With just two weeks left of 2018, a bunch of new films are set to flood theaters in the latter half of December, making this Friday the most crowded for new releases in the current quarter.

Up to 14 new features will simultaneously open on Dec 14, according to the China Film Distribution and Screening Association.

Sure to excite suspense thriller enthusiasts, Korean American actor John Cho-led Searching is one of the most eagerly anticipated new films, thanks to its high scores on overseas review sites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes.

As the directorial debut of 27-year-old American filmmaker, Aneesh Chaganty, the film is about a desperate father who uses the Internet to find his missing 16-year-old daughter.

The film has been marked by more than 195,000 netizens as the most want-to-see film on China's popular reviewing site, Douban.

Probably a good option for families, Universal Pictures and Illumination's The Grinch also arrives this weekend. The film is based on the 1957 Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The cunning Grinch will be competing against a digitally restored version of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro (1988), and Indian hit Padman, about a welder who wants to revolutionize the manufacturing of sanitary napkins for women.

In total, there are 66 films scheduled to be screened in December, half of which are set for release in the following two weeks.

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