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| Author | Tom Linay |
The start of the year means one thing in cinema – the advent of awards season. That means we get a higher concentration of great films in cinemas than at any other time of the year and next January is no different. Vying for the top prizes are new films from the current doyen of comedy directing, a heart-pounding action drama, a high-class Dickens adaptation and a crime-drama with a hip young cast from a vital new voice. 2020 gets off to a flier.
Jojo Rabbit
Release date: 1 January
Target audience: ABC1 Women
Taika Waititi has made some of the funniest films of recent years and for his latest he’s taking on his biggest challenge yet – making a second world war comedy. Roman Griffin Davis plays a young boy in Hitler’s army who finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. It recently won the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival, which is a big indicator of major awards success - the last three winners were Green Book, Three Billboards, and La La Land.
- Target audience: ABC1 Women
- Est. industry admissions: 542k
- HFSS approved
- Available premium spots: GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
1917
Release date: 10 January
This First World War drama is shaping up to be the biggest film of next year’s awards season and should appeal to all fans of Dunkirk and Darkest Hour. Sam Mendes, fresh from the last two Bond films, writes and directs this story of two young British soldiers who are given an impossible mission: deliver a message, deep in enemy territory that will stop their own men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
- Target audience: ABC1 Men
- Est. industry admissions: 2m
- HFSS approved
- Available premium spots: GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Release date: 10 January
Armando Ianucci is best known for creating some of the 21st century’s best television, including The Thick Of It and Veep, but his latest big screen outing is this adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ most famous novels. It’s already nabbed the prestigious opening slot at the BFI London Film Festival next month and it should easily be Ianucci’s biggest commercial hit yet.
- Target audience: ABC1 Adults
- Est. industry admissions: 752k
- HFSS approved
- Available premium spots: GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
Queen & Slim
Release date: 31 January
Queen & Slim looks like heralding the arrival of a major new directing talent in Melina Matsoukas, who is perhaps best known for directing Formation from Beyonce’s Lemonade. Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith play a couple whose first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
- Target audience: ABC1 Women
- Est. industry admissions: 482k
- HFSS approved
- Available premium spots: GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
To book into January films or to find out more, contact your DCM rep.