2018 20th Century Fox Movie Preview

Last Updated on August 3, 2021

In what could be their penultimate year before being acquired by Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox grossed $1.326 billion at the domestic box office thanks to hit films like LOGAN and THE BOSS BABY. Fox only had one film cross the $200 million mark this year and the underperformance of ALIEN: COVENANT hurt the studio’s bottom line. This year, they hope to turn things around with DEADPOOL 2, DARK PHOENIX, THE PREDATOR, and ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL.

Check out the full slate of 2018 films coming from 20th Century Fox.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (December 25th)

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen’s legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert in 1985.

Starring Rami Malek, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello, Allen Leech, and Lucy Boynton. Directed by Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher.

UNTITLED FOX/LIGHTSTORM FILM (December 21st)

TBD, but it has got to be something good, right?

Starring TBD. Directed by TBD.

WIDOWS (November 16th)

Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms..

Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Carrie Coon, and Daniel Kaluuya. Directed by Steve McQueen.

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX (November 2nd)

Set in the 1990s sometime after the events of X-Men: Apocalypse, the X-Men have become a household name and a public sensation. Professor X, with growing pride, encourages the team to do more as superheroes. Unfortunately, one mission takes them into space and an unaccounted-for accident greatly empowers Jean Grey, but at the cost of losing control of herself and acting irrationally. All the while, an alien shapeshifter seeks to use Jean for her own intentions, believing her to be “the Phoenix”

Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain. . Directed by Simon Kinberg.

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (October 19th)

When bestselling celebrity biographer, Lee Israel, is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend, Jack..

Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant. Directed by Marielle Heller.

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE (October 5th)

The film is set in the 1960s in a dilapidated hotel in the Lake Tahoe region in California..

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, and Dakota Johnson. Directed by Drew Goddard.

THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING (September 28th)

Alex finds his everyday problems dwarfed by his discovery of the mythical sword Excalibur. Now, with the most powerful sword in history in the hands of the most powerless schoolboy in Britain, Alex and his friends must thwart a medieval villain named Morgana, who is hell-bent on destroying the world..

Starring Tom Taylor, Rebecca Ferguson, and Patrick Stewart. Directed by Joe Cornish (ATTACK THE BLOCK).

THE DARKEST MINDS (September 14th)

After a disease kills 98% of America’s children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government..

Starring Gwendoline Christie and Mandy Moore. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

THE PREDATOR (August 3rd)

A reboot/sequel to the original PREDATOR that follows an intergalactic hunter who lands in the suburbs and faces off against his human prey.

Starring Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Jacob Tremblay, Yvonne Strahovski, Alfie Allen, and Thomas Jane. Directed by Shane Black.

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (July 20th)

An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world..

Starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson. Directed by Robert Rodriguez.

DEADPOOL 2 (May 18th)

After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), now a disfigured cafeteria chef, struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover. .

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapičić, Zazie Beetz, Josh Brolin, and Jack Kesy.. Directed by David Leitch.

SUPER TROOPERS 2 (April 20th)

When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area..

Starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske with Lynda Carter, Brian Cox and Rob Lowe. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.

ISLE OF DOGS (March 23rd)

Set in a dystopian future Japan in which dogs have been quarantined on the remote eponymous island due to a “canine flu”, Isle of Dogs follows five local dogs—Chief, Rex, Boss, Duke, and King. They are fed up with their isolated existence until a boy named Atari Kobayashi ventures to the island to search for his dog, Spots. Atari receives their help and they will protect him from the Japanese authorities who have come to retrieve him.

Starring the voices of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, and Bob Balaban . Directed by Wes Anderson.

LOVE, SIMON (March 16th)

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it’s complicated: no-one knows he’s gay and he doesn’t know who the anonymous classmate is that he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, scary and life-changing..

Starring Katherine Langford, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner. Directed by Greg Berlanti.

RED SPARROW (March 2nd)

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations..

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Mary-Louise Parker. Directed by Francis Lawrence.

MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE (January 26th)

In the conclusion to the Maze Runner trilogy, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze..

Starring Rosa Salazar, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Walton Goggins, and Patricia Clarkson. Directed by Wes Ball.

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