Movies Opening In Cinemas On March 17
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)
2h 9min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Bill Condon
Writers: Stephen Chbosky, Evan Spiliotopoulos
Stars: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans
The Belko Experiment (2016)
1h 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
After the Storm (2016)
1h 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
Atomica (2017)
1h 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
T2: Trainspotting (2017)
1h 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
All Nighter (2017)
1h 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
Song To Song (2017)
2h 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
Burn Your Maps (2016)
1h 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
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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