COMING ATTRACTIONS

(opening dates are tentative)

Compliance, R Ann Dowd plays the high-strung manager of an Ohio fast-food joint who launches, at the behest of a police officer whose over-the-phone questions become increasingly invasive, an investigation of an employee’s supposed theft of money from a customer. With Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp; directed by Craig Zobel. Oct. 5

Death by China, not rated University of CaliforniaIrvine business professor, author and filmmaker Peter Navarro’s documentary look at the damage he says has resulted from America’s lopsided trade relationship with China. Oct. 5

Frankenweenie, PG Director Tim Burton expands upon his early (1984) stop-motion-animated short film to create a full-length, stop-motion-animated, black-and-white, 3-D feature about a boy named Victor with a bent for science and his dead dog, Sparky, whom he brings back to life — with just a few minor adjustments. With voices of Burton alumni Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Landau, as well as Martin Short, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell. Oct. 5

Taken 2, PG-13 The retired CIA agent (Liam Neeson) who in the first movie stopped at nothing to save his daughter from Albanian kidnappers, now has been taken hostage with his wife during a family vacation in Istanbul by the vengeful father of one of the original kidnappers, and it’s up to the daughter to help them escape, get the family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers — one by nasty one. With Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Sherbedgia, Luke Grimes; directed by Olivier Megaton. Oct. 5