If love isn’t in the air, then it’s definitely on our screens. Come 2021, we’ll be treated to a new slate of romantic comedies—including one featuring Jennifer Lopez. After playing a maid in the rom-com Maid in Manhattan and a wedding planner, in, well, The Wedding Planner, Lopez will have a profession that mimics her own in Marry Me, out in May: She’ll play a pop star who makes a bet on love with a stranger plucked from a concert crowd.
Marry Me‘s risky proposition of a meet-cute is just the start of the romantic comedies we’re looking forward to in 2021.
Over on Netflix, two teen trilogies—To All the Boys I Loved Before and The Kissing Booth—will reach their conclusions. Other rom-coms out in 2021 will feature séances, trips to coastal Irish towns, and 15-year high school reunions. In the meantime, sate your craving for happy endings by reading some of 2021’s most anticipated romance novels.
1
Marry Me
Marry Me sold us on the cast alone: Real life music legends J. Lo and Maluma play pop stars in a crumbling relationship. After Kat (Lopez) learns Bastian (Maluma) is cheating on her right before they’re set tie the knot, she decides to marry a stranger in the crowd (Owen Wilson).
Release date: May 14
2
French Dispatch
French Dispatch is pretty much guaranteed to be the most stylish rom-com of 2021. Director Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic style can be identified from the first frame. So, what will Anderson and his unique eye do with the story of a European publication and a very special edition? We don’t know—but the movie, starring Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, and many more, is bound to be dreamy.
Release Date: TBA
3
Stars Fell on Alabama
First there was Sweet Home Alabama. Now there’s Stars Fell on Alabama, another rom-com set in the Southern state (though it was filmed in North Carolina). In the movie, a Hollywood agent (James Maslow) recruits an actress (Ciara Hanna) to be his date for his 15 year high school reunion.
Release Date: January 8
4
Finding You
Following in the footsteps of P.S. I Love You and Leap Year, Finding You is a romance set amid the lush greenery of Ireland. In the YA novel adaptation, a violinist on vacation and an actor on a shoot meet in a quiet seaside village in Ireland. You can fall in love with the characters or the setting—both are acceptable options.
Release Date: January 29
5
Cinderella
From the 1950 cartoon to the live-action movie featuring Brandy in the starring role, Cinderella has been retold over the years—and it’s time for another turn. Camilla Cabello helps a star-studded cast that includes James Corden, Idina Menzel, Pierce Brosnan, John Mulaney and Billy Porter as Fab G, her fairy godparent. Nicholas Galitzine is Cinderella’s love interest, Prince Robert (not Prince Charming).
Release Date: February 5
6
Coming 2 America
Eddie Murphy’s famously pampered character, Prince Akeem of Zamunda, first “came to America” in the 1989 romantic comedy. In the sequel, Akeem and his friend Semmi (Arsenio Hall) return to America on the eve of his ascension to the throne in order to find his long-lost son in Queens (Jermaine Fowler). We have yet to see what the rom-com element in the sequel will be, but given the prominent love story in the original, we foresee another.
Release date: March 5
7
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, the duo behind Bridesmaids, return with another comedy that blends cringe and heart. Wiig and Mumolo play best friends on their first trip out of their Midwestern home town. Things go haywire quickly in the movie, infused with Thelma and Louise energy (and hopefully a happier ending). Jamie Dornan plays a spy and potential love interest, if we had to guess.
Release date: July 16
8
Blithe Spirit
Downtown Abbey’s Dan Stevens, also known as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast or Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision Song Contest, is at the center of a love triangle in this period piece rom-com. The other prongs? His current wife, Ruth (Isla Fisher), and his deceased one, Elvira (Leslie Mann), summoned from the dead in a seance.
Release Date: February 19
9
The Kissing Booth 3
First a Wattpad runaway hit and then outright sensation on Netflix, the Kissing Booth saga is reaching its end after quite a journey. The Kissing Booth 3 rounds out the trilogy and concludes Elle (Joey King) and Noah’s (Jacob Elordi) story.
Release Date: TBA
10
To All The Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
The To All the Boys trilogy is concluding—and no, we’re not ready to acknowledge it. The second and third movies were filmed simultaneously, so it’s only a matter of time before Always and Forever, Lara Jean comes to Netflix. Expect to see how Lara Jean (Lana Condor) and Peter Kavinsky’s (Noah Centineo) relationship ends—or begins its next chapter.
Release date: TBA
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