2012 Releases

2012 Australian Release Dates

Welcome to our dynamic list of films scheduled for release in 2012, ordered by their Australian release date. Links to our reviews, news and trailers will be added as we post them, so keep checking back for date changes and new reviews!

Please note that some dates vary from state to state in Australia. Please check local listings for details.

Last updated: 11 May 2012

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See also: 2011 Releases

Date	Name	Studio	Notes
	JANUARY
1 January	Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked	Fox
5 January	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
7 January (Sydney)	Thirst
12 January	The Muppets	Disney	Teaser \| Trailer \| Interview with Jason Segel \| Review
12 January	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Sony	Trailer \| Extended trailer \| Review
12 January	Hugo	Paramount	Trailer \| Review
12 January	The Descendants	Fox	Review
12 January	Arrietty (Subtitled and Dubbed)	Madman	Review
12 January	The Great Magician	Dream Movie	Trailer \| Review
19 January	The Darkest Hour	Fox	Trailer \| Review
19 January	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Universal	Review
19 January	Young Adult	Paramount	Videos \| Review
19 January	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2D/3D)	Roadshow	Review
26 January	A Few Best Men	Icon	Trailer \| Review
26 January	Underworld: Awakening	Sony	Trailer \| Review
26 January	J. Edgar	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
26 January	Weekend	Rialto	Review
26 January	All's Well That Ends Well 2012	China Lion	Review
26 January	The Viral Factor	Dream Movie	Review
	FEBRUARY
2 February	The Artist	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
2 February	Man on a Ledge	Hoyts	Review
2 February	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Fox	Review
2 February	Chronicle	Fox	Trailer \| Review
9 February	Any Questions for Ben?	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
9 February	Safe House	Universal	Trailer \| Review
9 February	The Vow	Sony	Review
9 February	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (3D)	Fox	Trailer \| Review
9 February	Shame	Transmission	Trailer \| Review
9 February	Romancing in Thin Air	Dream Movie	Trailer \| Review
14 February	This Means War	Fox	Review
16 February	The Grey	Icon	Review
16 February	One For the Money	Roadshow	Review
16 February	My Week With Marilyn (Limited)	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
16 February	Buck	Madman	Review
23 February	Contraband	Universal	Review
23 February	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Roadshow	Review
23 February	Gone	Hopscotch
23 February	Killer Elite	Disney	Trailer \| Review
23 February	Late Bloomers	Palace
23 February	Love	China Lion	Trailer \| Review
23 February (Melbourne Only)	Tyrannosaur	Madman	SFF Review
	March
1 March	A Separation	Hopscotch	SFF Review
1 March	A Little Bit of Heaven	Hoyts
1 March	The Devil Inside	Paramount	Trailer
1 March	Headhunters	Rialto	Review
1 March	Carnage	Sony	Review
1 March	Like Crazy	Paramount	Trailer \| Review
1 March	Project X	Roadshow
1 March	Sione's 2: Unfinished Business	PInnacle	Trailer \| Review
8 March	John Carter	Disney	Teaser Trailer \| Review
8 March (Cinema Nova Melbourne Only)	50/50	Roadshow	Trailer
8 March	The Source	Madman
8 March	Coriolanus	Icon	Review
15 March	The Rum Diary	Fox	Trailer \| Review
15 March	21 Jump Street	Sony	Trailer \| Review
15 March	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
15 March (Limited)	Haywire	Roadshow
15 March (Limited)	Kid with A Bike	Madman	MIFF Review
15 March	Margin Call	Becker Film Group	Review
22 March	The Hunger Games	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
22 March	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Fox
22 March	The Raid	Madman	Trailer \| Review
29 March	Wrath of the Titans (3D)	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
29 March	Mirror Mirror	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
29 March	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax	Universal	Trailer \| Review
29 March	A Dangerous Method	Paramount/Transmission	Review
29 March	Le Havre	Sharmill Films	Review
	APRIL
5 April	American Reunion	Universal	Trailer \| Review
5 April	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Sony	Trailer \| Review
5 April	This Must Be The Place	Hopscotch	Review
5 April	Titanic (3D)	Fox	Trailer \| Review
5 April	Goodbye, First Love	Palace	Review
5 April	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen	Roadshow	Review
5 April	Love in the Buff	Dream Movie	Trailer
12 April	The Deep Blue Sea	Transmission	Review
12 April	Battleship	Universal	Trailer
19 April	Streetdance 2 3D	Hoyts
19 April	The Lucky One	Roadshow
19 April	The Lady	Roadshow	Trailer
19 April	Footnote	Rialto	Review
19 April	Romantics Anonymous	Madman
25 April	The Avengers	Disney	Trailer \| Review
26 April	Café de Flore	Icon
26 April	Wish You Were Here	Hopscotch
	MAY
3 May	Act of Valor	Roadshow
3 May	Beauty and the Beast 3D	Disney	Trailer \| Review
3 May	Delicacy	Transmission	Review
3 May	The Five Year Engagement	Universal	Trailer \| Review
3 May	King of Devil's Island	Palace
3 May	The Sitter	Fox
3 May	W.E.	Roadshow
10 May	Dark Shadows (3D)	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
10 May	Jiro Dreams of Sushi	Curious	MIFF2011 Review
10 May	Safe	Icon	Review
10 May	Iron Sky	Hoyts	Trailer
10 May	Trishna	Madman
16 May	The Dictator	Paramount	Trailer \| Review
17 May	In Darkness	Roadshow
17 May	Silent Souls	Icon
17 May	The Woman in Black	Roadshow	Trailer \| Review
24 May	Bel Ami	Hopscotch	Trailer
24 May	First Night	Paramount
24 May	Men in Black 3	Sony	Trailer
31 May	Declaration of War	Palace
31 May	Get the Gringo	Icon
31 May	Tomboy	Rialto
31 May	What to Expect When You're Expecting	Roadshow
	JUNE
7 June	Anton Chekov's The Duel	Rialto
7 June	Friends With Kids	Roadshow
7 June	Prometheus	Fox	Trailer
14 June	Take This Waltz	Hopscotch
14 June (Limited)	The Cabin in the Woods	Roadshow	Review
14 June	The Chef	Icon
14 June	That’s My Boy	Sony
14 June	Rock of Ages	Roadshow	Trailer
21 June	Snow White & the Huntsman	Universal	Trailer
21 June	Brave	Disney	Trailer
21 June	Elena	Palace
21 June	Marley	Roadshow
21 June	A Royal Affair	Madman
21 June (QLD) 28 June (NSW, VIC, SA) 5 July (WA, ACT)	The Three Stooges	Fox
28 June	Where Do We Go Now	Hopscotch
28 June	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Fox	Trailer
28 June	Not Suitable For Children	Icon	Trailer
	JULY
2 July	Katy Perry: Part of Me (3D)	Paramount	Trailer
4 July	The Amazing Spider-man	Sony	Teaser Trailer
12 July	Hysteria	Hopscotch	Trailer
12 July	Ted	Universal	Trailer
19 July	The Dark Knight Rises	Roadshow	Teaser Trailer \| Trailer
26 July	Magic Mike	Roadshow
26 July	Safety Not Guaranteed	Rialto	Trailer \| Review
	AUGUST
2 August	Step Up: Miami Heat (3D)	Universal
2 August	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Paramount	Trailer
9 August	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	Fox	Trailer
9 August	The Campaign	Roadshow	Trailer
9 August	The Sapphires	Hopscotch
16 August	The Bourne Legacy	Universal	Trailer
16 August	My America	Rialto
23 August	Bully	Roadshow
23 August	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai	Icon
23 August	Great Hope Springs	Roadshow
23 August	Last Will	Rialto
23 August	Your Sister's Sister	Madman
24 August	Wuthering Heights	Transmission	Trailer
30 August	Cosmopolis	Icon	Teaser Trailer
30 August	Finding Nemo (3D)	Disney
30 August	Rebirth	Rialto	Review
30 August	Sinister
30 August	The Expendables 2	Roadshow	Trailer
	SEPTEMBER
5 September	Lawless	Roadshow	Trailer
6 September	Shihad: Beautiful Machine	Rialto
6 September	Bait 3D	Paramount
6 September	Kath & Kimderella	Roadshow
6 September	Monsieur Lazhar	Palace
6 September	Total Recall	Sony	Trailer
13 September	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Icon
13 September	Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted	Paramount	Trailer
13 September	Neighborhood Watch	Fox
13 September	360	Madman
13 September	6 Plots	Rialto
20 September	Chinese Take-Away (Un Cuento Chino)	Rialto
20 September	Killing Them Softly	Hoyts
20 September	Hotel Transylvania (3D)	Sony
20 September	Paranorman	Universal	Trailer
20 September	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Fox
20 September	Ruby Sparks	Fox
20 September	Secret of the Wings	Disney
27 September	Savages	Universal	Trailer
27 September	Tai Chi Zero	Icon
27 September	On the Road	Icon	Trailer
	OCTOBER
4 October	The Intouchables	Roadshow
4 October	Mental	Universal
4 October	Taken 2	Fox
11 October	Liberal Arts	Icon	Review
11 October	Resident Evil: Retribution	Sony	Teaser
11 October	The Trouble With the Curve	Roadshow
11 October	Looper	Roadshow
18 October	End of Watch	Roadshow
18 October	Paranormal Activity 4	Paramount
18 October	Jo Nesbo's Jackpot	Rialto
25 October	Dredd (3D)	Icon
25 October	Frankenweenie	Disney	Trailer
25 October	I, Alex Cross	Hoyts
25 October	The Big Wedding	Roadshow
25 October	The Apparition	Roadshow
26 October	Saving General Yang	Icon
	NOVEMBER
1 November	Argo	Roadshow	Trailer
1 November	Electrick Children	Rialto
1 November	Fun Size	Paramount
1 November	Sinister	Icon
8 November	Bullet In the Head	Icon
8 November	House At the End of the Street	Roadshow
8 November	Premium Rush	Sony
15 November	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Disney	Trailer
15 November	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2	Hoyts
22 November	Skyfall	Sony
29 November	47 Ronin	Universal
29 November	The Silver Linings Playbook	Roadshow
29 November	Gravity	Roadshow
29 November	You're Next	Icon
	DECEMBER
6 December	Here Comes the Boom	Sony
13 December	Rise of the Guardians	Paramount	Trailer
20 December	Life of Pi	Fox
26 December	Hyde Park on Hudson	Icon
26 December	Les Miserables	Universal
26 December	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)	Roadshow	Trailer
26 December	Wreck-It Ralph	Disney
26 December	Parental Guidance	Fox
26 December	Quartet	Paramount