27 Winter 2019 Movies That Will Actually Get You Out Of The House

A bit of fright for the Christmas holiday, Black Christmas tells the story of a sorority fighting back against a black-masked stalker bent on slaughtering them.

Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O'Grady, and Lily Donoghue star as the sorority sisters, with Carey Elwes as their professor in this twist on the original 1974 slasher.

Years after escaping Jumanji, Fridge (Ser'Darius Blain), Bethany (Madison Iseman), and Martha (Morgan Turner) all find themselves returning to the world of the game to rescue their friend Spencer (Alex Wolff). Along for the ride are Eddie (Danny DeVito), Spencer's grandfather, and his friend, Milo (Danny Glover). Also making a return are their Jumanji game avatars, played by Karen Gillan, Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, and Kevin Hart, with the latter two being occupied by the elderly Eddie and Milo in a fun twist.

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie lead this ripped-from-the-headlines film about the allegations that led to the downfall of Fox News creator Roger Ailes. Theron and Kidman's roles are based on the real life Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, while Robbie's role as Kayla Pospisil was invented for the movie, according to Vanity Fair.

Based on the classic Broadway musical, Cats comes to theaters this December with a star-studded cast that may or may not distract from the musical's notoriously convoluted and directionless plot. Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Rebel Wilson, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, James Corden, Jason Derulo, and more star as the Jellicle tribe of cats who are faced with a crucial decision: which of them will ascend to the "Heaviside Layer"?

Premiering on Netflix Dec. 20 after a limited theatrical run, The Two Popes is about exactly what it sounds like. Anthony Hopkins is Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce is the future Pope Francis in this dramatization of an outgoing and incoming leader imagining the future of the Catholic church.

The Rise of Skywalker marks the conclusion to the Skywalker saga, so some major revelations about the entire Star Wars universe are likely to come out in this final chapter in the current trilogy.

Making a return for Rise of Skywalker are Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Domhnall Gleeson, Lupita Nyong'o, and even Ian McDiarmid, who primarily played Emperor Palpatine from Return of the Jedi onward. The late Carrie Fisher is also set to appear, via existing footage.

Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) and her sisters Amy (Florence Pugh), Meg (Emma Watson), and Beth (Eliza Scanlen) are coming of age just after the Civil War and are asking themselves what it is they want out of life. Is it love, greatness, or perhaps something else entirely?

Rounding out the cast are Timothée Chalamet as Laurie, Jo's love interest, Laura Dern as Marmee March, the sisters' mother, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig directs.

The first teaser for this animated movie held a pretty compelling twist: Will Smith's super-spy character gets transformed into a pigeon pretty early on. Tom Holland, Rashida Jones, and Ben Mendelsohn are among the voice actors bringing this totally original movie to life.

The Grudge is a story set in the same universe as the quintessential Japanese horror classic Ju-on (2002). In this reimagining, detective (Andrea Riseborough) tries to piece together what happened at the site of a grisly murder. Along the way she deals with the vengeful, angry spirits that inhabit the home who threaten to murder anybody who enters it. Rounding out the cast are John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Demián Bichir, Lin Shaye, and Jacki Weaver.

Unlike the 2004 American remake, the new Grudge has an R-rating. According to Inverse, at a New York City Comic Con panel with the cast and crew, director Nicolas Pesce said this version would be "way more f*cked up."

Mia (Rose Byrne) and Mel (Tiffany Haddish) are friends who go into business together and suddenly find themselves in deep, deep debt. But when beauty mogul Claire Luna (Salma Hayek) invests over a million dollars to bail them out, their business relationships and friendships are put to the test.

A crew of scientists and researchers working deep on the ocean floor are suddenly beset by the harsh, unforgiving waters surrounding them. As their submarine station begins to flood, they have no choice but to leave on foot, where the mysteries of the deep sea also begin to threaten them. Underwater's trailer evokes some serious Alien and The Abyss vibes, featuring a crew up against the vast, mysterious unknown.

Both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to the classic action franchise that made Michael Bay a household name, reprising their roles as detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett. Bad Boys For Life finds Mike leaning into the action movie cop lifestyle of fast cars and gunfights, while Marcus deals with a midlife crisis. Both their lives are upended when an Albanian mercenary targets them to avenge his brother, who the detectives killed.

Robert Downey, Jr. takes a crack at the titular doctor who discovers he has the ability to speak with animals. Joining him is a star-studded supporting cast including Tom Holland, Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard, Rami Malek, Jessie Buckley, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas, Kumail Nanjiani, Selena Gomez, John Cena, Octavia Spencer, and Carmen Ejogo. Originally slated for release this past April, the premiere was pushed back to January 2020 to accommodate some major reshoots, per The Hollywood Reporter.

When Mickey (Matthew McConaughey), an American drug lord in London, looks to get out of the business, a series of schemes, crimes, and capers follow him. His rivals move in to claim the power vacuum, leaving a trail of destruction and dead bodies in their wake. Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, and Colin Farrell also star.

In an adaptation of Henry James' 1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw, Kate (Mackenzie Davis) is hired as a nanny for orphaned twins Miles (Finn Wolfhard) and Flora (Brooklynn Prince). When she arrives at their remote country mansion to begin her work, she finds that the grounds — or perhaps the twins themselves — are possibly haunted.

A horror-tinged adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Gretel & Hansel is about siblings Gretel (Sophia Lillis) and Hansel (Sammy Leakey) trying to escape the clutches of a frightening older woman, Holda (Alice Krige), who seems to have motivations for the children beyond feeding and caring for them.

After a plane crash claims the lives of Stephanie Patrick's (Blake Lively) entire family, all seems lost for her, until she learns that the crash wasn't actually an accident. She then embarks on a bloody journey for answers and to avenge her family.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) sees Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) striking out on her own following her breakup with the Joker. After learning that the villain Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) has captured young Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), Harley joins forces with heroines Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to save her.

The upcoming Fantasy Island movie is based on the classic television series, which ran from 1977 to 1984. Michael Peña stars as Mr. Roarke, the owner of an island that grants the wishes of any who come to visit it, often with a supernatural or horrific twist.

The newest installment to the franchise, The King's Man is a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode as spies trying to save the world from criminal masterminds hellbent on murdering millions of people. Taron Egerton and Colin Firth's characters won't be around yet, but at least fans will get to see the genesis of the organization they work for.

A speedy, talking blue hedgehog, Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) joins forces with small town cop Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) to stop Dr. Robotnik's (Jim Carrey) plot to take over the world. When the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog dropped in April, the internet's backlash regarding Sonic's character design was swift. After director Jeff Fowler promised to overhaul it, the movie was pushed back to February.

Harrison Ford stars in this adaptation of Jack London's Call of the Wild novel, which tells the story of a dog trying to survive in the Alaskan wilderness after being separated from his sled team. Also along for the ride are Karen Gillan, Bradley Whitford, Dan Stevens, and Omar Sy.

Pixar is back at it again with Onward, about two elf brothers, Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley Lightfoot (Chris Pratt), who go on a journey in search of magic in a land where fantasy and whimsy have become suburbanized. The setting should make for a fun adventure — albeit a tear-jerking one, given that it's a Pixar flick.

A sequel to Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, this showdown pits the two classic monsters against each other. Who will come out on top? Unclear as of now, but we're going to guess that humanity doesn't fare very well in this battle.

Following the events of A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Part II is set in the post-apocalyptic world of the first film, where fast and lethal monsters hunt humans using only the sound we generate. Whereas A Quiet Place followed the experiences of one family as they tried to survive an attack by these monsters on their farm, Part II may be a bit different. Writer and director John Krasinski told Business Insider that his approach to A Quiet Place: Part II is that it's "the second book in a series of books. It’s a widening of a world."

The forthcoming Mulan is a live-action take on the much-beloved 1998 animated classic. This take stars an all-Asian cast, including Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Li Gong, Jason Scott Lee, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Jimmy Wong.