Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Gold; A Dog’s Purpose; The Salesman; Kung Fu Yoga; Lost in Florence; Get the Girl and Un Padre No Tan Padre.
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:
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Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Ruby Rose, Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Writers: Patrick Massett, John Zinman
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYROWOayLw
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A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Cathryn Michon
Stars: Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton
Forushande (The Salesman) is the story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgPdkCB7sKY
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Two professors team up to locate a lost treasure and embark on an adventure that takes them from a Tibetan ice cave to Dubai to a mountain temple in India.
Director: Stanley Tong
Writer: Stanley Tong
Stars: Jackie Chan, Disha Patani, Amyra Dastur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWW74s2_aM
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Eric Lazard is a heartbroken former college football star who gets involved in a dangerous Florentine sport and a local woman, Stephanie, while visiting his cousin Anna, who lives in Italy and teaches the Italian language to foreigners.
Director: Evan Oppenheimer
Writer: Evan Oppenheimer
Stars: Brett Dalton, Stana Katic, Alessandra Mastronardi
A wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he’s madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he’s forced to actually save her life while not revealing that it’s been a ruse all along.
Director: Eric England
Writers: Graham Denman, Eric England
Stars: Justin Dobies, Elizabeth Whitson, Noah Segan
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When Don Servando Villegas gets expelled from his retirement home, his younger son Francisco takes him in. Don Servando is about to find out the truth about his son and his way of living.
Director: Raúl Martínez
Writer: Alberto Bremer
Stars: Zamia Fandiño, Jacqueline Bracamontes, Camila Selser
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