Films include: the much anticipated releases of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 3D.
The following film releases will be screened this Christmas:
Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? (Out now)
The pupils of St Bernadette's and the madcap Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton) are back! When their new teacher Mr Shepherd (Martin Clunes) loses his memory as well as Archie the Donkey, it's up to them to save the day and reunite him with his fiancée Sophie (Catherine Tate) in New York. Prepare for a race against time, fantastic flash mobs and plenty of Christmas fun on their greatest adventure yet.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OyV2xSakI0
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/1FMagkn
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Out now)
The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Tsj_wTJkQ
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/14dsf4M
Paddington follows the comic misadventures of a young bear from Peru with a passion for all things British, who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck (‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist...
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuzMlfZGWM
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/1rd7f1x
Get Santa (Out now)
It’s days before Christmas and reindeer are found running loose through the streets of London. Meanwhile an astonished 9 year-old Tom (newcomer Kit Connor) discovers Santa (Jim Broadbent) in the garden shed. He has crash-landed while test-driving his new sleigh and enlists Tom and his father Steve (Rafe Spall) to help him get back to Lapland. But what happens when Santa is arrested and thrown into prison? Will Steve and Tom be able to break him out in time for Christmas?
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-Pz9uGSkU
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (Out now)
Super spy teams aren't born...they're hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then...you know). Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, from destroying the world as we know it.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJ2oP6rQs0
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 3D (12th December)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and the Company of Dwarves. Bilbo and Company are forced to enter into a war against an armed flock of combatants and the terrifying Smaug to stop the dragon from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzeFFsKEt4
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/1wozYpG
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast (12th December)
Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can't judge a book by its cover, or an animal by its fangs, so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the Neverbeast. While Tinker Bell and her friends aren't so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home. Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to save the Neverbeast.
Trailer: http://video.disney.co.uk/watch/tinker-bell-and-the-legend-of-the-neverbeast-trailer-50318353b6b9eab22123be77
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (19th December)
Get ready for the most wild and adventure-filled Night At the Museum ever, as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favourite and news characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1fFMp0MqU
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Annie (26th December)
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mum Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasLuiP-1E0
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Big Eyes (26th December)
A drama centred on the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband Walter Keane's (Christoph Waltz), who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOavDSErmak
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Exodus: Gods and Kings (26th December)
Epic adventure, directed by Ridley Scott, Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton), setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8qeqZycgE
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
Unbroken (26th December)
Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1M_HwmFMM
Book tickets: http://bit.ly/EMPCIN
For further screenings and information visit www.EmpireCinemas.co.uk or call 08714 714 714.