Movies Opening in Cinemas On December 18
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters, Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip, Son of Saul and Extraction.
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:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
135 minutes – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983).
Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver
Sisters (2015)
118 minutes – Comedy
Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.
Director: Jason Moore
Stars: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz
Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
86 min – Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami…and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
Director: Walt Becker
Stars: Kaley Cuoco, Bella Thorne, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate
Son of Saul (2015)
107 minutes – Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Director: László Nemes
Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Extraction (2015)
83 minutes – Thriller
A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Stars: Bruce Willis, Gina Carano, Kellan Lutz, D.B. Sweeney
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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