Domestic Release Schedule
| Release | Distributor | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| December 6, 1996 | ||
 Daylight
Action
Adventure
Drama
Thriller
With: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya 1 hr 54 min | Universal Pictures | Wide |
 | - | Limited |
 The English Patient
Drama
Romance
War
With: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas 2 hr 42 min | Miramax | Wide |
 Everyone Says I Love You
Comedy
Musical
Romance
With: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Edward Norton 1 hr 41 min | Miramax | Limited |
| December 13, 1996 | ||
 Jerry Maguire
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Sport
With: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston 2 hr 19 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Wide |
 Mars Attacks!
Comedy
Sci-Fi
With: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening 1 hr 46 min | Warner Bros. | Wide |
 The Preacher's Wife
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Romance
With: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines 2 hr 3 min | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Wide |
 Citizen Ruth
Comedy
Drama
With: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place, Kurtwood Smith 1 hr 46 min | Miramax | Limited |
| December 18, 1996 | ||
 In Love and War
Biography
Drama
Romance
War
With: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, Margot Steinberg 1 hr 53 min | New Line Cinema | Limited |
| December 20, 1996 | ||
 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Music
With: Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman 1 hr 21 min | Paramount Pictures | Wide |
 One Fine Day
Comedy
Drama
Romance
With: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz 1 hr 48 min | Twentieth Century Fox | Wide |
 My Fellow Americans
Adventure
Comedy
With: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard 1 hr 41 min | Warner Bros. | Wide |
 | Dimension Films | Wide |
 Ghosts of Mississippi
Drama
History
With: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Virginia Madsen 2 hr 10 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Limited |
 | Miramax | Limited |
 The Whole Wide World
Biography
Drama
Romance
With: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell 1 hr 51 min | Sony Pictures Classics | Limited |
 The Ceremony
Crime
Drama
Thriller
With: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel 1 hr 51 min | New Yorker Films | Limited |
| December 24, 1996 | ||
 I'm Not Rappaport
Comedy
Drama
With: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson 2 hr 15 min | Gramercy Pictures (I) | Limited |
| December 25, 1996 | ||
 Michael
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
With: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins 1 hr 45 min | New Line Cinema | Wide |
 Evita
Biography
Drama
History
Musical
With: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail 2 hr 15 min | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Limited |
 Thieves
Crime
Drama
Romance
With: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel 1 hr 57 min | Sony Pictures Classics | Limited |
| December 27, 1996 | ||
 The Evening Star
Comedy
Drama
Romance
With: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson 2 hr 9 min | Paramount Pictures | Wide |
 The People vs. Larry Flynt
Biography
Drama
With: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson 2 hr 10 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Limited |
 Some Mother's Son
Drama
History
With: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara 1 hr 52 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Limited |
 The Portrait of a Lady
Drama
Romance
With: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan 2 hr 24 min | Gramercy Pictures (I) | Limited |
 | Paramount Pictures | Limited |
 | Sony Pictures Releasing | Limited |
| January 3, 1997 | ||
Ghosts of Mississippi
Drama
History
With: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Virginia Madsen 2 hr 10 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Wide |
 Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Documentary
With: Bob Blankenship, Dean Eilts, Marge Harold, James Jordan Jr. 1 hr 28 min | Artistic License | Limited |
| January 10, 1997 | ||
 The Relic
Horror
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Thriller
With: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore 1 hr 50 min | Paramount Pictures | Wide |
 Turbulence
Action
Thriller
With: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Hector Elizondo 1 hr 40 min | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Wide |
 First Strike
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Thriller
With: Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Annie Wu, Bill Tung 1 hr 47 min | New Line Cinema | Wide |
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Biography
Drama
With: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson 2 hr 10 min | Sony Pictures Releasing | Wide |
Evita
Biography
Drama
History
Musical
With: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail 2 hr 15 min | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Wide |
