March means Oscars, as this month's 95th Oscars celebrates the best films of last year. But even as you're completing your Best Picture watch list, new releases will be arriving in theaters each week. This month is a big one for franchises, with new entries in the Rocky/Creed saga, the newly-rebooted Scream series, and a John Wick fourquel. But March also marks the release of the indie drama that won this year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Below, everything you need to know about the movies coming to theaters and streaming platforms this month.
Creed III
Michael B. Jordan makes his directorial debut with the third installment in the Creed franchise. This time, Jordan's Adonis Creed faces off against former childhood friend and boxing prodigy Damian Anderson (Jonathan Majors), who has beef with Creed that can only be settled in the ring. Though Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa is absent from the threequel, the cast includes returnees Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad.
Watch it: In theaters March 3
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Outside of the rules of war, a "ruse de guerre" often refers to a clever, tricky, or unorthodox means of thwarting one's opponents. That's the premise of Guy Ritchie's spy flick, which casts Jason Statham as super-spy Orson Fortune, Aubrey Plaza as an elite agent, and Josh Hartnett as a Hollywood movie star who must stop a billionaire arms dealer played by Hugh Grant. Fun fact: This is the first of two movies this month that feature Grant as the bad guy.
Watch it: In theaters March 3
Scream VI
Ghostface takes Manhattan in the latest Scream sequel, which sees the survivors of 2022's Scream relocate from Woodsboro to New York City in an attempt to escape their bloody past. Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Mason Gooding all return, along with Courteney Cox's Gale Weathers and Scream 4 fan favorite Kirby Reed, played by Hayden Panettiere. But who will make it out alive?
Watch it: In theaters March 10
Moving On
Is it still reuniting if two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda and Oscar nominee Lily Tomlin never went their separate ways? More than 40 years after 9 to 5, one year after Grace and Frankie came to an end, and one month after 80 for Brady, the duo co-star in this darkly comedic two-hander about estranged friends who decide to get revenge on the widower (Malcolm McDowell) of their late best friend.
Watch it: In theaters March 17
Inside
Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe stars in director Vasilis Katsoupis' psychological chamber piece, playing an art thief who finds himself trapped in a New York penthouse when his latest heist goes left. With the temperature rising, supplies dwindling, and his sanity fading, Dafoe's Nemo must use everything at his disposal to survive and escape.
Watch it: In theaters March 17
John Wick: Chapter 4
Ever since 2014's John Wick drew the titular hitman back into the criminal underworld, Keanu Reeves' gun fu hero has been trying to make it back out alive. The fourth chapter pits John Wick against the likes of Bill Skarsgård, Donnie Yen, and pop star Rina Sawayama, while Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, and Lance Reddick reprise their respective roles.
Watch it: In theaters March 24
Tetris
Based on the true story of the world's most addictive game, Taron Egerton stars as Henk Rogers, the American video game designer who teamed up with a Russian computer engineer (Nikita Efremov) to outsmart the KGB and bring Tetris to the world. The movie hails from director Jon S. Baird (Stan & Ollie) from a script by Noah Pink (creator of the Emmy-winning Genius).
Watch it: On Apple TV+ March 31
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The popular tabletop roleplaying game gets another shot at the big screen as a comedic action-adventure from John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Game Night), starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, Justice Smith, and Sophia Lillis as a band of unlikely heroes who team up save the world. Hugh Grant stars as the movie's charming yet villainous rogue.
Watch it: In theaters March 31
A Good Person
Nearly 20 years after making his debut with Garden State, Zach Braff's fourth film centers on a woman (Oscar nominee Florence Pugh) who survives an unimaginable tragedy and is grappling with an opioid addiction, as she forms an unexpected bond with her would-be father-in-law (Oscar winner Morgan Freeman). The poignant drama also stars Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche, and Celeste O'Connor.
Watch it: In theaters March 31
A Thousand and One
The feature debut of writer-director A.V. Rockwell, the drama stars Teyana Taylor as a young mother who kidnaps her 6-year-old son from the foster care system in order to give their family a chance at a new life. A Thousand and One premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, hailed as "real, full of pain, and fearless in its rigorous commitment to emotional truth."
Watch it: In theaters March 31
Also out in March: Champions (in theaters March 10), Chang Can Dunk (on Disney+ March 10), Luther: The Fallen Sun (on Netflix March 10), 65 (in theaters March 10), Boston Strangler (on Hulu March 17), Shazam! Fury of the Gods (in theaters March 17), A Snowy Day in Oakland (in theaters March 17), My Happy Ending (in theaters March 24), In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis (in theaters March 31), Murder Mystery 2 (on Netflix March 31), Spinning Gold (in theaters March 31).
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