25 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies Of Winter 2016 - Ranked

5. Passengers

Winter 2016
Columbia Pictures

Release Date: December 21st

Billed As: The dream team of Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt unite for a sci-fi by Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum.

Hype: Fans of UK comedy Red Dwarf will be well aware of the appeal of a "last survivors in space" deal, and now there's a big screen cousin with an incredibly alluring cast to compete with it.

The story sees a malfunction in two stasis pods waking up the pair on an 120-year trip to a distant colony planet: they wake up still 90 years away from their destination only to find out that the ship is suffering from more problems than just their pods. It's essentially a two person picture, but what a pair of people.

The cast is also filled out by Laurence Fishburne and Michael Sheen, making for a formidable cast all round.

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