Apple today unveiled a glimpse of Apple Original Films set to premiere globally in theatres and on Apple TV+ over the next year.
In 2022, Apple Original Films will debut new films hailing from today’s most renowned, award-winning storytellers and stars, including Alfonso Cuaron, Antoine Fuqua, Dakota Johnson, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Octavia Spencer, Bill Murray, Russell Crowe, and many more.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
This winner of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on 17 June.
In Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer-director Cooper Raiff also stars as a recent college graduate stuck back at home with his family and working as a party-starter for bar and bat mitzvahs who strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom, played by Dakota Johnson, and her teenage daughter.
Luck
A new animated feature from Skydance Animation about the unluckiest girl in the world. It stars Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Flula Borg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O’Donoghue, John Ratzenberger, and Adelynn Spoon.
Luck premiers 5 Aug.
Coming This Summer
A documentary executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin about the career and life of the late Sidney Poitier.
Lineup For Later this Fall
- Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong – a definitive look at the master musician’s life and legacy as a founding father of jazz, produced under Apple’s first-look agreement with Imagine Documentaries.
- Raymond & Ray – follow half-brothers Raymond and Ray (played by Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke) who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father.
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever – Peter Farrelly’s new dramedy starring Zac Efron and Russell Crowe based on the true story of John “Chickie” Donohue, who in 1968 left New York to track down and share a few beers with his childhood buddies now in the Army – fighting in Vietnam.
- The Sound of 007 – will also make its global debut this fall, to mark the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film series.
Holiday releases
- Spirited – the modern musical rendition of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story “A Christmas Carol” starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell and Octavia Spencer.
- Emancipation – Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith’s highly anticipated new film which tells the triumphant story of a man who escapes from slavery.
Coming Soon
- Killers of the Flower Moon – This film by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow, and more. It follows the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
- Argylle – Matthew Vaughn’s next spy thriller featuresg an ensemble cast that includes Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Dua Lipa and Ariana DeBose with John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson.
- Sharper – a New York City-set suspense-thriller from writers Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton, and John Lithgow
- Tetris – starring Taron Egerton, which follows the extraordinary journey of one of the most iconic computer games in the world.
Originals From Notable Storytellers
- Napoleon – This film by Ridley Scott stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French military leader and emperor alongside Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.
- Number One on the Call Sheet – A documentary celebrating Black leading women and men in Hollywood.
- Ghosted – a high concept romantic action adventure film starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.
- Spellbound – This animated feature from Skydance Animation’s follows a young girl who sets out to break the spell that has divided her kingdom in two.
- The Beanie Bubble – inspired by the story behind one of the biggest speculative crazes that blazed through American culture in the ‘90s and starring Elizabeth Banks, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Snook, and Geraldine Viswanathan.
Currently In Development
- Bad Blood – A film by Adam McKay about the rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, with Jennifer Lawrence producing and starring as Holmes.
- Bride – A genre-bending film produced by and starring Scarlett Johansson.
- Snow Blind – with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star.
- A new Sue Mengers biopic starring Academy Award-Winner Jennifer Lawrence.
- Dolly– a new feature film written by Academy Award-nominee Vanessa Taylor and Drew Pearce with Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh attached to star.
- An adaptation of Judy Heumann’s bestselling memoir Being Heumann from Siân Heder.
- An Audrey Hepburn biopic.
- A thriller with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, written and directed by Jon Watts, about two lone fixers who are assigned to the same job.
