[Updated for 2024] Classic movies heading to the big screen in 2024

Movie theater chains announced the first batches of classic films to be re-released on the big screen in 2024. Fathom Events, which parted ways with TCM, leads the pack along with Flashback Cinema, Alamo Drafthouse and other regional movie houses.

2024 will see the audience favorites “Gone with the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” (both 1939) hit movie theaters on their 85th anniversaries as well as “Blazing Saddles” marking its 50th anniversary. The Alamo Drafthouse chain is spotlighting movies (to be announced) from 1979 and 1974 later this year.

Here’s a list of classic movie re-releases coming soon to a theater hopefully near you. (A variety of independent movie houses include classic movies in their lineup but unfortunately, we can’t track all of those individually. This list is of roughly pre-1980, nationally or at least largely regionally playing in theaters.)

This list will continue to be updated throughout 2024 as new movies are announced.

January

The Wizard of Oz and also here

February

Casablanca

My Fair Lady

Amarcord

March

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The Quiet Man

April

Gone with the Wind

The Godfather

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Serpico

Taxi Driver

May

Dial M for Murder

The Wizard of Oz

June

The Muppet Movie

August

Rear Window

September

Blazing Saddles

December

White Christmas

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[Last updated November 2023]

One silver lining of movie theaters shuffling their way back to pre-pandemic levels? A surge of classic movies heading to movie theaters in 2023 so that new and veteran fans can appreciate the vintage films on the big screen.

Hollywood studios are still trying to get new movie production back on track. Re-issues of classic films help fill that void in theaters.

“It was definitely a rebound year,” Tearlach Hutcheson, VP of film at Studio Movie Grill, told Variety in December 2022. “There’s still a lack of product from studios, and it’s going to take a while to change that.”

TCM has parted ways with Fathom Events, which had been the biggest player in re-releases of classic favorites. But Fathom announced a new series that will honor classic cinema. That plus a few other national series – such as Flashback Cinema and Alamo Drafthouse special screenings – translates into more movie theater love for old movies.

Here’s a look at pre-1980 movie re-releases coming soon nationally to a theater hopefully near you. (A variety of independent movie houses include classic movies in their lineup but unfortunately, we can’t track all of those individually.)

This list will continue to be updated as new movies are announced.

JANUARY

Roman Holiday

FEBRUARY

Pillow Talk

Murder on the Orient Express (1974 version)

It Happened One Night

The Bride of Frankenstein

Lady Sings the Blues

MARCH

My Fair Lady

Harold and Maude

The Ten Commandments (1956)

APRIL

Woman of the Year (limited)

Blazing Saddles

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Return of the Jedi

[Technically, these last two are after my usual cut-off date of 1980, but too good not to share!]

MAY

Taxi Driver (limited)

JUNE

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Grease

The Wicker Man

JULY

Jaws (also here)

Friday the 13th

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

AUGUST

Enter the Dragon

American Graffiti

SEPTEMBER

The Unknown

OCTOBER

Note: Many non-chain theaters (not included on this list) are showing Universal Monster movies throughout October in honor of the 100th anniversary. Check/support your local theaters!

Ace in the Hole

The Shining

The Birds

The Mummy (1932) + The Wolfman (1941) double feature

The Exorcist

The Shining

Frankenstein (1931) + Invisible Man (1933) double feature

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Dracula (1931) + Dracula's Daughter double feature

Dracula (1931's Spanish version)

Psycho

The Black Cat