Prepare for a darkly comedic thriller full of suspense, mystery, and shocking twists. When the protagonist’s night of celebration turns deadly, survival hinges on wits, courage, and cunning. Perfect for fans of thrillers, dark comedy, and high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat storytelling.
Jun 19 – Jun 21, 2026
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Pixar built an entire generation's imagination. The Toy Story films taught children how to feel things before they had the vocabulary for it — what it means to be loved, to be left behind, to grow up, to let go. Toy Story 5 opens June 19th, 2026 at theaters nationwide, from $15, and it is arriving into a world where the people who grew up with Woody and Buzz are now the ones buying the tickets.
There is a specific experience that happens in a theater during a Pixar film that doesn't exist anywhere else. Adults who thought they were just bringing their kids find themselves caught completely off guard at the end of act two. The person next to you laughs at the same moment you do. Someone in the back left section cries and makes everyone else feel something too. The shared reaction is part of the film.
Opening weekend is when that energy is fullest. The theater is full of people who waited, who have opinions already, who will want to talk about it immediately after. From $15 at theaters everywhere. See it with someone who will need to process it afterward. That's the right way to watch a Pixar film — not later, not at home, in the room with everyone else while it's still new.
Jul 3 – Jul 5, 2026
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Silvers opens July 3rd, 2026 at theaters nationwide from $15. A new film on the eve of the Fourth of July weekend — which means the opening night audience is the crowd that chose this over the holiday weekend's alternatives, which tells you something about what kind of film this is and what kind of audience it draws.
July 4th weekend is one of the biggest moviegoing periods of the year, which means the studio chose this date deliberately and the film was built to earn its place in it. Opening weekend audiences for summer theatrical releases carry a specific energy — people arrived with expectation, the theater is full, and the collective experience of a summer film with a crowd that wanted to be there is the version the filmmakers were making for.
From $15. July 3rd. Find your theater and book before the holiday weekend fills. Opening night, first weekend — this is when the communal experience of a new theatrical release is at its fullest. The film plays differently in a full house than it does in a half-empty midweek matinee. Opening weekend is the right time, and July 4th weekend is the fullest opening weekend of the summer.
Aug 14 – Aug 16, 2026
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Flowervale Street opens August 14th, 2026 at theaters nationwide from $15. Some films are built for the room — for the collective attention of an audience watching together, the way sound designed for a theater arrives in your sternum rather than your ears, the way a visual story told at scale on a proper screen is a different experience than the same story in a browser window.
Flowervale Street is a theatrical film, which means it was made to be seen the way its makers intended — in the dark, with other people, at the scale the cinematographer assumed when they were framing it. The opening weekend audience brings an energy to that experience that the second-week audience doesn't: the room is full of people who didn't wait, who made a choice to prioritize the theatrical experience, who want to be first.
From $15. August 14th. Find your theater and book before the first weekend's showtimes fill. The film is worth seeing before the conversation around it shapes how you see it. Go in clean. The best version of a new film is the version you watch before anyone has told you what to notice. Opening weekend is the only time that's possible.
Aug 21 – Aug 23, 2026
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Theaters nationwide. August 21st. From $15. Thread: An Insidious Tale — the latest chapter in the horror franchise that made institutional dread and slow-building atmospheric terror its signature — arriving in theaters in the late-summer slot that horror belongs to, when the audience is ready for something that stays with them past the parking lot.
The Insidious films have operated in the specific register of horror that trusts silence more than most. The scares live in the margins — what isn't shown, what arrives a beat later than expected, what the frame holds just long enough to become wrong. Thread carries that lineage into new territory, which means the rules the franchise established are both the foundation and the tool the filmmakers are working against.
From $15 at theaters everywhere. August 21st. Opening weekend horror is its own experience — the crowd that came to be scared knows the contract and holds up their end. The collective silence before a jump scare, the audible release after it lands, the conversations walking out of the lobby: these happen in the room together or not at all. See Thread opening weekend. Bring someone who frightens easily.
Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026
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Practical Magic 2 opens September 18th, 2026 at theaters nationwide from $15. The original Practical Magic arrived in 1998 and found its audience not on opening weekend but in the years after — the people who watched it repeatedly, who quoted it, who built an affection for it that the box office numbers never predicted. That audience has been waiting.
A sequel to a cult film is one of the few movie events where the opening weekend crowd is not casual. These are the people who saw the original enough times that they know exactly what they want from this one, and who will be vocal about whether they got it. The theater on September 18th will be full of that specific intensity — part anticipation, part protectiveness, part genuine excitement that this is happening at all.
From $15. Opening weekend. See it before the discourse shapes how you see it. The conversation around a cult sequel moves fast and has opinions before most people have tickets. Be in the room for the first watch. The shared experience of seeing something this anticipated with people who cared the same way is not replicable once the initial weekend passes.
Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026
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Capcom's Resident Evil franchise returns to theaters September 18th, 2026 — a new film iteration of the survival horror property that has outlasted every attempt to reduce it to a single genre, a single formula, or a single tone. From $15 at theaters nationwide.
Resident Evil in theaters is its own specific experience. The audience that shows up for a Resident Evil opening weekend is not casual — they are franchise-literate, they have opinions about adaptation choices before the first frame, and when the film delivers something that earns it, the room reacts collectively in a way that watching alone never produces. When it delivers a scare well, thirty people flinch in unison and the nervous laughter that follows is part of the film.
See it opening weekend. The conversation around a franchise adaptation is loudest in the first days — the debates that start in the lobby, continue in the parking lot, and run through the group chat for a week are part of the experience the film creates. From $15 at theaters everywhere. Find your local showing. The horror is better in the dark, with other people who are choosing to be afraid alongside you. Opening weekend disappears fast. Be in the room for the first one.
Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026
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Theaters nationwide. October 2nd. From $15. Verity — the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's psychological thriller, one of the most-read novels of the last three years — arriving in theaters with the weight of a book that climbed back to the top of bestseller lists through reader-to-reader word of mouth and hasn't stopped since.
The Verity novel built its audience the way the best thrillers do: by making every person who finished it need to tell someone else immediately. The film carries that obligation into the theater — the audience is made up of people who have already been through the story once and want to see what the film does with it, and people being brought by those readers who couldn't stop talking about it. Both experiences are different. Neither is lesser.
From $15 at theaters everywhere. October 2nd. The opening weekend of a BookTok-level thriller adaptation is the theatrical event where the conversation starts in real time — the theories, the reactions to what changed, the debate in the lobby about whether the ending means what you think it means. See it opening weekend, when the room is full and the conversation hasn't been settled yet.
Dec 11 – Dec 13, 2026
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Theaters nationwide. December 11th, 2026. From $15. Jumanji 3 — the continuation of the franchise that turned the original Robin Williams film into a two-sequel action comedy franchise, arriving in December with the cast and the stakes that the previous installments built toward.
The Jumanji franchise operates on the logic of people trapped inside a video game, which creates the specific comedy structure where the actors are playing characters playing characters. The third installment has the advantage of a franchise that knows how to work this premise — the cast chemistry has been established over two films, and the December release slot means the studio is betting on a broad audience that wants something fun and well-made.
From $15 at theaters everywhere. December 11th. Opening weekend of a franchise installment that has delivered consistently is the version of a movie theater experience where the crowd came ready to enjoy themselves, which is the best version of a movie theater crowd. See it before the holiday break fills every screen with the same few options.