The week’s openings: Disney and a bad Santa

Note: This post has been updated to reflect different opening dates and an additional opening.

While many (if not most) of us will be scarfing down turkey on Thursday, others of us will be making our way to movie theaters for this week of holiday offerings. According to IMDB.com, the week's nationally scheduled openings are as follows:

Wednesday

"Bad Santa 2": This sequel to the 2003 dark comedy brings back the principal characters, including Billy Bob Thornton as a mean drunk with a heart of … well, certainly not gold.

"Rules Don't Apply": Featuring the return of Warren Beatty, who directed, wrote and stars in this study of an eccentric billionaire and the aspiring starlet and ambitious driver who work for him. (Can you say Howard Hughes?)

"Allied": A throwback to the 1940s, this World War II romance/thriller stars Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as spies caught in a web of intrigue and likely betrayal. Imagine Bogart and Bacall …

Friday

"Moana": Dwayne Johnson voices the title character, a cocksure demigod who is recruited by a young girl () to help save her people. Two words: Disney animation.

I'll update as the local theaters post their final schedules.