Dear fans of superhero movies! Polish your armor, clean your masks and sharpen your superweapons. In 2023 you will have many adventures in the company of your favorite heroes, as usual saving the world filled with ordinary, unsuspecting people. But you and I know…
Here’s a list of superhero feature films released or soon to be released in 2023, organized by premiere date.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- IMDB Rating – 6.1
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2023
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $476,071,180
- Director: Peyton Reed
- Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Corey Stoll, Bill Murray, Katie M. O’Brien, William Jackson Harper
In mid-February, the sequel to the epic with Ant-Man, though not the coolest and most popular Marvel character, but favorably received by fans, saw the light of day. The incredible scale of the events of this story (microscopic!) is taken to a new level – quantum.
Scott Lang, his girlfriend Hope, his daughter Cassie, and his parents are pulled into the Quantum World because of Cassie’s experiments. This universe is being attempted to be taken over by Kang, whose legacy the Avengers will have to fight in the future, and Ant-Man will be the first swallow in that fight.
Filming took place in Turkey, San Francisco and the English county of Buckinghamshire from summer through November 2021.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2023
- Budget: $125,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $133,783,006
- Director: David F. Sandberg
- Starring: Zachary Levi, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Grace Caroline Curry, Djimon Hounsou, Lucy Liu, Asher Angel, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D.J. Cotrona
The sequel to the story of teenage Billy Batson, a DC Comics hero who has been given the gift of turning into a superhero once he utters the magic word, “Shazam!” (I failed😕), will see the light of day in March 2023.
In the first installment, Billy shared his magical gift with his family. And definitely not for nothing. In the second part, the titan’s two daughters, Calypso and Hespera, steal the great wizard’s broken staff, planning to repair it and avenge all the wrongs done to the human world. And only the Shazam family can stop the rampaging furies.
The sequel lost to its predecessor at the box office, collecting three times less than “Shazam!” at the box office.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- IMDB Rating – 8.1
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA, New Zealand, France, Canada / 2023
- Budget: $250,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $841,639,744
- Director: James Gunn
- Starring: Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Dave Batista, Zoe Saldana, Chukwudi Iwuji, Bradley Cooper, Will Poulter, Vin Diesel, Sean Gunn.
April saw the release of Marvel’s third Guardians of the Galaxy . The movie has already become a hit, hit all the lists of the best blockbusters and earned huge ratings around the world. However, according to director James Gunn, who and pulled out of oblivion little-known comic book hero Peter Quill and his companions, this part will be the final.
The plot of this installment has Peter and friends going on a quest to find a former member of Gamora’s group, and also details the creation of Rocket by the Supreme Evolutionary, who will make his first appearance in the Marvel Universe. We also get to meet the promised Adam Warlock in the second movie.
The movie became the highest-grossing project of 2023, second only to The Super Mario Bros.
The Flash
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
- Production: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand / 2023
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $262,323,502
- Director: Andres Muschetti
- Starring: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdoux, Kirsi Clemons, Jeremy Irons, Antje Traue, and Sirsha-Monica Jackson
In June 2023, the new “Flash” from the DC universe started at the box office. It seems that the blockbuster creators have staged a serious competition in the sci-fi genre of “alternate worlds”.
Barry Allen accidentally travels back in time and saves his mother Nora. Back in the future, he finds himself in another world where Nora is alive and his young doppelganger hasn’t gotten his powers yet.
Batman here is a bored pensioner, Cyborg is an ordinary man, Aquaman was not born at all. Meanwhile, evil appears in the world, which must be defeated, except that Flash has no one to assemble a team from.
This longtime franchise fans have been waiting for since 2004.
Blue Beetle
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Adventure
- Production: Mexico, USA / 2023
- Director: Angel Manuel Soto
- Starring: Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillen, Raul Max Trujillo, Sholo Maridueña, Becky G, Elpidia Carrillo, Bruna Marquesini, George Lopez, Damian Alcazar, Adriana Barrasa
The first movie appearance (Aug. 18) of another cool DC universe superhero that has long been wanted to be introduced into the franchise. The lead role is played by Project Cobra Kai star, young actor Sholo Maridueña.
So, young Jaime Reyes becomes the owner of a powerful alien relic, the Scarab symbiote, which gives its owner a powerful and intelligent exoskeleton that turns Jaime into a real superhero.
The guy will have to get acquainted with the former wearer of the armor, Ted Kord, who will become his teacher, and at the same time he will have to confront a race of insectoid aliens, the creators of Scarab.
The movie was filmed around El Paso and in Puerto Rico.
Kraven the Hunter
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2023
- Director: J.C. Chandor
- Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, Ariana DeBos, Fred Hechinger, Levi Miller, Greg Colpacci, Rachel Handshaw, Dritan Castrati
At the beginning of October, all fans of Sony’s Spider-Man universe will be glued to their screens to appreciate an incredibly spectacular and ambitious project about the formation of the famous supervillain. The plot covers Craven’s entire life, from childhood to his confrontation with Spider-Man.
Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff is a Russian aristocrat who fled to America with his family from the Revolution of 1917. His life’s goal is to be humanity’s greatest hunter. For this purpose he uses different methods, moving further and further away from the appearance of an ordinary man, and one day, at the instigation of his mistress, the voodoo priestess Calypso, he becomes obsessed with defeating Spider-Man.
Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has signed on for several movies, so we’re in for a sequel to this exciting story.
The Marvels
- Genre: Fantasy, action, adventure
- Production: USA / 2023
- Director: Nia DaCosta
- Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Zavi Ashton, Teyonah Parris, Park So-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Saagar Shaikh, Mohan Kapoor
A movie about three women from Marvel Comics, Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers, and Kamala Khan, is set for release in early November.
While exploring the wormhole of the mysterious Kree race, Carol suddenly discovers that her powers strangely connect with those of the other two women. With each use of their talents, the three heroines exchange their superpowers, and now it’s up to them to team up and figure out what’s going on and how to stop it.
This is KVM’s 33rd movie, which, by the way, was filmed at the same time as Thor: Love and Thunder.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
- Genre: Fantasy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2023
- Director: James Wan
- Starring: Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Dolph Lundgren, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Kidman, Yani Zhao, Amber Heard, Vincent Regan
After the first Aquaman movie, James Wan immediately planned the next one, but decided to take his time with the project. Filming didn’t begin until July 2021, and the release is scheduled for December 2023.
Jason Momoa returns to his role as the new King of Atlanteans, who faces old enemies and a new evil that threatens Atlantis. We can expect even more beautiful underwater landscapes and brand new characters in the world of the impressive Aquaman.
This is the 15th and final movie in the DC Extended Universe.
Grom: Boyhood
- Rating – 7.1
- Genre: Adventure, Action
- Production: Russia / 2023
- Director: Oleg Trofim
- Starring: Kai Getz, Sergey Marin, Alexei Vedernikov, Vladimir Yaganov, Daniil Vorobyev, Irina Rozanova, Anton Adasinsky, Oleg Yagodin, Mikhail Parygin, Alexei Takharov
On the first day of 2023, the long-awaited sequel to the Russian detective superhero flick Major Thunder, the third film in the Bubble Movie Universe, appeared on Kinopoisk.
Events unfold 20 years before the action “Plague Doctor”, in the dashing 90’s. Igor Grom’s father and his partner are trying to catch a violent criminal nicknamed “Anubis”, who is doing black magic in St. Petersburg. At the same time, 12-year-old Igor is looking for ways to make money by getting involved in some rather murky ventures.
In 2024, fans of the franchise are in for another treat: the premiere of Major Thunder: The Game.
