Movies Opening In Cinemas On August 26
Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas every Tuesday. Opening this week: Mechanic: Resurrection, Don’t Breathe, The Intervention, Complete Unknown, Southside With You, Hands of Stone, The Sea Of Trees, Mia Madre, The Hollars and In Order of Disappearance.
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:
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
99 minutes – Action, Crime, Thriller
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.
Director: Dennis Gansel
Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh
Don't Breathe (2016)
88 miutes – Horror, Thriller
A group of friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they’ll get away with the perfect heist. They’re wrong.
Director: Fede Alvarez
Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
The Intervention (2016)
90 minutes – Comedy, Drama
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Director: Clea DuVall
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Skylar Bernon, Kira Pozehl
Complete Unknown (2016)
90 minute – Drama , Mystery, Thriller
As a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife for her graduate program, an old flame – a woman who often changes identities – reenters his life at a birthday dinner party.
Director: Joshua Marston
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, Danny Glover
Southside With You (2016)
84 minutes – Biography, Drama, Romance
Chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side.
Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Parker Sawyers, Donald Paul
Hands of Stone (2016)
105 minutes – Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other’s lives.
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ana de Armas, Ellen Barkin, John Turturro
The Sea of Trees (2015)
110 minues – Drama
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Katie Aselton, Ken Watanabe
Mia Madre (2015)
106 minutes – Drama
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
The Hollars (2016)
105 minutes – Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man returns to his small hometown after learning that his mother has fallen ill and is about to undergo surgery.
Director: John Krasinski
Stars: Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
116 minutes – Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The honorable citizen Nils ploughs snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster “the Count” and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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