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The most anticipated new movies for August 2024 include horror films, book adaptations, and star-studded thrillers. Anticipation for movies in August 2024 is measured by online engagement metrics such as likes, shares, and comments. Some of the most anticipated movies include It Ends With Us, Alien: Romulus, and The Crow, which are creating a lot of buzz online.
Based on actual data measurements, the most anticipated new movies in August 2024 include horror films, book adaptations, star-studded thrillers, and drama spinoffs. In partnership with predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant is providing exclusive analysis of the new movies with the most online engagement ahead of their August premieres. Each of these films has been given a Hype Score, measured by online buzz across different platforms.
The most anticipated movies for August 2024 are ranked by attention signals, calculated using metrics such as likes, shares, comments and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These online engagement metrics provide valuable insight into which upcoming films have made the biggest virtual impact ahead of their release, regardless of critic reviews or box office takings.
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Based on data from predictive media analytics firm Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has compiled a list of the most anticipated new movies coming out in July 2024.
With the box office booming this summer, some of the most exciting film debuts are coming from both established franchises and original ideas from acclaimed directors. From Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus to Matt Damon and Casey Affleck’s new heist comedy, this month’s biggest new releases are expected to generate buzz in theaters and streaming alike. Based on data from Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has compiled a list of the top 10 new movies for August 2024 that are the most talked about online.
The attention scale index is the percentage of attention based on the number one show or movie (represented as 100%).
Top 10 most anticipated new movies of August 2024
Popular movies range from “It Ends With Us” to “The Forge”
title
First Release Date
platform
Genre
Attention Scale
Warning Signs
It ends with us
August 9, 2024
Sony
Drama/Romance
100.00%
120,451,446
Alien: Romulus
August 16, 2024
20th Century Studio
Sci-Fi/Horror
30.54%
36,787,158
Crow
August 23, 2024
Lionsgate
Action/Fantasy
19.57%
23,568,675
trap
August 2, 2024
Warner Bros.
Drama/Thriller
19.34%
23,301,151
Borderlands
August 9, 2024
Lionsgate
Action adventure
16.58%
19,971,531
Harold and the Purple Crayon
August 2, 2024
Sony
Kids & Family/Comedy
16.48%
19,856,191
The instigators
August 9, 2024
Apple TV+
Crime/Comedy
13.72%
16,525,133
Cuckoo
August 9, 2024
neon
Horror/Thriller
12.39%
14,922,569
Blink twice
August 23, 2024
MGM
Crime Thriller
5.02%
6,050,721
Forge
August 23, 2024
Sony
Drama
4.96%
5,972,803
According to Diesel Labs data, It Ends with Us is the most anticipated film of August 2024, generating the largest online buzz of any new film releasing this month. Starring Blake Lively and directed by Justin Baldoni, It Ends with Us is a film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 bestselling romance novel of the same name. The second most talked about film of August 2024 is Alien: Romulus, a standalone sequel to Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 sci-fi horror Alien, starring Cailee Spaeny. Following behind in anticipation are the dark fantasy superhero film The Crow and M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller Trapped, starring Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd and Josh Hartnett.
The second most talked about movie for August 2024 is “Alien: Romulus,” a standalone film starring Cailee Spaeny and a sequel to director Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 sci-fi horror film “Alien.”
Some of the most anticipated movies in August 2024 include the film adaptation of the hit game series Borderlands, directed by Eli Roth, the film adaptation of the children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon starring Zachary Levi, and Doug Liman’s heist comedy The Instigators starring Matt Damon. Rounding out the top ten buzzworthy releases are the horror film Cuckoo, directed by Hunter Schafer, Zoe Kravitz’s thriller Blink Twice starring Channing Tatum, and The Forge, a Christian drama spinoff of 2015’s War Room. Packed with horror movies, thrillers, star-studded action stories and film adaptations, August 2024’s new releases promise to be an exciting month for summer movies.
Diesel Labs is a content intelligence company that generates audience insights across the media landscape. With an advanced machine learning based approach, the company measures the attention of millions of viewers to content across many sources, including major social and video platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (beta) and Reddit (beta). For more information, visit www.diesellabs.com.