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New Movies in Utah
November 2026 · Updated November 2, 2026
November is when the holiday movie season really starts. This month brings a new Hunger Games, a Disney animated film for Thanksgiving weekend, Dr. Seuss for the little ones, Godzilla in IMAX, and a pair of true stories about Jimmy Stewart and the making of Rocky. Here's everything worth knowing before you head to the theater along the Wasatch Front.
Studios move dates, and some titles open in select cities first, so not every film lands at every Utah theater on opening day. Tap "Showtimes" on any movie to check what's playing near you.
Opening November 6
The Cat in the Hat
📝 Dr. Seuss's troublemaker gets a fresh animated adventure with Bill Hader voicing the Cat. To keep his job at a magical institute, he has to cheer up two kids who just moved to a new town and are having a hard time fitting in. Xochitl Gomez, Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, America Ferrera and Giancarlo Esposito fill out the voice cast.
⏱️ ShowtimesGodzilla Minus Zero
📝 Takashi Yamazaki follows up his Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One, bringing back Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe as the monster returns and King Ghidorah joins the fight. It's the first Japanese film shot for IMAX, and the first Godzilla movie ever rated R, so this one is for older teens and adults. IMAX theaters hold early screenings on November 3, Godzilla Day.
⏱️ ShowtimesJimmy
📝 KJ Apa plays Jimmy Stewart in the years between his Oscar for The Philadelphia Story and his return from World War II, when the biggest star in Hollywood walked away to fly combat missions. Neal McDonough plays his father, with Jason Alexander as Louis B. Mayer and Max Casella as Frank Capra. A donation campaign through Vet Tix is putting military families in seats for free.
⏱️ ShowtimesDrummer Boy
📝 The Grammy-winning band for KING + COUNTRY turns their holiday tradition into Angel Studios' first live-action musical: two brothers who end up on opposite sides of the American Revolution, told with Christmas music woven through. Joel Smallbone co-directs and stars alongside Ioan Gruffudd, Melora Hardin and Iain Glen. Rated PG-13 for war violence.
⏱️ ShowtimesWild Horse Nine
📝 From Martin McDonagh, the writer-director of Three Billboards and The Banshees of Inisherin. In 1973, just before Chile's coup, two bickering CIA officers (Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich) are sent to remote Easter Island, where things go sideways. Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey and Tom Waits co-star. An awards-season film for grown-ups.
⏱️ ShowtimesOpening November 11–13
Veterans Day (Wednesday) and the following Friday
Ghost Soldier
📝 Jim Caviezel plays a former Green Beret and weapons engineer who takes a stand when a ruthless corporation goes after his ranching neighbors in Wyoming. Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt and Shea Whigham co-star; Will Eubank directs. Previously announced under the title Archangel.
⏱️ ShowtimesEbenezer: A Christmas Carol
📝 Johnny Depp is Scrooge in horror filmmaker Ti West's darker, Gothic take on Dickens, which expands on the original story of the miser visited by three spirits. Ian McKellen, Daisy Ridley, Sam Claflin, Andrea Riseborough, Tramell Tillman and Rupert Grint co-star. Given the director, check the rating before bringing little ones.
⏱️ ShowtimesHow to Rob a Bank
📝 David Leitch (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy) directs Nicholas Hoult as the leader of a crew that films its bank jobs for social media and gives the money away. A veteran FBI agent (John C. Reilly) and a hacker (Zoë Kravitz) team up to stop them. Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson co-star.
⏱️ ShowtimesPaper Tiger
📝 James Gray's 1980s New York story stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller as brothers chasing a big business deal that pulls them into the Russian mob and puts their family at risk. Scarlett Johansson co-stars. It competed at Cannes and opened the New York Film Festival. Expect it in Utah once it goes nationwide on November 20.
⏱️ ShowtimesOpening November 20
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
📝 The big one this month. Set 24 years before Katniss, it follows a 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) chosen for the 50th Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell that sends twice as many tributes into the arena. Mckenna Grace, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons and Ralph Fiennes co-star; Francis Lawrence directs again. Runs about two and a half hours, and the PG-13 is for strong violence and bloody images.
⏱️ ShowtimesI Play Rocky
📝 Peter Farrelly (Green Book) tells how an unknown Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) wrote Rocky and refused to sell it unless he could play the lead himself. Matt Dillon, AnnaSophia Robb and Toby Kebbell co-star, with Stephan James as Carl Weathers. It lands one day before the 50th anniversary of the original's premiere.
⏱️ ShowtimesThanksgiving Week
Most open Wednesday, November 25, ahead of the long weekend
Hexed
📝 Disney's Thanksgiving animated release. Impulsive teenager Billie (Hailee Steinfeld) discovers she has magic, which pulls her and her careful mom (Rashida Jones) into a hidden world of witches full of family secrets. Walton Goggins, Henry Winkler and Tracey Ullman are among the voices.
⏱️ ShowtimesFocker-in-Law
📝 The Meet the Parents gang is back. Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam (Teri Polo) learn their grown son Henry plans to propose to his girlfriend (Ariana Grande), so Greg teams up with Jack (Robert De Niro) to put her through the same tests he once failed. Owen Wilson returns, too.
⏱️ ShowtimesThe Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth
📝 Brad Pitt returns to his Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood role in a film written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by David Fincher. It's 1977, and Cliff has traded stunt work for a job as a Hollywood studio fixer. Elizabeth Debicki, Carla Gugino and Timothy Olyphant co-star. It plays only on IMAX screens for two weeks, then streams on Netflix December 23.
⏱️ IMAX TicketsHershey
📝 Finn Wittrock plays Milton Hershey, who went broke before building a chocolate empire, with Alexandra Daddario as his wife, Kitty, the love of his life who inspired the couple to leave their fortune to orphaned children. Mark Waters (Freaky Friday) directs for Angel Studios. Angel's own guidance suggests ages 8 and up because of themes of illness and loss.
⏱️ TicketsSpecial Screenings & Re-Releases
- Nov 7–11Rocky — 50th Anniversary
The 1976 original back on the big screen, a perfect warm-up for I Play Rocky. - Nov 13The Angry Birds Movie — 10th Anniversary
A limited return for the kids, shown in 3D at select theaters. - Nov 22A Beautiful Mind — 25th Anniversary
The Best Picture winner with Russell Crowe, one-day limited screenings.
📺 Watch at Home
Recent theater releases arriving on streaming and digital this month
- Nov 17 · Digital rent or buyThe Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's summer epic, rated R, comes home for rental and purchase. - Nov 18 · Prime VideoMadden
The John Madden story arrives on Prime Video a week after a short theatrical run. - Nov 25 · NetflixThe Mosquito Bowl
Peter Berg's true story of college football stars turned Marines, less than a month after it hit theaters.
Coming in December
Dates as announced; we'll have the full list here when the month arrives
- Dec 4Violent Night 2
David Harbour's action-hero Santa is back, with Kristen Bell joining the cast. - Dec 18Avengers: Doomsday & Dune: Part Three
Two of the year's biggest movies open the same weekend. - From Dec 18It's a Wonderful Life — 80th Anniversary
Jimmy Stewart's holiday classic returns to theaters. - ChristmasZero A.D.
Angel Studios' biblical epic about Mary's sacrifices to protect the infant Jesus.
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