Kung Fu Panda 3 - 29 January
DreamWorks Animation picked up lots of negative stories early in 2015, as it streamlined its production faciltiies, laid off staff, cut costs, and trimmed the number of movies it's been planning to make. And then Home - a film of which not much was expected - turned out to be its biggest hit since The Croods.
Kung Fu Panda 3 was originally set to be released in December 2015, but DreamWorks moved the sequel out of the way of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As such, its new slot should give it a better chance of box office gold.
Not that the odds are stacked against it anyway. The first two Kung Fu Panda movies both hit big, and the third sees Jennifer Yu returning to direct. Furthermore, the second film left things primed for a third movie to pick up. Which it will. Jack Black is back as the voice of Po, too.
The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Part 1 - 18 March
Two films in, and the Divergent movies, charitably, seem content to be ordinary. The first, directed by Neil Burger, set things up reasonably well. But Robert Schwentke's Insurgent hardly turned up the heat. Instead, it was a long recap following by some stuff about a box. Thank goodness for Shailene Woodley, else the Divergent films would really be in trouble.
Schwentke is back to direct the opening part of the third book, Allegiant. Allegiant rounds off the story of Tris, although since the movies starting coming, author Veronica Roth has penned a prequel by the name of Four. That may well end up on the big screen too in due course.
Here's hoping Allegiant takes the basic concept of Divergent and does something more interesting with it. Certainly, the ending of Insurgent, at the least, does set things up for a more intriguing adventure.
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice - 25 March
Ladies and gentlemen, the DC movie universe effectively starts here. Ostensibly the sequel to Man Of Steel, this is nonetheless the film that reintroduces a fresh Batman (Ben Affleck), and brings to the screen new iterations of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), Alfred (Jeremy Irons), quite possibly The Flash (Ezra Miller) and maybe some of the Suicide Squad too. How much of it becomes a Superman story remains to be seen.
Zack Snyder directs this one (from a script by Oscar-winning Argo writer, Chris Terrio), before jumping onto the two-part Justice League movie. And the next five or six years of Warner Bros' blockbuster output is hinging on Batman V Superman being a success. No pressure, Zack.
Captain America: Civil War - 6 May
If Batman V Superman is pivotal to the future of the DC movie universe, then Captain America: Civil War is hardly without significant for the Marvel equivalent. In terms of character introductions alone, here's where we're likely to meet Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther, and the new Spider-Man. But crucially, this sets in motion events that lead to Avengers: Infinity War.
Furthermore, the film is no small event in itself. It's set to pit Chris Evans' Captain America against Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark for a start, and major ramifications are expected. We'll stay spoiler-free here, but we looked in more detail about the expected impact of Captain America: Civil War
Joe and Anthony Russo, who more than earned their Marvel stripes with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, return to direct this one. Expect fireworks..
Angry Birds - 20 May
The animated adventures of Angry Birds will form a full movie from Sony next summer. Promisingly, Disney veteran Clay Kaytis (who worked at the studio from Pocahontas through to Frozen) is co-directing, along with Fergal Reilly (who worked on the likes of Osmosis Jones and The Iron Giant as a storyboard artist).
The voice talent here includes Peter Dinklage, Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Maya Rudolph. The UK release for this one is currently set at 1st July.
Alice In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass - 27 May
Tim Burton's 2010 live action take on Alice In Wonderland may not have too many people who list it in their top ten movies, but it still grossed over $1bn at the global box office.
Burton's not around for the sequel, Through The Looking Glass, and instead Disney has handed the job to The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted director James Bobin. Johnny Depp, Anna Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter lead the cast, with Linda Woolverton on screenplay duties.
X-Men: Apocalypse - 27 May
The biggest direct battle at the US box office in 2016 is the showdown between Alice In Wonderland 2, and Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days Of Future Past follow-up.
Days Of Future Past is the highest grossing X-Men movie to date, and Apocalypse is set to round off the trilogy of movies that begin with Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Thus, this may be the final time we see the likes of Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence in the X-Men movie universe (unless they sign extended contracts, of course).
Singer is packing the film once more, with Oscar Isaac playing Apocalypse, whilst Ben Hardy is expected to play Angel, Kodi Smit-McPhee is Nightcrawler, Sophie Turner is Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan is Cyclops and Alexandra Shipp is Storm. Rose Byrne is back too, after sitting Days Of Future Past out.
Big things are expected from Apocalypse - and given the broadening out of the cast, it's likely to set up whatever the next film in the series is, too...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - 3 June
The film that may well be actually called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell, this is the sequel to the commercially very successful 2014 reboot. This time, Jonathan Liebesman is passing the director's chair on to Earth To Echo's Dave Green. Megan Fox and Will Arnett are returning, whilst Arrow's Stephen Amell will be playing Casey Jones.
Don't bet against this being the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film to break the $500m mark at the global box office...
Warcraft - 10 June
The curtain-raiser for next summer's blockbuster season is the eagerly-awaited third film from director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code). And we're backing him - no pressure - to make the first ever really good movie based on a videogame.
For he's steering the long in gestation Warcraft project to the big screen, and it looks as if little expense has been spared. The film has been in post-production for some time, and Jones has co-written the script, along with Charles Leavitt. Ben Foster and Paula Patton lead the cast. And whilst the exact story is under wraps, and footage has been in, well, no supply, we suspect this may end up being one of 2015's must-sees. Also, it comes out in the UK a week earlier (3 June)!
Now You See Me: The Second Act - 10 June
Lionsgate has reassembled the core cast from 2013's surprise hit Now You See Me for its sequel. Thus, we get more Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Jesse Eisenberg here. Isla Fisher isn't returning, though, so Lizzy Caplan takes her place. Director Louis Letterier isn't back either. Instead, Jon M Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never) is calling the shots.
The big new addition to the cast, outside of Caplan, is Daniel Radcliffe. The plot remains under wraps for now.
Star Trek Beyond (AKA Star Trek 3 or Star Trek 13) - 8 JulyWith Star Trek arriving at its 50th birthday in 2016, this new film will come with no shortage of expectation. Add in the fact that it's the first Star Trek movie since the death of the mighty Leonard Nimoy, and that it's also got some repairing work to do amongst fans following Star Trek Into Darkness, and the pressure's on.
Simon Pegg and Doug Jung are writing this one, and their script will be entirely independent from an earlier draft by Roberto Orci. Furthermore, Justin Lin - who's helmed four Fast & Furious movies - will be taking over directing duties from JJ Abrams. The core cast - Chris Pine, Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin - are all back. Idris Elba has already been linked with a villain role.
How about it guys? Cant't wait for the movie? it's already november now, only one month away to 2016. That's only a few of all the blockbuster that will be released in 2016, there more of them! there might be a movie that you waited for so long hahaha. Get ready to welcome all those big blockbuster in 2016! Looking forward to it :)