Bill Wine's Fall Movie Preview
By Bill Wine
KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - With the summer movie season winding down, moviegoers can begin to anticipate a more thoughtful, sober array of autumn films as the preponderance of sequels, comic book adaptations, and action-for-the-sake-of-action vehicles diminishes and the hunger for earthbound biographical entertainment increases.
Between now and November, when the holiday movie season starts lighting up marquees with familiar names and titles, and Oscar talk accompanies the cream of the end-of-year crop, we'll still get our share of big-name performers and usually a few Oscar contenders as well.
So here's a rundown of the high-profile, mainstream movie attractions headed our way in September and October in approximately chronological order.
SEPTEMBER:
Robert Redford and Nick Nolte co-star as reuniting friends who hike over 2.000 miles of the Appalachian Trail in the adventure biocomedy based on the memoir of the same name, A Walk in the Woods.
Michael Fassbender portrays the titular Apple Inc. co-founder, with Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels in support, in the biographical drama from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs.
Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley co-star in a Manhattan-set comedy-drama about driving lessons between two people going through marital crises in Learning to Drive.
Night Shyamalan writes and directs a psychological horror thriller about young siblings who take a seemingly innocuous trip to their grandparents' house in The Visit.
Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie co-star in a romantic comedy about two people who form a platonic relationship despite their attraction to one another in Sleeping with Other People.
Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, and Morris Chestnut form a romantic triangle in a suspense thriller about a too-good-to-be-true relationship in The Perfect Guy.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, Josh Brolin, and Robin Wright are part of the ensemble in a real-life drama based on the 1996 mountain-climbing disaster in Everest.
Johnny Depp portrays notorious real-life Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who turned FBI informant, in the biographical crime drama, Black Mass.
Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, and Rainn Wilson star in a horror comedy about a mysterious virus in an elementary school in Cooties.
Tobey Maguire as American chess phenomenon Bobby Fischer faces off against Liev Schreiber as Soviet champ Boris Spassky in the Cold War thriller, Pawn Sacrifice.
Robert De Niro plays the title character opposite Anne Hathaway as the CEO who hires him in the workplace comedy, The Intern.
OCTOBER:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt portrays the real-life French high-wire artist attempting to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 in the biodrama, The Walk.
Julianne Moore and Ellen Page co-star in a drama about the real-life struggle for pension benefits for domestic partners in Ocean County, New Jersey, in Freeheld.
Matt Damon stars for director Ridley Scott as an astronaut stranded and presumed dead on the Red Planet in the science fiction thriller, The Martian.
Tom Hardy portrays both Kray twins, Reginald and Ronald, who terrorized London in the 1950s and 1960s in the biographical British crime thriller, Legend.
The invented origin story of Peter Pan, featuring Levi Miller as the title character and Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, is the focus of the Neverland fantasy, Pan.
Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, and Zach Galifianakis co-star in a heist comedy about a legendary real-life crime in Masterminds.
Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks as a Brooklyn lawyer negotiating the release of shot-down spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers in the Cold War drama, Bridge of Spies.
Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Hunnam star in director Guillermo del Toro's horror fantasy, Crimson Peak.
Jack Black plays kiddie-horror author R. L. Stine, whose imaginary demons are set free in the horror comedy based on the children's book series, Goosebumps.
Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, and Helena Bonham Carter co-star in the British suffrage-movement drama set in the late 19th and early 20th century, Suffragette.
And Vin Diesel stars as the immortal title character trying to stop a plague from infecting New York City in the supernatural action thriller, The Last Witch Hunter.
