January is often seen as the month to hit the Gym and rack up those New Year Resolutions. Considering this month is the beginning of the decade, you might wanna make an exception and hit the theatre. Here's a list of movies that would be showing in theatres worldwide for the month of January
Like a Boss
Release Date: January 10th
Cast: Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge, Natasha Rothwell
Genre: Comedy
Plot: Two friends; Mel and Mia decide to start their own beauty company. One is more practical, while the other wants to earn her fortune quickly and live a lavish lifestyle. The company runs into debt forcing the owners to turn to a devious benefactor who intends to steal the business. The two friends are thus forced to address their differences to save their company.
Underwater
Release Date: January 8th (Indonesia)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, T.J. Miller
Genre: Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
Plot: The film follows a crew of aquatic researchers whose underwater laboratory gets destroyed by an earthquake. They work to get to safety but encounter a group of creatures in the process.
Les Miserables
Release Date: January 10th
Cast: Alexis Manenti, Damien Bonnard, Djibril Zonga, Jeanne Balibar
Genre: Comedy
Plot: Stephane, only just arrived from Cherbourg, joins the anti-criminality brigade of Montfermeil in a sensitive district of the Paris suburbs. Paired up with Chris and Gwada whose methods are sometimes unorthodox he rapidly discovers the tensions between the various neighborhood groups. When an arrest starts to get out of hand, a drone begins filming every move they make.Bad Boys for Life
Release Date: January 17th
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa HudgensGenre: Action & Adventure, Comedy
Plot: The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back together for one last ride. Marcus has become a police inspector whiles Mike is assigned to head AMMO, a "young guns" group of millennial cops with whom he has nothing in common. Just as they are about to retire, a fierce cartel mob boss whose brother they defeated years earlier assaults Mike. They reunite to take him down.
DoLittle
Release Date: January 17th
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Selena GomezGenre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Plot: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls severely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
My Spy
Release Date: January 9th (Australia)
Cast: Dave Bautista, Kristen Schaal, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Chloe Coleman, Ken JeongGenre: Action & Adventure, Comedy
Plot: JJ, a hardened CIA operative is demoted and sent to spy on a family. He is caught by a clever nine-year-old, Sophie who is a member of the family under surveillance. In exchange for not blowing JJ's cover Sophie convinces him to spend time with her and teach her to be a spy. Despite his reluctance, JJ finds he is no match for Sophie's disarming charm and wit.
The Gentlemen
Release Date: January 24th (USA)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle DockeryGenre: Action & Adventure, Comedy
Plot: American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery, and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Gretel and Hansel
Release Date: January 31st
Cast: Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Charles Babalola, Alice KrigeGenre: Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Plot: A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Assassin 33 AD
Release Date: January 24th
Cast: Donny Boaz, Heidi Montag, Susan GallagherGenre: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi
Plot: After young geniuses create time travel, they find that radical extremists are using it to send assassins back in time to kill Jesus. It’s the ultimate Jihad. The geniuses must hijack the time machine, stop the assassins, and restore the resurrection while interacting with Jesus, Peter, and Mary.
The Traitor
Release Date: January 31st
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio FerracaneGenre: Drama
Plot: The film tells the true life story of the man Tommaso Buscetta, who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.
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Sources: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes
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