Release radar
A breakdown is most useful in the fortnight after a release, while everyone is still arguing about what was in the background of that one shot. So we pick our next targets before they open, not after. This is that shortlist — every title here is already queued, with the specific reason it earned a slot.
Nothing on this page claims to have found anything yet. There are no eggs to catalogue until a film exists. What you get here is the calendar, the reasoning, and a way to push a title up the queue.
Production I.G expanding its own 2021 Visions short into a series, in the one corner of Star Wars where the rules are allowed to bend — every hilt, every kyber choice and every deviation from Jedi orthodoxy is a deliberate argument with canon.
Kara and her ragtag Jedi crew seek out to find worthy Jedi to fight against an increasingly powerful warlord.
Tom King co-created it, and King writes comics the way this site reads films: buried panel references and continuity deep cuts. It is also the next DCU beat after the Superman breakdown we already run.
Two intergalactic cops, new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, are drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
A live-action Looney Tunes courtroom film built out of Ian Frazier's New Yorker piece, in which Wile E. Coyote's evidence locker is by definition a shelf holding seven decades of Acme gags.
After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.
Zach Cregger directing — his Weapons is already in our catalogue — with Capcom itself producing. This is a franchise where a single mansion corridor doubles as a quiz on the games.
Bryan, a medical courier, is in the process of making a delivery when a sudden outbreak occurs, forcing him to fight for survival.
Mike Flanagan adapting King's first novel at series length. His Haunting of Hill House, already catalogued here, spent whole seasons hiding figures in the backgrounds of shots nobody was looking at.
Misfit high-schooler Carrie White has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father's sudden death, Carrie finds herself contending with the challenges of attending public high school, a bullying scandal, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.
Aaron Sorkin writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network, once again framed around a legal proceeding — a film that all but dares you to spot what it restages from the original.
Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
DiMartino and Konietzko's first series set after Korra. Every era of Avatar has carried the previous one's iconography forward in its architecture, statues and background art, and a world broken by cataclysm hands them ruins to hide it in.
In a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm, a young Earthbender discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra. But in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity's destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization's last strongholds collapse.
A direct continuation of WandaVision, which we have already broken down, built on White Vision trying to make sense of borrowed memories — a premise that is literally about recalling earlier MCU footage.
After the events of WandaVision, White Vision struggles to connect with the memories given to him as he lacks the emotions or feelings associated with them.
Capcom is co-producing its own tournament movie and setting it in the 1990s. In this franchise the stage backgrounds, the win quotes and the character-select order are all canon, and fans will freeze-frame every one of them.
In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don't, it's GAME OVER!
A DCU body-horror origin about a Hollywood actor, scripted by Mike Flanagan, with the better part of a century of Batman rogues'-gallery continuity sitting there to be raided.
Follow the terrifying descent into hell of a promising Hollywood actor who has become a monster driven by revenge, exploring the loss of identity and humanity, the ravages of toxic love and the dark side of scientific ambition.
A LAIKA stop-motion feature from Travis Knight, adapting Colin Meloy's novel. In hand-built animation nothing is in frame by accident — every leaf and every prop was a decision someone physically made, which is exactly where easter eggs live.
Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a forbidden magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to save Prue’s kidnapped baby brother, Mac, from the crows led by a mysterious woman named Alexandra.
Takashi Yamazaki following his own Godzilla Minus One, for a studio whose kaiju films have been quoting each other's shot compositions and roar cues since 1954.
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.
A prequel set at the 50th Games, 24 years before the original, adapted from Collins' own novel — so every prop, tribute and Capitol face in it is load-bearing setup for a trilogy that is already on screen.
Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Set fifty years after 2049, produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free. A Blade Runner sequel is obliged to fill its skyline and its set dressing with the ads, the origami and the Tyrell-era hardware the first two films made iconic.
Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city.
Villeneuve's third Dune, co-written with comics writer Brian K. Vaughan. For book readers the Fremen terminology, the appendix lore and the visual rhymes back to Part One are the entire game.
Emperor Paul Atreides faces the fallout from his ascent to power as political plots and a galaxy-wide holy war endanger the future only he can see.
The fourth Jumanji, and its whole comic engine is people stuck in the wrong avatars — callbacks to the 1995 Van Allsburg adaptation and to its own two sequels are baked straight into the premise.
Our heroes have escaped the ever-changing jungles of Jumanji before, but this time the game comes to us - as Jumanji breaks free of its console, unleashing its chaos into our world.
HBO restarting Hogwarts as a series, with Heyday Films — the company behind the eight films — back on it. The entire appeal is what the movies had to cut, which makes every restored book detail an easter egg in its own right.
There is nothing special about Harry Potter - at least that's what his Aunt Petunia always says. On his 11th birthday, a letter of admittance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry opens up a hidden world for Harry: one of fun, friendship and magic. But with this new adventure comes great risk as Harry is forced to face a dangerous enemy from his past.
Sega co-produces these films, and the series has been cashing in game-only characters one entry at a time. A time-travel premise puts three decades of Sonic continuity within reach at once.
Sonic the Hedgehog, joined by a new hero named Amy, faces a new technological nemesis known as Metal Sonic.
Lord and Miller closing out the trilogy whose first two films we have already catalogued — a series built on comic-panel recreations, animation-style in-jokes and a wall of Spider-Man variants in every other frame.
Hunted by Miguel O'Hara's Spider Society and betrayed by his friends, Miles finds himself in the darkest corners of the Spider-Verse in search of a way home. Knowing that his family has been not only fractured but endangered by his calling, it's a race against the clock for Miles to travel across the wildest reaches of time and space to fight for and reunite everything he holds most dear.
Shrek's comedy was always fairy-tale parody and Disney needling. A fifth film reuniting Myers, Murphy and Diaz under Conrad Vernon, who co-directed Shrek 2, is engineered for callbacks.
Shrek and Donkey team up for another whirlwind, big-city adventure, this time in the magical city of Further Further Away.
The radar is our shortlist, not the whole calendar. If the thing you're waiting for isn't here, put it on the board — the most-requested titles jump the queue ahead of everything above.
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