Warming up for fall movie season
The 2016 fall movie preview is a snapshot of the films opening through the end of the year — from the next wave of space and alien dramas to the animated films exploring iconic toys and world folk stories. Release dates and other details are subject to change.
FRIDAY
American Honey A troubled girl runs away from home and joins a band of teenagers who travel the Midwest, making love, partying hard and subsisting by selling magazine subscriptions. With Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough. Deepwater Horizon Mark Wahlberg stars in this dramatization of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster and the men and women who acted heroically in its wake. With Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Kate Hudson. Directed by Peter Berg. Denial Rachel Weisz plays Deborah E. Lipstadt, who was forced to fight libel charges with historical truth in the British courts after she labeled historian David Irving a Holocaust denier.
Masterminds An armored-truck driver is lured into an absurd robbery scheme by his work crush and is then set up to take the fall. With Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig. Directed by Jared Hess. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A young boy discovers
access to a fantastical place where the residents possess special powers and danger lurks deep. With Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett. Directed by Tim Burton.
OCT. 7
The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars as literate slave and preacher Nat Turner, who led a bloody pre-Civil War uprising with the hope of freeing his people. With Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union.
The Girl on the Train Consumed by her recent divorce, a young woman fantasizes about a perfect couple during her daily commute until she witnesses something terrible, embroiling her in a mystery. With Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Allison Janney.
The Great Gilly Hopkins A wily foster child’s plan to escape her home and be reunited with her birth mother may ruin her chance at happiness. With Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates, Julia Stiles.
London Town In 1979 England, an adolescent boy discovers punk rock, meets a girl and has a fateful encounter with Joe Strummer of the Clash while trying to hold his family together. With, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Dougray Scott.
Phantasm: Ravager The fifth and final film in the cult series features one final battle with the Tall Man.
OCT. 14
The Accountant Ben Affleck plays a numbers wizard whose work for organized crime draws the attention of the Treasury Department at the same time he takes on a high-tech robotics firm as a new client. With Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, John Lithgow. Directed by Gavin O’Connor.
Christine Based on real events, Rebecca Hall plays a Florida newscaster in 1974 whose frustration about the pursuit of ratings over substance and an unfulfilling personal life drive her to a dark place.
Desierto Migrants are hunted by a gun-wielding psychopath along the U.S.-Mexico border. With Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Kevin Hart: What Now? The standup comedian performs his routine before 50,000 people at a football stadium in Philadelphia.
Ordinary World Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong plays a former punk musician who never realized his rock-star dreams and faces his 40th birthday and his past by throwing an epic party at a swank Manhattan hotel. With Selma Blair, Judy Greer.
OCT. 21
American Pastoral Based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a former star athlete, married to a former beauty queen, who goes in search of his daughter after she is accused of a violent act. With Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Connelly, Ewan McGregor. Directed by McGregor.
In a Valley of Violence Bloodshed quickly escalates following the arrival of a drifter in a nearly forgotten mining town. With Ethan Hawke, Taissa Farmiga, John Travolta. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Tom Cruise stars for the second time as the nomadic investigator who must break a former Army colleague out of military prison to unravel a government conspiracy.
Keeping Up With the Joneses It’s hard enough maintaining equilibrium with the ultra-attractive and cultivated neighbors, but when they also turn out to be secret agents, all bets are off. With Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, Gal Gadot.
Moonlight A young man’s search for identity crosses three important chapters in his life. Ouija: Origin of Evil In this sequel set in 1965 Los Angeles, a single mother and her two daughters unwittingly unleash a terrifying spirit when they add a twist to their bogus seance routine. Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween The multi-hyphenate filmmaker wrote, directed and stars as his most famous character, who spends the holiday supervising ghosts, goblins and — most frightening of all — teenagers.
OCT. 28
Inferno Stricken with amnesia, “The Da Vinci Code” symbologist Robert Langdon follows clues tied to Dante and attempts to stop a deadly global virus. With Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones. Directed by Ron Howard.
Rings The third entry in “The Ring” horror series about an accursed videotape focuses on a young woman who sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and discovers a never-beforeseen movie-within-the-movie.
NOV. 4
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Loving An interracial couple fall in love and marry in 1958, but they must take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court to live happily in their home state of Virginia. With Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon. Trolls Animated comedy featuring the happily musical title creatures as they avoid being eaten by the perpetually dour Bergens.
NOV. 11
Almost Christmas Mo’Nique, Gabrielle Union, Danny Glover and others star in this Christmas picture about a dysfunctional family.
Arrival Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker are scientists who must figure out what deeply mysterious aliens want from us before the Earth flips out.
NOV. 18
Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell and Katherine Waterston star in this “Harry Potter” spinoff (complete with screenplay by J.K. Rowling, her first) about Newt Scamander (Redmayne) and his wizarding adventures in the U.S. in the 1920s.
NOV. 23
Bad Santa 2 A good 13 years after the first go-round, Billy Bob Thornton returns as the titular character.
Allied Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star as World War II spies who fall for each other. But which one may or may not be a traitor? Robert Zemeckis directs this lush period piece that sounds an awful lot like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
Moana Disney’s 56th animated feature film introduces Auli’i Cravalho as Moana and features Dwayne Johnson as Maui the demi-god in an adventure set in ancient Polynesia. The film’s songs were co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” fame.
DEC. 2
Kidnap This thriller starring Halle Berry as a woman who must find her kidnapped son has been sitting around since 2015 because of Relativity Media’s financial drama.
DEC. 9
Office Christmas Party Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon and Jennifer Aniston star. We will give you exactly one guess as to what this movie is about. The Bye Bye Man Three students investigate a supernatural creature that may be causing people throughout history to kill and kill and kill some more. Nocturnal Animals The second feature from fashion-designer-turned- film-director Tom Ford stars Amy Adams as a woman increasingly convinced that her ex-husband’s novel is an act of revenge. With Jake Gyllenhaal.
DEC. 16
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Anthology story about the Rebel mission to steal the Death Star plans. With Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Forest Whitaker.
Collateral Beauty A man’s friends and colleagues come to his aid after a tragedy. With Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.
DEC. 21
Passengers Two deep-space astronauts awaken from cryogenic sleep decades before their starship reaches its destination. With Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
The Space Between Us A sci-fi romance about the first human born on Mars making his first trip to Earth. With Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman and Carla Gugino.