38	Collateral Beauty		$300		Will smith, Rooney Mara
39	Hail, Caesar	Argo: $232	$200
40	London has Fallen	OHF:$161	$200
41	Passengers	tM:$573, Grav:$723	$200
42	Assassin's Creed	Hitman(2015):$82	$200
43	Trolls	Lego:$469	$200
44	Sausage Party	South Park: $83			Seph rogan, R rated animated comedy
45	Ben-Hur	Noah:$362	$200		(1959)When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
46	Ride Along 2	RA:$154	$200
47	Triple Nine		$200
48	Grimsby	Spy:$236	$200		Spy Comedy
49	Risen	Noah:$362 Exodus:$268	$200
50	Gods of Egypt	Exodus:$268	$200
51	Going in Style		$200		Morgan Freeman, Three retirees plan a bank heist.
52	The Big Short		$200
53	Mile 22		$200
54	Jhon wick 2
55	The Nice Guys	KissKBangB:$16	$200
56	Queen of Katwe		$150
57	Geostorm		$100		As a man heads into space to prevent climate-controlling satellites from creating a storm of epic proportions, his brother discovers a plot to assassinate the president.
58	Underworld: Next Generation	UA:$160	$100
59	Inferno	CapPhil:$219	$100		After waking up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy, with no memory of what has occurred for the last few days, Robert Langdon suddenly finds himself the target of a manhunt. With the help of Dr. Sienna Brooks and his knowledge of symbology, Langdon will try to escape whilst solving the most intricate riddle he's ever faced.
60	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	WarmBodies:$117	$100		Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England is faced with a new challenge -- an army of undead zombies.
61	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children				Tim Burton
62	Sly Cooper	NutJob: $120	$100
63	Kubo and the two strings		$100		Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.
64	The Accountant		$100		Affleck, Kendrick small movie
65	The Purge: Origins	tPA:$111	$100
66	How to Be Single	tOtherWoman:$197	$100		New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
67	The Lake		$100		A team of Navy SEALs discover an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
68	Michelle Darnell	Tammy:$100	$100		Melissa McCarthy RomCom
69	Mike and Dave need wedding dates		$100		Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron RomCom
70	Dads Army	MonumentsMen:$155	$100
71	Eddie the Eagle		$100
72	Friday the 13th	Ft13(2009):$91	$90
73	Looking for Alaska	PT:$85, FiOS:$307	$80		Next John Green Novel
74	Mechanic: Resurrection	M:$62	$70
75	Zoolander 2	Z:$61	$70
76	La La Land	BeginAgain:$63	$70		A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
77	The Magnificent Seven				A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
78	The Circle				Western, Chris Pratt
79	The Great Wall				Emma watson, tom hanks, karen gillan
80	The Founder				Matt Damon, A mystery centered around the construction of the Great Wall of China.
81	Ratchet & Clank				Michael Keaton, The story of McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc.
82	Dirty Grandpa	tAM:$40
83	Me Before you				Hugh Jackson Drama
84	Kubo And the Two Strings				Zac Efron, Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a perverted former Army general, to Florida for spring break.
85	Snowden				Emilia Clark, J Coleman Romance
86	The Purge 3
87	The Finest Hours
88	13 Hours
89	Midnight Special
90	Everybody Wants Some
91	Story of Your Life
92	Free Fire
93	Tales of Tales
94	Billy Lynn's Long walk
95	She Who Bring Gifts
96	Bastards
97	How to Talk To Girld At Parties
98	The Witch
99	Silence
100	The Bird of a Nation

Other Films:
jumanji
The lost city of Z
Race
The Forest
The Boy
Airlift
The choice
Mohenjo Daro
Raees
Fan
Baahi: A Rebel for love
The Shower

Oscar Predictions

Spotlight my prediction to win

Best Pictures Guess	Fall short	Disliked
Sicario	Everest	Truth
Ex Machina	Legend	By the sea
The Martian	The Walk	The 33
Steve Jobs	Strait Outa Compton	Concussion
Spotlight	Suffragette
Creed	Black Mass
The Big Short	Beasts of no nation - netflix
The Revenent	Bridge of Spies
The Hateful Eight	Into the heart of the Sea
Brooklyn	Trumbo
Carol	Joy
	The Danish Girl
	Macbeth