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Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17

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THE BELKO EXPERIMENT: A Lack Of Experimentation Makes For A Forgettable, Shallow Movie

Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: Beauty and the Beast, The Belko Experiment, After the Storm, Atomica, T2: Trainspotting, All Nighter, Song to Song and Burn Your Maps.

Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.

Opening in Cinemas This Week:

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - Beauty and the Beast2h 9min | Family, Fantasy, Musical

Director: Bill Condon
Writers: Stephen Chbosky, Evan Spiliotopoulos
Stars: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans

International Release Dates

The Belko Experiment (2016)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - The Belko Experiment1h 28min | Action, Horror, Thriller

In a twisted social experiment, 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

Director: Greg McLean
Writer: James Gunn
Stars: Adria Arjona, Abraham Benrubi, Michael Rooker

International Release Dates

After the Storm (2016)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - After the Storm1h 57min | Drama

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writers: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi

International Release Dates

Atomica (2017)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - Atomica1h 21min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

Director: Dagen Merrill
Writers: Kevin Burke, Federico Fernandez-Armesto a.o.
Stars: Tom Sizemore, Sarah Habel, Dominic Monaghan

International Release Dates

T2: Trainspotting (2017)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - T2 Trainspotting1h 57min | Drama

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

Director: Danny Boyle
Writers: John Hodge, Irvine Welsh (novels)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller

International Release Dates

All Nighter (2017)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - All Nighter1h 26min | Comedy

A workaholic father who attempts to visit his daughter during a layover in LA, only to discover that she’s disappeared, is forced to team up with her awkward ex-boyfriend to find her over the course of one transformative night.

Director: Gavin Wiesen
Writer: Seth W. Owen
Stars: J.K. Simmons, Analeigh Tipton, Emile Hirsch

International Release Dates

Song To Song (2017)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - Song To Song2h 9min | Drama, Music, Romance

Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas.

Director: Terrence Malick
Writer: Terrence Malick
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender

International Release Dates

Burn Your Maps (2016)

Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17 - Burn Your Maps1h 42min | Adventure

A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany – He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

Director: Jordan Roberts
Writers: Jordan Roberts (screenplay), Robyn Joy Leff (based on the short story by)
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Marton Csokas

International Release Dates

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