It's been another bumper year in films, with 2016 offering another record year in film, with Disney ruling the roost, superhero and animated films dominating the box office charts, video game film adaptations being as poor as ever, sequels getting a bad rep, and Stephen Chow's Chinese production The Mermaid having grossed $530 million in China alone!
2017 looks to be the usual business in the film industry, with the mix of originals, sequels, prequels, reboots, adaptations, remakes, spin-offs to get us by in the next 365 days (it's a day shorter than 2016, so we're already off to a great start!). Marvel is beginning to release three films a year, movies are getting sequels decades after the original, two blockbusters featuring simians are coming soon, Christopher Nolan's making a non mind-f*cking film for once, and Warner Bros are desperately trying to get their DC film universe up to speed.
This time out, we've upped our usual top 15 list to a whooping 20 this time around, so we can *try our best* to accommodate as many blockbusters as well as smaller time affairs into our annual list. Because frankly, with how things are going, we could've easily made a top 20 list out of solely superhero and sequels, but where's the fun in that? This time, we'll like to highlight some under the radar gems which definitely piqued our interests, and we think it'll pique yours too ;)
