Most Anticipated Upcoming Netflix Movies: December 5th, 2022

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Between movies and TV shows, Netflix has numerous upcoming projects. In this list, we’ll be looking at the most anticipated upcoming movies to Netflix. 

To compile the list below, we’ll be using IMDb’s Movie Meter data which updates every Monday.

As one of the world’s largest movie and TV show databases and assigns a MovieMeter score based on the amount of inbound traffic to any respective page. We figure that the higher the traffic, the more people are excited about the project. IMDb continues to draw in over half a billion site visits every single month.

Note: MovieMeter scores are correct as of December 5th, 2022

10. The Old Guard 2

Director: Victoria Mahoney, Dan Bradley
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy| Cast: Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman, KiKi Layne, Marwen Kenzari, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 5287 (-40)

The Old Guard arrived in the Summer of 2020 when plenty of the world was still in lockdown. After a fantastic performance that saw millions of subscribers stream from around the world, Netflix deemed it fit to greenlight a sequel.

Andromache of Scythia and her band of soldiers are back in this second story chronicling the battles and burdens of their dubious immortality. Nile’s addition to the team has given them new purpose and new direction, but when you’ve got 6,000 years of history at your back, the past is always ready to return with a vengeance.

9. Knives Out 3

Director: Rian Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama| Cast: Daniel Craig
Netflix Release Date: 2024
Moviemeter: 5,384

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Rian Johnson’s highly anticipated Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion, was recently released in cinemas and will be coming to Netflix on Christmas Day. After watching Glass Onion in threatres ourselves, we can’t wait to see what’s in store for us with a Knives Out 3.

The plot is still under wraps, and until Glass Onion has debuted on Netflix, we aren’t expecting to see any further production updates until the new year

8. You People

Director: Kenya Barris
Genre: Comedy, Romance | Cast: Andrea Savage, Jonah Hill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eddie Murphy, David Duchov
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 5,306

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Led by Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, You People will be his feature length directorial debut, and Netflix debut. Helping Barris on the upcoming rom-com is Jonah Hill, who has helped write, produce, and will star in the lead role.

Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences.

7. Havoc

Director: Gareth Evans
Genre: Action, Thriller | Cast: Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker, Narges Rashidi, Luis Guzmán
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 5,003

Known for such movies as The Raid and Netflix’s The Apostle, Gareth Evans is an incredibly talented and exciting director. Havoc will be Tom Hardy’s Netflix film debut, who along with Evans is listed as one of the producers.

The story is set after a drug deal gone wrong, when a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.

6. Jeanne Du Barry 

Director: Maïwenn
Genre: Biographic, Historical | Cast: Johnny Depp, Maïwenn
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 4,559

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Johnny Depp’s big return to the screens will come in the form of an indie flick out of France that Netflix carried the distribution rights to (it’s unclear whether it’ll be listed as a Netflix Original or not).

The biopic, which has wrapped filming, is about the life of Jeanne Bécu, born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

5. Maestro

Director: Bradley Cooper
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music | Cast: Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, Matt Bomer, Sarah Silverman
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 3,561

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A potential Oscar contender for 2024 at the 96th Academy Awards, Bradley Cooper takes on directing, producing, writing and acting in his biopic of Leonard Bernstein, the composer of movies such as West Side Story, On the Waterfront, and On the Town.

Maestro will tell the complex love story of Leonard and Felicia, a story that spans over 30 years-from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continues through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children: Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein, and Nina Bernstein Simmons.

4. The Killer

Director: David Fincher
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama | Cast: Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Monique Ganderton, Sala Baker
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 2,483

Another passion project that David Fincher has been interested in for years, The Killer is an adaptation of Alexis Nolent’s graphic novel. Upon release, The Killer will be the second feature film from Fincher of his 4 years exclusive deal with Netflix.

“A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a man alone, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.”

3. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley

Director: Mark Molloy
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime | Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kevin Bacon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Preston Rogers, Paul Reiser
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 2,311

Picture: Paramount Pictures

For the first time in almost three decades, Eddie Murphy will return to reprise one of his most iconic roles, Axel Foley, the brash loudmouthed cop from Detroit. Plot details are still under wraps at this time, so it’s unclear if we’ll see Axel Foley as a police commissioner, or whether or not his antics have kept him from promotions.

2. The Pale Blue Eye 

Director: Scott Cooper
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery | Cast: Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton, Fred Hechinger
Netflix Release Date: January 6th, 2023
Moviemeter: 1,412

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The arrival of The Pale Blue Eye will mark the first Netflix Original for Batman and American Psycho actor Christian Bale. Scott Cooper, writer, producer, and director, has spent the better part of the decade trying to get Louis Bayard’s novel adapted into a feature-length movie.

A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Howard Shore, the legendary composer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is also composing the music to The Pale Blue Eye.

1. Rebel Moon

Director: Zack Snyder
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Cast: Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Stuart Martin, Anthony Hopkins, Jena Malone
Netflix Release Date: 2023
Moviemeter: 1,001

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Since his return to directing, Zack Snyder has made Netflix his new home, which has since greenlit an exciting number of his projects. Rebel Moon is rumored to have been based on Snyder’s pitch for a stand-alone Star Wars movie and is influenced by Snyder’s favorite film, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.

A peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. Desperate, the colonists dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.

If Rebel Moon has a limited release in theatres, it could certainly be worth attending for a true thematic experience.

What upcoming Netflix movie are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments below!