Bad Santa 2, Moana and Allied Among Movies Opening In Theaters This Weekend

Bad Santa 2, Moana and  Allied debut in movie theaters around St. Louis this weekend. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, The Accountant and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children are now showing at Keller 8 Cinema. Bad Moms and Captain Fantastic are among the movies now available to rent at Redbox.

Moana and Bad Santa 2 opens tonight at MX Movies in downtown St. Louis in 2D and 3D. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them will also be showing throughout the weekend.

Recapping Last Weekend

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them broke Doctor Strange‘s hold on the box office with a $74.4 million opening. Strange slipped to second place in its third weekend of release with a $17.8 million third weekend.  Trolls was just behind with $17.5 million in its third weekend of release.

The Edge of Seventeen brought in $4.8 million in its debut and Bleed for This was good for $2.4 million in receipts.

Opening This Weekend

Bad Santa 2

Billy Bob Thorton is back in theaters this week as Willie Soke, 13 years after Bad Santa first hit theaters. The original brought in $12.3 million on its opening weekend and $60 million during its theater run. The film has gained fans since and become somewhat or a holiday classic.

In Bad Santa 2, Thorton is still the “world’s drunkest, crookedest Kris Kringle,” as Rolling Stone referred to him in their review of the film. Tony Cox is back as Soke’s sidekick, Marcus. That’s the same Cox that played an Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. Kathy Bates also joins the cast as Willie’s mother.

Todd M. Thatcher predicts an opening weekend of $8.1 million for Bad Santa 2.

Bad Santa 2 trailer

Moana

Auli’i Cravalho voices Moana, a young woman that sails on off an adventure to save her people by finding the demigod Maui, voiced by Dwayne Johnson.

Hawaiian actress Cravalho grew up with the Polynesian myth that the film is based on. The Daily Beast calls Moana the movie “revolutionary” and Moana the character “Disney’s most unapologetically feminist princess yet.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton creator and Tony award, wrote seven of the songs on the Moana soundtrack. His work on the film could win him an Oscar, according to people who speculate about those things.

Todd M. Thatcher predicts an opening weekend of $56.4 million for Moana.

Moana trailer

Allied

Brad Pitt and Maarion Cotillard star in the WWII film Allied, in theaters this week. David Blaustein of ABCNews calls the film “nearly perfect” in his review.

Todd M. Thatcher predicts an opening weekend for $14.2 million for Allied.

Allied trailer

Catch It Before It’s Gone

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children comes to Keller 8 Cinema in South County this weekend having already passed the $250 million mark worldwide. Here’s a film that you’ll want to see in theaters while you can.

The Accountant and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back are both new to Keller 8 this week as well.

On Friday, November 25, Keller 8 is hosting a free screening of the Christmas classic Home Alone. Doors will open at 8:30 am for the 9 am showing. Head over to their Facebook page for more information.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Make It A Redbox Night

Captain Fantastic

Festival darling Captain Fantastic is now available to rent at your local Redbox. Viggo Mortensen’s turn as Ben Cash is putting him in the conversation for Best Actor awards come Oscar and Golden Globe season.

Captain Fantastic trailer

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