🎬 New Movies
UPDATED ON September 1, 2026 (New movies set to be released this fall.)
Looking for your next movie night idea? Each month we bring you a mix of theatrical standouts and streaming premieres — perfect for a night out or a quiet evening in. Here are some of the best new releases for Utah film fans. Keep in mind that studios move release dates, and a few of these get limited or event-only runs, so not everything below will land at every theater along the Wasatch Front — check your local listings before you head out.
Cars: 20th Anniversary (G)
🗓️ Release: September 4 | 🎭 Animated / Family | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 G
📝 Synopsis: Lightning McQueen returns to the big screen for a two-decade victory lap. The Pixar classic about a hotshot rookie stranded in Radiator Springs is back in theaters with Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Keaton and the late Paul Newman's Doc Hudson. A great excuse to introduce the youngest kids to Route 66.
Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass (PG)
🗓️ Release: September 4 | 🎭 Animated / Adventure | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG
📝 Synopsis: The world's most famous cat-and-mouse rivalry goes on a full-blown adventure. A mysterious compass capable of unlocking hidden worlds falls into the wrong hands, pulling Tom and Jerry into a chase far bigger than the kitchen floor. Eric Bauza leads the voice cast.
Onslaught (R)
🗓️ Release: September 4 | 🎭 Action / Sci-Fi | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Adria Arjona plays an Army sniper going to war with a rogue squad of genetically engineered soldiers loose in the desert — with her young daughter caught in the middle. Director Adam Wingard brings a hard edge, backed by Rebecca Hall, Drew Starkey and Michael Biehn. Adults only.
By Any Means (R)
🗓️ Release: September 4 | 🎭 Crime / Drama | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as a young Black FBI agent sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate killings targeting civil rights leaders. His forced partner is a notorious mafia hitman played by Mark Wahlberg. David Strathairn and Nicole Beharie co-star.
The Uprising (R)
🗓️ Release: September 11 | 🎭 Historical / Action | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: During England's Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a farmer rises up to lead a rebellion against the forces of the young King Richard II. Andrew Garfield leads a cast that includes Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Thomasin McKenzie and Cosmo Jarvis. Big, muddy, period-piece filmmaking.
Runner (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: September 11 | 🎭 Action / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: A former soldier (Alan Ritchson) and an unlikely partner (Owen Wilson) have to move a critical medical delivery across cartel country to save a little girl's life. Equal parts chase movie and buddy comedy, with Rodrigo Santoro and Leila George along for the ride.
Practical Magic 2 (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: September 11 | 🎭 Fantasy / Romance | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters nearly thirty years later, facing down the family curse once and for all. Dianne Wiest is back as Aunt Jet, with Maisie Williams and Lee Pace joining. A moonlit, autumn-flavored girls'-night pick.
Don't Look Back In Anger (R)
🗓️ Release: September 11 | 🎭 Documentary / Music | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: The Oasis reunion, on IMAX. This documentary follows Liam and Noel Gallagher's Live '25 tour with rehearsal, backstage and onstage access, plus the brothers' first joint interviews in more than twenty years. Loud, uplifting and built for the biggest sound system you can find.
Resident Evil (R)
🗓️ Release: September 18 | 🎭 Horror / Action | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Zach Cregger, fresh off Weapons and Barbarian, reboots the franchise from scratch. Austin Abrams plays a medical courier whose ordinary night collapses into a nonstop fight to survive. Paul Walter Hauser and Kali Reis co-star. The season's marquee scare.
The Weight (R)
🗓️ Release: September 18 | 🎭 Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Ethan Hawke plays a prisoner offered his freedom if he can smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a crew of convicts. Russell Crowe is the warden who sets the terms. Out in the backcountry, the terrain turns out to be the least of the danger.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (PG)
🗓️ Release: September 18 | 🎭 Animated / Family | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG
📝 Synopsis: Aardman's claymation flock gets a Halloween adventure. After the Farmer wrecks the pumpkin patch, Shaun's mad-scientist fix spirals out of control, leaving a wild beast prowling the woods and the Farmer missing. Wordless, warm-hearted fun that plays forevery age.
Avengers: Endgame – Encore (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: September 25 | 🎭 Action / Superhero | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Marvel brings its highest-grossing chapter back to theaters ahead of what's next. If you only ever watched Thanos on a living-room television, this is the correction. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and the full roster, three hours, big screen.
Heart of the Beast (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: September 25 | 🎭 Adventure / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝Synopsis: Brad Pitt plays a Special Forces officer stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog, Odin, after a plane crash. Director David Ayer keeps it lean and physical — man, dog, weather. J.K. Simmons co-stars.
Forgotten Island (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: September 25 | 🎭 Animated / Family | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: DreamWorks sends two best friends through a portal onto Nakali, an island out of the Filipino folklore their families raised them on. Dave Franco voices a hapless weredog, Lea Salonga voices the island's most feared creature, and the price of going home is the memory of their friendship. With Jenny Slate, Manny Jacinto and Ronny Chieng.
Verity (R)
🗓️ Release: October 2 | 🎭 Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: The Colleen Hoover bestseller comes to the screen. A struggling writer (Dakota Johnson) is hired to ghostwrite for a famous novelist and finds an autobiographical manuscript she was never meant to read. Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star; Michael Showalter directs.
Digger (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 2 | 🎭 Drama / Dark Comedy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: Tom Cruise stars for Alejandro G. Iñárritu as the most powerful man in the world, racing to prove he's humanity's savior before the disaster he set loose finishes the job. John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Michael Stuhlbarg fill out one of the fall's most unusual casts.
The Social Reckoning (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 9 | 🎭 Drama / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network, drawn from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files reporting. Mikey Madison plays whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White the reporter who helps her go public. Bill Burr and Betty Gilpin co-star.
Other Mommy (R)
🗓️ Release: October 9 | 🎭 Horror / Supernatural | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Jessica Chastain anchors this haunted-house story about an entity that wants to move into a little girl — but first it has to talk her into letting it in. Rob Savage directs. October's straight-down-the-middle scary movie.
Whalefall (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Survival / Thriller | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: Adapted from Daniel Kraus's novel, a young scuba diver searching for his late father's remains is swallowed by an eighty-foot sperm whale with one hour of oxygen left. Austin Abrams stars alongside Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue. A remarkable one-location premise.
Street Fighter (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Action / Adventure | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: Set in 1993, the arcade legend returns with Andrew Koji as Ryu and Noah Centineo as Ken, pulled back into the World Warrior Tournament by Chun-Li (Callina Liang). Jason Momoa, Eric Andre and Cody Rhodes round out a cast that clearly knows what it signed up for.
Sense and Sensibility (PG)
🗓️ Release: October 16 | 🎭 Drama / Romance | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG
📝 Synopsis: Jane Austen, freshly adapted. Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay lead the Dashwood sisters' story of dwindling fortunes and competing suitors in Georgian England, with Fiona Shaw and Caitríona Balfe. Georgia Oakley directs. A rare fall release the whole family can sit through.
Wildwood (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Animated / Fantasy | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
?? Synopsis: Laika's handcrafted stop-motion epic, directed by Travis Knight. A girl crosses into a forbidden forest to rescue her baby brother and finds a hidden realm of enchanted creatures and warring factions. Voices include Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay and Tom Waits.
Clayface (Not Yet Rated)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Action / Superhero | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 Not Yet Rated
📝 Synopsis: DC goes horror. A Gotham street kid turned Hollywood star is disfigured by a crime boss, then takes an experimental treatment that restores his face and destroys his grip on reality. James Watkins directs from a Matt Reeves-produced script, with Eddie Marsan and Tom Rhys Harries.
Klara and the Sun (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 23 | 🎭 Drama / Sci-Fi | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: Taika Waititi adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's novel with Jenna Ortega as Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants only to find the right home. When she's chosen by an ailing girl (Mia Tharia), her devotion starts to heal a family carrying real loss. Amy Adams co-stars.
Everest: The Other Side (PG-13)
🗓️ Release: October 30 | 🎭 Documentary / IMAX | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 PG-13
📝 Synopsis: From the Oscar-winning team behind Free Solo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi follow ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they chase the direct North Face of Everest — the most coveted ski line on earth, and one nobody has ever completed. Worth the IMAX ticket.
The Mosquito Bowl (R)
🗓️ Release: October 30 | 🎭 Drama / War | ⏱️ Click for Times| 🔞 R
📝 Synopsis: Peter Berg directs the true story of college football stars who enlisted in the Marines after Pearl Harbor and played one legendary game on Guadalcanal before the invasion of Okinawa. Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård and Ray Nicholson star.