Published Date: 24/12/2021

Your Go-To Guide For Movie Releases in 2022

Okay, hands up who’s looking forward to 2022? Who hasn’t bought a diary for a few years? Well, now is the time to get out your calendars and that marker pen and start planning the cinematic year ahead! We have something for everybody here at Showcase Cinemas.

Fancy a rom-com? George Clooney and Julia Roberts have that sorted, Jordan Peele returns with his third horror, Robert Pattinson is the new caped crusader, Eddie Redmayne is once again Newt Scamander and James Cameron is back with his long-awaited Avatar sequel!

Here we have just a brief sketch of the cinematic year ahead. There is more to come but suffice to say we think you’ll agree we are in for a bumper feast of film! And as usual, dates are correct at the time of writing but subject to change…

JANUARY

Out Now: Scream (2022) (Earn £2 extra Insider Rewards)
Directed by Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett; starring Courtney Cox & David Arquette


Out Now: Belfast
Directed by Kenneth Branagh; starring Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill

Out Now: Sing 2 
Directed by Garth Jennings; starring Taron Egerton, Scarlett Johansson, Letitia Wright, Bono

FEBRUARY

Out Now: Moonfall
Directed by Roland Emmerich; starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley

Out Now: Jackass Forever (Tickets on sale)
Directed by Jeff Tremaine

Out Now: Uncharted
Directed by Ruben Fleischer; starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg

Out Now: Marry Me 
Directed by Kat Coiro; starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma

Out Now: Death on the Nile 
Directed by Kenneth Branagh; starring Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot

18: Dog (Tickets on sale)
Directed by Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin; starring Channing Tatum

11: The Duke (Tickets on sale)
Directed by Roger Michell; starring Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren

25: Cyrano
Directed by Joe Wright; starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr.

MARCH

4: The Batman (Tickets on sale)
Directed by Matt Reeves; starring Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano. Andy Serkis

11: Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
Directed by Guy Ritchie; starring Jason Statham, Josh Hartnett, Hugh Grant

25: The Lost City
Directed by Aaron New & Adam Nee; starring Sanda Bullock, Channing Tatum

25: Ambulance
Directed by Michael Bay; starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González

APRIL

1: Easter Sunday
Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar; starring Jay Chandrasekhar

1: Morbius
Directed by Daniel Espinosa; starring Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Michael Keaton

1: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Directed by Jeff Fowler; starring Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba

1: The Contractor
Directed by Tarik Saleh; starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs, Eddie Marsan

8: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Directed by David Yates; starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston Jude Law

15: The Phantom of the Open
Directed by Craig Roberts; starring Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins

22: The Unbearable Wight of Massive Talent
Directed by Tom Gormican; starring Nicolas Cage

22: The Northman
Directed by Robert Eggers; starring Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke Willem Dafoe

22: Operation Mincemeat
Directed by John Madden; starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald

29: Fisherman’s Friend’s: One and All
Directed by Meg Leonard & Nick Moorcroft; starring James Purefoy, David Hayman

29: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Directed by Anthony Fabien; starring Jason Isaacs, Isabelle Huppert, Lesley Manville

MAY

6: Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness
Directed by Sam Raimi; starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams, Chiewetel Ejiofor

20: Pinocchio: A True Story
Directed by Guillermo del Toro

20: DC League of Super-pets
Directed by Jared Stern & Sam Levine

27: Top Gun: Maverick
Directed by Joseph Kosinski; starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly

27: Bob’s Burgers: The Movie
Directed Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman

JUNE

10: Jurassic World: Dominion
Directed by Colin Treorrow; starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard

17: Lightyear
Directed by Angus MacLaine

24: The Black Phone
Directed by Scott Derrickson; starring Ethan Hawke

24: Elvis
Directed by Baz Luhrmann; starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks

JULY

1: Minions: The Rise of Gru
Directed by Kyle Balda

8: Thor: Love and Thunder
Directed by Taika Waititi; starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Matt Damon, Chris Pratt, Karen Gilla

15: The Railway Children Return
Directed by Morgan Matthews; starring Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay

15: Bullet Train
Directed by David Leitch; starring Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt

22: Where the Crawdads Sing
Directed by Olivia Newman; starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith

22: Nope
Directed by Jordan Peele; starring Daniel Kaluuya, Ethan Cutkosky

29: Black Adam
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra; starring Dwayne Johnson

AUGUST

12: Secret Headquarters
Directed by Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost; starring Owen Wilson, Michael Peña

12: The Man from Toronto
Directed by Patrick Hughes; starring Woody Harrelson, Kevin Hart

19: Oh Hell No
Directed by Kitao Sakurai; starring Jack Black

26: Bros
Directed by Nicholas Stoller; starring Billy Eichner

26: The Bride
Directed by Jesica M. Thompson; starring Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Stephanie Corneliussen

SEPTEMBER

9: Salem’s Lot
Directed by Gary Dauberman; starring Alfre Woodard, William Sadler, Spencer Treat Clark

16: Distant
Directed by Josh Gordon & Will Speck; starring Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott

16: Woman King
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; starring Viola Davis

16: Ticket to Paradise
Directed by Ol Parker; starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts

16: White Birds: A Wonder Story
Directed by Marc Foster; starring Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren

23: Dark Harvest
Directed by David Slade; starring Luke Kirby, Elizabeth Reaser

23: Don’t Worry Darling
Directed by Olivia Wilde; starring Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde

OCTOBER

7: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos

14: Halloween Ends
Directed by David Gordon Green; starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards

21: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Directed by Joel Crawford & Januel Mercado

NOVEMBER

4: The Flash
Directed by Andy Muschietti; starring Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, Ezra Miller

11: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Directed by Ryan Coogler; starring Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Martin Freeman

18: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Directed by Josh Gordon; Javier Bardem

18: Thirteen Lives
Directed by Ron Howard; starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton

25: Strange World
Directed by Don Hal

DECEMBER

2: Matilda
Directed Matthew Warchus; Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough

16: Avatar 2
Directed by James Cameron; starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver

16: Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom
Directed by James Wan; starring Amber Heard, Jason Momoa, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson

21: Mario
Directed Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic; starring Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Seth Rogen

23: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Directed by Kasi Lemmons; Naomi Ackie, Ashton Sanders, Stanley Tucci