As national movie chains began announcing cautious reopening plans, audiences were eager to learn what’s coming to the big screen in the near future [All dates subject to change]

BY LAURA D.C. KOLNOSKI

THE KING’S MAN SEPTEMBER 18 (UNRATED)
This action/adventure/ comedy is a prequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and its sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), both starring Taron Egerton as a recruit and eventual master of a secretive British intelligence organization. In this origin story, some of history’s vilest tyrants plot world domination as the stylish good guys work to thwart them with imaginative weapons and mad skills. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, and Rhys Ifans as Rasputin.

TENET AUGUST 12 (UNRATED)
Director Christopher Nolan (Inception) plays with reality in a mind-bending international espionage action thriller starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, and Clemence Poesy. Plot twists and “time inversion” plague Washington’s protagonist as he learns it won’t be easy (or normal, for that matter) to save the world from annihilation armed with a single word, Tenet.

CANDYMAN OCTOBER 16 (UNRATED)
Former comedian Jordan Peele, now established as a master of the horror genre (Get Out, 2017), co-wrote the screenplay and produced what’s being called a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 Candyman, set in the gentrifi ed Chicago neighborhood where the legend of the hook-handed phantom began. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman) stars. Tony Todd, the original Candyman, has a role, and Vanessa Williams (a former Miss America) also returns.

THE BEATLES: GET BACK OCTOBER 2 (UNRATED)
A highly anticipated documentary from Academy Award-winning Director Sir Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) about the iconic Fab Four John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The doc utilizes enhancing technologies and features previously unused in-studio footage from the group’s 1970 film, Let It Be. It received approvals and support from both McCartney and Starr.

GREENLAND AUGUST 12 (RATED PG-13)
Gerard Butler stars in this science fiction thriller brimming with eye-popping special effects about a family outrunning an imminent apocalyptic global disaster a comet strike. They seek safety as major cities are destroyed by the comet’s fragments. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, who previously worked with Butler on Angel Has Fallen, the film co-stars Scott Glenn and Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) as Butler’s estranged wife.

WONDER WOMAN 1984 OCTOBER 2 (RATED PG-13)
After several release postponements, Gal Gadot (Diana Prince) and Chris Pine (Steve Trevor) return in director Patty Jenkins’ sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman. IMDB reports Jenkins picked the decade because she saw it as “the height of Western civilization and society.” Pedro Pascal plays Max Lord, trading his Mandalorian helmet for a much different persona. Kristen Wiig co-stars as Cheetah. The film also features Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright.