Every year hundreds or more than a hundred movies are released, but only a few of them create a strong buzz. 2016 will also be a significant year as far as Hollywood movies are concerned. However, this year many big-budget movies are going to be released. 2016 is going to be an exciting year as some of the most anticipated movies of 2016 are ready for release.
In the list mentioned below, I am going to mention all the anticipated or we can say that the most awaited Hollywood movies of 2016 along with their release date, movie name, director, and star cast. This list is totally based on my opinion, so no offense, please. You may also check out the list of the most anticipated Hollywood movies of 2017, the most anticipated movies of 2018, and the most anticipated movies of 2019.
So, here MovieNasha compiled a list of the Top 100 most anticipated movies of 2016 in Hollywood. I hope this will entice you to watch some. Please leave comments or feedback if you think differently and have something in mind which you want me to notice. Your comments are always welcome!
Disclaimer: The list will be updated from time to time. This list contains movies whose release date has been declared by its maker. Its Producer may or may not change over time by its Producer.
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100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2016 (Hollywood)
| Sr. No | Movie Name | Director | Main Star Cast | Release Date |
| 1. | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zack Snyder | Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg | 25 March , 2016 |
| 2. | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni | Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston | 1 April, 2016 |
| 3. | X-Men: Apocalypse | Bryan Singer | Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Sophie Turner | 18 May , 2016 |
| 4. | Captain America: Civil War | Joe Russo, Anthony Russo | Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Robert Downey Jr. | 6 May, 2016 |
| 5. | Warcraft | Duncan Jones | Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster | 10 June, 2016 |
| 6. | Tarzan | David Yates | Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Christopher Waltz | 30 June ,2016 |
| 7. | Assassin’s Creed | Justin Kurzel | Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons | 21 December, 2016 |
| 8. | Suicide Squad | David Ayer | Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Will Smith | 3 August, 2016 |
| 9. | Deadpool | Tim Miller | Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano | 12 February, 2016 |
| 10. | The Accountant | Gavin O’Connor | Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons | 14 October, 2016 |
| 11. | The Finest Hours | Craig Gillespie | Chris Pine, Casey Affeck, Holliday Grainger | 21 January, 2016 |
| 12. | Doctor Strange | Scott Derrickson | Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams | 26 October, 2016 |
| 13. | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Gareth Edwards | Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen | 14 December, 2016 |
| 14. | Fences | Denzel Washington | Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Saniyya Sidney | 16 December, 2016 |
| 15. | The Conjuring 2 | James Wan | Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe | 10 June, 2016 |
| 16. | How to Be Single | Christian Ditter | Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann | 12 February, 2016 |
| 17. | Barbershop 3 | Malcolm D. Lee | Nicki Minaj, Ice Cube, Eve, Regina Hall | 15 April, 2016 |
| 18. | The Sinister Six | Drew Goddard | Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans, Michael Massee, Dane DeHaan | 11 November 2016 |
| 19. | Live by Night | Ben Affleck | Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana | 25 December, 2016 |
| 20. | The Free State of Jones | Gary Ross | Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell | 16 June, 2016 |
| 21. | The Jungle Book | Jon Favreau | Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley | 7 April, 2016 |
| 22. | War Dogs | Todd Phillips | Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Bradley Cooper | 3 August, 2016 |
| 23. | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker | 10 November, 2016 |
| 24. | Star Trek Beyond | Justin Lin | Chris Pine, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto | 21 July, 2016 |
| 25. | The Bourne Betrayal | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones | 5 August, 2016 |
| 26. | London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman | 2 March, 2016 |
| 27. | Mechanic: Resurrection | Dennis Gansel | Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Rhatha Phongam | 22 August, 2016 |
| 28. | Independence Day: Resurgence | Roland Emmerich | Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman | 22 June, 2016 |
| 29. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Dave Green | Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry | 2 June, 2016 |
| 30. | Magik | Stephen Wallis | Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominique Swain, Matthew Goode, Jimmy Carr | 4 July, 2016 |
| 31. | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Michael Bay | John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale | 15 January, 2016 |
| 32. | The 5th Wave | J Blakeson | Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Alex Roe | 1 January, 2016 |
| 33. | Ride Along 2 | Tim Story | Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Olivia Munn, Tika Sumpter | 15 January, 2016 |
| 34. | The Magnificent Seven | Antonie Fuqua | Denzel Washington,Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio | 23 September, 2016 |
| 35. | Dad’s Army | Oliver Parker | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Toby Jones, Bill Nighy | 5 February, 2016 |
| 36. | Hail, Caeser! | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin | 1 February, 2016 |
| 37. | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Burr Steers | Lily James, Matt Smith, Douglas Booth | 4 February, 2016 |
| 38. | Zoolander 2 | Ben Stiller | Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Justin Bieber | 10 February, 2016 |
| 39. | Dirty Grandpa | Dan Mazer | Zac Efron, Robert De Niro, Aubrey Plaza | 21 January, 2016 |
| 40. | The Brothers Grimsby | Louis Leterrier | Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher | 10 March, 2016 |
| 41. | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Tim Burton | Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson | 29 September, 2016 |
| 42. | Triple 9 | John Hillcoat | Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor | 18 February, 2016 |
| 43. | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Greg Mottola | Gal Gadot, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, Zach Galifianakis | 31 March, 2016 |
| 44. | Gods of Egypt | Alex Proyas | Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites | 24 February, 2016 |
| 45. | The Best Man Wedding | Malcolm D. Lee | Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau | 15 April, 2016 |
| 46. | The Huntsman | Cedric Nicolas-Troyan | Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chasatain, Emily Blunt | 7 April, 2016 |
| 47. | Eddie the Eagle | Dexter Fletcher | Hugh Jackman, Taron Egerton, Christopher Walken | 30 March, 2016 |
| 48. | Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | Edward Zwick | Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh | 20 October, 2016 |
| 49. | Alice Through the Looking Glass | James Bobin | Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen | 25 May, 2016 |
| 50. | Me Before You | Thea Sharrock | Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Matthew Lewis, Jenna Coleman | 3 June, 2016 |
| 51. | Now You See Me 2 | Jon M. Chu | Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo | 9 June, 2016 |
| 52. | Central Intelligence | Rawson Marshall Thurber | Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Danielle Nicolet, Aaron Paul, Rawson Marshall Thurber | 16 June, 2016 |
| 53. | Finding Dory | Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane | Ellen DeGeneres, Ty Burrell, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson | 17 June, 2016 |
| 54. | The Purge- Election Year | James DeMonaco | Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson | 1 July, 2016 |
| 55. | Ghostbusters | Paul Feig | Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones | 29 July, 2016 |
| 56. | The BFG | Steven Spielberg | Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Rebecca Hall | 30 June, 2016 |
| 57. | Sully | Clint Eastwood | Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey | 8 September, 2016 |
| 58. | Pete’s Dragon | David Lowery | Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley | 11 August , 2016 |
| 59. | Sausage Party | Conrad Vernon, Greg Tieman | Seth Rogen , Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, James Franco | 10 June, 2016 |
| 60. | Spectral | Nic Mathieu | James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood | 11 August, 2016 |
| 61. | Deepwater Horizon | Peter Berg | Mark Walhberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez | 29 September, 2016 |
| 62. | A Monster Calls | Juan Antonio Bayona | Liam Neeson, Felicity, Sigourney Weaver | 7 October, 2016 |
| 63. | Inferno | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy | 12 October, 2016 |
| 64. | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges | 18 November, 2016 |
| 65. | Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Ang Lee | Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund, Steve Martin | 11 November, 2016 |
| 66. | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | David Yates | Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, Ezra Miller | 17 November, 2016 |
| 67. | Zootopia | Byron Howard, Rich Moore | Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate | 10 February, 2016 |
| 68. | The Founder | John Lee Hancock | Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Nick Offerman | 18 August, 2016 |
| 69. | Hacksaw Ridge | Mel Gibson | Teresa Palmer, Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Rachel Griffiths | 4 November, 2016 |
| 70. | Everybody Wants Some!! | Richard Linklater | Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoeclin, Ryan Guzman, Zoey Deutch | 7 April, 2016 |
| 71. | Demolition | Jean-Marc Vallee | Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis | 8 April, 2016 |
| 72. | The Big Short | Adam McKay | Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt | 22 January, 2016 |
| 73. | Passengers | Morten Tyldum | Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Keanu Reeves | 21 December, 2016 |
| 74. | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pane, William Sterchi, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges | 11 August, 2016 |
| 75. | Gold | Stephen Gaghan | Matthew McCoaughey, Bryce Dallas Howard, Edgar Ramirez | 25 December, 2016 |
| 76. | The Nice Guy | Shane Black | Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer | 6 April, 2016 |
| 77. | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Ryan Gosling , Emma Stone, Finn Wittrock, J.K. Simmons | 9 November, 2016 |
| 78. | The Lost City of Z | James Gray | Robert Pattinson, Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland | 15 October, 2016 |
| 79. | Ip Man 3 | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson, Lynn Hung, Max Zhang, Patrick Tam | 22 January, 2016 |
| 80. | Silence | Martin Scorsese | Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver | November, 2016 |
| 81. | MIB 23 (23 Jump Street) | James Bobin | Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill | 2017 |
| 82. | Allegiant | Robert Schwentke | Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort | 8 March, 2016 |
| 83. | Flying Horse | Gary Oldman | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2016 |
| 84. | Ben-Hur | Timur Bekmambetov | Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro | 18 August, 2016 |
| 85. | Swiss Army Man | Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonio Ribero | 24 June, 2016 |
| 86. | Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | Paul W.S. Anderson | Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Ruby Rose, William Levy | 23 December, 2016 |
| 87. | The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Bella Heathcote | 23 June, 2016 |
| 88. | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Taika Waititi | Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rim Te Waita, Rachel House | 24 June, 2016 |
| 89. | Sing Street | John Carney | Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle, Kennedy, Jack Reynor | 17 March, 2016 |
| 90. | Colonia | Florian Gallenberger | Emma Watson, Daniel Bruhl, Michael Nyqvist | 18 February, 2016 |
| 91. | Kickboxer | John Stockwell | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dave Bautista, Alain Moussi, Gina Carano | 2 September, 2016 |
| 92. | The Bad Batch | Ana Lily Amirpour | Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi | 6 September, 2016 |
| 93. | Don’t Breathe | Fede Alvarez | Stephen Lang, Jane Lavy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto | 25 August, 2016 |
| 94. | Jackie | Pablo Larrain | Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Caspar Phillipson, Greta Gerwig | 2 December, 2016 |
| 95. | Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross | Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso | 8 July, 2016 |
| 96. | November Criminals | Sacha Gervasi | Chloe Grace Moretz, Ansel Elgort,Catherine Keener, David Strathaim | 2016 |
| 97. | Patriots Day | Peter Berg | Melissa Benoist, Mark Walhberg, Michelle Monaghan, J.k. Simmons | 21 December, 2016 |
| 97. | Snowden | Oliver Stone | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto | 15 September, 2016 |
| 99. | The Girl on the Train | Tate Taylol | Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux | 27 September, 2016 |
| 100 | Bastille Day | James Watkins | Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Jose Garcia | 23 June, 2016 |
Note: So here’s the end of the list of the top 100 most awaited or most anticipated movies of 2016 in Hollywood. I hope you enjoyed the list and enticed you to watch some. Also, if you want to suggest any of the most awaited movies of 2016 that are not mentioned in the list, then do let me know. I will definitely add that movie to the list. The movie which is mentioned above is totally according to my point of view, so offense, please. Do share your views with us by commenting in the comment box.
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