
Writer’s Room: Our 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2020
Jan 15th, 2020 by slashfilmdaily
On the January 15, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson, weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to narrow down their 25 most anticipated movies of 2020.
Opening Banter: Let’s close the book on 2019 and look ahead to the rest of 2020!
In this Edition of The Writer’s Room:
- What are our 25 most anticipated movies of 2020?
Here is the initial list of films we began with:
Universal Support - 6 votes
A Quiet Place Part II - JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BP
Wonder Woman 1984 - JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BP
In the Heights - JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BP
Tenet - JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BP
Last Night in Soho - JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BP
West Side Story - JH, CE, B, HB, PS, BP
Dune - JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BP
The French Dispatch - JH, CE, HB, B, PS, BP
Strong Support - 5 votes
Soul - JH, CE, B, HB, PS
Mank - JH, CE, HB, B, BP
Good Support - 4 votes
Eternals - JH, B, HB, PS
No Time to Die - JH, CE, B, BP
Death on the Nile - JH, CE, HB, BP
Rebecca - JH, CE, HB, BP
Some Support - 3 votes
Black Widow - JH, B, HB
The Invisible Man - JH, CE, B
Bill and Ted Face the Music - JH, B, HB
Halloween Kills - JH, CE, B
Raya and the Last Dragon - JH, B, PS
Antlers - JH, CE, HB
Birds of Prey - CE, HB, BP
Antebellum - CE, HB, BP
Small Support - 2 votes
Candyman - JH, CE
Malignant - JH, CE
Jungle Cruise - JH, PS
On the Rocks - CE, B
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - B, PS
The Personal History of David Copperfield - HB, B
The Turning - CE, HB
I’m Thinking of Ending Things - CE, BP
Top Gun: Maverick - B, BP
Coming 2 America - B, PS
Fast and Furious 9 PS, BP
Outliers - 1 vote
Saint Maud - JH
Escape Room 2 - JH
Gretel and Hansel - CE
The Many Saints of Newark - CE
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - CE
Free Guy - B
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - B
Taylor Swift: Miss Americana - B
Emma - HB
Mulan - HB
Promising Young Woman - HB
Minari - HB
Chaos Walking - PS
Godzilla vs Kong - PS
The Way Back - PS
Boss Level - PS
The Witches - PS
BIOS - BP
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