--- title: Calendar: Culture description: January 3: Roxane Gay releases a short-story collection, Difficult Women. 8: Jimmy Fallon hosts the 74th Golden Globes. 15: HBO's The Young Pope stars Jude... canonical: https://time.com/4606061/calendar-culture/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T11:34:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:21:54.683Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Calendar: Culture og:description: January 3: Roxane Gay releases a short-story collection, Difficult Women. 8: Jimmy Fallon hosts the 74th Golden Globes. 15: HBO's The Young Pope stars Jude... og:url: https://time.com/4606061/calendar-culture/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Calendar: Culture twitter:description: January 3: Roxane Gay releases a short-story collection, Difficult Women. 8: Jimmy Fallon hosts the 74th Golden Globes. 15: HBO's The Young Pope stars Jude... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Calendar: Culture by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 19, 2016 11:34 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 19, 2016 11:34 AM UTC January 3: Roxane Gay releases a short-story collection, Difficult Women. 8: Jimmy Fallon hosts the 74th Golden Globes. 15: HBO’s The Young Pope stars Jude Law as the first American Bishop of Rome. 20: M. Night Shyamalan spins fear from dissociative identity disorder in Split. 28: BBC America puts the planet’s splendor on display again in Planet Earth II. February 5: Lady Gaga brings her powerful pipes to the Super Bowl LI halftime show. 12: Beyoncé is up for nine Grammys; Lena Dunham returns for a final season of Girls. 14: Decorated author George Saunders drops a novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. 17: Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness is a thriller that unfolds at a mysterious spa. 24: Racism is the real villain in writer-director Jordan Peele’s horror film Get Out. 26: Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Academy Awards. March 3: Hugh Jackman is Wolverine for the last time in Logan; Ewan McGregor and director Danny Boyle reunite for T2 Trainspotting. 7: Excerpts from Joan Didion’s notebooks are published as South and West. 17: Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast hits theaters; Marvel’s Iron Fist show lands on Netflix. 24: The Power Rangers leap onto the big screen; Woody Harrelson plays a neurotic misanthrope in the graphic-novel adaptation Wilson. 31: Scarlett Johansson is a cyborg in Ghost in the Shell; Jessica Chastain stars in a WW II drama, The Zookeeper’s Wife. April 4: Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah releases a story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky. 14: Tensions–and redlines–rise in The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment in the franchise. 23: The Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens on Broadway. 28: Emma Watson joins Tom Hanks’ sinister tech company in The Circle. TBD: See who wins Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards. May 2: Paula Hawkins follows up The Girl on the Train with the thriller Into the Water. 5: See Baby Groot dance again in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. 12: Goldie Hawn (below left) and Amy Schumer are kin in the comedy Snatched. TBD: The Enterprise soars to prime time in Star Trek: Discovery. June 13: Read Sherman Alexie’s memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. 16: Broad City director Lucia Aniello directs her first feature, Rock That Body. 23: Sofia Coppola remakes western The Beguiled. 30: Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler star in The House. July 7: New Peter Parker Tom Holland casts webs in Spider-Man: Homecoming. 14: The human-ape conflict continues in War for the Planet of the Apes. 21: Jada Pinkett Smith and pals hit the road in Girl Trip; Rihanna (above) stars in the sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; Allied forces face grave danger in Christopher Nolan’s WW II film Dunkirk. 28: Idris Elba plays the Gunslinger in a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. August 1: Laurent Binet releases a novel about the French intelligentsia, The Seventh Function of Language. 4: Emojis come to life in Emojimovie: Express Yourself. 25: Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones star in an action comedy, Villa Capri. TBD: Stunts are all but certain at the MTV Video Music Awards. September 22: Miles Teller battles an Arizona wildfire in true story Granite Mountain; ninjas suffer through high school in Lego Movie follow-up The Lego Ninjago Movie. 29: Tom Cruise plays a pilot turned smuggler in the ’80s-set biopic American Made. TBD: The 69th annual Emmys honor TV’s finest. October 6: Harrison Ford returns as Rick Deckard in the long-awaited sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049. 13: Follow Jason Voorhees’ latest murderous rampage in a Friday the 13th reboot; watch Michael Fassbender investigate a woman’s mysterious disappearance in The Snowman. 20: Gerard Butler heads to space to prevent satellites from wreaking havoc in the disaster movie Geostorm. 27: The third movie in J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield anthology arrives. November 3: Chris Hemsworth and his mythical hammer descend upon New York City in Thor: Ragnarok. 15: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella drops Hit Refresh, a book about change. 17: DC Comics superheroes convene for Justice League. 22: Pixar’s animated Día de los Muertos movie, Coco, features an all-Latino cast. December 15: The force is with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in Star Wars: Episode VIII. 22: Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson come out singing in Pitch Perfect 3; Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (left) fuel a Jumanji reboot; and Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways) returns with Downsizing, starring Kristen Wiig. 25: Hugh Jackman plays circus legend P.T. Barnum in a biopic, The Greatest Showman. 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