Movies Opening In Cinemas On September 16
Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas every Tuesday. Opening this week: Snowden, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Blair Witch, Mr. Church, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Yeears, Operation Avalanche, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?, Wild Oats, Finding Altamira, The Vessel, Silicon Cowboys, Miss Stevens, Cardboard Boxer, Dancer, Hillsong – Let Hope Rise and Live Another Day.
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:
Snowden (2016)
2h 14min – Biography, Drama, Thriller
NSA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo
Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
2h 2min – Comedy, Romance
The continuing adventures of British publishing executive Bridget Jones as she enters her 40s.
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent
Blair Witch (2016)
1h 29min – Horror, Thriller
After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling.
Director: Adam Wingard
Writer: Simon Barrett
Stars: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid
Miss Stevens (2016)
1h 27min – Comedy, Drama
A comedy focused on a teacher who chaperones a group of high schoolers to a state drama competition.
Director: Julia Hart
Writers: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
Stars: Lily Rabe, Oscar Nuñez, Rob Huebel
Mr. Church (2016)
1h 44min – Drama
“Mr. Church” tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook – Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Susan McMartin
Stars: Britt Robertson, Eddie Murphy, Madison Wolfe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3bzXXKtrs
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)
2h 17min – Documentary, Music
A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.
Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Mark Monroe, P.G. Morgan
Stars: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon
Operation Avalanche (2016)
1h 34min – Thriller
In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
Director: Matt Johnson
Writers: Josh Boles, Matt Johnson
Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (2016)
1h 35min – Comedy
If there’s one thing that the men of Rockford Texas love as much as their women, it’s their guns. But when a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom to rethink Rockford’s obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down.
Director: Matt Cooper
Writer: Matt Cooper
Stars: Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman
Wild Oats (2016)
Action, Comedy, Drama
Everything changes for EVA when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
Director: Andy Tennant
Writers: Gary Kanew, Claudia Myers
Stars: Jessica Lange, Demi Moore, Shirley MacLaine
Finding Altamira (2016)
1h 37min – Drama, History
Life and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira’s caves.
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writers: Olivia Hetreed, Olivia Hetreed
Stars: Clément Sibony, Rupert Everett, Javivi
The Vessel (2016)
1h 26min – Drama
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school’s remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Director: Julio Quintana
Writers: Julio Quintana, Julio Quintana
Stars: Lucas Quintana, Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Duprey
Silicon Cowboys (2016)
1h 17min – Documentary
Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM, for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
Director: Jason Cohen
Writers: Jason Cohen, Steven Leckart
Cardboard Boxer (2016)
1h 28min – Drama
A homeless man is recruited by a bunch of rich kids to fight other impoverished people.
Director: Knate Lee
Writer: Knate Lee
Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Terrence Howard, Boyd Holbrook
Dancer (2016)
1h 25min | Documentary
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
Director: Steven Cantor
Star: Sergei Polunin
Hillsong - Let Hope Rise (2016)
1h 43min – Documentary, Family, Music
A documentary on the Australia-based band Hillsong and their rise to prominence as an international church.
Director: Michael John Warren
Live Another Day (2016)
1h 45min – Documentary
Live Another Day is the inside, untold story of the U.S. auto bailout by the government. It picks up where “The Big Short” left off, showing how the housing crisis and Lehman Brothers’ collapse led directly to the auto industry’s downfall and how these companies were really rescued.
Directors: Bill Burke, Didier Pietri
Writers: Bill Burke, Paul Ingrassia (book)
Stars: Jay Alix, Ron Bloom, Adam Bryant
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