The top Apple TV+ original shows and movies to look forward to in 2022

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One of the things Tim Cook was clearly very proud of during last night’sApple Eventwas the slate of films coming toApple TV+in 2022. And no wonder:Applehas been spending serious money on serious talent both in front of and behind the camera.

The list of names is already very impressive. There’s Martin Scorcese and Leo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey and Ryan Reynolds, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence and Jake Gyllenhaal, Dua Lipa and Robert De Niro. As someone who’s not particularly keen onApple TV+’s current content, there’s enough star power to make me think I might keep subscribing when my free trial ends.

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Apple’s announcement has come quite early, with some films described as “coming soon” and the earliest firm date being June 17, which is when Sundance festival award winnerCha Cha Real Smoothmakes its debut with its tale of a college graduate who strikes up a friendship with young mum Dakota Johnson and her teenage daughter. Summer will also bring a gorgeous-looking documentary about the life of the late and legendarySidney Poitierand a new animated feature calledLuck, with voices including Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg and Simon Pegg.

Later in the year we’ll getBlack and Blues, a documentary about Louis Armstrong, and there’s also Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke in the family dramaRaymond & Ray(pictured). Peter Farrelly’s drama-comedyThe Greatest Beer Runever features Russell Crowe and Zac Efron, whileThe Sound of 007may well leave you shaken as well as stirred.

Christmas brings Will Ferrell, Octavia Spencer and Ryan Reynolds inSpirited, a musical version of A Christmas Carol, and the Will Smith dramaEmancipationlooks set to be a powerful epic about a triumphant escape from slavery.

In the Coming Soon camp we have Martin Scorcese and Leo DiCaprio’sKillers of the Flower Moon, starring DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone in a thriller about the serial murder of the oil-rich Osage Nation, and there’s also Matthew Vaughn’s spy thrillerArgyll. Other big names include Blade Runner director Ridley Scott (Napoleon), Chris Evans (Spellbound), Elizabeth Banks and Zach Galifianakis (The Beanie Bubble), Jake Gyllenhall (Snow Blind) and many, many more.

There’s a lot of money being spent here, and I think it’s being spent wisely: as we’ve seen withNetflixof late andthe departure of Marvel moviestoDisney+, content you don’t own is content you can’t necessarily keep forever. In tech, Apple famously wants to control the key technologies that power its products; with Apple TV+ it clearly wants to do the same with the content it streams via its subscription services.

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