Sisu 2 and Ella McKay are both with us in 2025, with a new The Thomas Crown Affair due in 2027. More here.
No matter what your preferred genre might be, there’s likely to be something in this new crop of newly announced release dates to interest you.
Firstly, Screen Gems is releasing the sequel to Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander’s violent World War II action thriller, Sisu. The first film saw an ex-commando getting rather irked when Nazis stole his gold and some thrillingly-shot revenge ensued.
Jorma Tommila returns in the lead role and the sequel is getting a 21st November theatrical release date in the US and hopefully here in the UK as well. If you haven’t caught the first film yet, click here to get a taste of the movie via its (rather violent) trailer.
If grisly thrills aren’t quite your cup of tea, then what about a James L Brooks’ comedy drama? Ella McCay is coming courtesy of Disney, the overlords of Brooks’ money-printing animated series The Simpsons, and the film’s release has been pushed back by three months – from 19th September to 12th December.
The movie boasts a great cast: Woody Harrelson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Mackey, Ayo Edebiri, Rebecca Hall and Albert Brooks star and the plot follows ‘an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of the longtime incumbent governor who was her mentor.’
Hopefully this one will be getting a cinema release but we don’t yet know at this point. If you’re a fan of James L Brooks, be sure to check out the interview he gave for the Film Stories podcast.
Finally, Michael B Jordan is riding very high right now on the success of Sinners and as such, Amazon MGM will be hoping some of his star power drives the latest incarnation of The Thomas Crown Affair to box office success when it releases on 5th March 2027. That’s assuming Amazon gives the film a theatrical release of course, but given Jordan’s ever-growing stature as an irrepressible movie star, it would be pretty silly not to.
Jordan and Taylor Russell will star in this new take on the classic heist movie, following in the footsteps of Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in the late 90s and before that, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in 1969. Drew Pearce and Wes Tooke are writing the project and Jordan is directing, following on from Creed III which marked his debut in the director’s chair.
Should any of these dates change, we’ll bring you updates as we hear them.
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