Netflix
usually keeps the release dates of their films a secret until a few weeks out
from their release but in a surprising reveal, Netflix has announced almost all
of its 2020 film slate on Twitter. The list included 29 film titles confirmed to
be coming this year so far with a promise that there are more on the way. The 29
films include: Tyler Perry’s thriller A Fall From Grace with Crystal Fox,
Phylicia Rashad and Cicely Tyson; an adaptation of Jennifer Niven’s All The
Bright Places with Elle Fanning and Justice Smith; Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of
the acclaimed play The Boys In The Band, the action comedy Coffee & Kareem with
Ed Helms and Taraji P. Henson; the Barack and Michelle Obama film Crib Camp;
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods (a film about four African American vets who return to
Vietnam, searching for the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise
of buried treasure starring Chadwick Boseman); Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson Is
Dead (a film about death); Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ Eurovision (about a
song competition); Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy(a modern exploration of the
American Dream about three generations of an Appalachian family); Charlie
Kaufman’s I’m Thinking About Ending Things; the holiday tale Jingle Jangle (with
Forest Whitaker and Keegan-Michael Key); an adaptation of Joan Didion’s The Last
Thing He Wanted (Anne Hathaway working a story the she ends up taking the lead
in); Lost Girls (with Amy Ryan searching for her lost daughter in a gated
community); David Fincher’s Mank (the story about the writing of Citizen Kane);
the Taylor Swift starring Miss Americana; an adaptation of Greg Rucka’s The Old
Guard (with Charlize Theron); the Chris Hemsworth mercenary thriller Out Of The
Fire; Glen Keane’s Over The Moon (about a girl who builds a rocket ship to
travel to the moon); the futuristic thriller The Platform (set on a prison build
of vertically stacked cells); Ryan Murphy’s The Prom; an adaptation of Daphne du
Maurier’s Rebecca (adapted by Hitchcock in 1940) and Mark Wahlberg and Peter
Berg’s Spenser Confidential (a relaunch of the Robert Urich ABC series).
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