OTHER Releases for September and October
Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release):
September:
ALPHA AND OMEGA: Two wolves take a cross-country road trip home in an animated adventure featuring the voices of Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere.
THE AMERICAN: George Clooney plays a hitman who finds romance and tranquility in the Italian countryside as he prepares for one last assignment.
CATFISH: A photographer sets out to learn the truth about a woman he falls for after striking up an online friendship with her family.
DEVIL: Supernatural terror besets a group of people trapped in an elevator.
EASY A: A modern twist on “The Scarlet Letter” has a teen (Emma Stone) turning a rumor about losing her virginity to her own advantage.
THE FREEBIE: A couple (writer-director Katie Aselton and Dax Shepard) try to rekindle their stagnant relationship by allowing each other a one-night stand.
JACK GOES BOATING: Philip Seymour Hoffman directs and stars as an awkward limo driver who finds the prospect of romance with a fellow shy soul (Amy Ryan).
LEE DANIELS PRESENTS: PRINCE OF BROADWAY: “Precious” director Daniels is a producer on this tale of a street hustler suddenly faced with fatherhood.
LEGENDS OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: Zack Snyder (“300”) directs an animated adventure about owls on a quest against evil forces.
LIKE DANDELION DUST: Mira Sorvino stars in a drama of a custody dispute between the biological parents of a 4-year-old boy and the couple that adopted him.
LOVELY, STILL: A lonely old man (Martin Landau) gets a fresh taste of romance with a mystery woman (Ellen Burstyn).
NEVER LET ME GO: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield star in an alternate-reality melodrama about boarding-school friends raised for a grim fate.
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE: Milla Jovovich returns as a warrior battling a plague of undead zombies. With Ali Larter.
THE TOWN: Ben Affleck directs and stars as a bank robber who falls for a woman (Rebecca Hall) his gang took hostage on their last job.
THE VIRGINITY HIT: Four guys aim to lose their virginity in this comedy produced by Will Ferrell and featuring a cast of newcomers.
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN: Director Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) studies the ills of America’s public-school system.
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS: Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone resurrect financial shark Gordon Gekko amid the 2008 meltdown. With Shia LaBeouf.
YOU AGAIN: A woman and her mother (Kristen Bell and Jamie Lee Curtis) face their old high-school rivals at a family wedding. With Sigourney Weaver.
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER: Woody Allen’s latest stars Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin and Antonio Banderas in a tale of messy relationships.
October:
THE COMPANY MEN: A sales executive (Ben Affleck) copes with hard times after his company downsizes. With Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner.
CONVICTION: Hilary Swank stars as a woman on an 18-year crusade to clear her brother (Sam Rockwell) on a murder conviction.
FREAKONOMICS: Documentary filmmakers including Alex Gibney and Morgan Spurlock team for a film based on the book that explores the “hidden side of everything.”
GERRYMANDERING: Arnold Schwarzenegger is among those featured in a documentary about the fight to redraw congressional districts after the U.S. census.
HATCHET II: A sequel to the 2006 low-budget horror romp pits a team of hunters against a crazed killer in the Louisiana swamps.
HOWL: James Franco plays poet Allen Ginsberg in the story of his epic work “Howl” and the obscenity trial it provoked.
INSIDE JOB: Matt Damon narrates director Charles Ferguson’s documentary examining the global economic crisis of 2008.
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: A woman takes vicious revenge on the men who raped her and left her for dead in this remake of the 1978 shocker.
IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY: A stressed teen (Keir Gilchrist) checks himself into a mental clinic. With Zach Galifianakis and Emma Roberts.
JACKASS 3-D: Johnny Knoxville and his pals return for more hazardously comic stunts and pranks.
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT: A quarrelsome pair (Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel) must set aside their differences to care for their orphaned goddaughter.
MONSTERS: A journalist hunts for a missing woman in a Central American zone quarantined because of creatures that appear after a NASA probe crashes there.
MY SOUL TO TAKE: Wes Craven’s latest fright flick tells the tale of a serial killer who may have returned from the dead to continue his rampage.
NOWHERE BOY: Young John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) suffers through mother issues in the formative years of The Beatles. With Kristin Scott Thomas.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2: The low-budget surprise horror smash spawns a followup with a new chapter in the ghost story.
RED: Former agents (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich) are caught in a deadly pursuit as they seek to uncover a CIA conspiracy.
SAW 3-D: The horror franchise continues its annual ritual as fresh terror erupts after survivors of killer Jigsaw seek solace from a self-help guru.
SECRETARIAT: Diane Lane stars as the housewife who oversees the legendary horse to a Triple Crown victory in 1973. With John Malkovich.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK: Director David Fincher chronicles the drama behind the founding of Facebook. With Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake.
STONE: A prison inmate (Edward Norton) uses his wife (Milla Jovovich) to manipulate a parole officer (Robert De Niro).
TAMARA DREWE: Stephen Frears directs a British pastoral romp about a writer (Gemma Arterton) whose homecoming sends her village into an uproar.
TODAY’S SPECIAL: A sous chef at a grand Manhattan restaurant is forced to take over his family’s failing Tandoori joint.
WILD TARGET: An assassin (Bill Nighy) picks up an apprentice (Rupert Grint) and falls for an intended victim (Emily Blunt) in this British crime comedy.
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