Theme: What The Fuck Is Going On?
October 11, 2019 to October 25, 2019
This column covers the re-releases coming to major theater chains over approximately the next two weeks.
If you have a specialty theater or a dine-in theater such as Alamo Drafthouse near you, check their calendars as they are almost always showing something cool.
These chains have different movies at each location so it’s impossible for us to keep up with them. Do some leg work and get out to see some movies!
Fathom Events
This is the largest distributor of re-releases and live broadcast in-theater events.
Even though they work closely with most of the big-time chains in the United States, not every chain will carry every event and not every theater in a given chain will carry a chain’s Fathom schedule.
Again, do some leg work!
Alien
The 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi masterpiece Alien.
This anniversary event includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies.
- October 13, 15 & 16, 2019: Check your local theater or visit the Fathom website.
Jay & Silent Bob Reboot
The stoner icons who first hit the screen 25 years ago in Clerks are back! When Jay and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting an old movie based on them, the clueless duo embark on another cross-country mission to stop it all over again!
- October 15, 2019: Introduction from Kevin Smith, bonus content and an exclusive commemorative poster (limited quantities; first come, first serve). Check your local theater or visit the Fathom website.
- October 17, 2019: Double feature with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back plus bonus content. Check your local theater or visit the Fathom website.
QT8: The First Eight
I guess this settles the controversy over whether Deathproof counts as one of his movies.
As Tarantino’s newest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood arrives to praise and controversy, filmmaker Tara Wood takes us on a journey through the first 8 wildly divergent films that Tarantino has helmed, narrated by the actors and collaborators who have worked with him.
From Reservoir Dogs through The Hateful Eight, from the video store to the fall of Harvey Weinstein, QT8 digs deep into the story of the most important and controversial filmmaker of our time.
- October 21, 2019: Check your local theater or visit the Fathom website.
The Reliant
A once-in-a-lifetime currency collapse leads to rioting and anarchy throughout the nation. In the city of Zanesville, Ohio, one family prepares for a quick exit out of town. Rick, a father of five (Kevin Sorbo), having barely survived being caught in a riot in one of the hardest-hit areas of the city, orders his children to quickly prepare to leave.
Suddenly, the family is targeted by looters and their father is shot. At the mother’s urging (Julia Denton), the children flee for the hundreds of acres of woods behind their home. Surrounded by violence and a burning city, they create a shelter and they do their best to survive. Without weapons to defend themselves, they are resolved to try to hide from the ever-encroaching marauders all around them.
Jesus Hector Christ, can you get any more boomer fantasy than this? Save some boogaloo for the rest of us, gramps!
- October 24, 2019: Check your local theater or visit the Fathom website.
AMC Theaters
The largest movie theater chain in the United States with over 8,200 screens in 661 theatres in the United States.
NFL On AMC Big Screens
No shit? Someone finally thought of this.
AMC is bringing you a new way to watch Sunday football in stunning detail. Check back Friday evening to find out which games are showing at select pilot theatres.
- Starting on October 13, 2019. Check for participating AMC theaters.
The Climbers
Based on a true story from award-winning director Daniel Lee (Three Kingdoms, 14 Blades), featuring China’s biggest stars Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior 2) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), and with a special guest appearance from superstar Jackie Chan. The Climbers is a cinematic retelling of the first Chinese climbers to summit Mount Everest — the first ever to do so from the North Ridge. Well-known as the most challenging side of the mountain, the perilous journey takes its toll on the mountaineers, physically and mentally, forcing them to make life or death decisions at every turn.
- Wide on October 4, 2019. Check for participating AMC theaters.
The Current War – Director’s Cut
Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology.
We’re cool, we’re geniuses, blah, blah, blah.
- Opens October 25, 2019. Check for participating AMC theaters.
Battle Of Jangsari
At a critical point in the Korean War, a small, inexperienced battalion of student soldiers are tasked with liberating the strategic location of Incheon. With little ammunition, low food supplies and second-hand weapons, the soldiers head for the front lines of Jangsari beach. Based on the true story of forgotten heroes of the Korean War, can the student soldiers successfully carry out their mission and turn the tide of the war?
- Opens October 25, 2019. Check for participating AMC theaters.
AMC also features many of the Fathom Events movies, so check your local theaters.
Regal Cinemas
Regal operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with over 7,307 screens in 564 theaters as of June 2016.
Battle Of Jangsari
In 1950, over 700 student soldiers with only two weeks of boot camp training are deployed to open a path for the larger Incheon Landing Operation. This battle helped to turn the tide of the war against the communist-backed forces from the North.
Weird that AMC and Regal have two different summaries of the same movie.
- Opens October 11, 2019. Check for participating Regal theaters.
Regal features some of the Fathom Events movies. Check your local theater.
Cinemark Theaters
Cinemark operates over 4,499 screens in about 335 theatres in the United States.
Mister America
Despite being completely inexperienced and broke and having just defeated a murder charge, a man mounts a campaign to unseat the San Bernardino district attorney.
Tim Heidecker is in this movie. He trends big among fangoos like you, right?
- October 9, 2019: Check for participating Cinemark theaters.
Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell
First, there was House of 1000 Corpses. Then there was The Devils Rejects. Now, from writer/director Rob Zombie comes the next blood-soaked chapter in the most violent crime saga in history.
- Only on September 14, 2019. Check for participating Cinemark theaters.
Cinemark features some of the Fathom Events movies. Check your local theater.
Marcus Theaters
Marcus operates screens in Ohio, Nebraska Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Illinois, and Missouri. Marcus operates over 681 screens in about 53 theatres.
The Funhouse
- October 11 & 12, 2019 at participating Marcus Theaters.
Friday The 13th
- October 11, 12 & 13, 2019 at participating Marcus Theaters.
Jaws
- October 13, 14 & 16, 2019 at participating Marcus Theaters.
Psycho
- October 20, 21 & 23, 2019 at participating Marcus Theaters.
Halloween (1978)
- October 24, 25 & 63, 2019 at participating Marcus Theaters.
Marcus Theaters features some of the Fathom Events movies.
Harkins Theaters
Harkins manages about 501 screens in 33 theatres throughout Texas, Oklahoma, California, Arizona, and Colorado.
First Love
The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
- Opens October 11, 2019 at participating Harkins Theaters.
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Office Space
- October 15, 2019 at participating theaters.
Ghostbusters
- October 22, 2019 at participating theaters.
Harkins shows almost all Fathom Events. Check the Harkins Theaters schedule.
Showcase Cinemas
Showcase AKA National Amusements, Inc., operates movie screens in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Ohio.
No Unique Re-releases This Week.
Showcase Cinemas shows almost all Fathom Events.
