Plenty of 3-D titles coming at you between now and Thanksgiving

Get ready for plenty of action to be popping off the screen this fall.3-D has been embraced by movie studios and theater owners have found the format, in some cases, to be a profit center.  the 3-D titles coming soon to a theater near you include “Resident Evil: Afterlife” (Sept. 10), “Alpha and Omega” (Sept. 17), “Legends of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga’Hoole” (Sept. 24), “My Soul to Take” (Oct. 8), “Jackass” (Oct. 15), “Saw VII” (Oct. 29), “MegaMind” (Nov. 5), “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” (Nov. 19) and “Tangled” (Nov. 24). Expect more titles to be added.Of course, plenty of old-fashioned 2-D titles will also be coming our way (with all dates highly subject to change and ratings given when possible) between now and Thanksgiving. They include:

Now playing“The American,” with George Clooney (“Up in the Air”) in an R-rated suspense thriller about an assassin who visits the Italian countryside while waiting for his next assignment. he then finds himself coming under the spell of the beautiful area populated by charming residents. Anton Corbijn (“Control”) directed.“Going the Distance,” with Drew Barrymore (“Whip It”), Justin Long (“He’s Just Not that Into You”), Christina Applegate (TV’s “Samantha who?”), Jason Sudeikis (“Saturday Night Live”) and Ron Livingston (“Office Space”) in an R-rated romantic comedy about a journalist and a record-company worker who meet in Manhattan and have a hot summer fling. They then struggle with the pressures of having a long-distance relationship once she returns to California. Nanette Burstein (“On the Ropes”) directed.“Lebanon,” with Samuel Maoz directing an intense R-rated drama about the first Lebanon War in 1982.“Machete,” with Danny Trejo (“Halloween” remake) in the title role of an R-rated action tale about a Mexican official who hunts down the killers who double-cross him. the character was introduced by Robert Rodriguez in a trailer shown during “Grindhouse.” Robert De Niro (“Ronin”), Jessica Alba (“Sin City”), Michelle Rodriguez (“Fast & Furious”), Steven Seagal (“Above the Law”), Cheech Marin (“Up in Smoke”) and Lindsay Lohan (“I know who Killed Me”) co-star. Rodriguez is co-directing the picture with his longtime editor, Ethan Maniquis.“Mesrine: Public Enemy Number one — Part 2,” with Vincent Cassel (“Eastern Promises) in the second part of this fact-based import, rated R, about a veteran of the Algerian War who returns from the battlefield, becomes intoxicated with the freedom of the 1960s, and decides to make money as a criminal. his violent antics cause the authorities to describe him as public enemy No. 1 and he becomes an antihero across France. Jean-Francois Richet (“Assault on Precinct 13” remake) directed.“Soul Kitchen,” with Moritz Bleibtreu (“Run Lola Run”) in an unrated import about a restaurant owner who flies to China to get back his girlfriend, who moved to Shanghai and foolishly puts his no-account brother in charge of his eating establishment. Faith Akin (“The Edge of Heaven”) directed.  “The Tillman story,” with Amir Bar-Lev directing an unsettling R-rated documentary about the pro football player who gave up sports to join the armed forces and then died due to friendly fire, which the military originally covered up. 

Sept. 10“Legendary,” with Patricia Clarkson (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), Danny Glover (“Shooter”) and wrestler-turned-actor John Cena (“The Marine”) in a PG-13 family drama about a hard-studying student who joins the grappling team because he believes his dysfunctional family will come back together to watch him compete. “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” with Milla Jovovich returning for the fourth installment in the popular action series that has her character and some lethal cohorts battling flesh-eating creatures. Ali Larter (TV’s “Heroes”) co-stars. it will also be available in 3-D.

Sept. 15“Never Let Me go,” with Carey Mulligan (“An Education”), Keira Knightley (the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise) and Andrew Garfield (who will star in the “Spider-Man” reboot) in an R-rated drama about two girls adjusting to life outside of an English boarding school where they have lived for many years.

Sept. 17“Adjustment Bureau,” with Matt Damon (the “Bourne” franchise) and Emily Blunt (“Sunshine Cleaning”) in a drama about a politician and ballerina dealing with mysterious forces designed to keep them apart.“Alpha and Omega,” with the voices of Justin Long (“Live Free or Die Hard”), Hayden Panettiere (TV’s “Heroes”), Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon”) and the late Dennis Hopper (“Easy Rider”) in an animated tale about two wolves trying to find the route home after they are captured by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. it will also be presented in 3-D.“Catfish,” with filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost co-directing what’s described as a reality thriller in which fact and fiction intertwine as they capture a relative’s online experience involving love, deception and grace. “Devil,” with Chris Messina (“Away we Go”) in a horror film about some people who are stuck on an elevator and discover that one of the passengers is Satan. M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense”) co-wrote the story for what’s intended to be the first in a low-budget fright series based on material penned by the successful director.“Easy a,” with Emma Stone (“Zombieland”), Amanda Bynes (“Hairspray”) and Lisa Kudrow (TV’s “Friends”) in a PG-13 teen comedy about a good girl who allows false stories about her to circulate so she will seem like one of the cool kids at school.“The Town,” with Ben Affleck (“Good Will Hunting”), Jon Hamm (TV’s “Mad Men”), Blake Lively (“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), Jeremy Renner (“The hurt Locker”) and Rebecca Hall (“Frost/Nixon”) in a crime drama about a thief who has a romantic interest in a bank manager robbed in one of his earlier heists. He’s also working to avoid capture by an FBI agent who wants him off the streets. Affleck also wrote the script (based on the novel by Chuck Hogan) and directed.“Warrior,” with Tom Hardy (“Inception”), Joel Edgerton (“The Square”), Jennifer Morrison (“Star Trek” reboot) and Nick Nolte (“Tropic Thunder”) in an action tale about an ex-Marine from Pittsburgh who plans to win a mixed martial arts tournament.“The Wild Hunt,” with Trevor Hayes (“I’m Not There”) in a Canadian import about a man who crashes a medieval re-enactment event to win back his true love.“A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop,” with Chinese filmmaker Yimou Zhang (“House of Flying Daggers”) directing an R-rated thriller about a husband plotting a murder.

Sept. 22“You Will Meet a Tall Dark stranger,” with Antonio Banderas (“Shrek Forever After”), Naomi Watts (“The International”), Anthony Hopkins (“The Silence of the Lambs”), Anna Friel (“Land of the Lost”), Josh Brolin (“Milk”) and Gemma Jones (“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”) in director Woody Allen’s comedy romance about two married couples seeking things they fear they missed in life.

Sept. 24 “Howl,” with James Franco (“Milk”) as Allen Ginsberg in a work about the evolution of the writer’s classic four-part poem and the 1957 obscenity trial that occurred due to its content.  the screenplay is based on interviews given by Ginsberg and records of the courtroom events, and the film, which recently played at Philadelphia QFest 10, contains archival footage. Jon Hamm (TV’s “Mad Men”), David Strathairn (“Good Night, and good Luck”), Jeff Daniels (“Gettysburg”), Treat Williams (“Hair”) and Mary-Louise Parker (Showtime’s “Weeds”) play the academics who debated the literary merit of Ginsberg’s work. “Legends of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga’Hoole,” with the voices of Helen Mirren (“The Queen”), Hugo Weaving (the “Matrix” trilogy) and Abbie Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) in a computer-animated tale about  a young barn owl kidnapped and taken to a place where owls are brainwashed into becoming soldiers that fight for wicked leaders. Zach Snyder (“Watchmen”) directed. it will also be available in 3-D.“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” with 65-year-old Michael Douglas returning to his Oscar-winning role as greed-is-good financier Gordon Gekko. in the sequel to director Oliver Stone’s 1987 hit, a young broker (Shia LaBeouf of “Transformers”) seeks Gekko’s help in alerting Wall Street to a possible financial collapse and capturing those responsible for manipulating investments to cause it.“You Again,” with Sigourney Weaver (“Avatar”), Kristen Chenoweth (Broadway’s “Wicked”), Kristen Bell (TV’s “Veronica Mars”) and Jamie Lee Curtis (“Halloween”) in a PG-rated comedy about a young woman willing to go to great lengths to prevent her brother from marrying the girl who bullied her in high school.

Oct. 1 “Casino Jack,” with Kevin Spacey (“The Usual Suspects”) and Kelly Preston (“Jerry Maguire”) in a drama about a Washington, D.C., lobbyist who bought influence and peddled favors to politicians. George Hickenlooper (“Factory Girl”) directed.“Jack Goes Boating,” with Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Capote”) and Amy Ryan (TV’s “The Office”) in a romantic comedy about a limo driver who goes on a blind date and finds that the woman is taking his life in unexpected directions. Hoffman made his directing debut.“Let Me in,” with Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road”) and Chloe Moretz (“Kick-Ass”) in an R-rated remake of the critically acclaimed Norwegian chiller about a 12-year-old boy drawn to a girl who’s a vampire.“The Social Network,” with Justin Timberlake (“Alpha Dog”) in the story of the evolution of Facebook, the online social network created in 2004, and how its overnight success turned the students who created it into millionaires. David Fincher (“Fight Club”) directed.“Waiting for Superman,” with archival footage of the late George Reeves (TV’s Man of Steel) in a PG-rated documentary that follows students who struggle to obtain an education in a system in which some distressed schools rank as dropout factories. Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) directed.

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Oct. 8“Buried,” with Ryan Reynolds (“The Proposal”) and Samantha Mathis (“Pump Up the Volume”) in an R-rated thriller about a U.S. contractor who is buried alive in Iraq and has only 90 minutes to escape.“It’s Kind of a funny story,” with Zach Galifianakis (“Dinner for Schumcks”), Lauren Graham (TV’s “Parenthood”) and Emma Roberts (“Nancy Drew”) in a comedy drama about a teenager who checks into a mental health clinic and develops a friendship with an older patient who becomes a mentor.“Life as we know it,” with Katherine Heigl (“Knocked Up”) and Josh Lucas (“Poseidon”) in a PG-13 drama about two adults who agree to share the responsibility for raising the young daughter of their best friends, who died in an accident.“Nowhere Boy,” with Aaron Johnson (“Kick-Ass”) and Kristin Scott-Thomas (“The English Patient”) in an R-rated drama that’s set in 1955 Liverpool and examines the life of 15-year-old John Lennon as he struggles to escape his suffocating family and eventually finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. “My Soul to take,” with Wes Craven (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”) directing an old-school fright film about a madman who returns to his hometown to stalk some children who were born on the day he was supposed to have died. it will also be available in 3-D.“Secretariat,” with Diane Lane (“Killshot”), Scott Glenn (“Urban Cowboy”) and Kevin Connolly (HBO’s “Entourage”) in a PG-rated biography of Penny Chenery, the owner of the horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973.“Stone,” with Robert De Niro (“Raging Bull”), Edward Norton (“Fight Club”) and Milla Jovovich (“Resident Evil”) in a thriller about a convicted arsonist who manipulates his parole officer by putting the man’s wife in jeopardy.

Oct. 15“Conviction,” with Hilary Swank (“Million Dollar Baby”), Sam Rockwell (“Choke”) and Juliette Lewis (“Natural Born Killers”) in an R-rated drama about Benny Anne Waters, a woman who earned her law degree so she could represent her brother, who was wrongly convicted of murder.“The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” with Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist returning in a sequel to the Swedish hits “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Girl who Played with fire.” in this final installment of the trilogy written by Stieg Larsson, Rapace’s character faces murder charges and Nyqvist is working to prove her innocence.  “Jackass,” with Johnny Knoxville and his pain-loving cohorts going through dangerous stunts that pop off the screen. it will also be shown in 3-D.“Red,” with Bruce Willis (“Cop Out”), Morgan Freeman (“Million Dollar Baby”), Helen Mirren (“National Treasure: Book of Secrets”), John Malkovich (“Burn After Reading”) and Mary-Louise Parker (Showtime’s “Weeds”) in a PG-13 action tale about some friends who once worked together as black-ops agents and come out of retirement when one of their former members is being hunted by the CIA.

Oct. 22“Hereafter,” with Matt Damon (“Invictus”), Bryce Dallas Howard (“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”) and Jay Mohr (“Jerry Maguire”) in director Clint Eastwood’s supernatural thriller about three very diverse people impacted by death in different ways.  “Paranormal Activity 2,” with Katie Featherston returning to once again fight a demon in this sequel to the smash low-budget chiller that grossed more than $100 million.

Oct. 29“The Company Men,” with Ben Affleck (“The Sum of all Fears”), Tommy Lee Jones (“The Fugitive”), Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”), Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”), Maria Bello (“The Cooler”) and Craig T. Nelson (TV’s “Coach”) in an ensemble drama about three successful executives forced to redefine their lives after they are downsized. “The Howling: Reborn,” with werewolves returning to the silver screen.“Saw VII,” with Tobin Bell playing Jigsaw for this final installment of the horror franchise about a madman who designs boobytraps that cause victims plenty of pain. (The first six “Saw” titles grossed $730 million globally and sold more than 30 million DVDs.) it will also be shown in 3-D.

Nov. 5“Due Date,” with Robert Downey Jr. (“Sherlock Holmes”), Zach Galifianakis (“Dinner for Schmucks”), Michelle Monaghan (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) and Jamie Foxx (“Ray”) in an R-rated road picture about a father-to-be who hitches a ride with an obnoxious struggling actor to get home in time for the birth of his child. Todd Phillips (“The Hangover”) directed. “Fair Game,” with Naomi Watts (“King Kong”) and Sean Penn (“Milk”) in a fact-based drama about Valerie Plame, the CIA agent whose identity as a government operative was revealed after her husband wrote a newspaper article that criticized the Bush administration’s actions in Iraq and questioned the existence of weapons of mass destruction in the country.“Last Night,” with Keira Knightley (the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise), Sam Worthington (“Clash of the Titans” remake), Eva Mendes (“The Other Guys”) and Griffin Dunne (“After Hours”) in a romantic drama about a young couple struggling with their relationship and drawn to other people.“MegaMind,” with Brad Pitt (“Troy”), Will Ferrell (“Step Brothers”) and Tina Fey (“Date Night”) providing voices for the comic-book spoof in which a brilliant super villain and a not-so-bright superhero compete for the attention of the same woman. it will also be available in 3-D.“127 Hours,” with James Franco (“Milk”) in British director Danny Boyle’s fact-based tale about mountain climber Aron Ralston, who in 2003 cut off his arm after being trapped by a boulder in an isolated area of Utah.

Nov. 12“Morning Glory,” with Harrison Ford (“Extraordinary Measures”), Diane Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give”), Rachel McAdams (“Sherlock Holmes”) and Patrick Wilson (“Watchmen”) in a comedy about a producer hired to boost the ratings of a failing morning show and referee the constant battles between the station’s on-air talent.“Skyline,” with Eric Balfour (Syfy’s “Haven”) in a fantasy thriller about some friends who are partying together in a remote house, wake up in the middle of the night, and discover a mysterious light that’s coming through the window.“Unstoppable,” with Denzel Washington (“The Book of Eli”), Chris Pine (“Star Trek” reboot) and Rosario Dawson (“Death Proof”) in a disaster film about an out-of-control train that’s filled with toxic liquids and on a collision course that will destroy a city.

Nov. 19“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson returning as Harry, Ron and Hermione, respectively, in the first half of the seventh and last book in J.K. Rowling’s series about the boy wizard at Hogwarts Castle. (The second part will arrive next year.) in this installment, the three friends seek safe places to hide as the Snatchers and Death Eaters are out in force and pursuing them. it will be available in 3-D.“The Next Three Days,” with Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”), Elizabeth Banks (“Zack and Miri make a Porno”) and Liam Neeson (“Taken”) in a thriller about a husband battling to prove his wife is innocent of a brutal murder that she says she didn’t commit.

Nov. 24“Burlesque,” with Kristen Bell (“Couple’s Retreat”), Stanley Tucci (“The Devil Wears Prada”) and Cher (“Moonstruck”) in a story of a girl from Iowa who takes a waitressing job at a strip club, decides to become a dancer, and becomes a star attraction bringing new life to the nearly bankrupt place. “Faster,” with Dwayne Johnson (“The Other Guys”), Carla Gugino (“Sin City”), Billy Bob Thornton (“Eagle Eye”) and Tom Berenger (“Inception”) in an action tale about an ex-con out to get street justice for his brother’s murder.“The King’s Speech,” with Colin Firth (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”), Helena Bonham Carter (“Fight Club”), Geoffrey Rush (“Shine”) and Guy Pearce (“Memento”) in a fact-based story about King George VI and how he was helped with a vocal problem by a maverick Australian speech therapist.  “Love and Other Drugs,” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who previously co-starred in “Brokeback Mountain,” in a romantic comedy about a free-spirited young woman who refuses to ever let anyone tie her down until she meets a charming guy who likes to live with no strings attached. It’s based on the book “Hard Sell: the Evolution of a Viagra Salesman” by Jamie Reidy. “Red Dawn,” with Chris Hemsworth (“Star Trek” reboot), Adrianne Palicki (TV’s “Friday Night Lights”) and Josh Hutcherson (“The Kids Are all Right”) in an action tale in which teens fight to save their homeland when troops from Russia and China invade the United States. Stuntman-turned-filmmaker Dan Bradley made his directing debut in this remake of the 1984 favorite.  “Tangled,” with the voices of Mandy Moore (“License to Wed”), Ron Perlman (FX’s “Sons of Anarchy”) and Brad Garrett (TV’s “Everybody loves Raymond”) in a computer-animated musical that has Rapunzel with the 70 feet of golden hair striking a deal with a handsome thief to help her escape from the tower where she’s been locked away for years. it will also be shown in 3-D.Sources used for this story include Film Journal International, the Internet Movie Database, Box Office Mojo, Variety and Entertainment Weekly.

     

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