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| Author | Tom Linay |
Everything is awesome in February which once again is dominated by awards season and half-term. These two things result in the film slate being packed with the most premium ABC1 content, and films for families everywhere. The two big awards contenders are a big crowd pleaser featuring a winning double act, and a modern master’s follow-up to an Oscar Best Picture winner. For families, it’s a sequel to one of the best animated films of recent years, and a climax to one of the most emotional animated series.
Green Book
Target audience: ABC1 Adults
Winning the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival is a big deal. Previous winners include 12 Years A Slave, La La Land and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The latest winner is this comedy-drama about a working-class Italian-American bouncer who becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Release date: 1 February
Est. DCM admissions: 656k
Available premium spots:
SILVER AND BRONZE
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Target audience: Family
How To Train Your Dragon was a soaring, spectacular thrill and its sequel brought in the emotion in a big way. In this climax to the trilogy, Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, but Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind. Anyone who has seen the first two won’t be missing this one.
Release date: 1 February
Est. DCM admissions: 2.4m
Available premium spots:
GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
If Beale Street Could Talk
Target audience: ABC1 Women
Barry Jenkins’ last film was Moonlight, one of the best films to win the Oscar for Best Picture in years. That alone is enough to make his follow-up a must-see. If Beale Street Could Talk is an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel about a woman in Harlem who desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child. It’s all set to cement Jenkins’ status as a film-making master.
Release date: 8 February
Est. DCM admissions: 417k
Available premium spots:
GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE
The LEGO Movie 2
Target audience: Family
The LEGO Movie was the biggest film of 2014 and also one of the best, picking up the BAFTA for Best Animated Film. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. Emmett is to the rescue once again. It should be one of the funniest films of 2019.
Release date: 8 February
Est. DCM admissions: 2.7m
Available premium spots:
GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE