From Eternals to Dhamaka, What to Watch in November

November has not one however two new Marvel releases. We might be handled to a brand new superhero ensemble in Eternals — Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie are a part of the forged — out November 5 in cinemas in India and around the globe. Meanwhile, Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld star in Hawkeye that premieres November 24 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. Technically, there is a third Marvel Cinematic Universe entry — if you have not felt comfy moving into cinemas, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Marvel’s first movie with a Chinese superhero within the lead) might be accessible November 12 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar.

That’s not all for superhero followers. From DC’s long-running ever-expansive Arrowverse, we have now the eighth season of The Flash in the course of November. The Flash season 8 begins November 16 on The CW within the US, however we’re as but and not using a launch date for India.

November additionally has a bunch of streaming releases from India. There’s Kartik Aaryan in Dhamaka, which is the Indian remake of a South Korean thriller, releasing November 19 on Netflix. Kay Kay Menon returns as a de-aged model of Himmat Singh in Special Ops 1.5, coming November 12 to Disney+ Hotstar. R. Madhavan and Surveen Chawla play an estranged couple who dwell collectively in Decoupled, a Netflix sequence that does not have a launch date but. And Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani get right into a peculiar organized marriage on Meenakshi Sundareshwar. The Netflix movie ties the knot on November 5.

Elsewhere, we have now Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds within the motion comedy Red Notice, dropping November 12 on Netflix. Rosamund Pike leads Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time fantasy novels, starting November 19 on Prime Video. Tom Hanks is a dying inventor who builds a care robotic for his canine in Finch, unfolding November 5 on Apple TV+. Andrew Garfield turns into the award-winning Rent composer in Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first film as director, tick, tick…BOOM!, November 19 on Netflix. Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell are at one another’s throats in The Shrink Next Door, beginning November 12 on Apple TV+.

There’s extra you may uncover beneath, although there’s much more coming in November that we have not detailed beneath. That consists of Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised out November 24 on Netflix, Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard within the Cannes-winning musical Annette releasing November 26 on Mubi in India, and Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as Black girls reverse sides of the fence in Passing on November 10 at Netflix.

Beyond that, we have now the third and last seasons of each Dickinson (additionally with Steinfeld) and Narcos: Mexico (with out Diego Luna) November 5 on Apple TV+ and Netflix respectively. Dickinson season 3 will air weekly, whereas Narcos: Mexico sticks to Netflix’s binge-release mannequin. Additionally, Netflix will even provide Big Mouth season 5 on November 5, and Star Trek: Discovery season 4 at an as-yet undetermined date. Star Trek: Discovery season 4 begins November 18 on Paramount+.

November additionally presents expansions to an older property in several methods. Michael C. Hall returns because the titular serial killer in Dexter: New Blood, ten years after the occasions of the horrible sequence finale. Dexter: New Blood premieres November 8 on Voot Select. And the Home Alone franchise offers us Home Sweet Home Alone, with The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Ellie Kemper making an attempt to interrupt into a house. Home Sweet Home Alone releases November 12 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar.

With that, this is our October 2021 information to Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and the cinemas.

The Harder They Fall

When: November 3
Where: Netflix

Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, LaKeith Stanfield, and Regina King lead the stellar line-up of this ‘new-school’ Western that focuses on African-Americans. In what’s a comedy-drama and the debut function for director Jeymes Samuel, an outlaw (Majors) recruits a bunch of like-minded people to trace down and take down his ruthless nemesis (Elba) who simply left jail.

Delroy Lindo, Edi Gathegi, R.J. Cyler, and Damon Wayans Jr. additionally star. Samuel co-wrote with Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), with the duo basing the movie’s characters on real-life cowboys and outlaws from the nineteenth century.

Eternals

When: November 5
Where: Cinemas

The subsequent Marvel film, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is in regards to the titular immortal ensemble. Created by the Celestials — we met one Celestial in Star-Lord’s dad Ego on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — the Eternals have been dwelling secretly on Earth for over 7,000 years. Why are we seeing them now?

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Well, they have been informed to not intrude except their evil counterparts, the Deviants, have been concerned. The Deviants are again because of the return of the universe’s half of the inhabitants — in Avengers: Endgame — that’s resulting in an occasion often known as the “emergence”.

The 10 Eternals we see in Eternals are performed by Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie. All of them have quite a lot of superpowers — from flight, super-speed, and creating weapons — that they draw from cosmic vitality. Eternals additionally stars Harish Patel and Kit Harington.

Watch the Final Eternals Trailer in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

Finch

When: November 5
Where: Apple TV+

In a post-apocalyptic world following a photo voltaic flare, one of many world’s final people and a dying inventor (Tom Hanks) builds a robotic (Caleb Landry Jones, by way of mo-cap) who will take care of his canine after he is useless. The unlikely trio then enterprise on a street journey throughout the American West.

Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik is on the helm, for what is just his second function size film, over a decade after 2010’s Repo Men. Originally meant for cinemas, Finch was finally offered to Apple owing to the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

Meenakshi Sundareshwar

When: November 5
Where: Netflix

Imagine selecting a life companion as a result of your names collectively make up a well-known landmark? That’s what Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani’s titular characters find yourself doing on this rom-com. The landmark? Madurai’s well-known temple “Meenakshi – Sundareshwar”.

But that is merely the beginning of their loopy journey. Because after a job alternative completely for single males pops up in Bengaluru, Sundareshwar (Dassani) decides to depart Madurai and has to fake to be single, whereas being in a long-distance relationship along with his new spouse.

Unfortunately, these hoping for correct Tamil illustration from a Bollywood film — it is produced by Karan Johar’s Dharmatic — have (predictably) already been disenchanted following the teaser’s launch.

Red Notice

When: November 12
Where: Netflix

Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds play the very best of their respective fields in what is claimed to be one in all Netflix’s costliest motion pictures of all time. Johnson performs the world’s best tracker FBI Special Agent John Hartley, Gadot is the world’s most wished artwork thief Sarah Black, and Reynolds is the world’s best con-artist Nolan Booth. Hartley and Booth workforce as much as take down Sarah.

Skyscraper director Rawson Marshall Thurber is on the helm, renewing his collaboration with Johnson.

The Shrink Next Door

When: November 12
Where: Apple TV+

Based on the podcast of the identical title that in flip was primarily based on real-life occasions, Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell star on this eight-part miniseries a couple of dysfunctional and manipulative relationship between a well-liked psychiatrist (Rudd) and his long-term affected person (Ferrell).

Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson are additionally a part of the principle forged. Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) and Jesse Peretz (GLOW) are administrators, Georgia Pritchett (Veep) writes. Three episodes on launch date, with the remaining ones debuting as soon as every week till December 17.

Special Ops 1.5

When: November 12
Where: Disney+ Hotstar

Despite an incoherent and rudderless outing early final yr, Disney+ Hotstar noticed match to greenlight a three-episode prequel to the Kay Kay Menon-led motion thriller sequence from creator, director and co-writer Neeraj Pandey. Set a few years after the 2001 Parliament assault that was on the centre of Special Ops’ Ikhlaq Khan chase, Special Ops 1.5 finds Himmat Singh (Menon) being known as in to assist RAW after the company discovers its high brass has been duped.

Aftab Shivdasani, Aadil Khan, Maria Ryaboshapka, Aishwarya Sushmita, and Shiv Jyoti are new to the Special Ops universe. Vinay Pathak, Gautami Kapoor, Parmeet Sethi, and Okay.P. Mukherjee return to reprise their respective roles. Shivam Nair and Pandey are the administrators. Pandey co-wrote with Deepak Kingrani and Benazir Ali Fida.

All three Special Ops 1.5 episodes will drop on November 12.

The Flash

When: November 16
Where: The CW

Grant Gustin’s superpowered and super-speed Barry Allen is lastly getting his golden boots within the eighth season — matching Arrow for season-count — that can kick off with a five-part crossover occasion titled “Armageddon”.

It will herald Batwoman (Javicia Leslie), Atom (Brandon Routh), Black Lightning (Cress Williams), Sentinel (Chyler Leigh), Mia Queen (Kat McNamara), and Ryan Choi (Osric Chau).

They will go up in opposition to the alien conqueror Despero (Tony Curran), and the returning Eobard Thawne/ Reverse-Flash (Tom Cavanagh) and Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough).

Though we do not have an actual date for an Indian premiere, The Flash season 8 is anticipated on Amazon Prime Video in India given the current deal that introduced new episodes of Arrowverse sequence weekly to Prime Video.

Cowboy Bebop

When: November 19
Where: Netflix

The more-than-two-decades-old jazz-inspired near-future anime sequence a couple of ragtag group of bounty hunters is getting the Netflix live-action therapy, with John Cho as Mars-born Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as his ex-cop cybernetic-arm companion Jet Black, and Daniella Pineda as a less-sexualised Faye Valentine who has huge debt from her playing days.

Blending sci-fi and noir, Cowboy Bebop will chart their bounty searching adventures throughout the photo voltaic system, all whereas they take care of Spike’s ex-partner, power-hungry nemesis and Red Dragon gangster Vicious (Alex Hassell), and femme fatale Julia (Elena Satine) who shares a sophisticated previous with each Spike and Vicious.

The anime’s Yoko Kanno returns as composer, with “Tank!” returning because the theme track. Thor: Ragnarok and comedian e-book author Christopher Yost is the top author on the 10-episode Cowboy Bebop. All 10 episodes might be accessible without delay on November 19.

Dhamaka

When: November 19
Where: Netflix

Kartik Aaryan, Mrunal Thakur and Amruta Subhash lead this Indian remake of the 2013 Korean movie The Terror Live, about jaded and disgraced information anchor Arjun Pathak (Aaryan) who turns into the centre of an ongoing Mumbai assault after the terrorist calls him and delivers on a promised bombing of the Bandra – Worli Sea Link. Hoping to make use of the assault to get himself again within the limelight, Pathak strikes a take care of the terrorist and his ratings-obsessed boss Ankita (Subhash).

Will Dhamaka provide incisive commentary on the present state of Indian information media — or is it going to be only a easy thriller that Neerja and Aarya director Ram Madhvani is thought for? If trailers are any indicator of a film’s path, it is positively tilting in the direction of the latter.

tick, tick…BOOM!

When: November 19
Where: Netflix

Andrew Garfield leads this function directorial debut from Hamilton‘s award-winning creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Garfield performs Rent composer Jonathan Larson who wrote a stage musical autobiography about his life that Tony-winning Steven Levenson (Dear Even Hansen) adapts. Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Judith Light, Bradley Whitford, Robin de Jesus, and Joshua Henry additionally star in tick, tick…BOOM!

The Wheel of Time

When: November 19
Where: Amazon Prime Video

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel sequence is not due till subsequent September, nevertheless it’s obtained one other excessive fantasy sequence earlier than that arrives. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) leads this adaptation of the e-book sequence of the identical title. She performs Moiraine who has magical talents and leads 5 younger individuals on an journey, hoping to find a Dragon amongst them. The “D” is capitalised as a result of in its universe, a prophecy says the Dragon is a robust particular person who can save the world — or destroy it.

The remainder of The Wheel of Time’s main forged is basically made from newcomers and unknowns, although Money Heist followers can sit up for Álvaro Morte in a brand new avatar. Rafe Judkins — former Survivor contestant, and author on Agents of SHIELD — is the showrunner and head author. Uta Briesewitz (Jane the Virgin, Orange Is the New Black) units the tone as director of the primary two episodes.

Amazon is so assured within the eight-episode first season that it has already renewed The Wheel of Time for a second season. There are 14 books in any case, and Judkins reportedly has an eight-season plan, similar to the largest fantasy sequence of all time: Game of Thrones. Can it hit these highs? Oof, that is a tricky comparability for any sequence.

The Wheel of Time premieres with three episodes on November 19, with the remaining 5 episodes airing each Friday till Christmas Eve, December 24.

Hawkeye

When: November 24
Where: Disney+ Hotstar

Two Marvel Cinematic Universe entries in a single month. Following a months-long hole after the Tom Hiddleston-led Loki, the subsequent Marvel Disney+ sequence centres on Clint Barton/ Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), the final of the unique six Avengers to get his personal standalone chapter. Like Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow whose footsteps it follows, Hawkeye finds Barton coaching a protégé in Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) who’s additionally an professional with bow and arrow.

And similar to Black Widow, the place Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) took over from Natasha Romanoff (Johansson), Bishop will take over the Hawkeye mantle from Barton on Hawkeye. The two MCU instalments have extra in frequent, in actual fact. Yelena is about to seem as a semi-villain of types on Hawkeye, having been arrange in that function within the Black Widow post-credits scene.

Vera Farmiga performs Kate’s mom, Fra Fee is the mercenary Kazi, and newcomer Alaqua Cox turns into the MCU’s first Native American superhero Maya Lopez/ Echo. She can mimic others’ actions, you already know like Taskmaster from Black Widow. Echo would possibly even get her personal Disney+ spin-off. Joanthan Igla, of Mad Men and Bridgerton fame, is the creator on Hawkeye.

Two Hawkeye episodes on launch date, adopted by one every each Wednesday till December 22. In India, Hawkeye might be dubbed in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam on Disney+ Hotstar.

Watch the Hawkeye Trailer

Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld in Hawkeye
Photo Credit: Mary Cybulski/Marvel Studios

Decoupled

When: November TBD
Where: Netflix

R. Madhavan performs best-selling pulp fiction author Arya Iyer who’s been ceaselessly caught in second place behind “old foe” Chetan Bhagat on this sequence created by A Serious Men creator Manu Joseph, in what looks like semi-autobiographical or an elaborate joke crafted by Joseph.

But Iyer has greater issues in his life. He’s persuaded his estranged spouse (Surveen Chawla) to dwell with him for his or her teenage daughter’s sake. Always working from a disaster, Decoupled is described as “an uncompromising comedy about the true nature of people, India and marriage.”

National Film Award-winner Hardik Mehta serves as director. All Decoupled episodes accessible without delay.

Surveen Chawla, R. Madhavan in Decoupled
Photo Credit: Netflix