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Begins 2022, and it does so with a month full of great premieres, both in theaters and on platforms. January has always been a very powerful month, since the big bets for the Oscars usually premiere around this time. Almost all of them will arrive first to cinemas, but some will also do it online, since they are Netflix, Apple and company who are producing an adult film destined to sweep the awards season.
From SERIES & MORE We offer you this calendar with the most anticipated films of January, with information on where they can be seen and from what date. 31 days where the new titles of great directors arrive, debut operas that will surprise and films destined to sweep at the box office. Bets for all audiences that you cannot miss.
‘The wasteland’ (Netflix)
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Release date: January 6th
The first movie to hit Netflix in 2022 is a Spanish bet. A horror film directed by newcomer David Casademunt that had a successful premiere at the last Sitges Festival and is now reaching the platform. A film starring Inma Cuesta, Roberto Álamo and the relief of Pain and glory, the child Asier Flores. It tells the story about the quiet life of a family that lives isolated from society and is disturbed by a terrifying creature who will test the ties that bind them.
‘Macbeth’ (Apple TV + and movie theaters)
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Release date: January 12 in theaters, January 14 on Apple TV +
The most important bet of Apple TV + in cinema comes from the hand of one of the Coen brothers, Joel, who is temporarily ‘independent’ from his brother to adapt the Shakespearean classic in an imposing black and white and with echoes of the adaptations of Laurence Olivier. A premiere that will spend a few days in a few selected cinemas before reaching the platforms. It may be one of the movies that will be in the next Oscars.
‘Scream’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 14
One of the most influential horror sagas in cinema in recent decades was Scream, created by Wes Craven and had three continuations. Scream started the ’90s’ craze’ for teen slashers, and it did so with an exercise that was also a love letter to genre cinema. The original cast of the film, with Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox at the helm, are now reunited under the orders of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.
‘Licorice Pizza’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 14
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best directors in recent cinema. It has no bad movie, and Licorice Pizza is no exception, a luminous adolescent love with whom he traces an X-ray of Los Angeles in the 70s. A personal, funny film that is one of the ones that has received the best reviews in the United States, which places it as one of the Big favorites for the next Oscars.
‘Hotel Transilvania: Transformania’ (Amazon Prime Video)
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Release date: January 14
The pandemic has caused many films to delay their release or change the way they are shown and move from theaters to platforms. Amazon is one of the companies that has made the most acquisitions in this regard, and in January it launches one of its great bets, in this case for animated films with the new installment of one of the most successful cartoon sagas of recent years with which Sony has not wanted to risk and has preferred to go to Amazon users directly.
‘The Williams Method’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 21st
A movie about Venus’ father and Serena Williams with them as co-stars? Yes, and on top of it, one of the favorites for the Oscars (they will all arrive these weeks) with a Will Smith as the protagonist with a role that the experts in the awards predict could give him his first statuette. A biopic about the figure behind the success of two athletes who changed the history of tennis.
‘Agents 355’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 21st
Action and spy movies have used to be territory conducive to testosterone and male heroes, that is why Jessica Chastain from her production company has wanted to turn it around and has built this project on four secret agents who join forces against a global threat. They are four superstars of world cinema such as Chastain herself, our Penelope Cruz, the German Diane Kruger and Lupita Nyong’o who are joined in a supporting role by the Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing.
‘The alley of lost souls’ (movie theaters)
‘The alley of lost souls’.
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Release date: January 21st
Another of the great directors who premieres a film in January is Guillermo del Toro, who after winning the Oscar for The Shape of Water returns with a dark tale set in the world of the circus that is an adaptation of the novel by William Lindsay Gresham that was already adapted to the cinema in an excellent version starring Tyrone Power. A look at greed and individualism through a hustler who scams people who have suffered a loss by posing as a mentalist. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Willem Dafoe are part of a cast of big stars.
‘Morbius’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 28
Sony was very successful at betting on the Spider-Man villains to exploit the only line of superheroes that is not in the power of Disney and its MCU. Did it with Venom, which was a box office success, and now he tries it with this Morbius, who also bets on a prestigious actor like Jared Leto to give life to a doctor who after suffering a blood disease and failing to cure himself, becomes a vampire, and one of Spider-Man’s most iconic foes.
‘Belfast’ (movie theaters)
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Release date: January 28
To this day, this film directed by Kenneth Branagh is the great favorite to win the Oscar for Best Film in the next installment. Another exercise in self-fiction like the one carried out by Alfonso Cuarón or this year Paolo Sorrentino, but now with Branagh recounting his childhood in Ireland and how the explosion of violence against Catholics in his street caused an earthquake in his family that, for the first time, , they speculate with leaving the country and the street where they have spent their whole lives.
‘Swan Song’ (Filmin)
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Release date: January 28
Filmin will directly release one of the surprises of the Independent Spirit Awards nominations, where this film starring the legendary Udo Kier has won the nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Leading Actor. A story about a retired eccentric hairdresser who takes a long walk through a rural town to fix the hair of a woman who has passed away.
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