Here are some of this fall’s major releases:
Sept. 16
“Lord of War”: An arms dealer (Nicolas Cage) tries to outsmart an Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) and dictators.
“Venom”: Teens fight for their lives against an evil force in the Louisiana swamps.
Sept. 23
“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”: A stop-motion animated feature about a young man (Johnny Depp) who has a wedding mix-up.
“Oliver Twist”: Charles Dickens’ orphan boy gets wrapped up with a gang of pickpockets.
“Everything Is Illuminated”: Elijah Wood plays an American man searching for the woman who saved his grandfather in WWII Ukraine.
“A History of Violence”: The owner (Viggo Mortensen) of a small-town diner butts heads with a bunch of thugs.
“Roll Bounce”: Bow Wow and Nick Cannon get inside the world of the roller rink, and Bow Wow takes us there with his tale of roller jamming in the ’70s.
“Thumbsucker”: Attempting to break his thumb-sucking habit, a teen goes on meds while his mom looks for answers in the celeb rags.
Sept. 30
“Into The Blue”: Paul Walker and Jessica Alba don their suits and dive into the ocean.
“Serenity”: Director Joss Whedon brings his TV show, “Firefly,” to the big screen. This is actually a quality sci-fi retread.
“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”: Julianne Moore plays a ’50s mother who keeps her family afloat by entering jingle contests.
Oct. 7
“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”: Wallace and his dog Gromit must save the Giant Vegetable Competition and the day with their pest-control service, Anti-Pesto.
“Separate Lies”: Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson star in this drama about an idyllic marriage and village gone awry.
“Waiting”: Ryan Reynolds stars as a waiter at Shenanigan’s, a generic chain eatery.
“Two for the Money”: Big-time consultant Al Pacino faces off with Matthew McConaughey’s ex-football star in this con flick set in the world of sports gambling.
Oct. 18
“Shopgirl”: A salesgirl (Claire Danes) must choose between two men: a rich divorcee (Steve Martin) and a struggling musician (Jason Schwartzman).
Oct. 21
“Capote”: Philip Seymour Hoffman channels Truman Capote, the author of “In Cold Blood.”
“Stay”: A psychiatrist (Ewan McGregor) tries to keep his young patient (Ryan Gosling) from committing suicide.
“Derailed”: Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen are business execs having an affair who are blackmailed.
“Doom”: The violent first-person shooter game “Doom” made large.
“Dreamer”: A former great horseman (Kurt Russell) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning) nurse to health an injured filly to compete again.
“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”: Robert Downey Jr. is a thief pretending to be an actor and Val Kilmer is a gay detective coaching him.
Oct. 28
“The Legend of Zorro”: Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones return in the swashbuckling tale.
“Saw II”: Donnie Wahlberg and Tobin Bell are among the eight people trying to survive a madman killer.
Nov. 11
“Bee Season”: An ordinary girl becomes a spelling bee phenom.
“Zathura”: Kids play a mysterious game, then shoot into deep space.
Nov. 23
“Syriana”: George Clooney’s a CIA agent navigating a web of terrorism.
“Yours, Mine & Ours”: Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo are single parents with 18 kids between them.
“Ice Harvest”: A sketchy local lawyer (Billy Bob Thornton) tries to slip out of town after embezzling big bucks from a Kansas City hot shot (John Cusack).
“Dying For Dolly”: Usher’s big-screen debut as a DJ asked by a mobster to watch over his precious daughter.
“Just Friends”: A former dork turned hot L.A. music exec (Ryan Reynolds) reunites with his high school crush, just to crush her.
Dec. 2
“Transamerica”: Felicity Huffman is Bree, a transsexual woman who, upon finding out that she fathered a son, bails him out of jail.
Dec. 9
“Memoirs of a Geisha”: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe and Michelle Yeoh lead a cast in this tale of a Japanese child who goes from maid to legendary geisha.
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”: This C.S. Lewis classic introduces the four Pevensie siblings, who discover a magical closet that leads to an even more magical land.
Dec. 16
“All The King’s Men”: Sean Penn plays corrupt Southern pol Willie Stark. With Jude Law and Kate Winslet.
Dec. 21
“Fun with Dick and Jane”: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni and Alec Baldwin star in the remake.
Dec. 23
“Munich”: Steven Spielberg’s historical thriller looks at the Israeli Mossad’s response to the bloody 1972 Olympics.
“The Ringer”: Johnny Knoxville’s character tries to rig the Special Olympics by faking a disability.
“Breakfast on Pluto”: An orphan (Cillian Murphy) makes his way from a small Irish town to 1970s London, where he becomes a transvestite singer.
