FALL MOVIE PREVIEWS

Friday:

“The Possession” (Lionsgate): Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are ex-spouses who team up to rid their child of the curse she brought upon herself by opening a magic “Dybbuk” box.

Sept. 7:

“The Cold Light of Day” (Summit): Henry Cavill and Bruce Willis star in this conspiratorial thriller about a young man whose family has been kidnapped in Spain, and a father who has kept secrets.

“For a Good Time Call” (Focus): Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller play former college roommates who start a sex phone-line service to help make ends meet in this comedy, co-written by Miller. (Opens limited Friday, wide Sept. 7)

“[REC] 3: GENESIS” (Magnet): The third installment of the found- video horror series, this time in the form of a wedding video.

“The Words” (CBS Films): Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Dennis Quaid star in this thriller about a writer who steals another author’s work and has great success doing it — for a while.

Sept. 14:

“10 Years” (Anchor Bay): Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pratt, Kate Mara and Ari Graynor star in this drama about a high school reunion.

“Arbitrage” (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions): Richard Gere is a hedge-fund titan trying to maintain his public image — successful, philanthropic, happily married — with his secret life of having a mistress, a failing company and troubles with the Feds. Susan Sarandon and Brit Marling also star.

“Finding Nemo 3D” (Disney/Pixar): Pixar’s animated classic, newly converted to 3-D, returns to theaters.

“The Master” (Weinstein): Joaquin Phoenix returns to the screen in this tale of a World War II vet who falls under the influence of a charismatic writer and cult leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Paul Thomas Anderson supposedly based this on the beginnings of Scientology. (Limited, wide on Sept. 21)

“Resident Evil: Retribution” (Screen Gems): Milla Jovovich is still vengeful, still out there in the post-apocalyptic future, killing vampires and still wearing lots of leather.

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (Summit): Stephen Chbosky adapted his novel into a script and then directed that script, about a naive college freshman learning the ways of the world from the more experienced. Emma Watson and Logan Lerman star. (Limited)

“Stolen” (Millennium): Nicolas Cage re-teams with his “Con Air” director Simon West for this New Orleans-Mardi Gras tale of an ex-con whose daughter (Sami Gayle) has been kidnapped by his old gang. (Limited)

Sept. 21:

“Dredd 3D” (Lionsgate): Another attempt at the comic-book purveyor of sci-fi justice, Judge Dredd, this time starring Karl Urban, with Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby.

“End of Watch” (Open Road): Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena star in this drama about cops who pick the wrong drug lord to cross. Anna Kendrick and America Ferrera also star.

“House at the End of the Street” (Relativity): Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter who move next door to a home where a girl murdered her parents. Horror ensues.

“Trouble With the Curve” (Warners): Clint Eastwood’s an aged, cantankerous baseball scout losing his eyesight and Amy Adams is the daughter who goes on his last recruiting trip in this dramedy.

“War of the Buttons” (Weinstein): Kids form into gangs and fall in love in France during the Nazi Occupation in this French coming-of-age drama. (Limited)

Sept. 28:

“Hotel Transylvania” (Sony Columbia): Adam Sandler is the voice of Dracula, an overprotective vampire dad, with Miley Cyrus as his daughter, and the voices of Kevin James, Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon fleshing out this animated romp.

“Looper” (Sony Tristar): Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this sci-fi thriller in which a hit man sees his future self (Bruce Willis) as one of his targets. Emily Blunt and Paul Dano also star.

“Won’t Back Down” (Fox): Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Holly Hunter are the stars of this drama about moms from different backgrounds who team up to make a local school better. (Formerly titled “Learning to Fly.”)

Oct. 5:

“Butter” (The Weinstein Co.): Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde and Yara Shadihi are caught up in an Iowa butter-carving contest full of treachery and intrigue in this R-rated comedy. (Limited)

“Frankenweenie 3D” (Walt Disney): Tim Burton turns his stop-motion animated short film about the boy who brings his dachshund back to life, Frankenstein fashion, into a feature film with the voices of Winona Ryder, Martin Landau and Martin Short.

“The Paperboy” (Millennium): Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and John Cusack star in Lee Daniels’ follow-up to “Precious,” a dark and kinky tale of the paperboy (Efron) who could free a convict (Cusack) with the right persuasion from a femme fatale (Kidman).

“Pitch Perfect” (Universal): Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air”) stars in this college comedy about competitive glee clubs. Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson also star.

“Sinister” (Summit): Ethan Hawke plays a true-crime novelist who uses found footage to discover the truth about a gruesome crime, a truth that puts his family in danger.

“V/H/S” (Magnet): More found-video horror as would-be burglars stumble across a stash of footage full of unspeakable horror. If only they still owned a VCR.

“Taken 2” (Fox): This sequel has the ex-CIA agent (Liam Neeson) whose daughter (Maggie Grace) was kidnapped in “Taken” kidnapped himself, along with his ex-wife (Famke Janssen). Luc Besson scripted it, Olivier Megaton directed.

Oct. 12:

“Argo” (Warner Bros.): Ben Affleck directed and stars in this thriller about a CIA agent charged with getting a small group of Americans out of Iran in the middle of that country’s Islamic Revolution. The omnipresent Bryan Cranston also is in the cast.

“Here Comes the Boom” (Columbia): Kevin James plays a high school teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial arts fighter to save the school’s music program. A “Warrior” with laughs? Salma Hayek co-stars.

“Nobody Walks” (Magnolia): John Krasinski is a music producer happily married to Rosemarie DeWitt but tempted by musician Olivia Thirlby in this layered, multi-character romantic drama.

“Seven Psychopaths” (CBS Films): Colin Farrell plays a screenwriter comically mixed up with a mobster (Woody Harrelson) after his pals (Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell) kidnap the mobster’s dog. Martin McDonaugh (“In Bruges”) wrote and directed it.

“Smashed” (Sony Classics): Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul star in this drama about two drunks who try to survive as a couple after one of them goes sober. (Limited)

“Special Forces” (eOne Films): Diane Kruger and Djimon Hounsou star in this thriller about French commandos sent to rescue a kidnapped journalist in Pakistan.

Oct. 19:

“Alex Cross” (Summit): Tyler Perry takes over the tracker-of-serial-killers role that Morgan Freeman made famous in this murder mystery/ticking-clock thriller. Matthew Fox, Cicely Tyson, Jean Reno, Edward Burns and Rachel Nichols are also in the cast.

“Killing Them Softly” (Weinstein): Brad Pitt is a hit man called in to make things right when a mob-connected poker game is robbed. Ray Liotta and Richard Jenkins also star.

“Paranormal Activity 4” (Paramount): A better-looking cast is the hook for this fourth installment in the found-video horror series.

Oct. 26:

“The Big Wedding” (Lionsgate): Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton have to pretend to be married (leaving new flame Susan Sarandon out of the picture) to avoid upsetting the future in-laws. As if having Robin Williams as the presiding clergyman isn’t upsetting enough. That’s four Oscar winners right there, people.

“Chasing Mavericks” (Fox): Jonny Weston and Gerard Butler star in Curtis Hanson’s film about a legendary surfer who tackled an infamous surf break in 1960s California.

“Cloud Atlas” (Warner Bros.): Tom Hanks and Halle Berry star in this multi-layered, multi-character drama, based on David Mitchell’s novel, about how lives and choices we make “ripple across the centuries.” Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”) and the Wachowskis (“The Matrix”) collaborated on this epic.

“Fun Size” (Paramount): Victoria Justice of TV’s “Victorious” plays a teen who loses her nuisance little brother on Halloween, and spends all night finding him in this comedy. Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler and Ana Gasteyer also star.

“Halloween 3D” (Dimension): Yet another installment, the third in this current reboot, of the Michael Myers saga.

“The Sessions” (Fox Searchlight): John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy and Moon Bloodgood star in this dramedy about a man confined to an iron lung in search of a “professional sex surrogate.” (Limited)

“Silent Hill: Revelation 3D” (Open Road): The last of the October horror sequels serves up Adelaide Clemens as our heroine and Sean Bean as her missing dad, with Malcolm McDowell, Rahda Mitchell, Carrie-Anne Moss and Deborah Kara Unger along for the scary 3-D ride.