A new year brings a new string of potential blockbusters and looking over the list for January, February, March, and April, the Spring Season, there are plenty of possible contenders. In January, there’s Commuter, Proud Mary, 12 Strong, and Maze Runner. In February, you have the new Cloverfield sequel, Fifty Shades Freed, Black Panther, and Annihilation. In March, we get Game Night, Red Sparrow, A Wrinkle in Time, Tomb Raider, and Pacific Rim: Uprising. In April, things seem a bit weaker, but it includes New Mutants and Rampage.

It’s hard to know which of these will be the biggest. I’d guess that the battle will be between the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther, and the Disney adaptation of the literary legend A Wrinkle in Time, though New Mutants may be much bigger than anyone expects due to its blend of Marvel mutants and horror elements. We will look at it all more in depth starting next week when we explore January in detail, then again in each of the successive three months.

To introduce you to the upcoming films, there will be two preview articles every month and this introduction every four months. The Season Preview article will focus on one of three seasons Spring Season (January through April), Blockbuster Season (May through August) and Oscar Season (September through December). In these introductory articles, I will give you the current release schedule for the specified season, which may change as the release dates get closer.

January 5, 2018

Insidious: The Last Key (Wide)