AMC just made the rest of my year. Tickets from $8 every Tuesday and Wednesday, all the way to December 31, and the fall slate is stacked. I have done the math, I have cleared my midweek evenings, and here are the eight movies I am spending it on.
I love going to the movies. I do not love paying evening prices to do it. Somewhere in the last few years a casual Tuesday night at the theater turned into a decision you have to justify, and I started skipping things I genuinely wanted to see on a big screen because "I'll just wait for streaming."
That excuse just died. AMC has extended its Tuesday and Wednesday discount through the end of 2026, and the fall calendar happens to include Dune, the Avengers, the Hunger Games and a new Godzilla. I am going to see more movies this year than I have in a long time, and you should too.
One more thing worth knowing: December 31 is a Thursday this year, so the last discount nights of 2026 are Tuesday, December 29 and Wednesday, December 30. Plan accordingly.
Eight movies at $8 is $64. That is roughly what two of us used to spend on one Friday night with snacks.
Counting down to the one I would see twice. Every date below is the US opening, which is almost always a Friday, so the first discount night for each is the Tuesday after.
Opens October 9. A Halloween-season scare for a Tuesday night.
Rob Savage directs Jessica Chastain as a sinister presence that looks exactly like a young girl's mother. It is rated R and runs a tight 93 minutes, which is the perfect length for a weeknight horror movie. Horror is the genre that benefits most from a packed, jumpy crowd, and October is when you get one.
Opens October 16. Arcade nostalgia, full roster.
Kitao Sakurai's take sets the story in 1993, with Andrew Koji as Ryu and Noah Centineo as Ken. Will it beat the 1994 Van Damme version? I already argued both sides of that here. At $8, I am finding out in person.
Opens October 23. DC goes full body horror.
Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, a Gotham kid turned Hollywood star whose face is destroyed by a crime boss, and the experimental treatment that fixes it comes at a price. James Watkins (Eden Lake, Speak No Evil) directs, it is rated R, and a DC villain origin told as a horror film is exactly the kind of swing I want to reward with a ticket.
Opens November 6. The sequel to the best Godzilla in decades.
Takashi Yamazaki returns, and so do Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe. The story picks up two years after Godzilla Minus One, with Japan finally clawing its way back just as a new threat arrives. It runs 135 minutes and is getting an IMAX release, so this is the one I might pay a bit extra for.
Opens December 4. Santa is back, and so is the body count.
David Harbour suits up again for director Tommy Wirkola, this time with Kristen Bell as Mrs. Claus and a shopping mall full of goons. The first one was a blast with a crowd, and this is the ideal group movie: loud, silly and better with a crowd.
Opens November 20. Haymitch's Games, finally on screen.
Francis Lawrence directs his fifth Hunger Games film, set 24 years before the original at the 50th Games, the Second Quarter Quell. Joseph Zada plays a young Haymitch Abernathy, Ralph Fiennes is President Snow and Jesse Plemons is Plutarch Heavensbee. At 150 minutes, this is a Thanksgiving-week event movie, and opening weekend Tuesday is going to be packed.
Opens December 18. Robert Downey Jr. is Doctor Doom.
The Russo brothers are back, Robert Downey Jr. is playing Victor von Doom, Chris Evans is credited as Steve Rogers and Pedro Pascal brings the Fantastic Four's Reed Richards along. TMDB lists it at 165 minutes. Whatever you think of recent Marvel, this is the kind of movie where hearing a full theater react is half the point.
Opens December 18. The one I'm seeing twice.
Denis Villeneuve closes out his trilogy with Paul Atreides years into his reign as Emperor. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya return, Florence Pugh is back as Princess Irulan and Jason Momoa is credited as Hayt, which book readers will understand is a very big deal.
It opens the same day as Avengers, which makes December 22 and 23 the best Tuesday and Wednesday of the year: one of each, back to back, $16 total. Then I am going back for Dune in IMAX on my own dime, because some movies earn full price.
Bonus pick under Dune: Robert Eggers' Werwulf opens on Christmas Day with Willem Dafoe in the cast. That leaves exactly one discount week to catch it, December 29 and 30, before the deal runs out.
If horror is your thing this month, my September new releases roundup covers what opened last month, and anything from it still playing near you is now an $8 Tuesday too.
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