Anticipated Holiday Movies
Films coming to cinemas this season
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer(s): Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis, Richard McGuire
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Rielly, Ellis Grunsell, Teddy Russell
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis: A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.
Release Date: November 1st
Juror #2
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer(s): Jonathan A. Abrams,
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, Toni Collette, Adrienne C. Moore, Leslie Bibb, Drew Scheid
Genre: Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma...one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict - or free - the wrong killer.
Release Date: November 1st
A Real Pain
Director: Jesse Eisenberg
Writer(s): Jesse Eisenberg
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Liza Sadovy
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Release Date: November 1st
Blitz
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer(s): Steve McQueen
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke
Genre: Drama/History/War
Plot Synopsis: Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II.
Release Date: November 1st
Heretic
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Writer(s): Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Starring: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Topher Grace, Elle Young, Julie Lynn Mortensen
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.
Release Date: November 8th
Bird
Director: Andrea Arnold
Writer(s): Andrea Arnold
Starring: Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce, Joanne Matthews
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis: Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Release Date: November 8th
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Director: Tyler Taormina
Writer(s): Eric Berger, Tyler Taormina
Starring: Maria Dizzia, Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Ben Shenkman, Sawyer Spielberg, Francesca Scorsese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Release Date: November 8th
Gladiator II
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer(s): David Scarpa, Peter Craig, David Franzoni
Starring: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Derek Jacobi, Joseph Quinn
Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama
Plot Synopsis: After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
Release Date: November 22nd
Wicked
Director: John M. Chu
Writer(s): Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox, Gregory Maguire
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Fantasy/Musical/Romance
Plot Synopsis: After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining two-part cinematic event this holiday season.
Release Date: November 22nd
Moana 2
Director: David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller
Writer(s): Jared Bush, Dana Ledoux Miller, Ron Clements
Starring: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Rachel House, Nicole Scherzinger, Temuera Morrison
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Family
Plot Synopsis: After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.
Release Date: November 27th
September 5th
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Writer(s): Moritz Binder, Alex David, Tim Fehlbaum
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem
Genre: History/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Release Date: November 29th
Nightbitch
Director: Marielle Heller
Writer(s): Rachel Yoder, Marielle Heller
Starring: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Jessica Harper, Zoe Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Plot Synopsis: A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
Release Date: December 6th
The Return
Director: Uberto Pasolini
Writer(s): Edward Bond, John Collee
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Jaz Hutchins
Genre: History
Plot Synopsis: After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
Release Date: December 6th
Y2K
Director: Kyle Mooney
Writer(s): Kyle Mooney, Evan Winter
Starring: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Durst
Genre: Comedy/Horror/Sci-Fi
Plot Synopsis: Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
Release Date: December 6th
Oh Canada
Director: Paul Schrader
Writer(s): Russell Banks, Paul Schrader
Starring: Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Caroline Dhavernas
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis: Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Release Date: December 6th
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Writer(s): Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews, Phoebe Gittins
Starring: Luke Pasqualino, Brian Cox, Miranda Otto, Lorraine Ashbourne, Shaun Dooley, Gaia Wise
Genre: Animation/Action/Fantasy
Plot Synopsis: A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.
Release Date: December 13th
Kraven the Hunter
Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer(s): Richard Wenk, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott, Alessandro Nivola
Genre: Superhero/Action/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Kraven's complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
Release Date: December 13th
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Director: Jeff Fowler
Writer(s): Pat Casey, Josh Miller, John Whittington
Starring: Ben Schwartz, Colleen O'Shaunessey, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, James Marsden, Jim Carrey
Genre: Action/Adventure/Comedy
Plot Synopsis: Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance.
Release Date: December 20th
Mufasa: The Lion King
Director: Barry Jenkins
Writer(s): Jeff Nathanson
Starring: Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, John Kani, Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Animated/Family/Adventure
Plot Synopsis: Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored.
Release Date: December 20th
Babygirl
Director: Halina Reijn
Writer(s): Halina Reijn
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.
Release Date: December 25th
Nosferatu (2024)
Director: Robert Eggers
Writer(s): Robert Eggers
Starring: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgaard, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp
Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Mystery
Plot Synopsis: A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Release Date: December 25th
A Complete Unknown
Director: James Mangold
Writer(s): James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook
Genre: Biography/Drama/Music
Plot Synopsis: At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and siring rock as the voice of a generation - defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th century music.
Release Date: December 25th