2015 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths.
2015 in film[]
January–March[]
Opening | Title | Distributor | Cast and crew | Ref. | |
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J A N U A R Y |
2 | REC 4: Apocalypse | Magnolia Pictures | Jaume Balagueró (director); Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo, Hector Colome, Mariano Venancio | |
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Relativity Media | Tom Harper (director); Jon Croker, Susan Hill (screenplay); Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory, Adrian Rawlins, Oaklee Pendergast, Ned Dennehy, Leanne Best, Leilah de Meza | |||
9 | Preservation | The Orchard | Christopher Denham (director); Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Cody Saintgnue | ||
Selma | Paramount Pictures | Ava DuVernay (director/screenplay); Paul Webb (screenplay); David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Common, Carmen Ejogo | |||
Taken 3 | 20th Century Fox / EuropaCorp | Olivier Megaton (director); Robert Mark Kamen, Luc Besson (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker | |||
16 | Blackhat | Universal Studios | Michael Mann (director/screenplay); Morgan Davis Foehl (screenplay); Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, John Ortiz, Yorick van Wageningen, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang | ||
Paddington | The Weinstein Company / Heyday Films | Paul King (director/screenplay); Ben Whishaw, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi | |||
Spare Parts | Lions Gate Entertainment | Sean McNamara (director); Elissa Matsueda (screenplay); George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega, Marisa Tomei | |||
Still Alice | Sony Pictures Classics | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland (directors/screenplays); Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish | |||
The Wedding Ringer | Screen Gems / Miramax / Will Packer Productions | Jeremy Garelick (director/screenplay); Jay Lavender (screenplay); Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Mimi Rogers, Ken Howard, Affion Crockett, Lindsay Pearce, Jenifer Lewis, Cloris Leachman | |||
23 | Against the Sun | Goldcrest Films NYC | Brian Falk (director); Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel | ||
Black Sea | Focus Features | Kevin Macdonald (director); Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall | |||
The Boy Next Door | Universal Studios | Rob Cohen (director); Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, John Corbett, Adam Hicks, Ian Nelson, Kristin Chenoweth | |||
Cake | Freestyle Releasing / Cinelou Releasing | Daniel Barnz (director); Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Mamie Gummer, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Chris Messina, Lucy Punch, Britt Robertson, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington | |||
Mommy | Roadside Attractions | Xavier Dolan (director); Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément | |||
Mortdecai | Lions Gate Entertainment / OddLot Entertainment | David Koepp (director); Eric Aronson (screenwriter); Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn, Aubrey Plaza, Oliver Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany, Ulrich Thomsen, Jeff Goldblum | |||
Red Army | Sony Pictures Classics | Gabe Polsky (director); Slava Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Vladimir Pozner | |||
Strange Magic | Touchstone Pictures / Lucasfilm | Gary Rydstrom (director/screenplay); David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi (screenplay); Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, Alfred Molina, Elijah Kelley, Bob Einstein, Peter Stormare | |||
28 | Timbuktu | Cohen Media Group | Abderrahmane Sissako (director); Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi | ||
30 | Alien Outpost | IFC Films | Jabbar Raisani (director/screenplay); Blake Clifton (screenplay); Adrian Paul, Reiley McClendon, Rick Ravanello | ||
Black or White | Relativity Media / IM Global | Mike Binder (director); Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jillian Estell, Bill Burr, Jennifer Ehle, Andre Holland, Gillian Jacobs, Anthony Mackie | |||
The Bomb Solace | Walt Disney Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment | Daniel Craig, Mariska Hargitay | |||
The Loft | Open Road Films | Erik Van Looy (director); Bart De Pauw, Wesley Strick (screenplay); Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rhona Mitra, Rachael Taylor, Isabel Lucas | |||
Project Almanac | Paramount Pictures / Insurge Pictures / MTV Films / Platinum Dunes | Dean Israelite (director); Andrew Stark, Jason Pagan, Andrew Deutschman (screenplay); Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D'Elia | |||
F E B R U A R Y |
6 | Jupiter Ascending | Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Pictures / RatPac Entertainment | The Wachowskis (director/screenplay); Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Terry Gilliam, James D'Arcy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tuppence Middleton, Maria Doyle, Doona Bae, Kick Gurry, Vanessa Kirby, Edward Hogg | |
Seventh Son | Universal Pictures / Legendary Pictures | Sergei Bodrov (director) Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Djimon Hounsou, Antje Traue, Olivia Williams | |||
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies | Paul Tibbitt (director), Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger (screenplay), Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence | |||
13 | Fifty Shades of Grey | Universal Studios | Sam Taylor-Johnson (director); Kelly Marcel, Patrick Marber, Mark Bomback (screenplay); Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Victor Rasuk, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Max Martini, Dylan Neal, Callum Keith Rennie, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden | ||
Kingsman: The Secret Service | 20th Century Fox | Matthew Vaughn (director/screenplay); Jane Goldman (Screenplay); Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Michael Caine, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella, Mark Hamill | |||
20 | The Duff | CBS Films / Lions Gate Entertainment | Ari Sandel (director); Josh A. Cagan (screenplay); Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Allison Janney, Ken Jeong | ||
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Paramount Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Steve Pink (director); Josh Heald (screenplay); Craig Robinson, Adam Scott, Rob Corddry, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs, Clark Duke | |||
McFarland, USA | Walt Disney Pictures | Niki Caro (director); William Broyles Jr., Grant Thompson (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Morgan Saylor | |||
27 | Focus | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment | Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (director/screenplay); Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro | ||
The Lazarus Effect | Relativity Media | David Gelb (director); Luke Dawson, Jeremy Slater (screenplay); Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Donald Glover | |||
M A R C H |
6 | Chappie | Columbia Pictures / Media Rights Capital | Neill Blomkamp (director/screenplay); Terri Tatchell (screenplay); Sharlto Copley, Ninja, Yolandi Visser, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver | |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Fox Searchlight Pictures / Participant Media | John Madden (director); Ol Parker (screenplay); Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Tamsin Greig, David Strathairn, Penelope Wilton, Tina Desai, Lillete Dubey, Rajesh Tailang, Dev Patel | |||
Unfinished Business | 20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises / Escape Artists | Ken Scott (director); Steve Conrad (screenplay); Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost | |||
13 | Cinderella | Walt Disney Pictures | Kenneth Branagh (director); Aline Brosh McKenna, Chris Weitz (screenplay); Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Stellan Skarsgård, Nonso Anozie, Derek Jacobi, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon | ||
The Jets of Aliens | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Hayden Christensen, Ashleigh Ball, Eddie Murphy | |||
Run All Night | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment | Jaume Collet-Serra (director); Brad Inglesby (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris | |||
20 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Summit Entertainment | Robert Schwentke (director); Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (screenplay); Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Zoe Kravitz, Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Mekhi Phifer, Miles Teller, Ben Lamb, Christian Madsen | ||
The Gunman | Open Road Films | Pierre Morel (director); Jean-Patrick Manchette, Pete Travis, Don Macpherson (screenplay); Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance | |||
27 | Arthur: The Movie | Walt Disney Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball | ||
Get Hard | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Gary Sanchez Productions | Etan Cohen (director); Jay Martel, Ian Roberts (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie, Craig T. Nelson, T.I. | |||
Home | 20th Century Fox / DreamWorks Animation | Tim Johnson (director); Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember (screenplay); Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin, Matt Jones |
April–June[]
Opening | Title | Distributor | Cast and crew | Ref. | |
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A P R I L |
3 | Criminal Minds: The Movie - Guns of the Spell | Walt Disney Pictures / Metro Goldwyn Mayer | Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Thomas Gibson, Kuzumi Evans | |
Furious 7 | Universal Studios / Original Film | James Wan (director); Chris Morgan (screenplay); Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Jason Statham, Kurt Russell, Lucas Black, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey, Nathalie Emmanuel | |||
10 | The Longest Ride | 20th Century Fox | George Tillman Jr. (director); Craig Bolotin (screenplay); Britt Robertson, Oona Chaplin, Scott Eastwood, Alan Alda, Jack Huston, Lolita Davidovich | ||
17 | Child 44 | Summit Entertainment | Daniel Espinosa (director); Richard Price (screenplay); Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Noomi Rapace, Jason Clarke, Vincent Cassel | ||
Monkey Kingdom | Disneynature | Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill (director); Tina Fey (narrator) | |||
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison Productions | Andy Fickman (director); Kevin James, Nick Bakay (screenplay); Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Neal McDonough, Molly Shannon, Daniella Alonso, David Henrie | |||
Unfriended | Universal Studios / Blumhouse Productions | Levan Gabriadze (director); Nelson Greaves (screenplay); Shelley Hennig, Renee Olstead, Jacob Wysocki, Will Peltz | |||
24 | The Age of Adaline | Lions Gate Entertainment / Lakeshore Entertainment | Lee Toland Krieger (director); J. Mills Goodloe, Salvador Paskowitz (screenplay); Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Crew | ||
Little Boy | Open Road Films | Alejandro Gómez Monteverde (director/screenplay); Pepe Portillo (screenplay); Jakob Salvati, David Henrie, Kevin James, Emily Watson, Ted Levine, Michael Rapaport | |||
The Water Diviner | Warner Bros. | Russell Crowe (director); Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney | |||
M A Y |
1 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Marvel Studios | Joss Whedon (director/screenplay); Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson | |
8 | Hot Pursuit | Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Anne Fletcher (director); David Feeney, John Quaintance (screenplay); Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Jim Gaffigan, John Carroll Lynch | ||
Maggie | Roadside Attractions | Henry Hobson (director); John Scott (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson | |||
15 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Pictures | George Miller (director/screenplay); Nick Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy (screenplay); Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton | ||
Pitch Perfect 2 | Universal Studios / Gold Circle Films | Elizabeth Banks (director); Kay Cannon (screenplay); Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Anna Camp, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Chrissie Fit, Shelley Regner, Kelley Jakle, Ben Platt, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Flula Borg, Katey Sagal, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks | |||
22 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Lionsgate / Spyglass Entertainment | Francis Lawrence (director); Danny Strong (screenplay); Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Dormer, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Lily Rabe, Stef Dawson, Robert Knepper | ||
Poltergeist | 20th Century Fox / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Ghost House Pictures | Gil Kenan (director); David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay); Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett, Kennedi Clements, Jane Adams | |||
Tomorrowland | Walt Disney Pictures | Brad Bird (director/screenplay); Damon Lindelof (screenplay); George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Kathryn Hahn, Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, Tim McGraw, Thomas Robinson | |||
29 | Aloha | Columbia Pictures / Regency Enterprises | Cameron Crowe (director/screenplay); Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel | ||
Club Life | The Orchard | Fabrizio Conte (director); Jessica Szohr, Jerry Ferrara, Robert Davi, Danny A. Abeckaser | |||
Gemma Bovery | Music Box Films | Anne Fontaine (director/screenplay); Pascal Bonitzer (screenplay); Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Mel Raido, Fabrice Luchini | |||
Heaven Knows What | RADiUS-TWC | Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie (director); Arielle Holmes, Buddy Duress, Ron Braunstein, Eleonore Hendricks, Caleb Landry Jones, Yuri Pleskun | |||
Results | Magnolia Pictures | Andrew Bujalski (director); Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Brooklyn Decker, Anthony Michael Hall, Tishuan Scott, Zoe Graham, David Bernon, Constance Zimmer | |||
San Andreas | Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema / Village Roadshow Pictures / RatPac Entertainment | Brad Peyton (director); Carey Hayes, Carlton Cuse, Chad Hayes (screenplay); Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti, Kylie Minogue, Ioan Gruffudd, Colton Haynes, Will Yun Lee, Archie Panjabi, Todd Williams, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson | |||
J U N E |
3 | Entourage | Warner Bros. / HBO Films / RatPac Entertainment | Doug Ellin (director/screenplay); Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven, Billy Bob Thornton, Haley Joel Osment | |
5 | Insidious: Chapter 3 | Focus Features / Gramercy Pictures | Leigh Whannell (director/screenplay); Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye | ||
Spy | 20th Century Fox | Paul Feig (director/screenplay); Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Jude Law, Nargis Fakhri | |||
12 | Jurassic World | Universal Studios / Amblin Entertainment / Legendary Pictures | Colin Trevorrow (director/screenplay); Derek Connolly, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (screenplay); Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, B. D. Wong, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Tee, Katie McGrath, Judy Greer, Andy Buckley, Eric Edelstein, Jimmy Buffett, Colin Trevorrow, Brad Bird, Jack Horner, Jimmy Fallon | ||
19 | Dope | Open Road Films | Rick Famuyiwa (director/screenplay); Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz, A$AP Rocky, Tyga, Lakeith Stanfield, Casey Veggies, Vince Staples, Chanel Iman, Rick Fox | ||
Inside Out | Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar | Pete Docter (director/screenplay), Ronnie del Carmen (director); Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (screenplay); Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias | |||
26 | The Peanuts Movie | 20th Century Fox / Blue Sky Studios | Steve Martino (director); Bryan Schulz, Craig Schulz, Cornelius Uliano (screenplay); Bill Melendez, Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, AJ Teece, Noah Johnston, Venus Schulthens, Alexander Garfin, Francesca Capaldi, Mariel Sheets, Mar Mar, Rebecca Bloom, William Alexander Wunsch, Anastasia Bredikhina, Madisyn Shipman | ||
Max | Warner Bros. / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Boaz Yakin (director/screenplay); Sheldon Lettich (screenplay); Josh Wiggins, Thomas Haden Church, Lauren Graham, Robbie Amell, Jay Hernandez | |||
Ted 2 | Universal Studios | Seth MacFarlane (director/screenplay); Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild (screenplay); Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, John Slattery, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman |
July–September[]
Opening | Title | Distributor | Cast and crew | Ref. | |
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J U L Y |
1 | Faith of Our Fathers | Pure Flix Entertainment / Samuel Goldwyn Films | Carey Scott (director); Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Downes, David A. R. White, Rebecca St. James, Si Robertson, Candace Cameron Bure | |
Magic Mike XXL | Warner Bros. | Gregory Jacobs (director); Channing Tatum (screenplay); Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Andie MacDowell, Amber Heard, Jada Pinkett Smith, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Glover, Michael Strahan | |||
Terminator Genisys | Paramount Pictures / Skydance Media | Alan Taylor (director); Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, J. K. Simmons, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Lee Byung-hun, Matthew Smith, Dayo Okeniyi, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt, Aaron V. Williamson | |||
3 | Amy | Altitude Film Distribution / A24 | Asif Kapadia (director); Amy Winehouse | ||
Cartel Land | The Orchard | Matthew Heineman (director); Robert Hetrick | |||
Jimmy's Hall | Sony Pictures Classics | Ken Loach (director); Paul Laverty (screenplay); Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton | |||
10 | 10,000 km | Broad Green Pictures | Carlos Marques-Marcet (director); Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer | ||
The Gallows | Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema | Travis Cluff, Chris Lofing (director/screenplay) Cassidy Gifford, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Reese Mishler | |||
Minions | Universal Studios / Illumination Entertainment | Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda (directors); Brian Lynch (screenplay); Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Geoffrey Rush | |||
Pokémon: Revenge of the Legendary Birds | DreamWorks Pictures / Lionsgate | Michael Bay (director); Zachary Gordon, Shelby Young, Channing Tatum | |||
Self/less | Focus Features / Gramercy Pictures | Tarsem Singh (director); Alex Pastor, David Pastor (screenplay); Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Natalie Martinez, Victor Garber, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke | |||
What We Did on Our Holiday | Lionsgate | Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin (directors); David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly | |||
16 | Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser | Crackle | Fred Wolf (director); David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Mark McGrath, Patrick Warburton | ||
17 | Ant-Man | Marvel Studios | Peyton Reed (director); Adam McKay, Paul Rudd (screenplay); Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip "T.I." Harris, Anthony Mackie, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas | ||
A Hard Day | Kino Lorber | Kim Seong-hun (director); Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Jin-woong | |||
Irrational Man | Sony Pictures Classics | Woody Allen (director); Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Emma Stone | |||
Mr. Holmes | Roadside Attractions | Bill Condon (director); Jeffrey Hatcher (screenplay); Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada, Milo Parker | |||
Trainwreck | Universal Studios | Judd Apatow (director/screenplay); Amy Schumer (screenplay); Amy Schumer, Tilda Swinton, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Barkhad Abdi, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena, Ezra Miller, Derek Jeter, Method Man, Norman Lloyd, Jim Norton, Daniel Radcliffe, Marisa Tomei | |||
24 | Paper Towns | 20th Century Fox | Jake Schreier (director); Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber (screenplay); Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne | ||
Pixels | Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison Productions / 1492 Pictures | Chris Columbus (director); Tim Herlihy, Tim Dowling (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson, Jane Krakowski | |||
Samba | Broad Green Pictures | Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano (directors/screenplays); Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin | |||
The Vatican Tapes | Lionsgate / Lakeshore Entertainment | Mark Neveldine (director); Christopher Borrelli (screenplay); Kathleen Robertson, Michael Peña, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, John Patrick Amedori | |||
29 | Vacation | Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema | John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein (directors/screenplay); Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann, Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Day, Beverly D'Angelo, Chevy Chase | ||
31 | Best of Enemies | Magnolia Pictures / Participant Media | Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville | ||
The End of the Tour | A24 | James Ponsoldt (director); Donald Margulies (screenplay); Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg | |||
Jenny's Wedding | IFC Films | Mary Agnes Donoghue (directors); Katherine Heigl, Alexis Bledel, Tom Wilkinson, Linda Emond, Grace Gummer, Matthew Metzger | |||
The Kindergarten Teacher | Kino Lorber | Nadav Lapid (director) | |||
A Lego Brickumentary | RADiUS-TWC | Kief Davidson, Daniel Junge (directors); Jason Bateman | |||
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Paramount Pictures / Skydance Media / Bad Robot Productions | Christopher McQuarrie (director/screenplay); Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin | |||
Southpaw | The Weinstein Company | Antoine Fuqua (director); Kurt Sutter (screenplay); Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Naomie Harris, Forest Whitaker, Victor Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson | |||
A U G U S T |
7 | Fantastic Four | 20th Century Fox / Marvel Entertainment | Josh Trank (director); Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg (screenplay); Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell | |
The Gift | STX Entertainment / Blumhouse Productions | Joel Edgerton (director/screenplay); Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton | |||
Ricki and the Flash | TriStar Pictures | Jonathan Demme (director); Diablo Cody (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Audra McDonald, Sebastian Stan, Ben Platt, Rick Springfield | |||
Shaun the Sheep Movie | Lionsgate / StudioCanal / Aardman Animations | Mark Burton (director); Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes | |||
14 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment | Guy Ritchie (director/screenplay); Lionel Wigram (screenplay); Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Elizabeth Debicki, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Luca Calvani, Simona Caparrini, Jared Harris | ||
Return to Sender | Arrow Films | Fouad Mikati (director); Patricia Beauchamp, Joe Gossett (screenplay); Rosamund Pike, Nick Nolte, Shiloh Fernandez | |||
Straight Outta Compton | Universal Pictures / Legendary Pictures | F. Gary Gray (director); Andrea Berloff (screenplay); O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr. | |||
21 | American Ultra | Lionsgate / Summit Entertainment | Nima Nourizadeh (director); Max Landis (screenplay); Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, Topher Grace, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Walton Goggins, Tony Hale | ||
Hitman: Agent 47 | 20th Century Fox | Aleksander Bach (director); Michael Finch, Kyle Ward, Skip Woods (screenplay); Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, Thomas Kretschmann | |||
Sinister 2 | Focus Features / Gramercy Pictures | Ciaran Foy (director); Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, (screenplay); James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon | |||
28 | We Are Your Friends | Warner Bros. / StudioCanal / Working Title Films | Max Joseph (director); Max Joseph, Meaghan Oppenheimer (screenplay); Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Jon Bernthal | ||
S E P T E M B E R |
4 | The Transporter Refueled | EuropaCorp | Camille Delamarre (director); Bill Collage, Adam Cooper (screenplay); Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright | |
11 | The Perfect Guy | Screen Gems | David M. Rosenthal (director); Tyger Williams (screenplay); Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut | ||
The Visit | Universal Studios | M. Night Shyamalan (director/screenplay); Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Olivia DeJonge | |||
18 | Black Mass | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Cross Creek Pictures | Scott Cooper (director); Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth (screenplay); Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sienna Miller, Dakota Johnson, Juno Temple, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard | ||
Captive | Paramount Pictures | Jerry Jameson (director); Brian Bird, Reinhard Denke (screenplay); David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Michael K. Williams, Leonor Varela, Jessica Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers | |||
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | 20th Century Fox | Wes Ball (director); T.S. Nowlin (screenplay); Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson | |||
25 | 99 Homes | Broad Green Pictures | Ramin Bahrani (director/screenplay); Amir Naderi (screenplay); Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern | ||
Hotel Transylvania 2 | Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation | Genndy Tartakovsky (director); Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler (screenplays); Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Asher Blinkoff, Fran Drescher, Molly Shannon, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Dana Carvey, Rob Riggle, Mel Brooks | |||
The Intern | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment | Nancy Meyers (director/screenplay); Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm | |||
30 | The Walk | TriStar Pictures | Robert Zemeckis (director/screenplay); Christopher Browne (screenplay); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Charlotte Le Bon |
October–December[]
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Ref. | |
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O C T O B E R |
2 | The Martian | 20th Century Fox | Ridley Scott (director); Drew Goddard (screenplay); Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Sean Bean, Jessica Chastain, Sebastian Stan, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Aksel Hennie, Donald Glover, Mackenzie Davis, Benedict Wong, Eddy Ko, Chen Shu, Naomi Scott, Nick Mohammed, Chiwetel Ejiofor | |
9 | Big Stone Gap | Picturehouse | Adriana Trigiani (director); Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Jenna Elfman, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Anthony LaPaglia, Jane Krakowski, Jasmine Guy | ||
Pan | Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment | Joe Wright (director); Jason Fuchs (screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Amanda Seyfried, Levi Miller, Nonso Anozie, Kathy Burke, Cara Delevingne, Adeel Akhtar | |||
Steve Jobs | Universal Pictures / Legendary Pictures | Danny Boyle (director); Aaron Sorkin (screenplay); Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlbarg | |||
16 | Bridge of Spies | DreamWorks Pictures / 20th Century Fox / Amblin Entertainment / Reliance Entertainment | Steven Spielberg (director); Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Austin Stowell, Domenick Lombardozzi, Billy Magnussen | ||
Crimson Peak | Universal Pictures / Legendary Pictures | Guillermo del Toro (director/screenplay); Matthew Robbins, Lucinda Coxon (screenplay); Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain, Jim Beaver, Burn Gorman, Jonathan Hyde | |||
Goosebumps | Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation / Village Roadshow Pictures / Original Film | Rob Letterman (director); Darren Lemke, Mike White (screenplay); Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Ryan Lee, Jillian Bell | |||
23 | Jem and the Holograms | Universal Studios | Jon M. Chu (director); Ryan Landels (screenplay); Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Hayley Kiyoko, Aurora Perrineau, Ryan Guzman, Juliette Lewis, Molly Ringwald | ||
The Last Witch Hunter | Summit Entertainment | Breck Eisner (director); Cory Goodman, D.W. Harper, Melisa Wallack, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless (screenplay); Vin Diesel, Michael Caine, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Kurt Angle | |||
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | Paramount Pictures | Gregory Plotkin (director); Jason Pagan (screenwriter); Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Dan Gill, Ivy George, Olivia Taylor Dudley | |||
Rock the Kasbah | Open Road Films | Barry Levinson (director); Mitch Glazer (screenplay); Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Scott Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Taylor Kinney | |||
30 | Burnt | The Weinstein Company | John Wells (director); Steven Knight (screenplay); Bradley Cooper, Jamie Dornan, Emma Thompson, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Uma Thurman, Alicia Vikander, Lily James, Omar Sy | ||
Our Brand Is Crisis | Warner Bros. | David Gordon Green (director); Peter Straughan (screenplay); Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd | |||
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse | Paramount Pictures | Christopher B. Landon (director); Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Halston Sage, Sarah Dumont, Patrick Schwarzenegger | |||
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4 | Brooklyn | Fox Searchlight Pictures | John Crowley (director); Nick Hornby (screenplay); Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters | |
6 | The Hallow | Entertainment One | Corin Hardy (director); Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Michael Smiley | ||
Miss You Already | Entertainment One | Catherine Hardwicke (director); Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter, Frances de la Tour, Jacqueline Bisset | |||
The Simpsons Christmas Adventure: The Movie | 20th Century Fox / Blue Sky Studios / Gracie Films | Carlos Saldanha (director); James L. Brooks, Matt Groening (screenplays); Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavne, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Forest Whitaker, Timothy Dalton, Rachel Nichols, Jeanne Tripplehorn | |||
Spotlight | Open Road Films / Participant Media | Tom McCarthy (director); Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci | |||
Trumbo | Bleecker Street | Jay Roach (director); John McNamara (screenplay); Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Elle Fanning, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg | |||
13 | The 33 | Warner Bros. Pictures (US) / 20th Century Fox (Latin America) / Alcon Entertainment / Phoenix Pictures | Patricia Riggen (director); Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mario Casas, Juan Pablo Raba, Adriana Barraza, Kate del Castillo, Cote de Pablo, Bob Gunton, Gabriel Byrne | ||
By the Sea | Universal Studios | Angelina Jolie (director/screenplay); Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Niels Arestrup, Melvil Poupaud, Richard Bohringer | |||
Entertainment | Magnolia Pictures | Rick Alverson (director); Gregg Turkington, Tye Sheridan, John C. Reilly, Lotte Verbeek, Michael Cera, Amy Seimetz, David Yow, Tim Heidecker, Dean Stockwell, Natalie Contreras, Annabella Lwin, Tonantzin Carmelo, Dustin Guy Defa | |||
James White | The Film Arcade | Josh Mond (director); Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Ron Livingston, Makenzie Leigh, David Call | |||
Love the Coopers | CBS Films | Jessie Nelson (director); Steven Rogers (screenplay); John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde, Ed Helms, Marisa Tomei, June Squibb, Dan Amboyer | |||
Man Up | Saban Films | Ben Palmer (director); Simon Pegg, Lake Bell | |||
My All American | Clarius Entertainment | Angelo Pizzo (director/screenwriter); Aaron Eckhart, Finn Wittrock, Robin Tunney, Sarah Bolger, Michael Reilly Burke | |||
20 | Carol | The Weinstein Company / StudioCanal / Film4 | Todd Haynes (director); Phyllis Nagy (screenplay); Edward Lachman (cinematographer); Affonso Gonçalves (editor); Carter Burwell (composer); Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Carrie Brownstein, Kevin Crowley, Nik Pajic | ||
Criminal Activities | RLJ Entertainment / Image Entertainment | Jackie Earle Haley (director); John Travolta, Michael Pitt, Dan Stevens, Edi Gathegi, Rob Brown, Jackie Earle Haley | |||
#Horror | IFC Midnight | Tara Subkoff (director); Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Timothy Hutton, Taryn Manning, Balthazar Getty, Lydia Hearst, Stella Schnabel | |||
Kingdom of Shadows | Participant Media | Bernardo Ruiz (director/screenplay) | |||
Legend | Universal Pictures / Cross Creek Pictures / Working Title Films | Brian Helgeland (director/screenplay); Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Colin Morgan, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri | |||
Mediterranea | IFC Films | Jonas Carpignano (director); Koudous Seihon | |||
Never Say Never Again | Walt Disney Pictures / Metro Goldwyn Mayer | Jayson Thiessen (director); Neil Purvis, Robert Wade (screenplays); Daniel Craig, Rosamund Pike | |||
The Night Before | Columbia Pictures / Good Universe / Point Grey Pictures | Jonathan Levine (director/screenplay); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie | |||
Secret in Their Eyes | STX Entertainment | Billy Ray (director/screenplay); Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dean Norris | |||
25 | Creed | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema | Ryan Coogler (director/screenplay); Aaron Covington (screenplay); Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Graham McTavish, Tony Bellew, Phylicia Rashad, Andre Ward | ||
The Good Dinosaur | Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar | Peter Sohn (director); Meg LeFauve (screenplay); Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, A. J. Buckley, Steve Zahn, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Marcus Scribner | |||
Victor Frankenstein | 20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment | Paul McGuigan (director); Max Landis (screenplay); Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott | |||
27 | The American Dream | ITN Distribution | Robert Wakamatsu (director); Marcus D. Spencer, Wiennie Mac, Andre Flixx (screenplays); Johnny Harris, Marcus D. Spencer, Giovannie Pico, Jan Haley, Gian Shaw, Yeena Fisher, Geneen Bland, Antoine Davis, D'Angelo Barnes, Hannibal Thompson | ||
The Danish Girl | Focus Features / Working Title Films | Tom Hooper (director); Lucinda Coxon (screenplay); Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw | |||
Killing Them Safely | IFC Films | Nick Berardini (director) | |||
D E C E M B E R |
4 | Krampus | Universal Studios / Legendary Pictures | Michael Dougherty (director/screenplay); Todd Casey, Zach Shields (screenplay); Emjay Anthony, Allison Tolman, Adam Scott | |
11 | In the Heart of the Sea | Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Pictures / Roth Films / Imagine Entertainment | Ron Howard (director); Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson | ||
18 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip | 20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises | Walt Becker (director); Randi Mayem Singer, Adam Sztykiel (screenplays); Jason Lee, Tony Hale, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Josh Green, Bella Thorne, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Kaley Cuoco, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate | ||
Sisters | Universal Studios | Jason Moore (director); Paula Pell (screenplay); Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, John Cena, Maya Rudolph | |||
Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Lucasfilm Ltd. / Bad Robot Productions | J. J. Abrams (director/screenplay); Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Max von Sydow, Peter Mayhew, Mark Hamill | |||
25 | Concussion | Columbia Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures / Scott Free Productions | Peter Landesman (director/screenplay); Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Arliss Howard, Albert Brooks, Paul Reiser, Luke Wilson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Morse, Eddie Marsan | ||
Daddy's Home | Paramount Pictures / Red Granite Pictures / Gary Sanchez Productions | Sean Anders, John Morris (directors); Brian Burns, Etan Cohen, Chris Henchy, Adam McKay (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, Thomas Haden Church | |||
Joy | 20th Century Fox / Annapurna Pictures / Davis Entertainment | David O. Russell (director/screenplay); Annie Mumolo (screenplay); Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez | |||
Point Break | Warner Bros. / Lionsgate | Ericson Core (director); Kurt Wimmer (screenplay); Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer |