Summary
2024 brings a lineup of promising comedy movies, from animated sequels to reimagined classics. Get ready for a lot of laughs and entertainment.
Notable releases include Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Borderlands, offering a variety of comedic stories and characters.
Exciting films like Unfrosted, The Fall Guy, and IF showcase star-studded casts and unique storylines, promising an entertaining mix of comedy and drama.
2024 is set to be a great year for comedy movies with a whole slate of films already on the cards. Comedy is frequently used as a sub-genre for pictures to lighten the tone, engage the audience, and capitalize on escapism by providing something to laugh along with and enjoy. 2023 was a solid year for comedy movies with hits like Barbie leading the pack. Superhero movies like Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Ant-Man: Quantumania also infused comedy into the story to great effect.
The line-up for 2024 looks to be even more promising with a range of theatrical releases and movies coming to streaming. With animated sequels, reboots of classic stories, and even reimagined narratives of familiar stories, there are a lot of comedy movies to be excited about. Whether the misadventures of a talking cat or an irreverent superhero comedy, 2024 will have something for everyone in the comedy genre. 2024 has already produced comedic hits such as Mean Girls, Drive-Away Dolls, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and Kung Fu Panda 4.
Comedy Movie
2024 Release Date
Kinds of Kindness
June 21
A Family Affair
June 28
Despicable Me 4
July 3
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
July 3
Fly Me to the Moon
July 12
Deadpool & Wolverine
July 26
Borderlands
August 9
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
September 6
Wolfs
September 20
Nightbitch
December 6
11 Every Comedy Movie Already Released In 2024
Mean Girls (2024)
Mean Girls is a reimagining of the 2004 classic comedy film as a musical, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. When Cady Heron and her family move from Africa to the United States; she experiences a culture shock when she enters the public school system for the first time. While trying to fit in, she is roped into the popular but superficial and cruel clique, the Plastics.
Director Samantha Jayne , Arturo Perez Jr.
Release Date January 12, 2024
Studio(s) Broadway Video , Little Stranger , Paramount Pictures , Paramount Players
Distributor(s) Paramount Pictures
Writers Nell Benjamin , Tina Fey
Cast Angourie Rice , Auli’i Cravalho , Jaquel Spivey , Reneé Rapp , Jon Hamm , Ashley Park , Jenna Fischer , Tina Fey , Tim Meadows
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Argylle
Argylle is an action thriller by director Matthew Vaughn. The movie centers on an introverted novelist who is thrown into the real world of espionage after the plot of her most recent spy thriller parrels the crimes of an underground syndicate. Argylle has a star-studded cast, including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dua Lipa, and Samuel L. Jackson, among others.
Director Matthew Vaughn
Release Date February 2, 2024
Studio(s) Apple , Cloudy Productions , Marv Studios
Distributor(s) Universal Pictures , Apple
Writers Jason Fuchs
Cast Henry Cavill , Ariana DeBose , Sofia Boutella , Catherine O’Hara , Bryce Dallas Howard , John Cena , Dua Lipa , Samuel L. Jackson , Sam Rockwell , Bryan Cranston , Rob Delaney
Runtime 135 Minutes
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
Lisa Frankenstein is a comedic fantasy-horror film by first-time director Zelda Williams and is a twist on the classic Frankenstein formula. Set in 1989, a high school outcast named Lisa accidentally revives a handsome corpse from the Victorian era and resolves to rebuild him into the perfect man.
Director Zelda Williams
Release Date February 9, 2024
Studio(s) MXN Entertainment , Lollipop Woods
Distributor(s) Focus Features
Writers Diablo Cody
Cast Kathryn Newton , Cole Sprouse , Liza Soberano , Henry Eikenberry , Joe Chrest , Carla Gugino
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Drive-Away Dolls
From director Ethan Coen comes Drive-Away Dolls, a comedic road-show-styled film that stars two best friends that head out on a road trip that goes hilariously awry. Following Jamie’s recent break-up and her friend Marian’s inflexibility hitting its peak, the two decide to hit the road to Florida – until they accidentally run into a group of bumbling criminals.
Director Ethan Coen
Release Date February 23, 2024
Studio(s) Working Title Films
Distributor(s) Focus Features
Writers Ethan Coen , Tricia Cooke
Cast Margaret Qualley , Geraldine Viswanathan , Beanie Feldstein , Pedro Pascal , Colman Domingo , Bill Camp , Matt Damon
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The American Society of Magical Negroes
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a satirical fantasy-comedy film by writer-director Kobi Libii released in 2024. Aren, a young man, discovers he has magical abilities when invited into a secret society of Black people with magic dedicated to making the lives of white people easier. However, when Aren is tasked with helping a man secure a romance with a woman at work, the situation becomes complicated when he falls for her himself.
Director Kobi Libii
Release Date March 22, 2024
Studio(s) Offscreen , Sight Unseen
Distributor(s) Focus Features
Writers Kobi Libii
Cast Justice Smith , David Alan Grier , An-Li Bogan , Drew Tarver , Michaela Watkins , Aisha Hinds , Tim Baltz , Rupert Friend , Nicole Byer
Runtime 104 Minutes
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire continues the story of a new generation of ghost hunters composed of Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Podcast (Logan Kim), who received help from the original team in the previous movie. Paul Rudd returns as Gary Grooberson and franchise co-creator Ivan Reitman returns to write and produce.
Director Gil Kenan
Release Date March 22, 2024
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , Bron Creative , Ghost Corps , Right of Way Films
Distributor(s) Sony Pictures Releasing
Writers Jason Reitman , Gil Kenan
Runtime 115 Minutes
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Kung Fu Panda 4
Kung Fu Panda 4 is the fourth film in the animated martial arts adventure franchise. The film will see Po leave his home and enter the city to search for his future Dragon Warrior replacement while dealing with a dangerous shapeshifting foe known as The Chameleon.
Director Mike Mitchell , Stephanie Stine
Release Date March 8, 2024
Studio(s) DreamWorks Animation
Distributor(s) Universal Pictures
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The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is an action thriller from Bullet Train and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch. Ryan Gosling stars as a stuntman who is forced to find a missing movie star, investigate a conspiracy, and repair his relationship with the love of his life. The film was written by Drew Pearce and inspired by the 1980s TV series of the same name.
Director David Leitch
Release Date May 3, 2024
Studio(s) Universal Pictures , Entertainment 360 , 87North Productions
Distributor(s) Universal Pictures
Writers Drew Pearce
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Unfrosted (2024)
Unfrosted is a 2024 biographical comedy directed, written, and starring Jerry Seinfeld. The film takes place in 1963 Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg’s and Post are fighting to create a new world-changing breakfast pastry.
Release Date May 3, 2024
Studio(s) Columbus 81 Productions
Distributor(s) Netflix
Cast Jerry Seinfeld , Melissa McCarthy , Jim Gaffigan , Hugh Grant , amy schumer , Max Greenfield , Christian Slater , Bill Burr , Daniel Levy , James Marsden , Jack McBrayer , Thomas Lennon , Bobby Moynihan , Adrian Martinez , Sarah Cooper , Fred Armisen
Runtime 93 Minutes
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IF (2024)
IF, originally titled Imaginary Friends, is a comedic fantasy film written and directed by John Krasinski. A young girl who experiences a tragic moment early in her life discovers she can see the imaginary friends of others who leave them behind as they grow older.
Release Date May 17, 2024
Studio(s) Sunday Night Productions , Maximum Effort
Distributor(s) Paramount Pictures
Cast Ryan Reynolds , John Krasinski , Cailey Fleming , Steve Carell , Matt Damon , Emily Blunt , Phoebe Waller-Bridge , Vince Vaughn , Sam Rockwell , Maya Rudolph , Jon Stewart , Awkwafina
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Babes (2024)
After becoming pregnant from a one-night stand, Eden leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn, to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Director Pamela Adlon
Release Date May 17, 2024
Cast Oliver Platt , John Carroll Lynch , Sandra Bernhard , Ilana Glazer , Michelle Buteau , Stephan James , Hasan Minhaj , Shola Adewusi
Writers Ilana Glazer , Josh Rabinowitz
Runtime 109 Minutes
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The Garfield Movie
Based on Jim Davis’s comic series, Garfield is a new imagining of the lasagna-loving cat and his friends, opting for a fully computer-animated approach. Chris Pratt voices the titular cat, with the film aiming to explore his early days and new misadventures for him, his friends, and his family.
Director Mark Dindal
Release Date May 24, 2024
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , Alcon Entertainment , DNEG Animation , Amuse Entertainment , Paws, Inc.
Distributor(s) Sony Pictures Releasing
Writers David Reynolds
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth installment in the action-comedy film series starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The series centers on hard-boiled Miami detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett, who take on dangerous drug kingpins and thwart dangerous schemes as they attempt to stop the circulation of illicit drugs in their city.
Director Adil El Arbi , Bilall Fallah
Release Date June 7, 2024
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , 2.0 Entertainment , Don Simpson Films , Jerry Bruckheimer Films , Westbrook Studios
Distributor(s) Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast Will Smith , Martin Lawrence , Vanessa Hudgens , Alexander Ludwig , Paola Núñez , Eric Dane , Ioan Gruffudd , Tasha Smith
Writers Chris Bremner
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Hit Man
From director Richard Linklater comes Hit Man, a 2023 action comedy film based on a Texas Monthly article of the same name. Undercover and trying to catch a group of criminals, a Houston police officer poses as a hitman until he falls for a woman on assignment. Finding himself diving deeper into the world of crime, the Houston officer finds it increasingly difficult to escape his new undercover persona.
Release Date September 5, 2023
Studio(s) AGC Studios , Detour Filmproduction , Aggregate Films , BarnStorm Productions
Cast Glen Powell , Adria Arjona , Austin Amelio , Retta , Molly Bernard
Runtime 113 Minutes
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Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 is the sequel to the 2015 original film, which starred a young girl named Riley with a head full of emotions. – literally. With Amy Pohler as Joy, Bill Hader as fear, Mindy Kaling as Disgust, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, and Lewis Black as Anger, the all-star cast brought to life the emotions that adolescents face as they grow, change, and adapt to new situations. This sequel, currently in development, will bring Amy Pohler back as Joy, with Riley, now a teenager.
Director Kelsey Mann
Release Date June 14, 2024
Cast Amy Poehler , Tony Hale , Maya Hawke , Liza Lapira , Lewis Black , Phyllis Smith , Diane Lane
Writers Meg LeFauve
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10 Kinds of Kindness
June 21, 2024
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Kinds of Kindness is a 2024 comedy-drama film by writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos. Split across segments, Kinds of Kindness tells the stories of a man trying to reclaim his destiny, a police officer whose wife returns after being lost at sea only to seem like a different person, and a woman tasked with finding a future spiritual leader.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Release Date June 21, 2024
Studio(s) Film4 , Element Pictures , TSG Entertainment
Distributor(s) Searchlight Pictures
Writers Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou
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Kinds of Kindness is a surprise comedy-drama from acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos which was annoucned just days after the Oscar success of his most recent film Poor Things. Kinds of Kindness features a phenomenal cast led by Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, and Hunter Schafer. It should receive a lot of hype based on the team-up of Stone and Lanthimos alone, while Dafoe was also notable in Poor Things.
Kinds of Kindness
is the third collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone.
9 A Family Affair
June 28, 2024
A Family Affair stars Zac Efron, Joey King, and Nicole Kidman in an upcoming romantic comedy. The film will stream exclusively on Netflix on June 28, 2024, and will become Zac Efron’s second comedy movie of the year after Amazon’s Ricky Stanicky. A Family Affair follows an unexpected romance between Efron’s Chris Cole and Kidman’s Brooke Harwood, which disrupts the life of King’s Zara Ford. The film also stars Kathy Bates and is directed by Richard LaGravenese, best known for writing the screenplays for Freedom Writers and Disenchanted.
8 Despicable Me 4
July 3, 2024
Despicable Me 4
The infamous (and kind-hearted) not-super villain Gru returns in Despicable Me 4, the fourth entry in the long-running movie series from Illumination Entertainment. The fourth film also sees the return of Gru’s wife, Lucy, portrayed again by Kristin Wiig, and introduces their son.
Director Chris Renaud , Patrick Delage
Release Date July 3, 2024
Studio(s) Universal Pictures , Illumination Entertainment
Distributor(s) Universal Pictures
Writers Mike White , Ken Daurio
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The plot for Despicable Me 4 is yet to be announced, but as the fourth installment in the mainline series, it is likely to pick up where things left off in Despicable Me 3. While Gru’s twin brother Dru escaped, Gru and Lucy grew closer together, and Lucy chose to officially become a mother figure to the girls. The regular cast returns, led by Steve Carell as Gru, and featuring Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrave, and Steve Coogan as Lucy, Margo, and Silas Ramsbottom respectively.
7 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
July 3, 2024
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley is the fourth film in the popular comedy franchise starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy returns as Axel Foley in the Netflix film alongside returning cast members Judge Reinhold and John Ashton and Bronson Pinchot as Serge. Kevin Bacon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt also star in the sequel as new characters.
Director Mark Molloy
Release Date July 3, 2024
Studio(s) Paramount Pictures , Jerry Bruckheimer Films , Eddie Murphy Productions
Distributor(s) Netflix
Writers Will Beall
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The original
Beverly Hills Cop
was released 40 years ago in 1984, while the most recent installment of the franchise,
Beverly Hills Cop III
, dates back to 1994.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is the fourth film of the buddy cop comedy franchise starring the legendary Eddie Murphy. The Netflix comedy will be available to stream starting on July 3, 2024. The film will also feature performances from Kevin Bacon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The original Beverly Hills Cop was released 40 years ago in 1984, while the most recent installment of the franchise, Beverly Hills Cop III, dates back to 1994. It should be a major return for Murphy in one of his most beloved and classic film franchises.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
will stream exclusively on Netflix.
6 Fly Me to the Moon
July 12, 2024
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Director Greg Berlanti
Release Date July 12, 2024
Writers Keenan Flynn , Rose Gilroy , Bill Kirstein
Fly Me to the Moon is a space-themed romantic comedy/drama period piece coming from Apple. The film will feature performances from Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Ray Ramano, and more. Johansson plays a marketing expert named Kelly Jones who is brought in to organize a production of a fake moon landing in order to help fix NASA’s image if their plan to put a man on the moon ends up failing. Fly Me to the Moon is directed by Greg Berlanti, best known for creating the celebrated series Arrow (2012-2020) and directing the 2018 coming-of-age teen comedy Love, Simon.
5 Deadpool & Wolverine
July 26, 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
A sequel to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first film in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Ryan Reynolds is returning to play the character, alongside Hugh Jackman, reprising his Wolverine role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time.
Director Shawn Levy
Release Date July 26, 2024
Studio(s) Marvel , Maximum Effort
Writers Rhett Reese , Paul Wernick
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Deadpool 3, or Deadpool & Wolverine, is one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, bringing Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool back to the big screen alongside Wolverine, with both characters making their official MCU debut. While very little about the plot has been revealed, rumors continue to swirl about more celebrity guests appearing in the film and how the movie will explain the transition from the Fox universe to the main MCU. However, the film promises to be action-packed, stuffed with comedy, and R-rated.
4 Borderlands
August 9, 2024
Borderlands
Based on the video game franchise, Borderlands is a sci-fi action-comedy film that follows Cate Blanchett as Lilith, a treasure hunter who returns to her home planet, Pandora, to find a tycoon’s missing daughter. Together with a group of unlikely allies, such as a soldier, a teenaged demolitions expert, a wise-cracking robot, and an eccentric scientist, the group will work together to save the girl – all while learning to deal with each other’s unyielding quirks.
Director Eli Roth
Release Date August 9, 2024
Studio(s) Arad Productions , Picturestart
Distributor(s) Lionsgate
Writers Eli Roth , Joe Crombie
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With director Eli Roth directing the project and stars like Janina Gavankar, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and more joining the cast,
Borderlands
certainly has raw talent at its core.
Borderlands is a popular video game series and in 2024, it will have its first feature-length movie adaptation of the series. With director Eli Roth directing the project and stars like Janina Gavankar, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and more joining the cast, Borderlands certainly has raw talent at its core. However, video games as film adaptations have been hit or miss over the last couple of decades. As the last few years have finally seen more video game adaptations hitting their stride, there is hope that Borderlands will join the list of hits.
3 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
September 6, 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.
Release Date September 6, 2024
Studio(s) KatzSmith Productions , Tim Burton Productions , Warner Bros. Pictures , Plan B Entertainment
Distributor(s) Warner Bros. Pictures
Writers Mike Vukadinovich
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Michael Keaton returns as the titular ghoul who haunts and possesses those in the world of the living for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, or Beetlejuice 2. Directed by Tim Burton and also bringing back Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, all grown up. The film will also star Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Lydia. Very little else has been announced about the film, but the movie is sure to delight new and old fans as a sequel to the 1998 film.
2 Wolfs
September 20, 2024
Wolfs
Wolfs is an action-thriller film written and directed by Jon Watts, and sees the on-screen reunion of Brad Pitt and George Clooney after nearly fifteen years. The film centers on two fixers who are brought together when they’re both hired for the same job.
Director Jon Watts
Release Date September 20, 2024
Studio(s) Apple Studios , Plan B Entertainment , Smokehouse Pictures
Distributor(s) Sony Pictures Releasing , Apple TV+
Writers Jon Watts
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Wolfs is an upcoming psychological thriller starring other Ocean’s Eleven alumni George Clooney and Brad Pitt that is set to hit theaters on September 20, 2024. Wolfs will also be available to stream exclusively on Apple TV+ on an unspecified date. Written and directed by Jon Watts of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Far from Home acclaim, Wolfs follows Pitt and Clooney’s characters as two lone wolf fixers assigned to the same job. It’s been more than 15 years since Clooney and Pitt have starred in a movie together, with the majority of their shared filmography belonging to the Ocean’s franchise. Pitt and Clooney both followed up their Ocean’s Thirteen appearances in 2007 with 2008’s Burn After Reading, a celebrated dark comedy from the legendary Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men).
1 Nightbitch
December 6, 2024
Nightbitch
Director Marielle Heller
Release Date December 6, 2024
Cast Amy Adams , Scoot McNairy , Zoe Chao , Mary Holland , Kerry O’Malley
Writers Marielle Heller
Nightbitch
follows a stay-at-home mother whose life takes a surreal turn when she transforms into a dog.
Nightbitch is a newly announced comedy-drama that will star Amy Adams. The upcoming comedy is based on the novel of the same name written by Rachel Yoder and is directed by Marielle Heller. Adams is set to set and produce the Searchlight Pictures film, which is currently in post-production. Nightbitch follows a stay-at-home mother whose life takes a surreal turn when she transforms into a dog. The film should be one of the most unique comedies of 2024 with an acting powerhouse in Amy Adams.