Netflix
As I type this as we’re about to enter the autumn movie season. The summer is drawing to a close and movie studios are chomping at the bit to get the aces up their sleeves out into the late 2019 festivals and eventually onto our screens. On the eve of the Venice Film Festival, the first of the prestigious fall festivals, Netflix has released the release dates for their final quarter slate, and it might be their most impressive yet.
Earlier on today, the streamer fired the first shot from its cannon, the teaser trailer for the Timothée Chalamet-led period piece, The King, an ensemble piece that Netflix has announced will hit their worldwide platform on 1st November. They will also roll the film out in front of audiences at September’s TIFF in Canada.
Also on the cards is Eddie Murphy comedy Dolemite Is My Name, which will bow on 25th October – hearing great things about that one – as well as Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, which lands on 18th October, Noah Baumbach drama Marriage Story with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver (6th December) and Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird which will fly onto Netflix on 15th November.
Add to that Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, which is set for 20th December, and the streamer’s big-budget Martin Scorsese picture The Irishman, which will land online on 27th November, you have perhaps the most amount of movies with awards-buzz ever for the web giant – and we haven’t even mentioned the Breaking Bad movie, El Camino.
As well as the above, Netflix has also announced release dates for other fare; animated film Klaus with Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, Norm MacDonald, and Will Sasso, which is set for 29th November and the Cannes Critics’ Week winner I Lost My Body from Mati Diop, slotted for a release on 22nd November.
This is quite the slate for Netflix. Some have already screened while others will play at either Venice or TIFF prior to release. Most of them will get an awards-qualifying at cinema chains both in the U.S. and in the U.K. for BAFTA.
