The Movie smashes of next year (2019)

2019 is actually shaping up like it has potential to be a stellar year for the wide spectrum of movie goers. Naturally there will be the usual mainstay of Disney, action hero and Marvel franchise goers who love action and visuals and a satisfying story to boot.

More left-brained viewers want more art house Miramax-style films that take them to complete new worlds and introduce them to characters they’ve never seen before..

The good news is that Hollywood and the rest of the global movie making studios have created enough space for there to be a bumper crop of both types of moves, despite what some media outlets may say when they are trying to put supposed rivals against each other for the sake of a clickbaity article headline.

Redcrashcarpet would be happy to place a solid bet that 2018 actually fed the franchise lovers and the arty Indy lovers equally well and there is little doubt in our minds that 2019 will provide equally tasty treats for all sorts of movie goers… here we look at the top ten upcoming movies on both sides of the alleged divide.

Aladdin.
So to kick off we are going to start with a title that arguably straddles both hemispheres of the great movie divide. It would have been a brave person who, in 2004, would have predicted that the cutting-edge, cool and quirky cunning cockney visual wit Guy Ritchie would end up doing a big budget film for the industry giant that is Disney, but that is exactly what has come to pass.

After his fairly impressive Sherlock sequence of films, Ritchie has decided to take on this mythic classic and it has the potential to be a real winner. If Ritchie can combine the mythic storytelling of the original story, ride the wonderful opportunity of big bucks visuals from his parent studio and still (this is the hard bit) maintain his acerbic silver tongued humour in the script, this is a potential runway success.

The patchiness and only occasional brilliance of the Sherlocksequence means we won’t hold our breath, but if some magic chemistry does happen we will certainly be celebrating even harder than we did last month for the former Mrs Ritchie’s wife, Madonna, when she hit sixty.

Pet Sematary
After the under-predicted success of Itlast year there was a rush to take out movie rights for Stephen King’s back catalogue. Whilst movie going soothsayers keep predicting the return of the feel good movie to dominate proceedings each of the last few years, it seems that, even though we are experiencing a fairly grim reality in our actual lives at the moment, none of us are turning to the feel good antidote. Rather, our penchant for misery and other woes seems to make us feel better about ourselves.

Not much creepier than this.Stephen King is a master storyteller and anyone who remembers the original It or Carrie or indeed the masterpiece of Misery, the film that broke Kathy Bates’s career, will know that they are in the hands of an expert, but movie goers will be pleased to see that the talented Kevin Klotsch will be directing this

X-Men Dark Phoenix.
After hitting a fairly major hiccup in 2016 with the dreaded X-Men Apocalypse, the franchise seemed to right itself with the Loganmovie and the excellent Deadpool sequence. With this younger generation of superheroes taking over fully from the earlier stalwarts this film should be superb. It stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. It should combine the usual killer brilliance of unrelatable superpowers and highly relatable emotional disturbances. We can’t wait to see how this one scores with both the box office and the critics.

Dumbo.
Rather like Ritchie being allowed to take his palette and brush to Aladdin, a rather interesting artist has been commissioned by Disney to do another real life live action take of a classic animation.

Dumbo is the ultimate tale of the belittled underdog overcoming the odds. At first glance it is perhaps a slightly odd choice of director that Disney has selected Tim Burton, but although he usually trades in eeriness and creepiness there is highly likely enough emotional depth in this classic take for Burton to get his brilliantly chiselled incisors into.

Colin Farrell and a formidable host of other talent are signed up for this so expect the dewy-eyed heritage of Disney and the twisted, unsettling visual brilliance of Tim Burton to combine in a legendary way. At least he has long learned the lessons of the patchy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the big studio drive will no doubt mean a lavish and vast budget to match the brilliant imagination of the director himself.

The Goldfinch.
Finally we are going to look at the more art-house-sensibility effort The Goldfinch. Based on Donna Tartt’s exceptional novel of the same name. The magnificent Nicole Kidman is playing the lead role in this multi-generation drama. It’s lead character is a young boy who gets caught up in a terrorist attack in an art gallery and then spends years fighting his demons during a life of petty and not so petty crime.

All the while the goldfish painting that he was looking at when the bomb went off seems to be an ethereal guiding light over his self-destructing life. Somehow the spirit of the painting takes him back from the edge of oblivion. Kidman is sure to bring extreme panache to this film of a vibrant novel that contain multitudes.