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U.S. OPENINGS - SEPTEMBER 2nd
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The Woods

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Director:
Lucky McKee
Stars:
Lauren Birkell
Agnes Bruckner
Jane Gilchrist
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM)

An all-girls private school is spooked by mysterious going-ons in the woods surrounding the campus. The Woods is the second picture from Lucky McKee, responsible for the very crappy indie horror film, May. But we haven't ruled this film out before we've seen it, as [1] Patricia Clarkson and Bruce Campbell should help keep things afloat, [2] McKee didn't write this screenplay this time around, and [3] girls' school!.

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SEPTEMBER 9th
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

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Director:
Scott Derrickson
Stars:
Laura Linney
Tom Wilkinson
Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Studio:
Screen Gems Inc.

Lawyer Erin Bruner (Linney) takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest (Wilkinson) who performed an exorcism on a young girl.Tired of the whole "the story unfolds Rashomon-style" pitch? Too bad! Director Derrickson and his co-writer Paul Harris Boardman have turned the real-life story of Anneliese Michel, a German girl who perished in 1976 when her epilepsy was diagnosed as demonic possession, into a multiple point-of-view thriller. Linney scores the role as a lawyer whose faith is reawakened by the case presumably because Richard Gere, Esq. wasn't available.

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SEPTEMBER 16th
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Syriana

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Director:
Stephen Gaghan
Stars:
George Clooney
Matt Damon
Amanda Peet
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Studio:
Warner Bros.

Robert Baer (Clooney), a seasoned intelligence gatherer for the CIA, has spent his career tracking terrorists internationally. Embroiled in a situation in the Middle East, Baer's job is complicated by Beltway politics, as well as unexpected personal crisis involving an American oil executive about to close a deal with an oil sheik.Hopefully this will prove Gaghan's meddle as a director (he majorly flailed with Abandon) since he's back in the socio-political world that earned him such acclaim. More ambitious than Traffic, his best screenplay to date, Syriana is loosely based on the memoirs of Robert Baer -- we're saying "loosely" at this point because we don't have any idea if the film will address the juiciest part of Baer's career (look at the first couple links here to see what we mean). Could this be Clooney's biggest role yet?

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SEPTEMBER 23rd
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Corpse Bride

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Director:
Tim Burton
Mike Johnson
Stars:
Johnny Depp
Helena Bonham Carter
Emily Watson
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Studio:
Warner Bros.

On a walk to his bride-to-be's village, Victor (Depp) recites his vows in a joking fashion. After he's recited the entire marriage sacrament, however, a living corpse (Bonham Carter) emerges from the ground beneath him, demanding her rights as his wife.We're all wondering what we did to deserve two Burton/Depp/Elfman films in one year, but Burton wasn't always attached as a co-director. It was solely Johnson's project for a while, and we understand that Burton came on to direct the voice talent and finesse some of the visualizations. It's a pity that Henry Selick was preoccupied with The Life Aquatic and prepping his own Coraline to lend a hand here, though.

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SEPTEMBER 30th
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Oliver Twist

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Director:
Roman Polanski
Stars:
Barney Clark
Ben Kingsley
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Studio:
Sony Pictures Entertainment

The orphan Oliver (Clark) meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master, Fagin (Kingsley).Polanski courts controversy with his first ever family film. Twist's financial success and accolades, however, could be louder than its detractors. And with a script from Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar for The Pianist, the film is likely to be a triumph. Sir Kingsley, meanwhile, is everywhere this year; he's the crime boss in Lucky Number Slevin, the king of vampires in Bloodrayne (which should go direct-to-video from the looks of it), a dinosaur hunter in A Sound of Thunder, and a divorced man in real life.

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Into the Blue

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Director:
John Stockwell
Stars:
Paul Walker
Jessica Alba
Scott Caan
Ashley Scott
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Studio:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

A group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane.Right now it's Walker's name that's above the title, but Alba looks poised to steal his candy from the look of the production photos. I mean, this is a remake of The Deep, and we all know what that wet t-shirt did for Jaqueline Bissett.

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Serenity

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Director:
Joss Whedon
Stars:
Nathan Fillion
Gina Torres
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Studio:
Universal Pictures

Five hundred years in the future, in the aftermath of a galactic civil war, Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Fillion) rounds up a crew of bandits to steer his ship, Serenity, between the savage Reavers and the totalitarian Alliance forces. Also aboard his ship are two fugitives on the run from the Alliance, a mysterious Shepherd, and an alluring Companion, who entertains some of the galaxy's finest citizens. Buffy creator Joss Whedon flees his television universe for the big-screen in what could, for those who tuned into the short-lived Firefly series (also known as Serenity's source material), turn into a serial for Fox. With the entire crew on board, Serenity already has a built-in audience; adding Ejiofor and David Krumholtz helps, ever so slightly, to broaden the film's appeal.

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Roll Bounce

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Director:
Malcolm D. Lee
Stars:
Bow Wow
Nick Cannon
Meagan Good
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Studio:
Fox 2000 Pictures

1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy, as X (Bow Wow) and his friends, who rule their local rink, are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over to the Sweetwater Roller Rink, their modest talents fail to impress the trick skaters and pretty girls who follow their every move.Director Lee hits the rinks in his follow-up to Undercover Brother. By partnering with producers Robert Teitel and George Tillman (who, with both Barbershops and Soul Food to their credit, obviously know Chicago), Lee has found a prime outlet for the his cast -- though who outfitted Nick Cannon with that terrible wig? With a slick trailer and cushy sense of nostalgia, Bounce could go large.

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Bee Season

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Director:
Scott McGehee
David Siegel
Stars:
Richard Gere
Juliette Binoche
Flora Cross
Max Minghella
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As Miriam Naumann (Binoche) begins a downward emotional spiral, her husband (Gere) avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in Jewish Mysticism and his daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champion.Director Mcgehee returns with his follow-up to The Deep End, though this time around someone else is handling the screenplay; Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal -- yes, Maggie and Jake's mom -- adapted the novel by Myla Goldberg. Co-star Minghella -- yes, Max's son -- is everywhere this season, making his debut as George Clooney's son in Syriana (mere weeks before Bee's release), and starring in Art School Confidential, which also comes out this Friday.

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Art School Confidential

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Director:
Terry Zwigoff
Stars:
Max Minghella
Sophia Myles
John Malkovich
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Studio:
Miramax Films

Convinced that art school will put him on the path to fame, Jerome (Minghella) must come to terms with his barely-there talent, and the fact that the girl of his dreams has fallen in love with another student. Then, strangely, he's arrested as a suspected murderer, only to discover that crime might actually pay.Can Zwigoff (Ghost World) go 2-for-2 with adaptations of Dan Clowes's comics? This one is a tougher sell, since Confidential doesn't have the long-form cool of its predecessor (it's a one-page story, and available in Twentieth Century Eightball), or the appeal of having Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson in its cast -- but it is one of Clowes's most popular strips ever. Zwigoff and Clowes co-wrote the screenplay, and Zwigoff deserves credit for his dead-ringer casting of Minghella as Jerome.

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