Now you can fill up the rest of your calendar with year-end gems, Oscar contenders, sports movies and quality dramas. Look for a strong finish to a solid box office year (all dates subject to change).
September
Sean Penn heads an all star cast in the political campaign drama All the King’s Men, a remake of the 1949 Oscar winner for best picture.
Lassie returns to the screen in a new story set in Scotland during the 1930s.
Kevin Costner plays older veteran teacher to Ashton Kutcher’s younger recruit in the Coast Guard action movie The Guardian.
The World War I film Flyboys tells the story of American pilot volunteers who joined the French in the fight against the Axis powers.
The Black Dahlia explores a famous Hollywood unsolved murder. Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank star.
Clive Owen, Michael Caine and Julianne Moore star in Children of Men, a futuristic fable.
Animated fare includes the baseball tale Everybody’s Hero and outdoor animal comedy Open Season.
Johnny Knoxville goes back to his stunt/prank roots in the aptly titled Jackass: Number Two.
SPECIAL SNEAK PEAK – The gritty Gridiron Gang (***) stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Xzibit. It portrays juvenile detention center officers who start a football team to save young men and encourage them to find their own special values.
Hopefully coming to a theater near you
Another football drama Facing the Giants shows how a losing coach uses faith on the field to combat failure.
The documentary Jesus Camp follows kids going to summer camp that might mold them into future preachers/evangelists.
Jet Li portrays martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia in Fearless. In the international hit western Bandidas, Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz take action to save their town.
SPECIAL SNEAK PEAK – Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is a great drama (***1/2), directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern) about a man, played by three time Japanese Academy Award winner Ken Takakura (Black Rain, Mr. Baseball), who travels with his dying son to China.
October
Clint Eastwood directs Flags of Our Fathers, the World War II story about the soldiers who raised the flag at Iwo Jima starring Paul Walker, Ryan Phillippe and Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan). Eastwood will follow this film with a WWII continuation told from the Japanese point-of-view titled Red Sun, Black Sand.
Article comments
1 - El Bicho
"(all dates subject to change)"
You don't list any. Sorrym but without dates this is a jumbled mess and rather unhelpful.
2 - Tall Writer
The months are the dates. Specific dates are a bit overwhelming since the format goes month by month. Hoping to get the reader familiar with the film first. Thanks for your comment.
3 - El Bicho
I don't understand your reasoning. Who is so sensitive that they are overwhelmed by actual dates?
Your audience is people who want to go see movies, so wouldn't they want to know when they can see them? As it stands now, I don't know if you have the films listed in some arbitrary manner or the order they come out for the month.
Your piece pushes me to find another rather than coming back for your next one.
4 - Tall Writer
No I haven't heard about that film. I check my "chinese connection" and get back with you.
5 - Tall Writer
OK. Found some news at danwei.org
still trying to confirm the story from Christopher Bodeen of the Associated Press who filed a report about Sex and Shanghai. Not sure about the video or a film. Continuing research... thanks for the question - I love interesting challenges like this one.