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Gerard Johnstone directs this efficient shocker for US film producer Blumhouse, best known for horror hits. The film is about an AI-enabled children鈥檚 companion with trenchant views on how to bring up its creator鈥檚 orphaned niece. Allison Williams takes the Dr Frankenstein role in this tale of a childhood friendship she has inadvertently designed to last forever. US cinemas now; UK cinemas from 13 January

Irreverent, out-of-this-world fun from Blades of Glory directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck. An asteroid strike sends space miner Andy (Anthony Ramos) spiralling down to an alien planet where he must rescue a colleague (Naomi Scott). Only two things stand in his way: the native fauna and his own spectacularly unhelpful artificially-intelligent survival suit (voiced by Zachary Quinto). US and UK cinemas from 10 February

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who made their names with 2018鈥檚 A Quiet Place) write and direct this off-world thriller. Adam Driver plays an astronaut who crash-lands on a desolate planet, only to discover that he isn鈥檛 alone. This is all we know of a film whose fraught production history has generated any number of wild rumours in the past couple of years (in which dinosaurs have featured prominently). US and UK cinemas from 10 March

Christopher Nolan鈥檚 enormous, big-budget biopic about the 鈥渇ather鈥� of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, stars frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy as the theoretical physicist who managed the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and designed the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh also star. US and UK cinemas from 21 July

Director Gareth Edwards鈥檚 2016 Star Wars spin-off Rogue One gave that franchise a vital shot in the arm. He returns to science fiction with a near-future romance starring John David Washington and Gemma Chan. No plot details were available at time of writing, but on past performance (Edwards wrote as well as directed the 2010 low-budget smash Monsters) this is definitely one to watch out for. Scheduled for release in US and UK cinemas on 6 October

Denis Villeneuve once again takes up Frank Herbert鈥檚 classic saga of Paul Atreides (Timoth茅e Chalamet), destined to become the scourge of the universe as he endeavours to save his adopted desert planet Arrakis from destruction. New cast members include Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, L茅a Seydoux and Christopher Walken. Game of Thrones鈥� linguistic consultant David Peterson developed imaginary languages for the film. Scheduled for release in US and UK cinemas on 3 November

Spaceman聽Johan Renck, best known for music videos before his work on the visually stunning and profoundly disturbing mini-series Chernobyl, directs this adaptation of the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfa艡. The Netflix original stars Adam Sandler as Jakub Proch谩zka, determined to overcome his rural upbringing and become his country鈥檚 first astronaut. Netflix original, date TK

The Grab (2022) Gabriela Cowperthwaite鈥檚 first documentary since Blackfish in 2013 reveals how land purchases by autocratic states are giving countries like Russia, China and Saudi Arabia control over the future of the world鈥檚 fresh water, farming and livestock. Distribution negotiations are under way for a film Cowperthwaite concedes () may be 鈥渦pping her enemy count鈥�. Released in US 7 October 2022; awaiting UK release

Patrick and the Whale (2022)聽Marine videographer Patrick Dykstra, who won a BAFTA for his cinematography on the BBC鈥檚 Blue Planet II, heads to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, joins a pod of sperm whales and makes a special friend of Dolores, a 13,600-kilogram marine mammal with a brain considerably bigger than Patrick鈥檚. This visually stunning celebration of the ocean鈥檚 gentlest giant premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada last September and is awaiting wider distribution. US release 7 October 2022; UK release date TK