Movies Coming Out In September 2012

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1. The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

62 Metascore

One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie

Votes: 102,550 | Gross: $28.84M

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Friendds With Benefits, Bridesmaids and The Hangover (Emily Blunt not only plays the cello but can also hit those high notes with her alto singing voice.)

2. Dark Shadows (2012)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

55 Metascore

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 280,418 | Gross: $79.73M

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Sweeney Todd, Fright Night and Hellboy (Michelle Pfeiffer, also a fan of the TV series, called Tim Burton to ask him for a role in the movie.) (The town of Collinsport in Dark Shadows was Constructed in Pinewood Studios after producers failed to find an actual location that fitted the brief.)

3. Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama

60 Metascore

Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his widowed mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his unhappily married brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | Stars: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon

Votes: 65,581 | Gross: $4.24M

19th If you liked this, you'll like: Cyrus, You Me And Everyone We Know and Clerks

4. Girl in Progress (2012)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

45 Metascore

As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

Director: Patricia Riggen | Stars: Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez, Patricia Arquette, Matthew Modine

Votes: 7,025 | Gross: $2.59M

12th If you liked this, you'll like: Thirteen, Freaky Friday and Suddenly 30

5. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

62 Metascore

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 99,447 | Gross: $46.41M

19th If you liked this, you'll like: Calendar Girls, The Kids Are All Right and Bucket List (Dev Patel is a black belt in tae kwon do, having won 37 medals in national and international competitions.)

6. Men in Black³ (2012)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

58 Metascore

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement

Votes: 386,863 | Gross: $179.02M

20th If you liked this, you'll like: Men In Black, Iron Sky and Paul (Jemaine Clement from Flight Of The Conchords had to undergo four and a half hours of makeup application for his role as Boris in MIB3.)

7. Lucky (III) (2011)

R | 103 min | Comedy

41 Metascore

A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.

Director: Gil Cates Jr. | Stars: Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Jeffrey Tambor, Ann-Margret

Votes: 3,719

20th Lars And The Real Girl, Very Bad Things and The Sitter

8. Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012 TV Movie)

R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A cast of characters, strikingly similar to the cast of Jersey Shore, try to survive an epidemic of sharks attacking Miami Beach.

Director: John Shepphird | Stars: Jack Scalia, Jeremy Luke, Joseph Russo, Daniel Booko

Votes: 1,994

12th Piranah 3DD, The Room and Mega-Shark Vs Giant Octopus

9. W.E. (2011)

R | 119 min | Drama, History, Romance

37 Metascore

The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Director: Madonna | Stars: Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac

Votes: 13,621 | Gross: $0.58M

5th If you liked this, you'll like: Coco Avant Chanel, The Queen and The Hours (An entire day;s worth of filming was spent on a scene in which Abbey Cornish emerges from a bathtub.)

10. Hick (2011)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

28 Metascore

A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Director: Derick Martini | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Eddie Redmayne

Votes: 20,831

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Midnight Cowboy, Vanishing Point and Wild At Heart

11. StreetDance 2 (2012)

85 min | Drama, Music, Romance

After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash (Hentschel) looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.

Directors: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini | Stars: Falk Hentschel, Sofia Boutella, George Sampson, Stephanie Nguyen

Votes: 9,535

20th If you liked this, you'll like: Step Up, Save The Last Dance and Rize

12. Bel Ami (2012)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, History

42 Metascore

A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.

Directors: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci

Votes: 19,273 | Gross: $0.12M

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Cheri, Water For Elephants and A Dangerous Method

13. The Way (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

64 Metascore

A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.

Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen

Votes: 35,329 | Gross: $4.43M

5th If you liked this, you'll like: Third Star, One Week and Moonlight Mile (The Way is inspired by the real-life trip Martin Sheen made with is his Taylor Estevez.)

14. The Lady (2011)

R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

43 Metascore

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse

Votes: 11,287 | Gross: $0.36M

5th If you liked this, you'll like: Veronica Guerin, Erin Brockovich and Silkwood

15. Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)

128 min | Drama, War

During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldiers fight on after US forces capture most of the island. They refuse to surrender and continue to resist after the Emperor surrenders.

Directors: Cellin Gluck, Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Yutaka Takenouchi, Sean McGowan, Mao Inoue, Treat Williams

Votes: 1,215

12th If you liked this, you'll like: Miracle At St Anna, We Were Soldiers and Letters Fro Iwo Jima

16. Rampart (2011)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

70 Metascore

Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 25,235 | Gross: $0.97M

12th If you liked this, you'll like: Shane, The Gunfighter and Lonely Are The Brave

17. Safe (I) (2012)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

55 Metascore

Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob, and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter whose life was destroyed by the gangsters on Mei's trail.

Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Robert John Burke

Votes: 117,555 | Gross: $17.14M

12th If you liked this, you'll like: The Mechanic, Transporter and Snatch (Jason Strathon was on the British national diving team and in 1992 ranked 12th in the world as a platform diver.)

18. Bad Ass (2012)

R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A Vietnam veteran who becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime.

Director: Craig Moss | Stars: Danny Trejo, Charles S. Dutton, Ron Perlman, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 19,789

5th If you liked this, you'll like: Taken, The Raid and Point Blank

19. Act of Valor (2012)

R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

40 Metascore

An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

Directors: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh | Stars: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Rorke Denver

Votes: 71,778 | Gross: $70.01M

5th If you liked this, you'll like: The Expandables, Killer Elite and Black Hawk Down

20. Hirokin: The Last Samurai (2012)

R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.

Director: Alejo Mo-Sun | Stars: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus Macfadyen, Laura Ramsey

Votes: 1,982

19th If you liked this, you'll like: Bunraku, Ong Bak 2: The Begining and 13 Assassins

21. The Woman in Black (2012)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

62 Metascore

A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Director: James Watkins | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Shorey

Votes: 192,589 | Gross: $54.33M

19th If you liked this, you'll like: The Awakening, The Others and The Skeleton Key (Arthur's son Joseph is played by Daniel Radcliffe's real-life godson Misha Handley.)

22. Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Thriller

5 Elvis impersonators stay long after the contest playing poker, when a valuable mask is stolen from the Indian casino. Killers, incl. a sexy, blonde assassin, hunt down the Elvises to get the mask.

Director: Michael Winnick | Stars: Christian Slater, Powers Boothe, Dane Cook, Jeff Fahey

Votes: 4,787

5th If you liked this, you'll like: True Romance, The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 and Lucky Numbers

23. Livid (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror

The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone, Catherine Jacob

Votes: 7,791

12th If you liked this, you'll like: Inside, Suspira and The Devil's Backbone

24. 96 Minutes (2011)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

51 Metascore

The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids in Atlanta, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end.

Director: Aimee Lagos | Stars: Brittany Snow, Evan Ross, Sharon Conley, Justin Martin

Votes: 3,400

12th If you liked this, you'll like: 21 Grams, Fish Tank and Harry Brown

25. Mirror Mirror (I) (2012)

PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

46 Metascore

An evil queen steals control of a kingdom and an exiled princess enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright.

Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane

Votes: 91,053 | Gross: $64.94M

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Shrek, Ever After and Ella Enchanted (On set Julia Roberts' children would hide under the skirts of her enormous dresses.) (Lily Collins also auditioned for Snow White And The Huntsman but lost out to Kirstin Stewart.) (After Sam Claflin lost out to Armie Hammer for the rolr of the Prince in Mirror Mirror. He nabbed himself the same role in Snow White And The Huntsman.)

26. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

73 Metascore

Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.

Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman

Votes: 51,405 | Gross: $31.05M

26th If you liked this, you'll like: Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit In Th Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and The Fantasstic Mr Fox

27. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta! (2012 Video)

G | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When Papi, Chloe, the pups, Uncle Pedro and their owners move to a hotel, the smallest pup Rosa feels like she doesn't fit in, and Papi wants to make her feel better by showing her how special she is.

Directors: Lev L. Spiro, Yelena Lanskaya | Stars: Marcus Coloma, Erin Cahill, Cedric Yarbrough, Frances Fisher

Votes: 2,422

19th If you liked this, you'll like: Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Hotel For Dogs and Bolt

28. Friday Night Lights (2006–2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Sport

A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.

Stars: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden

Votes: 72,447

TV SERIES

Friday Night Lights S4 Glee S3 Damages S4 Any Human Heart S1 Boardwalk Empire S2 Gossip Girl S5 Homeland S1 Nurse Jackie S3 How To Make It In America S2

(FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS S4 Emmy award-winning actor Kyle Chandler previously held a gig as nightclub bouncer.)

(BOARDWALK EMPIRE S2 The first episode of Boardwalk Empire cost $18 million and ensured a second season on the spot.)

29. Dawn of the Dragonslayer (2011)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After Will's father is killed by a dragon, he embarks on an epic journey to seek vengeance against the vicious monster.

Director: Anne K. Black | Stars: Richard McWilliams, Nicola Posener, Philip Brodie, Ian Cullen

Votes: 2,039

20th

30. Big Miracle (2012)

PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

61 Metascore

In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, John Pingayak, Ahmaogak Sweeney

Votes: 20,510 | Gross: $20.11M

26th

31. Ecstasy (II) (2011)

TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Romance

Small drug smuggler from Scotland is trying to figure out his way through life until he meets beautiful girl from Canada who seeks a change after bad relationship she just got out of it.

Director: Robert Heydon | Stars: Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Carlo Rota

Votes: 1,913

5th



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