Revealing THE 5TH WAVE International Sneak Peek Check out the first THE 5TH WAVE international sneak peek! The film, directed by J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed), stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Liev Schreiber, Nick Robinson, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, and Ron Livingston. THE 5TH WAVE will be released in theaters on January 15. In the new film The 5th Wave, four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.