The wait for brand spanking new Marvel Cinematic Universe content material is sort of over. January 2021 will convey the primary entry in MCU’s Phase Four — WandaVision — after COVID-19 disadvantaged us of all issues Marvel for all of 2020. Closer to house, Saif Ali Khan and Priyanka Chopra will open 2021 because of their respective involvement within the Amazon authentic collection Tandav and the Netflix authentic film The White Tiger. January will even see the return of collection resembling Riverdale, Cobra Kai, Batwoman, American Gods, Call My Agent! and Dickinson. And there are new streaming motion pictures from or starring the likes of Anthony Mackie, Vanessa Kirby, and Regina King.
With that, this is our January 2021 information to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, and Colors Infinity.
Cobra Kai
When: January 1
Where: Netflix
Now a Netflix authentic — the primary two seasons arrived in August, however are nonetheless out there on YouTube Premium — The Karate Kid sequel delivers its belated third season solely on the world’s largest subscription-based streaming service. It’s already been renewed for a fourth season, so you do not have to fret about any shock cancellations. All episodes on launch date.
Pieces of a Woman
When: January 7
Where: Netflix
Vanessa Kirby gained greatest actress at Venice Film Festival for her position on this Netflix drama from Kornél Mundruczó (White God). After a house beginning ends in tragedy, a lady (Kirby) should cope with her husband (Shia LaBeouf) and her domineering mom (Ellen Burstyn), and navigate a trial involving the midwife (Molly Parker). Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger additionally star.
Dickinson
When: January 8
Where: Apple TV+
The Hailee Steinfeld interval black comedy with fashionable sensibilities returns for one more 10-episode run. Toby Huss, Jane Krakowski, Adrian Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, and Ella Hunt star alongside. Nick Kroll and Timothy Simons will be part of them as visitor stars. Unlike season 1 which premiered in full, Dickinson season 2 will launch with three episodes, with one new episode weekly thereafter.
American Gods
When: January 11
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Once once more, American Gods has undergone modifications in entrance of and behind the scenes. Pablo Schreiber’s Mad Sweeney and Mousa Kraish’s Jinn have departed. Everyone else — Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley, Omid Abtahi, Demore Barnes, and Ian McShane — remains to be right here. Ashley Reyes (First Girl I Loved) is new. Charles H. Eglee (The Shield) takes over as showrunner. One episode weekly.
One Night in Miami…
When: January 15
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Watchmen star Regina King makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Kemp Powers’ play of the identical title — Powers additionally wrote the movie script — which fictionalises occasions of an actual February 1964 evening, when world boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Nation of Islam chief Malcolm X (Kinglsey Ben-Adir), NFL participant Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and singer-songwriter Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) met in Miami after Ali’s victory over Sonny Liston.
Outside the Wire
When: January 15
Where: Netflix
Before we see him once more as Falcon within the MCU, Anthony Mackie will play an android supersoldier who works with a drone pilot (Damson Idris) who has no area coaching to cease a nuclear assault on this sci-fi motion movie. Emily Beecham (Little Joe), Michael Kelly (House of Cards), and Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones) additionally star. Mikael Håfström (Evil) directs.
Servant
When: January 15
Where: Apple TV+
The younger nanny Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) runs away with Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean’s (Toby Kebbell) son Jericho within the second season of M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological horror collection, prompting a search and a wave of terrifying revelations. Servant season 2 premieres with three episodes, with one episode weekly thereafter. It has already been renewed for a 3rd season.
Tandav
When: January 15
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Saif Ali Khan leads this political drama from Ali Abbas Zafar — author and director of Sultan, Tiger Zinda Hai, and Bharat — which is able to provide a have a look at “the dark corners of Indian politics”. Zafar can also be the director on Tandav, however he did not write it. Article 15 co-writer Gaurav Solanki is accountable for the scripts.
Formerly often called Dilli, Tandav additionally stars Dimple Kapadia, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Sunil Grover, Kritika Kamra, Kumud Kumar Mishra, Sarah Jane Dias, Dino Morea, Gauahar Khan, Sandhya Mridul, Annup Sonii, Paresh Pahuja, Shonali Nagrani, Hiten Tejwani, Amyra Dastur, Neha Hinge, and Sukhmani Sadana.
All episodes on launch date.
WandaVision
When: January 15
Where: Disney+ Hotstar
Marvel’s first Disney+ collection — it value as a lot as an MCU film with a reported $150 million price range — is not like something it has ever achieved. It features as a sitcom that switches between a long time (black-and-white 50s TV or The Office-style mockumentary), however it’s additionally set after the occasions of Avengers: Endgame one way or the other. WandaVision additionally turns into the primary entry in MCU’s Phase Four.
As the title reveals, it follows the characters of Wanda Maximoff/ Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), lovers who have been torn aside ceaselessly by the occasions of Avengers: Infinity War. A grown-up Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) from Captain Marvel, analysis assistant Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) from Thor: Dark World, and FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) from Ant-Man and the Wasp are additionally concerned. Kathryn Hahn, Jolene Purdy, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, and Asif Ali have roles too.
A complete of six episodes that may air weekly. WandaVision’s occasions will immediately tie into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, slated for March 2022 in cinemas.
Batwoman
When: January 18
Where: Colors Infinity
Javicia Leslie takes over from Ruby Rose (she quit) within the title position for the second season of the DC collection, with the change being written into the present: Leslie is taking part in Ryan Wilder, not Kate Kane. Batwoman season 2 will even introduce Alice’s (Rachel Skarsten) nemesis Safiyah (Shivaani Ghai), her henchwoman Tatiana / the Whisper (Leah Gibson), and the hitman Victor Zsasz (Alex Morf) — not the identical one who was in Birds of Prey. One episode weekly.
Call My Agent!
When: January 21
Where: Netflix
This French comedy a couple of group of Parisian expertise brokers who must put up with the calls for of their purchasers and handle their very own private lives grew to become a world hit because of Netflix, and its fourth — and closing — season will function the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Jean Reno, José Garcia, and Charlotte Gainsbourg in cameo roles. All episodes on launch date.
Riverdale
When: January 21
Where: Colors Infinity
Season four ended prematurely because of the pandemic, and meaning Riverdale season 5 goes to have an explosive opening, with these remaining episodes primarily turning into the primary few episodes right here. And as our characters conclude their highschool years, Riverdale season 5 will function a seven-year time bounce, earlier than the now-young adults return to Riverdale resulting from previous troubles. New episodes weekly.
Losing Alice
When: January 22
Where: Apple TV+
Creator, author and director Sigal Avin levels a love letter for the still-too-rare feminine director on this meta neo-noir psychological thriller that follows a 48-year-old feminine movie director (Ayelet Zurer) who feels irrelevant after changing into a mom after which turns into obsessive about a 24-year-old screenwriter femme fatale (Lihi Kornowski). Three episodes on premiere, one episode weekly thereafter.
The White Tiger
When: January 22
Where: Netflix
Priyanka Chopra and Rajkummar Rao are supporting acts in Ramin Bahrani’s adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the identical title, which follows an bold man (debutant Adarsh Gourav) from the so-called decrease castes who begins work as a driver for a wealthy household (Chopra and Rao). The White Tiger dissects the extreme class points that run via India.
The Dig
When: January 29
Where: Netflix
Carey Mulligan enlists Ralph Fiennes’ archaeologist — he prefers to name himself an excavator — in 1939 England to dig into the burial mounds on her grounds, in what’s a telling of the Sutton Hoo burial website. Lily James and Johnny Flynn additionally star.
Palmer
When: January 29
Where: Apple TV+
After spending 12 years in jail, an ex-con (Justin Timberlake) returns house to restart his life, kinds an unlikely bond with the precocious son (Ryder Allen) of a lacking neighbour (Juno Temple), and begins a romance together with his instructor (Alisha Wainwright). Fisher Stevens (Before the Flood) directs.
