What to Look Forward to in 2023…

Fiction

10. Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major

Release Date: 30th March

An overworked woman must keep reliving the same day again and again in an attempt to find herself again, reconnect with her children and save her husband’s life. 

9. Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Release Date: 2nd February

A mix-up at the gym leads two completely different women to walk in each other’s shoes – literally. But having done so, can either ever return to the life they had?

8. Once More With Feeling by Elissa Susman

Release Date: 30th May

A former pop star, whose career went up in smoke, finds herself back in the spotlight when she is asked to star in a Broadway musical that her old flame is directing.

7. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Release Date: 6th April

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on all her assumptions when they start working together.

6. What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

Release Date: 14th November

When she receives word of her globetrotting parents’ tragic deaths, Inez sails to Cairo yearning for answers. Upon arrival, ancient magic pulls her down a path that will uncover the truth about her parents’ disappearance.

5. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

Release Date: 16th May

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level.

4. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Release Date: 6th July

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate… only to discover he lives seven years in the past.

3. A Lady’s Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin

Release Date: 11th May

Recently widowed from her marriage of convenience, Eliza, now Dowager Countess of Somerset, is suddenly left titled, rich, and for the first time in her life, in control of her own future.

2. Happy Place by Emily Henry

Release Date: 27th April

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation so that they don’t disappoint their best friends.

1. Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder

Release Date: 6th June

Two co-stars with a complex history reunite to film the final season of a beloved TV show. To deliver the happy ending the fans have been waiting for, the pair are forced to get closer than ever.

TV

10. Shrinking

Release Date: 27th January (Apple TV+)

Starring: Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams

A grieving therapist starts to tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge changes to people’s lives – including his own. (IMDb)

9. The Bear – Season 2

Release Date: TBA (Disney+)

Starring: Jeremy Allen White , Ayo Edebiri , Ebon Moss-Bachrach

A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop. (IMDb)

8. Ahsoka

Release Date: TBA (Disney+)

Starring: Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Eman Esfandi

Series centers on the adventures of Ahsoka Tano. A spin-off of ‘The Book of Boba Fett’. (IMDb)

7. Masters of the Air

Release Date: TBA (Apple TV+)

Starring: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Freddy Carter

Five miles above the earth and deep behind enemy lines, eleven men inside a bomber known as the “Flying Fortress” fight for their lives against swarms of enemy German fighters. As American bombers are picked off one by one, their mission becomes very clear: survive. (IMDb)

6. Dear Edward

Release Date: 3rd February (Apple TV+)

Starring: Connie Britton, Taylor Schilling, Colin O’Brien

Follows Edward, a 12-year-old boy who survives but lost his family in a devastating commercial plane crash, as he tries to make sense of life along with a group of others affected, and new friendships, romances and communities are formed. (IMDb)

5. The Last Thing He Told Me

Release Date: 14th April (Apple TV+)

Starring: Jennifer Garner, Angourie Rice, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 

A woman forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared. (IMDb)

4. The Summer I Turned Pretty – Season 2

Release Date: TBA (Prime Video)

Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno

A love triangle between one girl and two brothers. A story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer. (IMDb)

3. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Release Date: TBA (Netflix)

Starring: India Amarteifio, Corey Mylchreest, Arsema Thomas

The rise and love life of a young Queen Charlotte. (IMDb)

2. Shadow and Bone – Season 2

Release Date: 16th March (Netflix)

Starring: Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux

Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world. (IMDb)

1. Daisy Jones and The Six

Release Date: 3rd March (Prime Video)

Starring: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone

Following the rise of Daisy Jones and The Six’ rock band through the ’70s LA music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status. (IMDb)

Film

10. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Release Date: 31st March

Starring: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. (IMDb)

9. Pain Hustlers

Release Date: 27th October

Starring: Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy Garcia

Liza dreams of a better life for her and her daughter so she gets a job at a bankrupt pharmacy and Liza’s guts catapult the company and her into the high life not knowing that she will soon be in the middle of a criminal conspiracy. (IMDb)

8. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse

Release Date: 2nd June

Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered. (IMDb)

7. Oppenheimer

Release Date: 21st July

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. (IMDb)

6. Elemental

Release Date: 16th June

Starring: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie

Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. (IMDb)

5. Barbie

Release Date: 21st July

Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. (IMDb)

4. Wonka

Release Date: 15th December

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Sally Hawkins, Keegan-Michael Key

The story will focus specifically on a young Willy Wonka and how he met the Oompa-Loompas on one of his earliest adventures. (IMDb)

3. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One

Release Date: 14th July

Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg

Seventh entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible series. (IMDb)

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Release Date: 5th May

Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Karen Gillan

Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own – a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful. (IMDb)

1. Dune: Part Two

Release Date: 3rd November

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

A boy becomes the Messiah of nomads on a desert planet that has giant worms that protect a commodity called Spice. Spice changes people into travelers, mystics and madmen. What price will he pay to become the new ruler of their universe? (IMDb)

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